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Robert S. Taylor
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC-Davis

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D.    Political Science, UC-Berkeley, May 2002
  • Ph.D.    Economics, Duke University, September 1995
  • B.A.      Philosophy, Politics, & Economics, UT-Knoxville, summa cum laude, May 1991

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Robert S. Taylor specializes in contemporary analytic moral and political philosophy as well as the history of political thought, especially the liberal-democratic and social-contract traditions. His current research interests include John Rawls's political theory, Immanuel Kant's practical philosophy, the relationship between personal and moral autonomy, and the concept of self-ownership.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES: POLITICAL THEORY

  • "Kant's Political Religion: The Transparency of Perpetual Peace and the Highest Good," forthcoming in The Review of Politics, Winter 2010, 72(1).  PDF
  • "Children as Projects and Persons: A Liberal Antinomy," Social Theory and Practice, October 2009, 35(4): 555-76.  PDF
  • "Rawlsian Affirmative Action," Ethics, April 2009, 119(3): 476-506.  PDF
  • "Self-Ownership and Transplantable Human Organs," Public Affairs Quarterly, January 2007, 21(1): 89-107.  PDF
  • "Democratic Transitions and the Progress of Absolutism in Kant's Political Thought," Journal of Politics, August 2006, 68(3): 556-70. {alternative version forthcoming in Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications, ed. Elisabeth H. Ellis, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010}  PDF
  • "Kantian Personal Autonomy," Political Theory, October 2005, 33(5): 602-28.  PDF
  • "Self-Ownership and the Limits of Libertarianism," Social Theory and Practice, October 2005, 31(4): 465-82.  PDF
  • "Self-Realization and the Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity," Journal of Moral Philosophy, November 2004, 1(3): 333-47. {reprinted in The Legacy of John Rawls, eds. Thom Brooks and Fabian Freyenhagen, Continuum Studies in American Philosophy, September 2005, pp. 34-49}  PDF
  • "A Kantian Defense of Self-Ownership," The Journal of Political Philosophy, March 2004, 12(1): 65-78.  PDF
  • "Rawls's Defense of the Priority of Liberty: A Kantian Reconstruction," Philosophy & Public Affairs, Summer 2003, 31(3): 246-71. {reprinted in John Rawls, ed. David A. Reidy, Ashgate International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought, May 2008, pp. 193-218}  PDF

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES: ECONOMICS

  • "The Ethic of Care versus the Ethic of Justice: An Economic Analysis," Journal of Socio-Economics, Fall 1998, 27(4): 479-93.  PDF
  • "Compensating Behavior and the Drug Testing of High-School Athletes," Cato Journal, Winter 1997, 16(3): 351-64.  PDF
  • "A Game-Theoretic Model of Gun Control," International Review of Law and Economics, September 1995, 15(3): 269-88.  PDF

 

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