Matt Matravers
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Matt Matravers is Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK.
Matt Matravers is Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK.
Matt (Department of Politics, Department of Politics, University of York) Matravers
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Matt Matravers
Criminal Law and Cultural Diversity
The idea of a cultural defense in criminal law is often ridiculed as "multiculturalism run amok ". To allow someone charged with a crime to say "this is my culture " as an excuse for their action seems to open the door to cultural relativism, to jeopardize the protection of fundamental rights, and to undermine norms of individual responsibility.
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Managing Modernity
In the last thirty years, the USA and the UK have witnessed a profound change in the way in which we think about and respond to crime and social control.
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Matt Matravers
Scanlon and Contractualism
This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon's contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality.
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Lukas Meyer
Democracy, Equality, and Justice
In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept.
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Derek Edyvane
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Toleration Re-Examined
The problem of how we are to live together in morally and culturally diverse democratic societies is central to modern life. Over the last thirty years, an extensive philosophical literature has developed around the idea of toleration as a way of engaging with that problem.
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