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38Two Doctrines of Jus ex BelloEthics 125 (3): 653-673. 2015.This article discusses two doctrines of jus ex bello concerning whether and how to end wars. In Section I, I defend the claim that there is a distinct morality of ending wars. Section II rebuts a challenge that the account is too permissive of war. Section III rejects a forward-looking conception of proportionality for jus ex bello. In Section IV, I allow an exception in cases in which the just cause for the war has changed. In Section V, I defend five principles governing how to end a war
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58Global ethics: a short reflection on then and nowJournal of Global Ethics 10 (3): 319-325. 2014.Ten years on from the first issue of the Journal of Global Ethics, Darrel Moellendorf and Heather Widdows reflect on the current state of research in global ethics. To do this, they summarise a recent comprehensive road map of the field and provide a map of research by delineating the topics and approaches of leading scholars of global ethics collected together in the recently published Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics which they have co-edited. Topics fall under issues of war, conflict and v…Read more
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8Constructing the Law of PeoplesPacific Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2): 132-154. 1996.In this paper I shall argue that due to the constructivist procedure which John Rawls employs in “The Law of Peoples,” he is unable to justify his claim that there is a relationship between limiting the internal and external sovereignty of states. An alternative constructivist procedure is viable, but it extends the ideal theory of international justice to include liberal democratic and egalitarian principles. The procedure and principles have significant implications for non‐ideal theory as wel…Read more
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48Brock on the justification, content, and application of global justiceJournal of Global Ethics 5 (3). 2009.A review essay of Gillian Brock Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (Oxford University Press, 2009)
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14The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2014.Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce recourses. It draws on moral and political philosophy, political and social science, empirical research, and real-world policy and activism. The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject, presenting an authoritative overview of the mos…Read more
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96Hope as a Political VirtuePhilosophical Papers 35 (3): 413-433. 2006.In this paper I argue that hope is best understood as a compound psychological state. When we take hope according to the details of this account, we are in a good position to understand why it is a political virtue of persons. I also argue that securing the institutional bases of hope is a virtue of state institutions, particularly in states in transition from severe injustice. And, finally, when the bases are secure, a person who fails to hope for the political future is in that regard prima fa…Read more
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Persons' interests, states' duties, and global governanceIn Gillian Brock & Harry Brighouse (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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31Jus ex Bello in AfghanistanEthics and International Affairs 25 (2): 155-164. 2011.I agree with Professor Miller that just war theory is limited when it comes to judging whether and how to end a war. But Miller fails to understand adequately what these limitations are and the extent to which they can be addressed within just war theory
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291Climate Change JusticePhilosophy Compass 10 (3): 173-186. 2015.Anthropogenic climate change is a global process affecting the lives and well-being of millions of people now and countless number of people in the future. For humans, the consequences may include significant threats to food security globally and regionally, increased risks of from food-borne and water-borne as well as vector-borne diseases, increased displacement of people due migrations, increased risks of violent conflicts, slowed economic growth and poverty eradication, and the creation of n…Read more
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3Global Responsibilities (edited book)Paragon House. 2008.v. 1. Global justice : seminal essays -- v. 2. Global ethics : seminal essays.
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52A Reconstruction of Hegel’s Account of Freedom of the WillThe Owl of Minerva 24 (1): 5-18. 1992.“Will which is actually free is the unity of theoretical and practical spirit.” So opens the section of Hegel’s Encyclopedia known as “Free Spirit.” This text as well as both its immediate textual predecessor “Practical Spirit” and the introduction to the Philosophy of right comprise the mature Hegel’s attempt to give an account of freedom of the will, and mark a full departure from the Kantian standpoint on the matter. While Kant sees the evidence of freedom of the will in the moral ought, Hege…Read more
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24Transcendental institutionalism and global justiceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 16 (2): 162-178. 2013.In The Idea of Justice (2009), Amartya Sen distinguishes between ?transcendental institutional? approaches to justice and ?realization-focused comparisons,? rejecting the former and recommending the latter as a normative approach to global justice. I argue that Sen?s project fails for three principal reasons. First, he misdiagnoses the problem with accounts that he refers to as transcendental-institutionalist. The problem is not with these kinds of accounts per se, but with particular features o…Read more
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Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective SpiritDissertation, The Claremont Graduate University. 1990.This critical commentary on the three sections of the philosophy of subjective spirit as it appears in Hegel's final Berlin Encyclopedia uses them to come to a better understanding and evaluation of his general philosophical perspective. This is in contrast to two sorts of dangers which Hegel scholarship faces. One is getting so caught up in summarizing and interpreting the troublesome texts that no evaluation is provided. The other is to view Hegel unsympathetically through the criteria of cont…Read more
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