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31Making Sense of Affirmative ActionOup Usa. 2020.In this book Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen address the complexities of his question "Is affirmative action morally justifiable?" by analyzing the prevailing contemporary arguments both for and against affirmative action. The book applies current political philosophy to demonstrate that arguments on both sides justify different conclusions given different specific cases, though it ultimately does argue in favor of affirmative action based on the relative strength and significance of the anti-discrimin…Read more
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110Why the moral equality account of the hypocrite’s lack of standing to blame failsAnalysis 80 (4): 666-674. 2020.It is commonly believed that blamees can dismiss hypocritical blame on the ground that the hypocrite has no standing to blame their target. Many believe that the feature of hypocritical blame that undermines standing to blame is that it involves an implicit denial of the moral equality of persons. After all, the hypocrite treats herself better than her blamee for no good reason. In the light of the complement to hypocrites and a comparison of hypocritical and non-hypocritical blamers subscribing…Read more
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22Refugees and minorities: some conceptual and normative issuesEthics and Global Politics 13 (1): 79-92. 2020.
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60Out of Proportion? On Surveillance and the Proportionality RequirementEthical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (1): 181-199. 2020.In this article, we critically scrutinize the principle of proportionality when used in the context of security and government surveillance. We argue that McMahan’s distinction from just warfare between narrow proportionality and wide proportionality can generally apply to the context of surveillance. We argue that narrow proportionality applies more or less directly to cases in which the surveilled is liable and that the wide proportionality principle applies to cases characterized by ‘collater…Read more
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35Barry and Øverland on Singer and assistance-based dutiesEthics and Global Politics 12 (1): 15-23. 2019.
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38Relational Egalitarianism: Living as EqualsCambridge University Press. 2018.Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fundamentally about distribution. Rather, justice is about social relations, and the so-called distributive paradigm should be replaced by a new relational paradigm. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen seeks to describe, refine, and assess these thoughts and to propose a comprehensive form of egalitarianism which includes central elements from both relational and distributive paradigms. He shows why many of the c…Read more
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24Reply to criticsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (3): 352-370. 2019.
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26Precís of luck egalitarianismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (3): 245-252. 2019.
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26Discrimination: An Intriguing but Underexplored Issue in Ethics and Political PhilosophyMoral Philosophy and Politics 2 (2): 207-217. 2015.
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42What Mr. Spock told the earthlings: the aims of political philosophy, action-guidingness and fact-dependencyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (1): 71-86. 2019.
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57Pogge, poverty, and warPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 16 (4): 446-469. 2017.According to Thomas Pogge, rich people do not simply violate a positive duty of assistance to help the global poor; rather, they violate a negative duty not to harm them. They do so by imposing an unjust global economic structure on poor people. Assuming that these claims are correct, it follows that, ceteris paribus, wars waged by the poor against the rich to resist this imposition are morally equivalent to wars waged in self-defense against military aggression. Hence, if self-defense against m…Read more
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9Are Question – Begging Arguments Necessarily Unreasonable?Philosophical Studies 104 (2): 123-141. 2001.
