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  1. Epistemic approaches to deliberative democracy.John B. Min & James K. Wong - 2018 - Philosophy Compass 13 (6):e12497.
    This article offers a comprehensive review of the major theoretical issues and findings of the epistemic approaches to deliberative democracy. Section 2 surveys the norms and ideals of deliberative democracy in relation to deliberation's ability to “track the truth.” Section 3 examines the conditions under which deliberative mini‐publics can “track the truth.” Section 4 discusses how “truth‐tracking” deliberative democracy is possible through the division of epistemic labor in a deliberative system.
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    Democratizing value alignment: from authoritarian to democratic AI ethics.Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Gleb Papyshev & James K. Wong - 2024 - AI and Ethics.
    Value alignment is essential for ensuring that AI systems act in ways that are consistent with human values. Existing approaches, such as reinforcement learning with human feedback and constitutional AI, however, exhibit power asymmetries and lack transparency. These “authoritarian” approaches fail to adequately accommodate a broad array of human opinions, raising concerns about whose values are being prioritized. In response, we introduce the Dynamic Value Alignment approach, theoretically grounded in the principles of parallel constraint satisfaction, which models moral reasoning as (...)
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    Self and Other.James Wong - 2013 - Philosophy Today 57 (1):99-113.
  4. Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory (review).James Wong - 2000 - Hypatia 15 (3):192-199.
  5. On the Very Idea of the Normal Child.James Wong - 1994 - Dissertation, University of Toronto (Canada)
    Today, long before a child is born, its growth is monitored and measured against norms of foetal development. At birth, each child is weighed, measured and tested to assess its development. We have a wealth of scientific knowledge which tells us precisely what each child should typically achieve by a prescribed age. The ideas of development and normalcy form the overarching principle by which we now think about children. Why? Because it is the truth about children that they are developing (...)
     
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    The “making” of teenage pregnancy.James Wong - 1997 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11 (3):273 – 288.
    I will do two things in this paper. First, I examine the issue of construction in the social sciences by using “teenage pregnancy” as an example. Following Michel Foucault's genealogical studies, I show that new categories were constructed to study teenage pregnancies, but that the construction involved does not support an extreme theory of construction—a theory which allows of nothing like “reality”. Second, I study the interaction between the categories used in investigations of teenage pregnancies and those to whom such (...)
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    Can Power Produce Knowledge? Reconsidering the Relationship of Power to Knowledge.James Wong - 2010 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (1):105-123.
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    Truth and the 'Politics of Ourselves'.Russell Anderson & James Wong - 2013 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (4):419-444.
    The authors take up Amy Allen's suggestion that while Foucault's work may be able to support a certain type of self-critique and self-development, it does not permit the kind of interpersonal relations that are necessary for the development of intersubjective meaning in struggles against imposed identities. The authors contend that for Foucault, relations of ‘truth’ play an important constitutive role in subjectivities, and that understanding the ‘politics of ourselves’ in the context of this truth shows not only an openness to (...)
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    Communication, Conflict, and Reconciliation.Cheryl Hughes & James Wong - 2003
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    Preface.Cheryl Hughes & James Wong - 2001 - Social Philosophy Today 17:5-5.
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    Commentary on N M Nielsen.James Wong - unknown
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    Foucault and Autonomy.James Wong - 2010 - Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 96 (3):277-290.
    In this paper, I argue against Mark Bevir’s contention that Foucault is committed to reject autonomy but affirms agency. I argue that Bevir’s claim is extravagant, that (a) Foucault need not reject autonomy, and (b) the rejection of autonomy flies in the face of the emphasis Foucault placed on autonomy in his late work. Central to my argument is the distinction between autonomy as self-sufficiency and autonomy as self-rule. By deploying Harry Frankfurt’s structural account of identification, I show that Foucault’s (...)
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    Fraser and the politics of identity: Human kinds and transformative remedies.James Wong & Andrew Latus - 2003 - Philosophia 31 (1-2):205-219.
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  14. Gary Gutting, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault Reviewed by.James Wong - 2007 - Philosophy in Review 27 (1):34-37.
     
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  15. Getting Rule-Following Straight.James Wong - 1991 - Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 9.
     
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    Responsibility, Entitlement, and Justice in Teen Single Parenting.James Wong & David Checkland - 2000 - Social Philosophy Today 15:379-398.
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    What's in a Name? An Examination of Social Identities.James Wong - 2002 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32 (4):451–463.
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    Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. [REVIEW]James Wong - 2001 - Dialogue 40 (2):426-428.
    Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: The Big Questions is a welcome addition to the crop of anthologies on “contemporary issues.” In the past, the tag “contemporary issues” meant abortion, pornography, euthanasia, affirmative action, and the other usual suspects. Anthology after anthology dealt with these same life-and-death issues, often reproducing the same articles. But that has changed in the last couple of years as interest in topics such as sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, and multiculturalism has reanimated the field.
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    Book review: Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Theory. By Linda Martin Alcoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. [REVIEW]James Wong - 2000 - Hypatia 15 (3):192-198.
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    Between Genealogy and Epistemology. [REVIEW]James Wong - 1998 - Dialogue 37 (2):404-406.
    Foucault’s critique of foundationalist thinking—the view that our knowledge of the world and of ourselves rests on a foundation of indubitable belief—is at the heart of Todd May’s discussion. May’s book is short but ambitious. In a scant 127 pages of text, he not only traces the development of Foucault’s project from the early “archæological” writings to the later “genealogical” and “ethical” works, but also defends Foucault against a charge of incoherence. This charge stems from the fact that Foucault tells (...)
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