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Book Review of Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason (review)Environmental Ethics 26. 2004.
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22Review of : Environmental Accidents: Personal Injury and Public Responsibiltiy (review)Ethics 100 (4): 901-902. 1990.
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57The 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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46Simplifying "Inequality"Philosophy and Public Affairs 30 (1): 88-100. 2001.No abstract available.
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27‘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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31Creating Co-operative Autonomy: or is the Dance of Shiva a form of maya?Cogito 7 (3): 194-200. 1993.
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67Can 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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60A Solution to the Purported Non-Transitivity of Normative EvaluationJournal of Philosophy 112 (1): 23-45. 2015.Derek Parfit presents his Mere Addition Paradox in order to demonstrate that it is extremely difficult to avoid the Repugnant Conclusion. And in order to avoid it, Parfit has embraced perfectionism. However, Stuart Rachels and Larry Temkin, taking their lead from Parfit, have concluded, instead, that the Repugnant Conclusion can be avoided by denying the axiom of transitivity with respect to the all-things-considered-better-than relation. But this seems to present a major challenge to how we eva…Read more
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14XIII*—Moral Theory and Global PopulationProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (1): 289-314. 1999.Alan Carter; XIII*—Moral Theory and Global Population, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 99, Issue 1, 1 June 1999, Pages 289–314, https://doi.org/
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1Beyond primacy: Marxism, anarchism and radical green political theoryEnvironmental Politics 19 (6). 2010.
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52Towards a Multidimensional, Environmentalist EthicEnvironmental Values 20 (3): 347-374. 2011.There has been a process of moral extensionism within environmental ethics from anthropocentrism, through zoocentrism, to ecocentrism. This article maps key elements of that process, and concludes that each of these ethical positions fails as a fully adequate, environmentalist ethic, and does so because of an implicit assumption that is common within normative theory. This notwithstanding, each position may well contribute a value. The problem that then arises is how to trade off those values ag…Read more
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18Infanticide and the Right to LifeRatio 10 (1): 1-9. 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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