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James Sherman is a lecturer in the Program in Ethics, Society, and Law at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and the author of "Renewing Liberalism" (Springer 2016). He has been a research fellow of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics, and the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada fellowship. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin, and has published articles in the areas of moral, political, and legal philosophy.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This is the title of my book, which presents an original and comprehensive theory of political li... more This is the title of my book, which presents an original and comprehensive theory of political liberalism. The book will be published by Springer in 2016. This document contains the Preface.
1. The Book in Brief a. The Purpose of the Book The purpose of the book is to develop, articulate... more 1. The Book in Brief a. The Purpose of the Book The purpose of the book is to develop, articulate, and defend an original and comprehensive philosophical theory of the nature and justification of modern political liberalism. Modern political liberalism can be understood negatively, by contrast with the essential tenets of modern political conservatism, or positively, as a set of affirmative theses. The purpose of the book is best explained in the former way, the approach of the book in the latter. The essential tenets of modern political conservatism, which can be traced back to the work of Edmund Burke, are as follows: a preference for liberty over equality; an attitude of suspicion toward the power of the State; elitism; and respect for tradition and established institutions, coupled with a cautious skepticism of the idea of progress. The point of departure for the theory of liberalism developed in the book is the first of these, and in particular the interpretation of the concept of individual liberty which is assumed, often implicitly or unconsciously, by the modern conservative
This paper presents an original way of ending the longstanding debate over the function of legal ... more This paper presents an original way of ending the longstanding debate over the function of legal rights, not by solving the problem of what function legal rights have, but by dissolving it.
This paper presents a particular interpretation of Urmson's account of supererogatory actions, de... more This paper presents a particular interpretation of Urmson's account of supererogatory actions, defends that interpretation and discusses the lacunae in the account so interpreted, and then introduces and defends a novel theoretical foundation for the account, yielding a complete theory of the principal class of supererogatory acts.
This paper presents a solution to a collective harm problem introduced by Derek Parfit.
This paper reconstructs the Chrysippean and Posidonian accounts of emotional action, and argues -... more This paper reconstructs the Chrysippean and Posidonian accounts of emotional action, and argues - contra both Galen and (much more recently) JM Cooper - that Posidonius' theory is simply a more thoroughly developed and (particularly) more causally precise version of Chrysippus' theory.
Books by James Sherman
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This is the title of my book, which presents an original and comprehensive theory of political li... more This is the title of my book, which presents an original and comprehensive theory of political liberalism. The book will be published by Springer in 2016. This document contains the Preface.
1. The Book in Brief a. The Purpose of the Book The purpose of the book is to develop, articulate... more 1. The Book in Brief a. The Purpose of the Book The purpose of the book is to develop, articulate, and defend an original and comprehensive philosophical theory of the nature and justification of modern political liberalism. Modern political liberalism can be understood negatively, by contrast with the essential tenets of modern political conservatism, or positively, as a set of affirmative theses. The purpose of the book is best explained in the former way, the approach of the book in the latter. The essential tenets of modern political conservatism, which can be traced back to the work of Edmund Burke, are as follows: a preference for liberty over equality; an attitude of suspicion toward the power of the State; elitism; and respect for tradition and established institutions, coupled with a cautious skepticism of the idea of progress. The point of departure for the theory of liberalism developed in the book is the first of these, and in particular the interpretation of the concept of individual liberty which is assumed, often implicitly or unconsciously, by the modern conservative
This paper presents an original way of ending the longstanding debate over the function of legal ... more This paper presents an original way of ending the longstanding debate over the function of legal rights, not by solving the problem of what function legal rights have, but by dissolving it.
This paper presents a particular interpretation of Urmson's account of supererogatory actions, de... more This paper presents a particular interpretation of Urmson's account of supererogatory actions, defends that interpretation and discusses the lacunae in the account so interpreted, and then introduces and defends a novel theoretical foundation for the account, yielding a complete theory of the principal class of supererogatory acts.
This paper presents a solution to a collective harm problem introduced by Derek Parfit.
This paper reconstructs the Chrysippean and Posidonian accounts of emotional action, and argues -... more This paper reconstructs the Chrysippean and Posidonian accounts of emotional action, and argues - contra both Galen and (much more recently) JM Cooper - that Posidonius' theory is simply a more thoroughly developed and (particularly) more causally precise version of Chrysippus' theory.