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91Debra Satz: Why some things should not be for sale: The moral limits of marketsJournal of Philosophy 108 (4): 219-223. 2011.
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31Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public Goods ProblemInternational Philosophical Quarterly 30 (3): 369-370. 1990.
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28Because It's RightCanadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (sup1): 63-95. 2007.Morality teaches us that, if we look on her only as good for something else, we never in that case have seen her at all. She says that she is an end to be desired for her own sake, and not as a means to something beyond. Degrade her, and she disappears.— F. H. Bradley
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85Reasons for AltruismSocial Philosophy and Policy 10 (1): 52-68. 1993.This essay considers whether acts of altruism can be rational. Rational choice, according to the standard instrumentalist model, consists of maximizing one's utility, or more precisely, maximizing one's utility subject to a budget constraint. We seek the point of highest utility lying within our limited means. The term ‘utility’ could mean a number of different things, but in recent times utility has usually been interpreted as preference satisfaction . To have a preference is to care , to want …Read more
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66Review of Dale Jamieson, ed. A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (review)Environmental Ethics 25 (1): 99-104. 2003.
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94Islands in a sea of obligation: Limits of the duty to rescue (review)Law and Philosophy 19 (6): 683-705. 2000.No Abstract
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42A Survey of Ecological Economics, Rajaram Krishnan, Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin . Island Press, 1995, 384 + xxxix Pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 15 (1): 152. 1999.
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148Equal respect and equal sharesSocial Philosophy and Policy 19 (1): 244-274. 2002.We are all equal, sort of. We are not equal in terms of our physical or mental capacities. Morally speaking, we are not all equally good. Evidently, if we are equal, it is not in virtue of our actual characteristics, but despite them. Our equality is of a political rather than metaphysical nature. We do not expect people to be the same, but we expect differences to have no bearing on how people ought to be treated as citizens. Or when differences do matter, we expect that they will not matter in…Read more
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30Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (M. van Roojen)Philosophical Books 41 (1): 62-63. 2000.The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare systems. David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare. David Schmidtz argues that social welfare policy should prepare people for responsible adulthood rather than try to make that unnecessary. Robert Goodin argues agai…Read more
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Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |