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Item Discussion on Methods of Evaluation (Memorandum)(Bennington College, 2004-03-12) Voice, Paul"Documents detailing the history of evaluation at Bennington and research on how our transcript is received and used in Admissions Offices at graduate schools have been distributed to SEPC reps, Talking Heads and House Chairs."Item Global Justice and the Challenge of Radical Pluralism(2004-08) Voice, PaulPolitical philosophy has been under the sway of a certain picture since Rawls's A Theory of Justice was published in 1971. This picture combines the idea that the problem of justice should be approached from the direction oi ideal normative theory, and that there are some anchoring ideas that secure the justificatory role of a hypothetical agreement. I think this picture and the hold it has over political philosophy is beginning to fragment. This fragmentation I think is most evident in the skepticism that has become a routine response to the Kantian idea that 'we' can 'discover' the terms of an agreement that has both a categorical force and a universal scope. But as the picture fragments we are still left with the framework and vocabulary of Rawls's difficult and elaborate theory. The major difficulty confronting the Rawlsian project (the problem of pluralism as I will argue below) is itself defined in terms of Rawls's conceptual language. And this serves only to obscure the real challenge and keep us 'bewitched' by Rawls's narrow way of seeing issues. In being bewitched in this way we do not see that the problem of pluralism confronts Rawls's project as a whole, rather than requiring adjustments and accommodations.Item What Do Liberal Democratic States Owe the Victims of Disasters? A Rawlsian Account(Society for Applied Philosophy, 2016-11) Voice, PaulIs there a principled way to understand what liberal democratic states owe, as a matter of justice, to the victims (survivors) of disasters? This article shows what is normatively special and distinctive about disasters and argues for the view that there are substantial duties of justice for liberal democratic states. The article rejects both a libertarian and a utilitarian approach to this question and, based on broadly Rawlsian principles, argues for a ‘political definition’ of disasters that is concerned with the restoration of citizens’ dignity and their capacities for effective citizenship.