A. John Simmons

· John Allen Hollingsworth Professor

University of Virginia · Political and Social Thought

Active 1970–2020

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Citations6.4k

Papers1372 last 5y

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A. John Simmons, also known as John Allen Hollingsworth, is a professor in the field of Political & Social Thought at the University of Virginia. His academic role involves engaging with the major requirements, course descriptions, and related scholarly activities within the department. The information provided indicates his position and contact details, but does not include specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

Political Science
Sociology
Law and economics
Environmental ethics
Law
Philosophy
Epistemology

Selected publications

Boundaries of Authority
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2016-08-01 · 86 citations
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Mind-Body Union and the Limits of Cartesian Metaphysics
The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association · 2017-07-21 · 39 citations
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Human beings pose a problem for Descartes’ metaphysics. They seem to be more than a mere sum of their mental and bodily parts; human beings, Descartes insists, are unions of mind and body. But what does that union amount to? In the first, negative, part of this paper I argue that, by Descartes’ own lights, there is no way for us to answer this question if we are looking for a proper metaphysics of the union. Metaphysics is the job of the intellect; it involves understanding. On Descartes’ consid…
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Human Rights, Natural Rights, and Human Dignity
2015-04-01 · 28 citations
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Abstract This chapter explores various foundational accounts of human rights theory. It considers centrally the accounts of Jeremy Waldron and Charles Beitz. It suggests that a natural rights account can capture the modern and institutional characters displayed by some human rights claims, while still conceiving of the rights at issue as suitably timeless and pre-institutional. Against Waldron, the chapter argues that his preferred account of the relationship between human dignity and human righ…
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Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Broadly Across Computer Science Education
London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 2018-08-16 · 13 citations
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Computing technologies have become pervasive in daily life, sometimes bringing unintended but harmful consequences. For students to learn to think not only about what technology they could create, but also about what technology they should create, computer science curricula must expand to include ethical reasoning about the societal value and impact of these technologies. This paper presents Embedded EthiCS, a novel approach to integrating ethics into computer science education that incorporates…
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Moral Principles and Political Obligations
2020 · 8 citations
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I. Colbeck
University of Essex
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James Longhurst
University of the West of England
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Gregory S. Kavka
2 shared
D.M. Elsom
Oxford Brookes University
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Barbara J. Grosz
2 shared
C.I. Beattie
2 shared
Jeff Behrends
Harvard University Press
2 shared
Lily Hu
Yale University
2 shared

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