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121A Companion to Applied Ethics (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken together, the essays in this volume – including two overview essays on theories of ethics and the nature of applied ethics – provide a state-of-the-art account of the most pressing moral questions facing us today. Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant problems of practical et…Read more
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103Associative Allegiances and Political ObligationsSocial Theory and Practice 23 (2): 181-204. 1997.
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331Liberalism, Samaritanism, and Political LegitimacyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3): 211-237. 1996.
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189Gratitude 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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57A Defense of Stiffer Penalties for Hate CrimesHypatia 21 (2): 62-80. 2006.After defining a hate crime as an offense in which the criminal selects the victim at least in part because of an animus toward members of the group to which the victim belongs, this essay surveys the standard justifications for state punishment en route to defending the permissibility of imposing stiffer penalties for hate crimes. It also argues that many standard instances of rape and domestic battery are hate crimes and may be punished as such.
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240Relational facts in liberal political theory: Is there magic in the pronoun 'my'?Ethics 110 (3): 537-562. 2000.
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15Liberalism, Samaritanism, and Political LegitimacyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3): 211-237. 1996.
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Amnesties and international lawIn Larry May & Emily Crookston (eds.), War: Essays in Political Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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85The 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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6JusticeIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Utilitarianism Rawls Libertarianism Post‐Rawlsian Egalitarianism The Bounds of Justice Beyond Justice as Distribution Conclusion Acknowledgments References.
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23A Theory of SecessionCambridge University Press. 2005.First published in 2005, A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination offers an unapologetic defense of the right to secede. Christopher Heath Wellman argues that any group has a moral right to secede as long as its political divorce will leave it and the remainder state in a position to perform the requisite political functions. He explains that there is nothing contradictory about valuing legitimate states, while permitting their division. Once political states are recogniz…Read more
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72Reinterpreting Rawls's the law of peoplesSocial Philosophy and Policy 29 (1): 213-232. 2012.Research Articles Christopher Heath Wellman, Social Philosophy and Policy, FirstView Article
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46In this book, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another
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6Freedom 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. forthcoming.
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174A defense of stiffer penalties for hate crimesHypatia 21 (2): 62-80. 2006.: After defining a hate crime as an offense in which the criminal selects the victim at least in part because of an animus toward members of the group to which the victim belongs, this essay surveys the standard justifications for state punishment en route to defending the permissibility of imposing stiffer penalties for hate crimes. It also argues that many standard instances of rape and domestic battery are hate crimes and may be punished as such.
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