Joseph Heath
Professor, Department of Philosophy,
and School of Public Policy and
Governance,
Fellow, Trudeau Foundation (www.trudeaufoundation.ca)
15 King’s
Phone: 416.978.8094
Blog
I participate in a group blog here: induecourse.ca
Courses
All of my course websites are on Blackboard: portal.utoronto.ca
Working Papers
I generally post these to Academia: utoronto.academia.edu/JosephHeath
Research
My work is all related, in one way or another, to critical
social theory in the tradition of the
Academic Books
Morality, Competition and the Firm
This is a collection of published and previously unpublished papers on business ethics and contractualism, published by Oxford University Press in 2014.
Following the Rules
This is a more general book on rational action theory and moral philosophy, published by Oxford University Press in 2008. It was originally titled “Deontic Constraint.” A summary can be found in this review, by Joseph Mendola. A Japanese translation has recently appeared, heroically translated by Hirokazu Takizawa, published by NTT Publishing.
Communicative Action and Rational Choice
This is a critical study of Habermas’s theory of communicative action, from the perspective of contemporary rational choice theory. It was published by MIT Press in 2001. A summary can be found in this review, by Cristina Lafont.
Popular Books
Enlightenment 2.0
This book was being
published by HarperCollins in 2014. It is also available in Japanese
translation. You can find a video of me talking it up (here).
Filthy Lucre
This book was published by HarperCollins in Canada and by Scribe/Penguin in Australia/New Zealand. The U.S. edition was published by Random House under the title Economics Without Illusions. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese (traditional) translations are available. Italian and Croatian are forthcoming. You can find some video of me talking it up here, here and here. For those who read the book, enjoyed it, and want more, you can find drafts of two chapters that didn’t make in at the bottom of this page.
The Rebel Sell (co-authored with Andrew Potter)
This book was published by HarperCollins in Canada, John Wiley in the U.K. The American edition was published under the title Nation of Rebels, by HarperBusiness. The book has since appeared in the following languages: Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Indonesian, Polish, Serbian, Korean, and Japanese.
The Efficient Society
This book was published by Penguin in Canada, and also is
available in French translation (from Les presses de l’Université de
Academic Papers (organized by topic)
Justice and Morality
• “The Structure of
Intergenerational Cooperation,” Philosophy
and Public Affairs, 41:1 (2013): 31-66 (link) (ms)
• “Ideal Theory in an n-th Best World,” Journal of Global Ethics, 9:2 (2013): 159-172.
• “Letting the World In: Empirical Approaches to Ethics,” The Ethics Forum, 7:3 (2012): 93-107 (full text).
• “Why Cash Violates Neutrality,”
with Vida Panitch, Basic Income Studies,
5 (2010), art. 4 (full
text)
• “Three Evolutionary
Precursors to Morality,” Dialogue, 48
(2009): 717-752 ( link
)
• “Political
Egalitarianism,” Social Theory and Practice, 34 (2008): 486-516 ( ms
).
• “The Benefits of
Cooperation,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 34 (2006): 313-351 ( ms
).
• “Envy and Efficiency,” Revue de philosophie économique, 13
(2006). ( ms )
• “Rawls on Global
Distributive Justice: A Defence,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Supplementary Volume, ed. Daniel
Weinstock (
• “On the Scope of
Egalitarian Justice,” Les ateliers de l’éthique, 1 (2006). ( link
)
• “Dworkin’s Auction,” Politics,
Philosophy and Economics, 3 (2005): 313-335. ( full text )
• “Resource Egalitarianism
and the Politics of Recognition,” Adding Insult to Injury, ed. Kevin
Olson (
• “The Transcendental
Necessity of Morality,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 67
(2003). ( full text )
• “Culture: Choice or
Circumstance?” Constellations, 5:2 (1998): 183-200. ( full text)
• “Immigration,
Multiculturalism and the Social Contract,” Canadian Journal of Law and
Jurisprudence, 10:2 (1997):343-61. ( full text)
• “Intergenerational
Cooperation and Distributive Justice,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy
27:3 (1997):361-76. ( full text )
• “A Multi-Stage Game Model
of Morals by Agreement,” Dialogue, 35:3 (1996): 529-52 ( link ).
Business Ethics
• “Market Failure or Government Failure? A Response to Jaworski” Business Ethics Journal Review, 1(8) (2013): 50–56 (full text)
• “Business Ethics and the ‘End of
History’ in Corporate Law,” Journal of
Business Ethics, 102, supp. 1 (2011): 5-20 (ms
– please note title change).
• “Business Ethics and (or
as) Political Philosophy,” with Jeffrey Moriarty and Wayne Norman, Business Ethics Quarterly, 20 (2010): 427-452.
• “The Uses and Abuses of
Agency Theory,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 19 (2009): 497-528 (ms).
