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98Justice, Institutions, and Luck: The Site, Ground, and Scope of EqualityOxford University Press. 2012.Kok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions in political philosophy: Where does distributive equality matter? Why does it matter? And among whom does it matter? He argues for an institutional site for egalitarian justice, a luck-egalitarian ideal of why equality matters, and a global scope for distributive justice.
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30Equality and special concernIn Colin Murray Macleod (ed.), Justice and equality, University of Calgary Press. pp. 73-98. 2010.
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117Two Conceptions of Liberal Global TolerationThe Monist 94 (4): 489-505. 2011.How should a liberal state respond to a nonliberal state that is however a decent society? By “decent,” I mean, adopting John Rawls’s terminology, that the so described state is nonaggressive and recognizes the independence and equality of other states and that it also honors basic human rights. Should a liberal state tolerate such a nonliberal state? We can identify two possible conceptions of global toleration in this regard. One conception holds that liberal states ought to tolerate nonlibera…Read more
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735The Boundary of Justice and The Justice of BoundariesCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 29 (2): 319-344. 2006.Two classes of arguments are often deployed by the anti-global egalitarians against attempts to universalize the demands of distributive equality. One are arguments attempting to show that global egalitarians have misconstrued the reasons for why equality matters domestically, and hence have wrongly extended these reasons to the global arena. These arguments hold that the boundary of distributive justice is effectively coextensive with the boundaries of state. The other are arguments that attemp…Read more
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Liberal equality : what, where, and whyIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Hent De Vries and Samuel Weber, eds., Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (1): 9-11. 1999.
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171Critical Notice: John Rawls, The Law of PeoplesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 113-132. 2001.This review essay on John Rawls’s The Law of Peoples focuses on two of its more contentious claims. The first is that international economic justice is secured by a principle of assistance and that a principle of distributive justice will in fact have “unacceptable” results. The other is that certain non-liberal societies, or peoples, fall within the limits of international toleration. The essay evaluates and critiques these claims from a liberal cosmopolitan perspective.
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87Why global justice mattersJournal of Global Ethics 10 (2): 128-134. 2014.Why does global justice as a philosophical inquiry matter? We know that the world is plainly unjust in many ways and we know that something ought to be done about this without, it seems, the need of a theory of global justice. Accordingly, philosophical inquiry into global justice comes across to some as an intellectual luxury that seems disconnected from the real world. I want to suggest, however, that philosophical inquiry into global justice is necessary if we want to address the problems of …Read more
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3Rights, harm, and institutionsIn Alison Jaggar (ed.), Thomas Pogge and His Critics, Polity. 2010.
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507Enforcing Cosmopolitan Justice: the problem of interventionIn Roland Pierik & Wouter Werner (eds.), Cosmopolitanism in Context, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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32Nationalism and CosmopolitanismIn Garrett Wallace Brown & David Held (eds.), The Cosmopolitanism Reader, Polity. pp. 176. 2010.
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