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381Still No Redundant Properties: Reply to WielenbergJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (3): 1-6. 2012.No abstract.
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74Prioritarianism for Variable PopulationsPhilosophical Studies 134 (3): 325-361. 2007.Philosophical discussions of prioritarianism, the view that we ought to give priority to those who are worse off, have hitherto been almost exclusively focused on cases involving a fixed population. The aim of this paper is to extend the discussion of prioritarianism to encompass also variable populations. I argue that prioritarianism, in its simplest formulation, is not tenable in this area. However, I also propose several revised formulations that, so I argue, show more promise.
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102Blameless wrongdoing and agglomeration: A response to StreumerUtilitas 17 (2): 222-225. 2005.Bart Streumer argues that a certain variety of consequentialism – he calls it ‘semi-global consequentialism’ – is false on account of its falsely implying the possibility of ‘blameless wrongdoing’. This article shows (i) that Streumer's argument is nothing new; (ii) that his presentation of the argument is misleading, since it suppresses a crucial premiss, commonly called ‘agglomeration’; and (iii) that, for all Streumer says, the proponent of semi-global consequentialism may easily resist his a…Read more
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodAssistant Professor
London, London, City of, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
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