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Maxificing: life on a budget; or, if you would maximize, then satisfice!In Michael Byron (ed.), Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason, Cambridge University Press. pp. 59--70. 2004.
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5Rights and UtilitarianismCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 5 (n/a): 137-160. 1979.Few questions about utilitarianism have been more vexed than that of its relation to rights. It is commonplace to hold that there are nonutilitarian rights, rights not founded on considerations of utility. And it is even thought that the very notion of rights is inherently incapable of being significantly employed within the utilitarian framework. In the present paper, I wish to consider both of these matters. I propose to give reasons—mostly not really new—for rejecting the stronger, conceptual…Read more
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2Have We A Right to Non-discrimination?In D. Poff & W. Waluchow (eds.), Business Ethics in Canada, Prentice Hall. pp. 183-199. 1987.
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29MinarchismEtica E Politica 5 (2): 1-14. 2003.This essay addresses the on-going controversy between supporters of minimal government, or minarchists, and supporters of no government, or anarchists. Both lay claim to the Libertarian principle, which holds that the only justification for the use of force is to deal with aggressive force initiated by someone else. Both agree that force is justified in dealing with aggressors. The only question is, who wields it, and how? The essay explains, briefly, the role of private property in all this. Pr…Read more
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63Property rights: Original acquisition and Lockean provisosPublic Affairs Quarterly 13 (3): 205-227. 1999.
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10Future people and usIn Richard I. Sikora & Brian M. Barry (eds.), Obligations to Future Generations, White Horse Press. pp. 38--60. 1978.
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46The "Invisible Hand"Journal of Business Ethics 46 (3). 2003.The argument of the "Invisible Hand" is that the system of free enterprise benefits society in general even though it is not the aim of any particular economic agent to do that. This article proposes an analysis of why this is so. The key is that the morality of the market forbids only force and fraud; it does not require people to do good to others. Nevertheless, when all transactions are voluntary to both parties, that is exactly what we can expect to happen. This is both because the sum of th…Read more
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53Aesthetics, Charity, Utility, and Distributive JusticeThe Monist 56 (4): 527-551. 1972.As I sit down to begin this essay, the strains of “Tristan und Isolde” are still ringing in my ears; meanwhile, another dozen or so Pakistanian refugees have died for lack of sufficient food, shelter, or medical attention, probably, during the time it will have taken to compose this paragraph. The Isolde in that performance commanded, probably, a fee of four or five thousand dollars; each member of the audience paid, on the average, perhaps ten dollars to see the performance. This works out, pro…Read more
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17Professor Filice’s Defense of Pacifism: A CommentJournal of Philosophical Research 17 483-491. 1992.
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D. Weinstein, Equal Freedom and Utility-Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (4): 295-297. 1999.
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Timo Airaksinen and Martin A. Bertman, eds., Hobbes: War among Nations Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (1): 3-5. 1991.
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1Jerry Z. Muller, ed., Conservatism—An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (6): 432-433. 1997.
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17Liberal-Conservative: The Real Controversy (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 34 (2/3): 167-188. 2000.
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1O obronie poprzez odstraszanie jądroweEtyka 25 271-285. 1990.At the present time and for the foreseeable future, likely, there is no defence, strictly speaking, against nuclear weapons. Nations facing a threat of attack involving nuclear weapons, therefore, have only three alternatives: resort to deterrence, try to get by with conventional defences, or surrender. It is discussable which of these is the most prudent option for any given nation, but I argue that we cannot accept any view entailing that the first is not a right. What we can do, however, is t…Read more
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1Drugs and ResponsibilityIn S. Luper-Foy C. Brown (ed.), Drugs, Morality, and the Law, Garland. pp. 3--24. 1994.
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1John Christman, The Myth of Property , pp. ix + 184, + Notes, Bibliography, Index (review)Reason Papers 21 77-81. 1996.
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University of WaterlooDepartment of Philosophy
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |