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
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.
"Self-Ownership and Transplantable Human Organs,"
Public Affairs Quarterly, January 2007, 21(1): 89-107.
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"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
Kantian Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications, ed.
Elisabeth H. Ellis, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008}
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"Kantian Personal Autonomy," Political Theory,
October 2005, 33(5): 602-28.
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"Self-Ownership and the Limits of Libertarianism," Social
Theory and Practice, October 2005, 31(4): 465-82.
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"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}
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"A
Kantian Defense of Self-Ownership," The Journal of
Political Philosophy, March 2004, 12(1): 65-78.
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"Rawls's
Defense of the Priority of Liberty: A Kantian Reconstruction,"
Philosophy & Public Affairs, Summer 2003, 31(3): 246-71.
{to be reprinted in John Rawls, ed. David A. Reidy, Ashgate International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought, August 2008} PDF
"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.
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"A Game-Theoretic Model of Gun Control," International
Review of Law and Economics, September 1995, 15(3): 269-88.
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