Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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    Welfarism
    Philosophy Compass 4 (1): 82-95. 2009.
    Welfarism is the view that morality is centrally concerned with the welfare or well-being of individuals. The division between welfarist and non-welfarist approaches underlies many important disagreements in ethics, but welfarism is neither consistently defined nor well understood. I survey the philosophical work on welfarism, and I offer a suggestion about how the view can be characterized and how it can be embedded in various kinds of moral theory. I also identify welfarism's major rivals, and…Read more
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    Royce and Communitarianism
    The Pluralist 2 (2). 2007.
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    Motives to Assist and Reasons to Assist: the Case of Global Poverty
    Journal of Practical Ethics 3 (1): 37-63. 2015.
    The principle of assistance says that the global rich should help the global poor because they are able to do so, and at little cost. The principle of contribution says that the rich should help the poor because the rich are partly to blame for the plight of the poor. This paper explores the relationship between the two principles and offers support for one version of the principle of assistance. The principle of assistance is most plausible, the paper argues, when formulated so as to identify o…Read more