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328Humanity, Associations, and Global JusticeThe Monist 94 (4): 506-534. 2011.This paper defends an egalitarian conception of global justice against two kinds of criticism. Many who defend egalitarian principles of justice do so on the basis that all humans are part of a common 'association' of some kind. In this paper I defend the humanity-centred approach which holds that persons should be included within the scope of distributive justice simply because they are fellow human beings. The paper has four substantive sections - the first addresses Andrea Sangiovanni's re…Read more
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187Cosmopolitan Justice and Equalizing OpportunitiesMetaphilosophy 32 (1-2): 113-134. 2001.This paper defends a global principle of equality of opportunity, which states that it is unfair if some have worse opportunities because of their national or civic identity. It begins by outlining the reasoning underpinning this principle. It then considers three objections to global equality of opportunity. The first argues that global equality of opportunity is an inappropriate ideal given the great cultural diversity that exists in the world. The second maintains that equality of opportunity…Read more
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38British Perspectives on Internationalism, Justice and Sovereignty: From the English School to Cosmopolitan DemocracyThe European Legacy 6 (2): 265-275. 2001.(2001). British Perspectives on Internationalism, Justice and Sovereignty: From the English School to Cosmopolitan Democracy. The European Legacy: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 265-275.
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261Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate ChangeLeiden Journal of International Law 18 (4): 747-775. 2005.It is widely recognized that changes are occurring to the earth’s climate and, further, that these changes threaten important human interests. This raises the question of who should bear the burdens of addressing global climate change. This paper aims to provide an answer to this question. To do so it focuses on the principle that those who cause the problem are morally responsible for solving it (the ‘polluterpays’ principle). It argues thatwhilethishasconsiderable appeal it cannot provide a co…Read more
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1377Responding to global injustice: On the right of resistanceSocial Philosophy and Policy 32 (1): 51-73. 2015.Imagine that you are a farmer living in Kenya. Though you work hard to sell your produce to foreign markets you find yourself unable to do so because affluent countries subsidize their own farmers and erect barriers to trade, like tariffs, thereby undercutting you in the marketplace. As a consequence of their actions you languish in poverty despite your very best efforts. Or, imagine that you are a peasant whose livelihood depends on working in the fields in Indonesia and you are forcibly displa…Read more
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124Justice and the duties of the advantaged: a defenceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (4): 543-552. 2011.In a recent paper in this journal I argued that the distribution of the burdens involved in combating climate change should be determined by a combination of a particular version of the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) and a particular version of the Ability to Pay Principle. Carl Knight has presented three objections to my analysis. In what follows, I argue that he largely misinterprets my arguments
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204Carbon Trading: Unethical, Unjust and Ineffective?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 69 201-234. 2011.Cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gas emissions are an important part of the climate change policies of the EU, Japan, New Zealand, among others, as well as China and Australia. However, concerns have been raised on a variety of ethical grounds about the use of markets to reduce emissions. For example, some people worry that emissions trading allows the wealthy to evade their responsibilities. Others are concerned that it puts a price on the natural environment. Concerns have also been raised…Read more
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330Climate change and the future: Discounting for time, wealth, and riskJournal of Social Philosophy 40 (2): 163-186. 2009.This paper examines explore the issues of intergenerational equity raised by climate change. A number of different reasons have been suggested as to why current generations may legitimately favor devoting resources to contemporaries rather than to future generations. These - either individually or jointly - challenge the case for combating climate change. In this paper, I distinguish between three different kinds of reason for favoring contemporaries. I argue that none of these arguments is pers…Read more
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255Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing BurdensJournal of Political Philosophy 21 (4): 125-149. 2013.
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73Eric Rakowski, Equal Justice, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. xii + 385Utilitas 7 (1): 169. 1995.
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138Climate Change and Non-Ideal Theory: Six Ways of Responding to NoncomplianceIn Clare Heyward & Dominic Roser (eds.), Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World, Oxford University Press. pp. 21-42. 2016.This paper examines what agents should do when others fail to comply with their responsibilities to prevent dangerous climate change. It distinguishes between six different possible responses to noncompliance. These include what I term (1) 'target modification' (watering down the extent to which we seek to prevent climate change), (2) ‘responsibility reallocation’ (reassigning responsibilities to other duty bearers), (3) ‘burden shifting I’ (allowing duty bearers to implement policies which imp…Read more
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45Human rights, compatibility and diverse culturesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 3 (1): 51-76. 2000.
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767Coercion, Justification, and Inequality: Defending Global EgalitarianismEthics and International Affairs 29 (3): 277-288. 2015.Michael Blake’s excellent book 'Justice and Foreign Policy' makes an important contribution to the ongoing debates about the kinds of values that should inform the foreign policy of liberal states. In this paper I evaluate his defence of the view that egalitarianism applies within the state but not globally. I discuss two arguments he gives for this claim - one appealing to the material preconditions of democracy and the other grounded in a duty to justify coercive power. I argue that neither ar…Read more
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3CosmopolitanismIn Duncan Bell (ed.), Ethics and World Politics, Oxford University Press. pp. 146--63. 2010.
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2745'Distributive Justice and Climate Change'In Serena Olsaretti (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.This paper discusses two distinct questions of distributive justice raised by climate change. Stated very roughly, one question concerns how much protection is owed to the potential victims of climate change (the Just Target Question), and the second concerns how the burdens (and benefits) involved in preventing dangerous climate change should be distributed (the Just Burden Question). In Section II, I focus on the first of these questions, the Just Target Question. The rest of the paper examine…Read more
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