Facts and Principles

doi:10.1111/j.1088-4963.2003.00211.x

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Wiley InterScience

Philosophy & Public Affairs

Volume 31 Issue 3, Pages 211 - 245

Published Online: 11 Jan 2005

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Facts and Principles

G. A. COHEN ¹

¹ G. A. COHEN is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. He is author of Karl Marx's Theory ofHistoy: A Defence (Princeton University Press, 1978; expanded edition, 2000), Histoy, Labour; and Freedom (Clarendon Press, 1988), Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Cambridge University Press, i995), and If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? (Harvard University Press, 2000). He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1985.

This article represents the prelude to a long study entitled "Rescuing Justice from Constructivism," one that I have been working on for some time. I have received helpful comments on that study from many people, only most of whom have commented on the present prelude to it. Since I lack a record of who commented on the prelude part of the study in particular, I list not only those who have commented on earlier versions of the ensuing pages but all my "Rescuing" commentators here: Dick Arneson, Daniel Attas, John Baker, Jerry Barnes, Brian Barry, John Broome, Myles Burnyeat, Paula Casal, Victor Caston, John Charvet, Michéle Cohen, Joshua Cohen, Max de Gaynesford, Jon Elster, David Estlund, Cécile Fabre, Keith Graham, Stephen Grover, Daniel Hausman, Frances Kamm, Jerry Katz, Jeroen Knijff, Daniel Kofman, Christine Korsgaard, Saul Kripke, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, David Lloyd-Thomas, Steven Lukes, Andrew Mason, Mohamed Mehdi, David Miller, Véronique Munoz-Dardé, Michael Neumann, Dilip Ninan, Bertell Ollman, Paule Ollman, Martin O'Neill, Michael Otsuka, Derek Parfit, Christopher Peacocke, Philip Pettit, Hanna Pickard, Piero Pinzauti, Thomas Pogge, Ross Poole, Joseph Raz, John Roemer, Amélie Rorty, Tim Scanlon, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Samuel Scheffler, Seana Shiffrin, Saul Smilansky, Horacio Spector, Gopal Sreenivasan, Hillel Steiner, Larry Temkin, Bertil Tungodden, Peter Vallentyne, Frank Vandenbroucke, Philippe Van Parijs, Steven Wall, David Wiggins, Martin Wilkinson, Andrew Williams, Bernard Williams, Erik Wright, and Arnold Zuboff. I also thank the Editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs, and, for research assistance, Daniel Lee.