Claremont Graduate University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1990
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
  •  16
    Authors' reply to thandi case
    Developing World Bioethics 2 (1). 2002.
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    Consensus and Cognitivism in Habermas's Discourse
    South African Journal of Philosophy 19 (2): 65-74. 2000.
    Habermas asserts that his discourse ethics rests on two main commitments: (1) Moral judgments have cognitive content analogous to truth value; and (2) moral justification requires real-life discourse. Habermas elaborates on the second claim by making actual consensus a necessary condition of normative validity. I argue that Habermas's two commitments sit uneasily together. The second entails that his cognitivism is revisionist in the sense that it must reject the law of the excluded middle. More…Read more
  •  14
    Cosmopolitan Justice Reconsidered
    Theoria 51 203-225. 2004.
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    Anti-Poverty, Development, and the Limits of Progress
    Res Publica 22 (3): 317-325. 2016.
    In this paper I critically engage with Hennie Lötter’s impressive book, Poverty, Ethics and Justice. I discuss his conception of poverty, and offer an interpretation of his claim that poverty is a uniquely human scourge. I exam the various harms of poverty that Lötter discusses. I consider two reasons that he offers for why we have a moral duty to end poverty, and I argue that the reason based on what we can justify to others if we take their human dignity seriously is most compelling. Finally, …Read more
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    Liberal Values and Socialist Models
    Theoria 44 65-77. 1997.
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    The 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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    La justice et les associations
    Philosophiques 34 (1): 61-75. 2007.
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    Research Ethics: Beyond the Guidelines
    Developing World Bioethics 1 (1): 69-82. 2001.
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    Constructing the Law of Peoples
    Pacific 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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    Global Responsibilities (edited book)
    Paragon House. 2008.
    v. 1. Global justice : seminal essays -- v. 2. Global ethics : seminal essays.
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    Equality of Opportunity Globalized?
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 19 (2). 2006.
    The principle of global equality of opportunity is an important part of the commitment to global egalitarianism. In this paper I discuss how a principle of global equality of opportunity follows from a commitment to equal respect for the autonomy of all persons, and defend the principle against some of the criticism that it has received. The particular criticisms that I address contend that a moral view based upon dignity and respect cannot take properties of persons—such as their citizenship—as…Read more
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    David Schweickart, Against Capitalism Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 15 (5): 354-356. 1995.
  • Persons' interests, states' duties, and global governance
    In Gillian Brock & Harry Brighouse (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
  • Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
    Dissertation, 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
  • In G. Brock & H. Brighouse
    In Gillian Brock & Harry Brighouse (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 148--163. 2005.