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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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138Some groundwork for a multidimensional axiologyPhilosophical Studies 154 (3). 2011.By distinguishing between contributory values and overall value, and by arguing that contributory values are variable values insofar as they contribute diminishing marginal overall value, this article helps to establish the superiority of a certain kind of maximizing, value-pluralist axiology over both sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, as well as over all varieties of value-monism, including utilitarianism and pure egalitarianism
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33Distributive justice and enviromental sustainabilityHeythrop Journal 41 (4). 2000.Andrew Dobson has outlined three conceptions of environmental sustainability: the ‘critical natural capital’ conception; the ‘irreversibility’ conception; and the ‘natural value’ conception. He has also attempted to map out the various ‘dimensions of social justice’– his purpose in so doing being to analyze the ‘encounter’ of each conception of environmental sustainability with the points on his map. Not surprisingly, Dobson concludes that as one moves from the ‘critical natural capital’ concept…Read more
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54Projectivism and the Last Person ArgumentAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 41 (1): 51-62. 2004.None
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105Infanticide 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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