"The Desert Island Problem", Analysis, February, 1963 (reprinted in S.
Gorovitz, Mill's Utilitarianism, Text and Commentary (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971).
"Formalism and Utilitarianism", Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
May, l965, pp. 58-71; reprinted in: E. Llinas-Alvarez, Problemas de Etica (Mexico,
l977 (in Spanish))
"On a New Argument from Design", Journal of Philosophy, l965
"Pacifism: A Philosophical Analysis", Ethics, July, l965
reprinted in many anthologies, such as J. Rachels, Moral Problems; R.
Wasserstrom, War and Morality (Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth, l970), and Danish
Military Tidschrift (l977) (in Danish)
"Existence and Particularity", Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spring,
l965
"Utilitarianism and New Generations" Mind, vol. 76, No. 301, January
1967, pp. 62-72. (reprinted in: S. Gorovitz, Mill's Utilitarianism, Text &
Commentary (Bobbs-Merrill, l97l). This was the first of three articles over the years,
the others being: (2) "Moral Problems of Population", The Monist, vol. 57
No. 1 - January l973, pp. 62-86. Reprinted in M. Bayles, Ethics and Population
(Cambridge: Schenkman, l976); (3) "Future People and Us", R. I. Sikora and Brian
Barry, eds., Obligations to Future Generations Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, l978 (Reprinted in A.R. Gini, David Ozar, and Patricia Werhane, Philosophical
issues in Human Rights (Random House, 1985)
"Promising, Expecting, and Utility", Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
December l97l, pp. 207-33
Critical Notice of G. J. Warnock, The Object of Morality, Mind, April
l972, vol 81, no. 322, pp. 288-297
"Aesthetics, Charity, Utility, and Distributive Justice", The Monist,
Autumn, l972
"An Overlooked Aspect of the Fairness-Utility Controversey", Journal of
Value Inquiry, Summer l974
"Semantics, Future Generations, and the Abortion Problem", Social theory
and Practice, Fall l975
"Nationalism", in W. Shea & J. King-Farlow, Contemporary Issues in
Political Philosophy (New York: Neale Watson, l976)
"Intentional Behaviour and Social Science - A Reply to Mr.Daveny" Journal
for the theory of Social Behaviour, October l976
"A Puzzle About Economic Justice in Rawls' Theory", Social theory and
Practice, , Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall l976, pp. 1-28 (and a variant version: "Rawls on
Equal Distribution of Wealth", Philosophia, l978)
"Taking Compatibilism Seriously", Philosophical Studies (l977)
Critical Notice of Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, Dialogue,
l977, pp. 298-328.
"Animal Rights" - Review Article on P. Singer, Animal Liberation, and
T. Regan & P. Singer, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations - Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. VII, No. 1, March l977, pp. l6l-l78; over the years, I
have produced three further considerations on this: (2) "Animal Rights
Revisited", Animal Regulation Studies, No. 2, l979/80; also in H. Miller and
W. Williams, Ethics and Animals (Humana Press, l983), pp. 45-60; (3) "On a
Case for Animal Rights" (Critical Notice of Tom Regan's The Case for Animal Rights),
The Monist, 70.1, Jan l987, pp. 31-49 (4) The latest is found in Moral Matters
(1999), ch. 6.
"Morality and Nonviolence" - Critical Notice of Raghavan Iyer, The Moral
and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, Philosophia, vol. 8, nos. 2-3, Nov.
1978, pp. 447-459
"Rights and Utilitarianism", in Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Supplementary Volume V, New Essays on Mill and Utilitarianism, ed. by K.
Nielsen & R. Shiner, summer l979, p. 137-160
"Morality and Marilyn: Philosophical Reflections on Tom Godwin's "The Cold
Equations"", in N. Smith and Fred Miller, Thought Probes (Prenctice-Hall,
l98l)
Critical Notice of John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights, Windsor
Yearbook of Access to Justice Windsor, Ont,: University of Windsor Faculty of Law,
l98l, pp. 333-340
Critical Notice: "Alan Gewirth,s Reason and Morality - A Study in the
Hazards of Universalizability in Ethics", Dialogue, XIX, No. 4, December 1980,
pp. 651-674.
