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42Prospects for an Animal-Friendly Business EthicsIn Natalie Thomas (ed.), Animals and Business Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 67-89. 2022.Despite the increased attention that has been paid in recent years to the significance of animal interests within moral and political philosophy, there has been virtually no discussion of the significance of animal interests within business ethics. This is rather troubling, since a great deal of the treatment of animals that will seem especially problematic to many people occurs in the context of business, broadly construed. In this chapter, I aim to extend the growing concern that our normative…Read more
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41State Action, State Policy, and the Doing/Allowing DistinctionEthics, Policy and Environment 17 (2): 147-149. 2014.
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39Review of The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers' Perspectives on Philanthropy (ed. Woodruff) (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2018.
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38Facing up to Conflicts Between Ethics and Profits: Against Wishful Thinking in BusinessIn Nicholas Ind & Oriol Iglesias (eds.), In Good Conscience: Do the Right Thing While Building a Profitable Business. pp. 43-47. 2022.
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38Utilitarianism and PovertyIn Gottfried Schweiger & Clemens Sedmak (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, Routledge. pp. 127-137. 2023.This chapter provides an overview of the most prominent debates about the moral significance and implications of poverty among those who accept a broadly utilitarian account of poverty’s most morally important dimensions. The first section outlines the central features of utilitarian moral theory and describes the basic features of a broadly utilitarian account of poverty’s moral significance. The next section examines the various accounts of the moral obligations of the affluent to contribute t…Read more
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37Climate Justice, Feasibility Constraints, and the Role of Political PhilosophyIn Sarah Kenehan & Corey Katz (eds.), Climate Justice and Feasibility: Normative Theorizing, Feasibility Constraints, and Climate Action, . pp. 93-113. 2021.
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37Review of Ryan Burg, Business Ethics for a Material World: An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 29 143-146. 2019.
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36What Should Business Ethics Be? Aims, Methodology, SubstanceIn Guglielmo Faldetta, Edoardo Mollona & Massimiliano M. Pellegrini (eds.), Philosophy and Business Ethics: Organizations, CSR, and Moral Practice. pp. 13-40. 2022.Few would deny that some central questions in business ethics are normative. But there has been, and remains, much skepticism about the value of traditional philosophical approaches to answering these questions. I have three central aims in this chapter. The first is to defend traditional philosophical approaches to business ethics against the criticism that they are insufficiently practical. The second is to defend the view that the appropriate methodology for pursuing work in business ethics i…Read more
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36Ethical Consumerism, Human Rights, and Global Health ImpactDeveloping World Bioethics 24 (1): 31-36. 2024.In this paper, I raise some doubts about Nicole Hassoun's account of the obligations of states, pharmaceutical firms, and consumers with regard to global health, presented in Global Health Impact. I argue that it is not necessarily the case, as Hassoun claims, that if states are just, and therefore satisfy all of their obligations, then consumers will not have strong moral reasons, and perhaps obligations, to make consumption choices that are informed by principles and requirements of justice. T…Read more
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34Autonomous Vehicles, Business Ethics, and Risk Distribution in Hybrid TrafficIn Ryan Jenkins, David Cerny & Tomas Hribek (eds.), Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond, Oxford University Press. pp. 210-228. 2022.In this chapter, I argue that in addition to the generally accepted aim of reducing traffic-related injuries and deaths as much as possible, a principle of fairness in the distribution of risk should inform our thinking about how firms that produce autonomous vehicles ought to program them to respond in conflict situations involving human-driven vehicles. This principle, I claim, rules out programming autonomous vehicles to systematically prioritize the interests of their occupants over those of…Read more
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32Review of Darrel Moellendorf, The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy (review)Ethics, Policy and Environment 19 (1): 108-111. 2016.Moellendorf describes this book as a work of ‘public philosophy’, by which he means that it is a philosophical discussion of an issue of public importance that is aimed at an audience broade...
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31Offsetting Risks to the Unjustly Advantaged: Why Doing More Good Sometimes Takes Priority Over Offsetting Risks We’ve Unjustly ImposedEthics, Policy and Environment 25 (3): 261-263. 2022.
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24Pandemic Windfalls and Obligations of JusticeErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 14 (1): 58-70. 2021.The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant economic hardships for millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, many of the world’s richest people have seen their wealth increase substantially during the pandemic, despite the significant economic disruptions that it has caused on the whole. It is uncontroversial that these effects, which have exacerbated already unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality, call for robust policy responses from governments. In this paper, I argue that the d…Read more
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21Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of DrivingSocial Theory and Practice 50 (2): 179-206. 2024.In this paper, we argue that if a set of plausible conditions obtain, then driving a standard vehicle rather than riding in an autonomous vehicle (AV) will become analogous to driving drunk rather than driving sober, and therefore impermissible. In addition, we argue that a ban on the production, sale, and purchase of new standard vehicles would also become justified. We make this case in part by highlighting that the central reasons typically offered in support of state-mandated vaccination wil…Read more
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18Relational Egalitarianism, Institutionalism, and Workplace HierarchyIn Julian David Jonker & Grant J. Rozeboom (eds.), Working as Equals: Relational Egalitarianism and the Workplace, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 194-213. 2023.According to relational egalitarians, the fundamental value that grounds requirements of justice is egalitarian social relationships. Hierarchical authority relations appear to be a threat to relational equality. Such relations, however, are pervasive in our working lives. Contemporary workplaces, then, seem to be potential sites of substantial injustice for relational egalitarians. This presents us with a challenge: the view that justice requires that individuals relate as equals appears diffic…Read more
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16Public Philosophy in Effective AltruismIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2022.
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16Effective Altruism, Global Justice, and Individual ObligationsGeorgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 21 675-692. 2023.On at least most accounts of what global justice requires, those living in severe poverty around the world are unjustly disadvantaged. Remedying this unjust disadvantage requires (perhaps among other things) that resources currently possessed by well-off people are deployed in ways that will improve the lives of the poor. In this article, I argue that, contrary to the claims of some critics, well-off individuals’ effective altruist giving is at least among the appropriate responses to global inj…Read more
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14Justice, Democracy, and the Role of Political PhilosophyAustralasian Philosophical Review 4 (1): 51-56. 2020.In this paper, I argue that de Shalit’s claim that there is a tension between a commitment to democracy and methodological approaches in political philosophy that do not take the views of members of the public as inputs to theorizing is mistaken. I also argue that adopting the method of ‘public reflective equilibrium’ that de Shalit recommends would undercut important roles that political philosophy should play in both our thinking about and our pursuit of justice.
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6When Money Shouldn't Be KingIn Randall E. Auxier & Megan A. Volpert (eds.), Tom Petty and Philosophy: We Need to Know, Open Court Publishing. pp. 163-172. 2019.
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University of PennsylvaniaThe Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department)Associate Professor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |