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7Freedom of Movement and the Rights to Enter and ExitIn Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.
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Amnesties and international lawIn Larry May (ed.), War: Essays in Political Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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324Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question.
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169The paradox of group autonomySocial Philosophy and Policy 20 (2): 265-285. 2003.This essay explores the prospects of developing a satisfying account of group autonomy without rejecting value-individualism. That is, I will examine whether one can adequately explain the moral reasons to respect a group's claim to self-determination while insisting that only individual persons are of ultimate moral value
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510Liberalism, Samaritanism, and Political LegitimacyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3): 211-237. 1996.
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284A Defense of Secession and Political Self-DeterminationPhilosophy and Public Affairs 24 (2): 142-171. 1995.Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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361Relational facts in liberal political theory: Is there magic in the pronoun 'my'?Ethics 110 (3): 537-562. 2000.
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411The Rights Forfeiture Theory of PunishmentEthics 122 (2): 371-393. 2012.Punishment is notoriously difficult to justify because it involves visiting hard treatment upon those who are punished. The rights forfeiture theory of punishment contends that punishment is justified when and because the criminal has forfeited her right not to be subjected to this hard treatment. Because of a number of apparently devastating objections, this account has very few advocates. In this essay I aim to rehabilitate the rights forfeiture account by offering responses to the standard cr…Read more
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299Gratitude as a virtuePacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (3). 1999.In my view, gratitude is better understood as a virtue than as a source of duties. In addition to showing how virtue theory provides a better match for our moral phenomenology of gratitude, I argue that recent work in the area of the suberogatory, our considered judgments concerning the role of third parties, our reluctance to posit claim‐rights to gratitude, and the observations of preceding studies of the subject all lend support to my contention that the language of duties is ill‐suited to de…Read more
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