Fabienne Peter - Publications

Books

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Democratic Legitimacy. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Rationality and Commitment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (co-editor; with Hans Bernhard Schmid).
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (co-editor; with Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen).

Papers

'Relational Moral Demands.' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 125(1): 1–22, 2025 (draft paper).
'Runaway Reasons.' In Russ Shafer-Landau (ed) Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol 20, pp. 245 - 268, 2025 (penultimate version).
'Political Legitimacy and the News Media: Four Normative Models of the Political Role of the News Media, with Jonathan Heawood. In Carl Fox and Joe Saunders (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2023, pp. 83 - 95.
'Moral Affordances and the Demands of Fittingness.' Philosophical Psychology 37(7): 1948-1970, 2023.
'Sustaining Democracy by Robert Talisse.' Ethics 133(4): 645 - 649, 2023.
'How to be Trustworthy, by Katherine Hawley.' Mind 131(522): 700 - 707, 2022.
'Epistemic Norms of Political Deliberation.' In Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 395 – 406.
'Truth and Uncertainty in Political JustificationLink opens in a new window.' In Elizabeth Edenberg and Michael Hannon (eds.) Political Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 64 - 75.
'The Grounds of Political Legitimacy.' Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6(3): 372 - 390, 2020 (penultimate version).
'Normative Facts and Reasons.' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 199(1): 53 - 75, 2019 (penultimate version).
'Epistemic Self-Trust and Doxastic Disagreements'. Erkenntnis 84: 1189–1205, 2019.
'Political Legitimacy under Epistemic Constraints: Why Public Reasons Matter'. In Nomos issue on Political Legitimacy (Jack Knight and Melissa Schwartzberg, eds.), 2019.
'Legitimate Political Authority and Expertise.' In Wojciech Sadurski, Michael Sevel, and Kevin Walton (eds.) Legitimacy: The State and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
'The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain: Intentional Action under Normative Uncertainty'. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21(1): 57–70, 2018.
'The Epistemic Circumstances of Democracy.' In Miranda Fricker and Michael Brady (eds.) The Epistemic Life of Groups. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016, pp. 133 – 149.
'The Epistemology of Deliberative Democracy.' In Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee and David Coady (eds.) A Companion to Applied Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell 2016, pp. 76 – 88 (penultimate version).
'A Human Right to Democracy?' In Rowan Cruft, Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 (penultimate version).
'A Companion to Rawls: Book Review.' Ethics 125(2): 591– 596, 2015 (penultimate version).
'Second-Personal Reason-Giving.' Grazer Philosophische Studien 90: 21 - 34, 2014 (penultimate version).
'Agreement-based Justification: A Comment on Wolff.' Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series), 4(3): 37–51, 2014.
'Epistemic Foundations of Political Liberalism'. Journal of Moral Philosophy 10(5): 598 - 620, 2013 (penultimate version).
'The Procedural Epistemic Value of Deliberation'. Synthese, 190(7): 1253-1266, 2013.
'The Human Right to Political Participation.' Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 7: 1 - 16, 2013.
'Authority and Legitimacy.' In Gerald F. Gaus and Fred D'Agostino (eds.) Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2012.
'Rules, Norms, Commitments.' In: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.) Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. London: Sage, 2011 (with Kai Spiekermann).
'Political Legitimacy.' In Ed Zalta (ed.) Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy, 2010.
'Rawlsian Justice.' In Paul Anand et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
'Pure Epistemic Proceduralism.' Episteme 5(1): 33 - 55, 2008 (special issue on epistemic democracy, guest-edited by David Estlund; penultimate version).
'Democratic Legitimacy and Proceduralist Social Epistemology.' Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 6(3), 2007: 329 - 353 (penultimate version).
'The Political Egalitarian's Dilemma.' Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10(4), 2007: 373 - 387 (penultimate versionLink opens in a new window).
'Rawls' Idea of Public Reason and Democratic Legitimacy.' Politics and Ethics Review 3(1), 2007: 129 - 143 (penultimate version).
'Justice: Political, not Natural.' Analyse und Kritik 28(1), 2006: 382 – 397.
'Choice, Consent, and the Legitimacy of Market Transactions.' Economics and Philosophy 20(1), 2004: 1-18).
'Gender and the Foundations of Social Choice: The Role of Situated Agency.' Feminist Economics 9(2), 2003: 13-32.
'Health Equity and Social Justice.' Journal of Applied Philosophy 18(2), 2001: 159-170. Reprinted in Anand, Peter, and Sen (eds.) Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-106.
'Ethical Dimensions of Health Equity.' In Timothy Evans, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya and Meg Wirth (eds.) Challenging Inequities in Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: pp. 25-33 (with Timothy Evans). Spanish translation: "Dimensiones Eticas de la Equidad en Salud." In Evans et. al (eds.) Desafío a la Falta de Equidad en Salud. PAHO, 2002: 27 - 35.