Richard Miller
I am a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Cornell University. My current work is in social and political philosophy. My writing and teaching on international justice concern such topics as duties to help the global poor, the moral status of patriotism and of special duties toward compatriots, moral problems of globalization and global climate change, the ethics of war, and the moral implications of American power. My emphasis is on how transnational relationships of power shape political responsibilities. My writing and teaching on social justice within the nation-state concern such topics as the moral foundations of egalitarianism and the proper political role of evaluations of ways of life. I am currently finishing a book, Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power.
Work in Progress
Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power
"Equity in the Greenhouse: The Model of Teamwork" (draft) pdf
Books
Moral Differences: Truth, Justice and Conscience in a World of Conflict (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.)
Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.)
Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.)
Articles
"Unlearning American Patriotism," Theory and Research in Education 5 (2007): 7-21. (pdf)
"Global Institutional Reform and Global Social Movements: From False Promise to Realistic Hope," Cornell International Law Journal 39 (2006): 501-14. (pdf)
"The Critique of Globalization" in Matthias Fritsch and Michel Seymour, eds., Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006), pp. 330-9.
"Terrorism and Legitimacy," Journal of Social Philosophy 36 (2005): 194-201.
"Beneficence, Duty and Distance," Philosophy & Public Affairs 32 (2004): 357-83. (ProQuest, pdf)
"Cosmopolitanism and Its Limits," Theoria (South Africa), 104 (2004): 38-53.
"Moral Closeness and World Community" in Deen Chatterjee, ed., The Ethics of Assistance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.), pp. 101-22.
"Terrorism, War and Empire" in James Sterba, ed., Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.), pp. 186-205.
"Respectable Oppressors, Hypocritical Liberators," in Deen Chatterjee and Donald Scheid, eds., Ethics and Foreign Intervention, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 215-50.
"Marxism and Capitalism" in R.G. Frey and Christopher Wellman, eds., Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 62-74.
"Too Much Inequality," Social Philosophy and Policy, 19 (2002): 275-313. This issue was also published as Ellen Paul, ed., Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.)
"Marx's Legacy" in Robert Simon, ed., Blackwell Companion to Political Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 131-53.
"Moral Contractualism and Moral Sensitivity," Social Theory and Practice, 28 (2002): 193-220.
"International Justice" in Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001), pp. 7780-86.
"Nationalist Morality and Crimes Against Humanity" in Aleksandar Jokic, ed., War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 143-62.
"Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic Concern," Philosophy & Public Affairs 27 (1998): 202-24. Subsequently anthologized. (JSTOR)
See CV for older articles
Some Recent Courses
Philosophy 643, Social and Political Philosophy (Spring 2007): a graduate seminar on global justice. (Syllabus)
Philosophy 447, Contemporary Political Philosophy (Spring 2006): a graduate seminar on economic inequality. (Syllabus)
Philosophy 346, Modern Political Philosophy (Fall 2006): an intermediate level course on theories of justice. (Syllabus)
Philosophy 248, Ethics and International Relations (Spring 2006):
an introductory course on international
justice. (Syllabus)
Teaching materials -- some case study packets used in Philosophy 248:
The NATO intervention in Serbia
U.S. air power in Iraq (including the first Gulf War)
The Iraq War: for and against
When should the U.S. withdraw from Iraq?
Contact
Dept. of PhilosophyGoldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
office: 329 Goldwin Smith Hall
