Browsing Philosophy, Department of by Author "Kymlicka, Will"
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Animal Personhood: A Postanthropocentric Multispecies Legal Subjectivity
Siemieniec, PaulinaThis thesis looks at the human relationship to other animals in the eyes of the law. Many contemporary legal systems categorize nonhuman animals as property, which means that they can be objectified and commodified. The ... -
A Better Framework for Legitimacy: Learning from the Christian Reformed Tradition
Shadd, Philip (2013-11-13)In recent years, political legitimacy as a concept distinct from full justice has received much attention. Yet in addition to querying the specific conditions legitimacy requires, there is a more general question: What ... -
Culture, Community and the Multicultural Individual
Molos, DIMITRIOS (2012-12-18)Every theory of liberal multiculturalism is premised on some account of the nature of culture, cultural difference and social reality, or what I call “the conditions of multiculturality”. In this dissertation, I offer a ... -
Evaluating nationalism in the Liberal framework
Hejazi, Omid (2007-10-11)This essay is an attempt to explain and assess the liberal nationalists’ view on the problems of the legitimacy of nationalism and cultural rights. I want to look at some theories over the past fifteen years that normatively ... -
The Gatekeeping Paradigm and the Constructivist Alternative
Sung, Kijin (2012-06-22)Science and technology have become indispensable elements of virtually every public debate. While nations strive to employ the best experts to make timely decisions, discontented citizens increasingly demand better ... -
Global Institutions and Human Rights
Shaw-Young, Jordan (2008-09-27)Thomas Pogge has famously argued that the present arrangement of international institutions that allows for human rights violations to occur on an ongoing basis is unjust, and further, that powerful states that create and ... -
How Wide the We? A Study of Canadian Multiculturalism and American Cosmopolitanism
Caver, Christopher Martin (2008-09-15)This paper looks at liberal multiculturalism through the lens of its cosmopolitan critics. In particular I examine the arguments of four theorists who issue a variety challenges to the concept of state-sanctioned minority ... -
Human Rights and Self-Government in the Age of Cosmopolitan Interventionism
Kocsis, Michael (2013-09-26)This dissertation explores a family of theoretical models of humanitarian military intervention. A number of recent theorists, including Tesón, Caney, Buchanan, Orend, Moellendorf, and Wheeler, build their models from a ... -
Human Rights, Legitimacy, and Global Justice: Deconstructing the Liberal Theory of International Relations
Szende, Jennifer (2013-05-22)This dissertation examines liberal statist and liberal cosmopolitan attempts to explain global justice. It argues that liberal statists misidentify their own commitments regarding human rights, and that once these implications ... -
Inclusive Autonomy: A Theory of Freedom for Everyone
Cote-Boudreau, FredericPersons with cognitive disabilities and nonhuman animals are denied the right to make personal choices because it is claimed that they are not autonomous, for autonomy requires the capacity to revise one’s preferences and ... -
Interests and Rights: Minority Communities, Parents, and Children
Nielsen, JosephineChildren play an integral role in the reproduction and maintenance of cultures. Simultaneously, culture groups inform the identify formation and development of children. For this reason, one would think that theories ... -
The law of peoples, human rights and minority rights: a study of legitimacy and international justice
Vaca Paniagua, Moises (2007-09-13)Severe poverty and ethnic-conflicts are the two most devastating problems of the contemporary world. Eighteen million persons die every year from causes related to poverty and a vast amount of developing countries suffer ... -
Norms, Reasons, and Moral Progress
Tam, Nga Yin (Agnes)In the literature of moral progress, there is an ongoing debate over the role of moral reasoning in enabling large-scale behavioural change. On the one hand, rationalists argue that more and better moral reasoning is key ... -
Open Secularism and the New Religious Pluralism
Boucher, Francois (2012-09-27)Although we have developed modes of governance of religious diversity to accommodate the weak level of religious pluralism which characterized Western societies until recently, it is not clear that these modes of governance ... -
Political Liberalism and the Virtues of Citizens
Carini, Stephane (2008-09-25)This paper takes as its starting point the fact of reasonable pluralism and defends political liberalism as the best means of accommodating diversity and a plurality of different conceptions of the good. I then ask what ... -
The "Right to Autonomous Agency" and the "Right to Exit/ Sever Relationships": Theorizing our Obligations to Companion Animals in a Post-Animal Rights World
Roy, Shitangshu (2013-11-15)This thesis expands on the model presented in Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka’s Zoopolis for how companion animals might be treated as co-citizens in a post-Animal Rights world. I will attempt to clarify the distinct ... -
A Role For Ideal Theory In Light of The Theory of Second Best
Turnbull, Scott (2015-11-03)Political theorists, in increasing frequency, have focused on the application of theories of justice to concrete social issues and policy prescriptions. This so called “policy turn” has made it ever more important to reflect ... -
The Role of Sociability in Political Philosophy
Smith, StephanieThis dissertation identifies, and argues in support of, the fundamentally important role that accounts of sociability play in the project of political philosophy. I will show that assumptions about the nature of human ... -
The Scope of Justice: Whom Should Rights Protect?
Taylor, Matthew (2015-10-03)This thesis argues that the strongest account of moral rights entails that animals and other marginal cases hold rights. The thesis contends that mutual advantage social contract theories offer the strongest account of ... -
Toward a Political Conception of Minority Rights: Reconciling Sovereignty, Human Rights and Minority Claims
Hejazi, OmidThe question that I will explore in this research dissertation is whether one can defend the rights of homeland minorities as a progressive extension of the existing norms of human rights. This question calls for several ...