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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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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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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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2After SolipsismIn Schmidtz David (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 6, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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36Pettit's 'free riding and foul dealing'Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (2). 1988.This Article does not have an abstract
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80GuaranteesSocial Philosophy and Policy 14 (2): 1. 1997.People have accidents. They get old. They eat too much. They have bad luck. And sooner or later, something will be fatal. It would be a better world if such things did not happen, but they do. There is no use arguing about it. What is worth arguing about is whether it makes for a better world when people have to pay for other people's misfortunes and mistakes rather than their own
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92Diminishing Marginal Utility and Egalitarian RedistributionJournal of Value Inquiry 34 (2/3): 263-272. 2000.
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37Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.
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168Respect for EverythingEthics, Policy and Environment 14 (2): 127-138. 2011.Species egalitarianism is the view that all living things have equal moral standing. To have moral standing is, at a minimum, to command respect, to be more than a mere thing. Is there reason to believe that all living things have moral standing in even this most minimal sense? If so—that is, if all living things command respect—is there reason to believe they all command equal respect?1 I explain why members of other species command our respect but also why they do not command equal respect. Th…Read more
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55What Nozick did for decision theoryIn Person, polis, planet: essays in applied philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 282-294. 2008.
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33The Virtues of Justice1In Timpe Kevin & Boyd Craig (eds.), Virtues and Their Vices, Oxford University Press. pp. 59. 2013.
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29Equality and Public Policy: Volume 31, Part 2 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.If ever there were a time in which concerns about equality as a primary issue for social policy disappeared from public view, now is not that time. Recent work in economics on inequality has climbed to the top of best-sellers lists, and the issue was a major talking point in American midterm elections in 2014. The sheer bewildering volume of scholarship and discussion of equality makes it difficult to distinguish signal from noise. What, of all that we know about ways in which we are equal and w…Read more
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