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Review of DeSilva, Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism (review)Environmental Values 9 1. 2000.
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Book Review of Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason (review)Environmental Ethics 26. 2004.
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11Review of : Environmental Accidents: Personal Injury and Public Responsibiltiy (review)Ethics 100 (4): 901-902. 1990.
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30The quest for an egalitarian metricCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 7 (1): 94-113. 2004.For two decades, egalitarian analytical philosophers have sought to identify the metric to be employed in order to ascertain whether any distribution is equal or not. This essay provides a review of the seminal contributions to this debate by Amartya Sen, Ronald Dworkin, Richard Arneson and G.A. Cohen.
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30Simplifying "Inequality"Philosophy and Public Affairs 30 (1): 88-100. 2001.No abstract available.
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14‘Self‐exploitation’ and Workers' Co‐operatives—or how the British Left get their concepts wrongJournal of Applied Philosophy 6 (2): 195-200. 2008.ABSTRACT In this article I examine the concept ‘self‐exploitation’ and its use in criticising workers' co‐operatives. I argue that the concept is incoherent and that the kind of exploitation which members of workers' co‐ops actually face is ‘market‐exploitation’. Moreover, some of the criticisms of workers' co‐ops which are made by those who employ the confused concept ‘self‐exploitation’ are shown to be inapposite when ‘market‐exploitation’ is recognised to be the real problem. I conclude with …Read more
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9“Institutional Exploitation’and Workers'co‐Operatives ‐or How the British Left Persist in Getting Their Concepts WrongHeythrop Journal 33 (4): 426-433. 1992.
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25Saving Nature and Feeding PeopleEnvironmental Ethics 26 (4): 339-360. 2004.Holmes Rolston, III has argued that there are times when we should save nature rather than feed people. In arguing thus, Rolston appears tacitly to share a number of assumptions with Garrett Hardin regarding the causes of human overpopulation. Those assumptions are most likely erroneous. Rather than our facing the choice between saving nature or feeding people, we will not save nature unless we feed people.
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18Creating Co-operative Autonomy: or is the Dance of Shiva a form of maya?Cogito 7 (3): 194-200. 1993.
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41Can We Harm Furture People?Environmental Values 10 (4): 429-454. 2001.It appears to have been established that it is not possible for us to harm distant future generations by failing to adopt long-range welfare policies which would conserve resources or limit pollution. By exploring a number of possible worlds, the present article shows, first, that the argument appears to be at least as telling against Aristotelian, rights-based and Rawlsian approaches as it seems to be against utilitarianism, but second, and most importantly, that it only holds if we fail to vie…Read more
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95Saving nature and feeding peopleEnvironmental Ethics 26 (4): 339-360. 2004.Holmes Rolston, III has argued that there are times when we should save nature rather than feed people. In arguing thus, Rolston appears tacitly to share a number of assumptions with Garrett Hardin regarding the causes of human overpopulation. Those assumptions are most likely erroneous. Rather than our facing the choice between saving nature or feeding people, we will not save nature unless we feed people
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109Infanticide and the right to lifeRatio 10 (1). 1997.Michael Tooley defends infanticide by analysing ‘A has a right to X’ as roughly synonymous with ‘If A desires X, then others are under a prima facie obligation to refrain from actions that would deprive him [or her] of it.’ An infant who cannot conceive of himself or herself as a continuing subject of experiences cannot desire to continue existing. Hence, on Tooley’s analysis, killing the infant is not impermissible, for it does not go against any of the infant’s desires. However, Tooley’s argum…Read more
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107Value-pluralist egalitarianismJournal of Philosophy 99 (11): 577-599. 2002.No abstract available
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12Some Theoretical Foundations for Radical Green PoliticsEnvironmental Values 13 (3). 2004.On the basis of our apparent obligations to future generations, it would seem that we are morally obliged to reduce the risk our environmentally destructive behaviour poses for their well-being. But if, rather than choosing to destroy the environment, we are in fact driven to do so, then any obligation to reduce our environmental impact requires an understanding of the mechanism driving our behaviour. This article argues that the State-Primacy Theory provides a plausible explanation for the natu…Read more
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180Moral theory and global populationProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (3). 1999.Ascertaining the optimum global population raises not just substantive moral problems but also philosophical ones, too. In particular, serious problems arise for utilitarianism. For example, should one attempt to bring about the greatest total happiness or the highest level of average happiness? This article argues that neither approach on its own provides a satisfactory answer, and nor do rights-based or Rawlsian approaches, either. Instead, what is required is a multidimensional approach to mo…Read more
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31Evolution and the problem of altruismPhilosophical Studies 123 (3): 213-230. 2005.Genuine altruism would appear to be incompatible with evolutionary theory. And yet altruistic behavior would seem to occur, at least on occasion. This article first considers a game-theoretical attempt at solving this seeming paradox, before considering agroup selectionist approach. Neither approach, as they stand, would seem to render genuine, as opposed to reciprocal, altruism compatible with the theory of evolution. The article concludes by offering an alternative game-theoretical solution to…Read more
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