Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (4), Fall 2007

The Fall 2007 issue of Philosophy & Public Affairs is now available:

Philip Kitcher (Philosophy, Columbia), “Does `Race’ Have a Future?“: 293-317. A pragmatist approach to racial categories makes the question of their retention very difficult to answer.

Arash Abizadeh (Political Science, McGill), “Cooperation, Pervasive Impact, and Coercion: On the Scope (not Site) of Distributive Justice“: 318-358. Three different ways of understanding the basic structure all imply that justice is global in scope, pace the anticosmopolitans.

Arthur Isak Applbaum (Government, Harvard), “Forcing a People to be Free“: 359-400. Using Iraq as an example, argues that there is an asymmetry between conditions of entrance and exit, such that, for instance, “U.S. forces may and perhaps must prevent the formation of a minimally legitimate government in order to hold out for more extensive political freedoms and human rights protections, even if that is not what most Iraqis presently want.”