"Human Rights: Which, if Any, There Are", NOMOS XXIII, l982 (Annual volume of
the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy)
"Rawls and Utilitarianism", in H. Miller and W. Williams, The Limits of
Utilitarianism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, l982), pp. 128-143.
"Marxism: Hollow at the Core" - Free Inquiry, Spring l983, pp. 29-35
"Self-Ownership and the Ethics of Suicide", Suicide and Life-Threatening
Behavior, Vol. l3, No. 3, Winter l983, pp. 240-253; published separately as a
hard-cover volume, Suicide and Ethics, ed. by M. Battin and R. Maris (NY: Human
Sciences Press, 1983)
"On the Survival of Humankind", in R. Elliott & A. Gare, eds., Environmental
Philosophy (U. of Queensland Press (Australia) l983, pp. 40-57.
"In Defense of Peace", in J. Narveson, ed., Moral Issues, (Toronto
& NY; Oxford University Press l983)
"On Dworkinian Equality", and "Reply to Dworkin",Social
Philosophy and Policy, Vol. I, No. l, Autumn l983, pp. l-23, 4l-44.
"Contractarian Ethics", in R. G. Frey, ed., Utility and Rights (U. of
Minnesota Press, l984), pp. 161-174
"Equality vs. Liberty: Advantage, Liberty". Social Philosophy and Policy,
Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall l984, pp. 33-60.
"Reason in Ethics - Or Reason vs. Ethics?", in D. Copp & D. Zimmerman,
eds., Morality, Reason and Truth (Rowman & Allenheld, l985), pp. 228-250
"The How and Why of Universalizability", in Nelson Potter and M. Timmins,
eds., Morality and Universality: Essays on Ethical Universalizability (Dordrecht,
Holland: Reidel, l985), pp. 3-44.
"Getting on the Road to Peace: A Modest Proposal", Ethics, April l985
(special double volume on Nuclear War); also in M. Fox and L. Groarke, Nuclear War:
Philosophical Perspectives (NY: Peter Lang, l985), and in Hardin, Mearsheimer,
Dworkin, and Goodin, Nuclear Deterrence (U of Chicago, 1984)
"Martians and Morals", in E. Regis, Jr., Extraterrestrials: Science and
Alien Intelligence (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge, University Press, l985, pp. 245-266)
"Positive/Negative: Why Bother?" Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Fall
1985
"Moral Philosophy and Suicide", Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, vol.
31 #2, March 1986, pp. 104-107
"Equality, Fraternity: Harmonious or Irreconcilable?", Journal of Social
Philosophy; XVII.3 Fall, 1986
"Is Discrimination Unjust?" Wil Waluchow & Deborah Poff, Business
Ethics in Canada (Prentice-Hall, 1987; 2nd ed., 1991; 3rd ed., 1999)
"Abortion and Infanticide: a Contractarian Defense of the Right to Abortion and
the Wrongness of Infanticide" - Values and Moral Standing Bowling Green
Studies in Philosophy (BGSU Phil.), No. VIII, 1986, ed. by Sumner, Callen, and Attig pp.
76-89.
"Unsubsidized Arts" - Policy Options (October 1986 - vol. 7, #8, pp
16-21)
"On Defense by Nuclear Deterrence", Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
Supplementary Volume 12, 1986: Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence, and Disarmament - David
Copp, editor. pp. 195-211; also in Etyka (Cracow, Poland; tr. into Polish)
Critical Notice: Michael Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (CJP,
17.1, March 87, 227-234.
"Reflections on Moral Relativity" - Critical Notice of David Wong, Moral
Relativity, for Canadian Journal of Philosophy (vol. 17 #1, March 1987, pp.