• “Business Ethics and Moral
Motivation: A Criminological Perspective,” Journal of Business Ethics,
83 (2008): 595-614. ( full text )
• “Reasonable Restrictions
on Underwriting,” Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Vol. 7,
ed. Patrick Flanagan, Patrick Primeaux and William Ferguson (
• “An Adversarial Ethic for
Business: or, When Sun-Tzu met the Stakeholder,” Journal of Business Ethics,
69 (2006). ( ms )
• “Business Ethics Without
Stakeholders,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 16 (2006): 533-557 ( ms ).
•
“Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Governance, and Public Management,” with Wayne
Norman, Journal of Business Ethics, 53 (2004): 247-265. ( full text )
• “A Market Failures Approach
to Business Ethics,” Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 9 (
Action Theory
• “Procrastination and the Extended Will,” with
Joel Anderson, The Thief of Time, eds. Mark White and Chrisoula Andreou
(
• “Methodological
Individualism,” Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy (2005). ( link
)
• “Practical Irrationality
and the Structure of Decision Theory,” in Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet,
eds Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (
• “The Robustness of Altruism
as an Evolutionary Strategy,” with Scott Woodcock, Biology and Philosophy
17:4 (2002): 567-590. ( full text)
• “Rational Choice with
Deontic Constraint,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 31:3 (2001):
361-388.
• “Brandom et les sources de la normativité,” Philosophiques, 28
(2001) : 27-46. (
full text) ( english
version)
• “A Pragmatist Theory of
Convergence,” Pragmatism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary
Volume XXII, ed. C.J. Misak (Lethbridge: University of Calgary Press,
1999).
• “The Structure of
Normative Control,” Law and Philosophy, 17:4 (1998): 419-442. ( full text)
• “Foundationalism and
Practical Reason,” Mind 106:3 (1997):452-73. ( full text)
Critical Theory
• “Three Normative
Models of the Welfare State,” Public
Reason, 3 (2011): 13-44 (full
text).
• “Thorstein Veblen
and American Social Criticism,” in Cheryl Misak, ed.
• “Liberal Autonomy and
Consumer Sovereignty,” Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism, ed.
Joel Anderson and John Christman (
• “Liberalization,
Modernization, Westernization,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 30
(2004): 665-690.
• “Les soins de santé comme marchandises,” Éthique publique 5:1
(2003): 84-89. ( english version)
• “Reply to Narveson,” Dialogue
42:2, (2003): 373-78.
• “Should Productivity
Growth be a Social Priority?” Review of Economic Performance and Social
Progress, vol. 2, ed. Andrew Sharpe, Keith Banting, France St-Hilaire (
• "Problems in the
Theory of Ideology," Pragmatism and Critical Theory, ed. James
Bohman and William Rehg (
• “The Structure of Hip
Consumerism,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 27 (2001): 1-17. ( full text)
• "Ideology,
Irrationality and Collectively Self-Defeating Behaviour," Constellations,
7:3 (2000): 363-371. ( full text)
Habermas
• “Rebooting Discourse Ethics,” Philosophy and Social Criticism (forthcoming).
•
“Legitimation Crisis in the Later Work of Jurgen Habermas” The Journal of Shanghai Administrative Institute, 11:5 (2010) (chinese)
(english
version)
•
“Justice: Transcendental not Metaphysical,” in Fabian Freyenhagen and James Gordon Finlayson, Habermas and
Rawls: Disputing the Political (London: Routledge, 2010).
•
“System and Lifeworld,” in Barbara Fultner, ed. Habermas: Key Concepts (London: Acumen, 2010).
• “Habermas
and Analytical Marxism,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (2009):
891-920.
•
“Reply to Critics,” Dialogue, 34:2 (2005): 391-398 (symposium on Communicative
Action and Rational Choice).
•
“Habermas,” Blackwell Companion to Pragmatism, John Shook and Joseph
Margolis, eds. (
• “What is a Validity
Claim?” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 24:4 (1998):23-41. ( full text
)
• “Is Language a Game?” Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, 26:1 (1996): 1-28. ( full text )
• “Rational Choice as
Critical Theory,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 22:5 (1996): 43-62. ( full text
)
• “Threats, Promises and
Communicative Action,” European Journal of Philosophy, 3:3 (1995):
225-41. ( full text
)
• “The Problem of
Foundationalism in Habermas’s Discourse Ethics,” Philosophy and Social
Criticism, 21:1 (1995): 77-100. ( full text
)
Monographs:
• The
Myth of Shared Values in Canada (
Unpublished Work:
• “The Democracy Deficit in
Canada” (ms)
• “Two Myths about
Canada-U.S. Integration” (ms)
The above links are fairly old.
I’m posting all new working papers to my page on academia.edu:
utoronto.academia.edu/JosephHeath
Bonus Material
• Two deleted chapters from
Filthy Lucre:
Spare the rod, spoil
the child
Last
updated January 25, 2015