University of Oxford
Faculty of Philosophy
DPhil
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory
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    Punishment and the Rebalancing of Status
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 4 (3): 53-67. 2014.
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    Nudging the responsibility objection
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (1). 2008.
    The ‘Responsibility Objection’ to Judith Thomson's famous argument for the permissibility of abortion challenges the relevance of her ‘Violinist Analogy’ to certain types of voluntary unwanted pregnancy, on the grounds that those pregnancies, even though they may be unwanted, are pregnancies for which the woman can be plausibly held responsible. This article considers the force of a number of recent objections to the Responsibility Objection, advanced by Harry Silverstein, David Boonin, and Jeff…Read more
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    Jobs, Institutions, and Beneficial Retirement
    Ratio 27 (2): 205-221. 2013.
    According to Saul Smilansky's ‘Paradox of Beneficial Retirement’, many serving members of professions may have decisive integrity-based reasons for retiring immediately. The Paradox of Beneficial Retirement holds that a below-par performance in one's job does not require any outright incompetence, but may take a purely relational form, in which a good performance is not good enough if it would be improved upon by someone else who would be appointed instead. It is argued, in response, that jobs i…Read more