235-257)
"On Honouring our Parents" - Southern Journal of Philosophy -- vol.
XXV, #1, Spring 1987
"Have We a Right to Non-Discrimination?", in D. Poff and W. Waluchow, Business
Ethics in Canada (Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1987, pp. 183-199)
"Hobbesian Peace" published in Conceptions de la Paix, ed. by Venant
Cauchy (Éditions Montmorency, Montréal, 1987)
"Liberalism and Public Education", in Interchange (published by OISE,
Toronto) - March 1988 - vol. 19, #1, pp. 60-69
"Justifying a Morality", in D. Odegard, editor, Ethics and Justification
(Edmonton, Alberta: Academic Printing & Publishing, 1988. (University of Guelph, read
in May 1987) pp. 257-276
"Is There a Problem about Applied Ethics?" in David M. Rosenthal and Fadlou
Shehadi, Applied Ethics and Ethical theory (Salt Lake City: University of Utah
Press, 1988), pp. 100-115
"Reason and Morality in the Age of Nuclear Deterrence" - Analyse und
Kritik (University of Frankfurt) December 1988, pp. 206-23 (in English)
"The Justice of the Market" in J. W. Chapman and J. R. Pennock, eds., Markets
and Justice (NOMOS XXXI: NY & London: New York University Press, 1989), pp.
250-276.
Critical Notice of Carol Gould, Rethinking Democracy - International
Philosophical Quarterly, XXIX, No. 4, December 1989, pp. 473-477
Critical Notice of Jeremy Waldron, The Right to Private Property (Dialogue,
1990)
"On the Rationality of Revolutions", in Yeager Hudson and Creighton Peden,
eds., Revolution, Violence, and Equality (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990)
"Remarques sur les fondements de la morale" ("Remarks on the Foundations
of Morals") in Jocelyn Couture, ed., éthique et rationalité (Liege, Belgium:
Mardaga, 1992)
"Gauthier on Distributive Justice and the Natural Baseline", In Peter
Vallentyne, ed., Contractarianism and Rational Choice (Cambridge University Press,
1991)
"Collective Rights?", Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, vol.
IV, No. 2, July 1991, pp. 329-345
"Terrorism and Morality", in Raymond Frey and Chris Morris, eds., Violence,
Terrorism, and Justice; Cambridge University Press, 1991
"Force, Violence, and Law" in James B. Brady and Newton Garver, editors, Justice,
Law, and violence (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991), pp. 149-169.
"Democracy and Economic Rights", in Social Philosophy and Policy, vol.
9, No. 1 (1992), pp. 29-61
"Moving from Punishment to Compensation", Canadian Journal of Law and
Jurisprudence, vo. V, No. 1, January 1992, pp. 57-68.
"Is there a Problem about Overpopulation?", Guest editorial: Risk
Abstracts, vol. 9, No. 1, March 1992, pp. 1-10.
"A Comment on Filice’s Defense of Pacifism", Journal of Philosophical
Research, Vol. XVII, 1991-2, pp. 477-485.
"Violence: War, Revolution, and Terrorism" - Chapter Four in 3rd edition, Tom
Regan, Matters of Life and Death (NY: Random House, 1993), pp. 121-159
"Libertarianism vs. Postlibertarianism", Critical Review, vol. 6, No.
1, Winter 1992 (nominally; 1993, actually), pp. 45-82
"John Stuart Mill as Philosopher" - Critical Notice of John Skorupski, John
Stuart Mill (Dialogue XXII.2, Spring 1993, pp. 315-328)
"Drugs and Responsibility", for S. Luper-Foy and Curtis Brown, Drugs,
Morality and The Law (Garland Press, 1994)
"Comment on Hajdin on Sanctions and Morals" Dialogue XXXII.3 (1993)
pp. 761-765)
"Freedom of Speech and Expression: A Libertarian View", in W. J. Waluchow, Theories
of Free Expression: Essays in Law and Philosophy, (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford U.P., 1994)
"The Agreement to Keep Our Agreements: Hume, Prichard, and Searle" (Philosophical
Papers, South Africa; August 1994)
"Deserving Profits", in Mario Rizzo and Robin Cowan, editors Profits and
Morality, (U. of Chicago Press, 1995).
