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16Institutional Theories and International DevelopmentGlobal Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric 7 12-27. 2014.A recent trend in international development circles is ‘New Institutionalism’. In a slogan, the idea is just that good institutions matter. The slogan itself is so innocuous as to be hardly worth comment. But the push to improve institutional quality has the potential to have a much less innocuous impact on aid efforts and other aspects of international development. This paper provides a critical introduction to some of the literature on institutional quality. It looks, in particular, at an argu…Read more
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16Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Designer Biology: The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems consists of thirteen chapters that address the ethical issues raised by technological intervention and design across a broad range of biological and ecological systems. Among the technologies addressed are geoengineering, human enhancement, sex selection, genetic modification, and synthetic biology
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15Global Health Impact: Human rights, access to medicines, and measurementDeveloping World Bioethics 24 (1): 37-48. 2024.Should people have a legal human right to health? And, if so, what exactly does protecting this right require? This essay defends some answers to these questions recently articulated in Global Health Impact. It explains how these answers depend on a particular way of thinking about health and the minimally good life, how quality of life matters at and over time, what various agents should do to help people who are unable to live well enough, and many other things. Moreover, it suggests some ways…Read more
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14Global Justice and International Affairs, edited by Thom BrooksJournal of Moral Philosophy 13 (2): 249-252. 2016.
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14Tietjens Meyers, Diana, ed. Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights.New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 376. $99.00 ; $39.95 (review)Ethics 126 (1): 234-238. 2015.
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10Globalization, Global Justice, and Global Health ImpactPublic Affairs Quarterly 28 (3): 231-258. 2014.
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10Coercion, Legitimacy, and Individual FreedomJournal of Philosophical Research 39 191-198. 2014.In “World Poverty and Individual Freedom”, I argue that the global order—because it is coercive—is obligated to do what it can to ensure that its subjects are capable of autonomously agreeing to its rule. This requires helping them meet their basic needs. In “World Poverty and Not Respecting Individual Freedom Enough,” Jorn Sonderholm asserts that this argument is invalid and unsound, in part, because it is too demanding. This article explains why Sonderholm’s critique is mistaken and misses the…Read more
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10Review: Diana Tietjens Meyers, ed., Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights (review)Ethics 126 (1): 234-238. 2015.
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10Institutional Theories and International DevelopmentGlobal Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 7. 2014.A recent trend in international development circles is ‘New Institutionalism’. In a slogan, the idea is just that good institutions matter. The slogan itself is so innocuous as to be hardly worth comment. But the push to improve institutional quality has the potential to have a much less innocuous impact on aid efforts and other aspects of international development. This paper provides a critical introduction to some of the literature on institutional quality. It looks, in particular, at an argu…Read more
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9Institutional Theories and International DevelopmentGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 7 12-27. 2014.A recent trend in international development circles is ‘New Institutionalism’. In a slogan, the idea is just that good institutions matter. The slogan itself is so innocuous as to be hardly worth comment. But the push to improve institutional quality has the potential to have a much less innocuous impact on aid efforts and other aspects of international development. This paper provides a critical introduction to some of the literature on institutional quality. It looks, in particular, at an argu…Read more
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9Coercion, Legitimacy, and Individual FreedomJournal of Philosophical Research 39 191-198. 2014.In “World Poverty and Individual Freedom” , I argue that the global order—because it is coercive—is obligated to do what it can to ensure that its subjects are capable of autonomously agreeing to its rule. This requires helping them meet their basic needs. In “World Poverty and Not Respecting Individual Freedom Enough,” Jorn Sonderholm asserts that this argument is invalid and unsound, in part, because it is too demanding. This article explains why Sonderholm’s critique is mistaken and misses th…Read more
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8Fair Trade: An Imperfect Obligation?Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 10 (2). 2018.Fair Trade is under fire. Some critics argue, for instance, that there is no obligation to purchase Fair Trade certified products and that doing so may even be counter-productive. Others worry that well-justified conceptions of what makes trade fair can conflict. Yet others suggest that the common arguments for Fair Trade cannot justify purchasing Fair Trade certified goods, in particular. This paper starts by sketching one common argument for Fair Trade and defends it against this last line of …Read more
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8Experimental or Empirical Political PhilosophyIn Justin Sytsma & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.This chapter reviews the literature on experimental political philosophy. Much of the literature considers individuals’ intuitions about distributive justice, retributive justice, and key concepts such as the doing/allowing distinction. The chapter argues that although there is relatively little experimental political philosophy proper, there are many avenues for future research. It presumes some familiarity with political philosophy, but its main aim is not to explain the relevance of studies t…Read more
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73 Economic Justice and the Minimally Good Human Life Account of NeedsIn Paulo Barcelos & Gabriele De Angelis (eds.), International Development and Human Aid: Principles, Norms and Institutions for the Global Sphere, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 51-76. 2016.
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4The Case for Renewable Energy and a New Energy PlanInternational Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic andSocial Sustainability 1 (5): 197-208. 2005.
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Empirical philosophy : how engaging with empirical evidence is important for theory as well as practiceIn Matthew Lindauer, James R. Beebe & Justin Sytsma (eds.), Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy, Bloomsbury. 2023.
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