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37On Denying A Significant Version Of The Constancy AssumptionTheoria 65 (2-3): 90-113. 1999.With regard to intrinsically morally relevant factors it is natural to suppose that if a variation in a given factor makes a moral difference anywhere, then it makes the same moral difference everywhere (henceforth: the constancy assumption). Jonathan Dancy (and other moral particularists) reject the constancy assumption. Partly on the basis thereof, they infer that ethical decisions should be made “case by case, without the comforting support of moral principles”. In this article, I challenge D…Read more
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191Estlund on Epistocracy: A Critique (review)Res Publica 18 (3): 241-258. 2012.An influential anti-democratic argument says: ‘(1) Answers to political questions are truth-apt. (2) A small elite only—the epistocrats—knows these truths. (3) If answers to political questions are truth-apt, then those with this knowledge about these matters should rule. (4) Thus, epistocrats should rule.’ Many democrats have responded by denying (1), arguing that, say, answers to political questions are a matter of sheer personal preference. Others have rejected (2), contending that knowledge …Read more
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5Discrimination : discrimination : what is it and what makes it morally wrong?In Jesper Ryberg, Thomas S. Petersen & Clark Wolf (eds.), New waves in applied ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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34Ethics, organ donation and tax: a proposalJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (8): 451-457. 2012.Next SectionFive arguments are presented in favour of the proposal that people who opt in as organ donors should receive a tax break. These arguments appeal to welfare, autonomy, fairness, distributive justice and self-ownership, respectively. Eight worries about the proposal are considered in this paper. These objections focus upon no-effect and counter-productiveness, the Titmuss concern about social meaning, exploitation of the poor, commodification, inequality and unequal status, the notion …Read more
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92Are some inequalities more unequal than others? Nature, nurture and equalityUtilitas 16 (2): 193-219. 2004.Many egalitarians believe that social inequalities are worse than natural ones. Others deny that one can coherently distinguish between them. I argue that although one can separate the influence of these factors by an analysis of variance, the distinction is morally irrelevant. It might be alleged that my argument in favour of moral irrelevance attacks a straw man. While I think this allegation is incorrect, I accommodate it by distinguishing between four claims that are related to, and sometime…Read more
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57Luck egalitarianism: Equality, responsibility, and justice * by Carl KnightAnalysis 70 (4): 804-805. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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6The posthuman condition: ethics, aesthetics and politics of biotechnological challenges (edited book)Aarhus University Press ;. 2012.If biotechnology can be used to "upgrade" humans physically and mentally, should it be done? And if so, to what extent? How will biotechnology affect societal cohesion, and can the development be controlled? Or is this a Pandora's box that should remain closed? These are just a few of the many questions that arise as a result of the increasing ability of technology to change biology and, eventually, transform human living conditions. This development has created a new horizon of a posthuman futu…Read more
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131In What Way are Constraints Paradoxical?Utilitas 11 (1): 49. 1999.It is impermissible to violate a constraint, even if by doing so a greater number of violations of the very same constraint were to be prevented. Most find this puzzling. But what makes the impermissibility of such minimizing violations puzzling? This article discusses some recent answers to this question. The article's first aim is to make clear in what way these answers differ. The second aim is to evaluate the answers, along with Kamm's and Nagel's proposed solutions of what they see as the p…Read more
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25Review of Jon Mandle, Rawls's a Theory of Justice: An Introduction (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (5). 2010.
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95Hurley on egalitarianism and the luck-neutralizing aimPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 4 (2): 249-265. 2005.s admirable new book, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge , brings together recent developments in the fields of responsibility and egalitarian justice. This article focuses on Hurleys critique of luck-neutralizing egalitarianism. The article concludes that the bad-luck-neutralizing aim serves better as a justificatory basis for egalitarianism than the more general luck-neutralizing aim. Since the former does not simply assume that we should aim for equality, Hurley has not demonstrated (nor indeed do…Read more
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65Nothing Personal: On Statistical DiscriminationJournal of Political Philosophy 15 (4): 385-403. 2007.
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22Deontology, responsibility, and equalityInstitut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling, Afdeling for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Retorik, University of Copenhagen. 2005.This book has been accepted at the University of Copenhagen for a public defence as a Dr Phil dissertation
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37Brain Privacy, Intimacy, and Authenticity: Why a Complete Lack of the Former Might Undermine Neither of the Latter!Res Publica 23 (2): 227-244. 2017.In recent years, neuroscience has been making dramatic progress. The discipline holds great promise but also raises a number of important ethical concerns. Among these is the concern that, some day in the distant future, we will have brain scanners capable of reading our minds, thus making our inner thoughts transparent to others. There are at least two reasons why we might regret our resulting loss of privacy. One is, so the argument goes, that this would undermine our ability to form intimate …Read more