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A FAILED RECONCILIATION: FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON STERBA'S PROJECT

Journal of Social Philosophy, 1994
Although I do not find any of Sterba's responses to my recent criticisms of his work How to Make People Just convincing, I shall not attempt to answer them point by point since this would be a boring, scholastic exercise at best.1 Rather, I shall expand upon what I believe continue to be the three major problems with Sterba's theory and explain why his
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Sterba on Affirmative Action, or, it Never was the bus, it was Us!

The Journal of Ethics, 2011
Professor Sterba argues for two interesting and provocative positions regarding affirmative action. First, affirmative action programs are still needed to ensure diversity in educational institutions of higher learning. Secondly, the proponents and opponents of affirmative action are not as far apart as they seem to think.
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Peacemaking Philosophy or Appeasement? Sterba’s Argument for Compromise

International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2005
In The Triumph of Practice over Theory in Ethics James Sterba is not concerned merely to show that there is much convergence in the practical application of Utilitarianism, Kantianism, and Aristotelian virtue ethics. His project is the much more ambitious one of arguing that the theories do not really diverge very much at the theoretical level, and ...
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Rights, Liberties, and Expectations: A Reply to Sterba and Markie

Ethics, 1979
The central theme of "Natural and Contractual Rights"' was an account of special (i.e., promissorial or contractual) rights and obligations which make reference to natural rights and obligations. In light of this account I argued that, if one believes in such special rights and obligations one has a strong reason to believe in natural rights and ...
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Sterba's Horrendous Evils and Adams' Goodness of God

Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal
This article articulates and responds to James Sterba’s Problem of Horrendous Evils from his recent work Is A Good God Logically Possible. Specifically, this article argues that Sterba’s arguments against Marilyn McCord Adams' compensatory theodicy fails to undermine the effectiveness of the theodicy.
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Commentary on Sterba

Journal of Social Philosophy, 2011
Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl
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Comments on Sterba’s “The Michigan Cases and Furthering the Justification of Affirmative Action”

International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2004
In my comments on Prof. Sterba's paper, I argue that evidence about the educational value of racial preferences reveals not that these policies produce good educational outcomes, but that schools use racial preferences regardless of whether they produce desirable outcomes.
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Thomas Sterba (Hrsg.): Herders neues Klösterlexikon

1970
Ordenskorrespondenz, Bd. 52 Nr.
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Analyzing Sterba’s argument

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2020
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Reply to Sterba

Acorn, 2011
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