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44Benjamin Eidelson, Discrimination and Disrespect: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Hardcover € 48,30. pp. 267Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (2): 451-454. 2017.
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73Luck-Egalitarianism: Faults and Collective ChoiceEconomics and Philosophy 27 (2): 151-173. 2011.A standard formulation of luck-egalitarianism says that ‘it is [in itself] bad – unjust and unfair – for some to be worse off than others [through no fault or choice of their own]’, where ‘fault or choice’ means substantive responsibility-generating fault or choice. This formulation is ambiguous: one ambiguity concerns the possible existence of a gap between what is true of each worse-off individual and what is true of the group of worse-off individuals, fault or choice-wise, the other concerns …Read more
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5The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (edited book)Routledge. 2017.While it has many connections to other topics in normative and applied ethics, discrimination is a central subject in philosophy in its own right. It plays a significant role in relation to many real-life complaints about unjust treatment or unjust inequalities, and it raises a number of questions in political and moral philosophy, and in legal theory. Some of these questions include: what distinguishes the concept of discrimination from the concept of differential treatment? What distinguishes …Read more
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74Legitimate allocation of public healthcare: Beyond accountability for reasonablenessPublic Health Ethics 2 (1): 59-69. 2009.PhD, Institute of Public Health, Unit of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, P.O. Box 2099 1014 Copenhagen. Tel: +45 30 32 33 63; Email: s.lauridsen{at}pubhealth.ku.dk ' + u + '@ ' + d + ' '/ /- ->Citizens’ consent to political decisions is often regarded as a necessary condition of political legitimacy. Consequently, legitimate allocation of healthcare has seemed almost unattainable in contemporary pluralistic societies. The problem is that ci…Read more
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430An introduction to contemporary egalitarianismIn Nils Holtug & Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (eds.), Egalitarianism: New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality, Clarendon Press. pp. 1--37. 2006.
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243Intentions and Discrimination in HiringJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (1): 55-74. 2012.Fundamentally, intentions do not matter to the permissibility of actions, according to Thomas Scanlon (among others). Yet, discriminatory intentions seem essential to certain kinds of direct discrimination in hiring and firing, and appear to be something by virtue of which, in part at least, these kinds of discrimination are morally impermissible. Scanlon's account of the wrongness of discrimination attempts to accommodate this appearance through the notion of the expressive meaning of discrimin…Read more
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61Desert, Bell Motion, and FairnessCriminal Law and Philosophy 10 (3): 639-655. 2016.In this critical review, I address two themes from Shelly Kagan’s path-breaking The Geometry of Desert. First I explain the so-called “bell motion” of desert mountains—a notion reflecting that, ceteris paribus, as people get more virtuous it becomes more important not to give them too little of whatever they deserve than not to give them too much. Having argued that Kagan’s defense of it is unsatisfactory, I offer two objections to the existence of the bell motion. Second, I take up an unrelated…Read more
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94Moral Status and the Impermissibility of Minimizing ViolationsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 25 (4): 333-351. 1996.
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17Book Review: World Poverty and Human Rights (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 3 (1): 97-99. 2006.
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6The insignificance of the distinction between telic and deontic egalitarianismIn Nils Holtug & Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (eds.), Egalitarianism: New Essays on the Nature and Value of Equality, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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26Hurley on reason‐responsiveness, regression, and responsibilityPhilosophical Books 46 (3): 199-209. 2005.
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552Immigrants, Multiculturalism, and Expensive Cultural Tastes: Quong on Luck Egalitarianism and Cultural Minority RightsLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 6 (2): 176-192. 2011.Kymlicka has offered an influential luck egalitarian justification for a catalogue of polyethnic rights addressing cultural disadvantages of immigrant minorities. In response, Quong argues that while the items on the list are justified, in the light of the fact that the relevant disadvantages of immigrants result from their choice to immigrate, (i) these rights cannot be derived from luck egalitarianism and (ii) that this casts doubt on luck egalitarianism as a theory of cultural justice. As an …Read more
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24Review of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (review)Economics and Philosophy 27 (2): 208-215. 2011.
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39Gene Therapy and Ethics: Edited by A Nordgren. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1999, 208 SEK, pp 175. ISBN 915544640X (review)Journal of Medical Ethics 28 (1): 58-58. 2002.
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44Dispositional neutrality and minority rightsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (1): 49-62. 2017.
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139Born Free and Equal? A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Nature of DiscriminationOxford University Press. 2013.This book addresses these three issues: What is discrimination?; What makes it wrong?; What should be done about wrongful discrimination? It argues: that there are different concepts of discrimination; that discrimination is not always morally wrong and that when it is, it is so primarily because of its harmful effects.
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55Life-prolonging killings and their relevance to ethicsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (2): 135-147. 1999.What makes killing morally wrong? And what makes killing morally worse than letting die? Standard answers to these two questions presuppose that killing someone involves shortening that person's life. Yet, as I argue in the first two sections of this article, this presupposition is false: Life-prolonging killings are conceivable. In the last two sections of the article, I explore the significance of the conceivability of such killings for various discussions of the two questions just mentioned. …Read more
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103‘To Serve and Protect’: The Ends of Harm by Victor Tadros (review)Criminal Law and Philosophy 9 (1): 49-71. 2015.In The Ends of Harm Victor Tadros develops an alternative to consequentialist, and non-consequentialist retributivist, accounts of the justifiability of punishment: the duty view. Crucial to this view is the claim that wrongdoers incur an enforceable duty to remedy their wrongs. They cannot undo them, but they can do something that is almost as good—namely, by submitting to appropriate punishment, which will deter potential wrongdoers in the future, reduce their victim’s risk of suffering simila…Read more
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102Are Enabling and Allowing Harm Morally Equivalent?Utilitas 27 (3): 365-383. 2015.It is sometimes asserted that enabling harm is morally equivalent to allowing harm. In this article, I criticize this view. Positively, I show that cases involving self-defence and cases involving people acting on the basis of a reasonable belief to the effect that certain obstacles to harm will remain in place, or will be put in place, show that enabling harm is harder to justify than allowing it. Negatively, I argue that certain cases offered in defence of the moral equivalence thesis fail, be…Read more
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20Justice, Institutions, and Luck: The Site, Ground, and Scope of Equality, by Kok-Chor TanMind 123 (490): 653-656. 2014.
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188Identification and responsibilityEthical Theory and Moral Practice 6 (4): 349-376. 2003.Real-self accounts of moral responsibility distinguish between various types of motivational elements. They claim that an agent is responsible for acts suitably related to elements that constitute the agent's real self. While such accounts have certain advantages from a compatibilist perspective, they are problematic in various ways. First, in it, authority and authenticity conceptions of the real self are often inadequately distinguished. Both of these conceptions inform discourse on identifica…Read more