Adam Etinson

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Selected Publications

ms. Inducing Wonder

ms. Anger and Remorse.

ms. On Falling Short.

2025. Visions of Human Rights - Cambridge History of Rights Vol. 5. [with Jiewuh Song]

2025. The Lure of Minimalism - Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights.

2024. Human Rights - The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [with Jim Nickel]

2022. Wiggins on Ethical Objectivity and 'Des Cannibales' - Philosophy.

2020. What's So Special About Human Dignity? - Philosophy & Public Affairs.

2020. On "Aristocratic" Dignity - European Journal of Political Theory.

2018. Human Rights: Moral or Political? - Oxford University Press (PB 2020).

Reviewed in: Jurisprudence (2019); Philosophical Quarterly (2024);  Journal of Moral Philosophy (2023).

 

2018. Conversation - New Literary History.

2017. Some Myths About Ethnocentrism - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

2013. Human Rights, Claimability, and the Uses of Abstraction - Utilitas.

2012. Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?       (with S. Matthew Liao) - The Journal of Moral Philosophy.

2008. Aboriginal Oral History Evidence and Canadian Law - Central European    Journal of Canadian Studies.

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2018. How High to Dream? - The Times Literary Supplement.

2017. Is a Life Without Struggle Worth Living? - The New York Times.

2013. Of Cannibals, Kings, and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity - The New York Times [Reprinted in Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments & Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments (W.W. Norton & Co.)]

2012. A Rights-Based Utopia? - Human Rights Quarterly [Response by Samuel Moyn].

2012. 100 Days of Student Protests in Québec: Printemps Érable or Much Ado about Nothing? (with Carlos Fraenkel) - Dissent.