Entries in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1995): ‘Markets’,
‘Decision Theory’, ‘Intersubjective’
"Toward a Liberal Theory of Ideology - a Quasi-Marxian exploration" - Reason
Papers No. 20, Fall 1995, pp. 22-34.
Entry on "Social Philosophy" for Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,
Robert Audi, ed. (Cambridge U.P., 1995)
Entries in the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics on: Consumer Rights, Egoism and
Altruism, and Stoicism (published in 1998)
"Introduction to Eidos number on Contractarianism (XIII.1 - nominally dec.
1995, pp. 1-4.) (I was guest editor of that issue)
"Contracting for Liberty", for Libertarianism for the 21st Century, T.
R. Machan and D. B. Rasmussen, eds. 1995
"The Anarchist’s Case", in For and Against the State (ed. by John
T. Sanders and Jan Narveson), (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996)
"Fair Hiring and Affirmative Action", in Wesley Cragg & Christine Koggel,
eds., Contemporary Moral Issues (Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 4th ed., l997, pp.
313-326)
"Resources and Environmental Policy", in Eldon Soifer, ed., Ethical Issues
(Broadview, 1996 - 2nd edition)
"Liberty, Equality, and Distributive Justice," in Equality, and Plurality
ed. by Larry May, Christine Sistare, and Jonathan Schonsheck (University Press of Kansas,
1997), pp. 15-37.
"Alan Gewirth’s Foundationalism and the Well-Being State" - Journal
of Value Inquiry, vol. 31.4, December 1997, pp. 485-502
"What Does the Educated Person Learn Now?" in Journal of Value Inquiry
(vol. 32.1, 1998, pp. 26-38); also in in Values and Education, ed. by Thomas
Magnell (Value Inquiry Book Series, #76), pp. 29-42.
"Libertarianism vs. Marxism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen’s Self-Ownership,
Freedom and Equality", The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 2, #1, 1998, 1-26
"Egalitarianism: Partial, Counterproductive, and Baseless" - Ratio
1997; also in Andrew Mason, ed., Ideals of Equality (Blackwell, 1998), pp. 79-94.
"An Interview with Jan Narveson" is published in Cogito vol. 12, #2,
1998, pp. 93-102.
"Compliance with the Law" in Garland Publishing, Encyclopedia of Philosophy
of Law, Chris Gray, editor. (1998?)
"God" in Reason papers No. 22, Fall 1997, pp. 109-119. See also
"Addressing some Critics", pp. 109-116, a follow-up to "God".
Discussion Note: "Ayn Rand as Moral and Political Philosopher", Reason
papers No. 22, Fall 1997, pp. 96-100.
Entry on "Ethics" for Encyclopedia of Business Ethics
"Globalism and The Obsolescence of the State: New Support for Old Doubts" -
in Social Philosophy Today (Edward Mellon Press, 1999)
"Barnett on The Structure of Liberty" in The Good Society, vol.
8, #2, 1998, pp. 44-48
"Property Rights: Original Acquisition and Lockean Provisos" Public
Affairs Quarterly vol. 13 #3, July 1999
"Evolutionary Biology, Altruism, and Moral theory" Biology and Philosophy
(1999)
"Sterba’s Program of Philosophical Reconciliation," in Journal of
Social Philosophy (XXX.3, Winter 1999, pp. 401-410)
"Is there a Duty to Die?" James Humber and Robert F. Almeder, eds., Is
there a Duty to Die? (Biomedical Ethics Reviews Totawa, N.J.: Humana Press,
2000)
"Libertarianism", for Hugh laFollette, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Ethical
Theory, (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2000)