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64The right to trade in human body partsIn Jonathan Seglow (ed.), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, F. Cass Publishers. pp. 187-193. 2002.This essay challenges the coherence of arguments brought in support of prohibiting the sale of human body parts. Considerations of neither social utility nor individual rights nor avoidance of exploitation seem sufficient to ground such a prohibition. Indeed, they may be sufficient to invalidate it
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53Exploitation, intentionality and injusticeEconomics and Philosophy 34 (3): 369-379. 2018.:This paper argues that, inasmuch as exploitation is a form of injustice, exploitative acts need not be performed intentionally.
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52Liberalism and NationalismAnalyse & Kritik 17 (1): 12-20. 1995.Historically, liberal political philosophy has had much to say about who is entitled to nationhood. But it has had rather less to say about how to determine the legitimate territorial boundaries of nations and even less to say about what some such nations, so situated, might owe to others. The object of this paper is to show that the foundational principles of liberalism can generate reasonably determinate solutions to these problems. That is, the very same set of basic rights that liberalism as…Read more
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48Double-counting inequalitiesPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 2 (1): 129-134. 2003.Philippe Van Parijs has argued that, in a globalizing economy, acquiring a second language, additional to one's native language, is more necessary for some persons than others and that this asymmetric bilingualism is a form of injustice which should be rectified by a more equitable global sharing of the costs of second-language acquisition. This article responds by suggesting that (1) since native languages have geographic locations, and (2) since locations with less globally useful native lan…Read more
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43Ancestors and DescendantsJournal of Applied Philosophy. forthcoming.This article explores the implications of responsibility‐sensitive justice for one set of intergenerational rights and duties. It focuses on the distinctive set of rights and duties, pertaining to procreation and parenting, that can be derived from Left Libertarianism's foundational entitlements. Broadly speaking, those implied rights and duties are such that all children's ability levels should be of equal value at the threshold of adulthood.
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42Rational RightsAnalyse & Kritik 17 (1): 3-11. 1995.A rational moral code must satisfy the condition of completeness. This same condition applies to a set of moral rights, where it takes the form of requiring that all the rights in that set be compossible: that their respective correlatively entailed duties be jointly fulfillable. Such joint fulfillability is guaranteed only by a set of fully differentiated individual domains. And if moral rights are to play any independent role in moral reasoning - any role logically independent of the values th…Read more
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41Human rights and the diversity of valueCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 15 (4): 395-406. 2012.This paper argues that the independence from intercultural disagreement, that Peter Jones attributes to human rights, implies that those rights are best understood as modelled on the Will Theory of rights and are derived from each person’s foundational right to equal (negative) freedom.
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40The Origins of Left Libertarianism: An Anthology of Historical Writings (edited book)Palgrave Publishing. 2000.This book contains the historically most important discussions of the philosophical foundations of left-libertarianism. Like the more familiar right-libertarianism (such as that of Nozick), left-libertarianism holds that agents own themselves (and thus owe no service the others expect as the result of voluntary action). Unlike right-libertarianism, however, left-libertarianism holds that natural resources are owned by the members of society in some egalitarian manner, and may be appropriated onl…Read more
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38How Free: Computing Personal LibertyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 15 73-89. 1983.Judgments about the extent to which an individual is free are easily among the more intractable of the various raw materials which present themselves for philosophical processing. On the one hand, few of us have any qualms about making statements to the effect that Blue is more free than Red. Explicitly or otherwise, such claims are the commonplaces of most history textbooks and of much that passes before us in the news media. And yet, good evidence for the presence of a philosophical puzzle her…Read more
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35Persons of Lesser Value Moral Argument and the 'Final Solution'Journal of Applied Philosophy 12 (2): 129-141. 1995.For many persons, ‘Holocaust‐abomination’is a fixed point on their moral compass: if anything can be evil, it was. Yet at least one of the justifications deployed by its perpetrators (the eugenics argument) invokes widely‐held values concerning human health and procreation. Hence persons endorsing many current activities based on those values (e.g. genetic counselling) have been charged with being on a morally deplorable slippery slope. This paper sketches the necessary structure of a moral posi…Read more
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29The just provision of health care: a reply to Elizabeth TelferJournal of Medical Ethics 2 (4): 185-189. 1976.Dr Hillel Steiner in this reply to Elizabeth Telfer takes each of her arguments for different arrangements of a health service and examines them--'four positions which can be located on a linear ideological spectrum'--and adds a fifth which could have the effect of 'turning the alleged linear spectrum into a circle'. Underlying both Elizabeth Telfer's article and Dr Steiner's reply, the base is inescapably a 'political' one, but cannot be abandoned in favour of purely philosophical concepts. Wha…Read more
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22Duty-Free ZonesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96 (1). 1996.Hillel Steiner; X*—Duty-Free Zones, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 231–244, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelia.
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21A Debate over RightsMind 109 (436): 954-956. 2000.The authors of this book engage in essay form in a lively debate over the fundamental characteristics of legal and moral rights. They examine whether rights fundamentally protect individuals' interests or whether they instead fundamentally enable individuals to make choices. In the course of this debate the authors address many questions through which they clarify, though not finally resolve, a number of controversial present-day political debates, including those over abortion, euthanasia, and …Read more
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19III*—Individual LibertyProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75 (1): 33-50. 1975.Hillel Steiner; III*—Individual Liberty, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 75, Issue 1, 1 June 1975, Pages 33–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristote.
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18The right to trade in human body partsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (4): 187-193. 2002.
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16Disputed land claims: a response to Weatherson and to Bou-Habib and OlsarettiAnalysis 66 (3): 248-255. 2006.
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15Land, liberty and the early Herbert SpencerIn John Offer (ed.), Herbert Spencer: critical assessments, Routledge. pp. 3--3. 2000.
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