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18Responses to Zagzebski and RussellInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1): 153-160. 2023.
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21Is a Good God Logically Possible?International Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1): 125-130. 2023.
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4Review of Milton Fisk: Ethics and society: a Marxist interpretation of value (review)Ethics 93 (2): 391-392. 1983.
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9What is ethics?Polity. 2019.Why be moral? -- Consequentialism -- Nonconsequentialism -- Reconciliation -- Morality and religion.
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28Is a good god logically possible?International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87 (3): 203-208. 2020.
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7Review of Robert E. Goodin: Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy (review)Ethics 108 (1): 223-225. 1995.
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28Is a Good God Logically Possible?Springer Verlag. 2019.Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. It is widely held by theists and atheists alike that it may be logically impossible for an all good, all powerful God to create a world with moral agents like ourselves that does not also have at least some moral evil in it. James…Read more
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17Global Justice for Humans or for all Living beings and what Difference it MakesThe Journal of Ethics 9 (1-2): 283-300. 2005.I begin with an account of what is deserved in human ethics, an ethics that assumes without argument that only humans, or rational agents, count morally. I then take up the question of whether nonhuman living beings are also deserving and answer it in the affirmative. Having established that all individual living beings, as well as ecosystems, are deserving, I go on to establish what it is that they deserve and then compare the requirements of global justice when only humans are taken into accou…Read more
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9Solving Darwin’s Problem of Natural EvilSophia 59 (3): 501-512. 2020.Charles Darwin questions whether conflicts between species palpably captured by the conflict between Ichneumonidae and the caterpillars on which they prey could be compatible with the existence of an all-good, all-powerful God. He also questioned whether the suffering of millions of lower animals throughout our almost endless prehistory could be compatible with an all-good, all-powerful God. In this paper, I show that these two problems of natural evil that Darwin raised in his work can be resol…Read more
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10The Welfare Rights of Distant Peoples and Future GenerationsSocial Theory and Practice 7 (1): 99-119. 1981.
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8The Welfare Rights of Distant Peoples and Future GenerationsSocial Theory and Practice 7 (1): 99-119. 1981.
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1Toulmin to RawlsIn Robert J. Cavalier, James Gouinlock & James P. Sterba (eds.), Ethics in the history of western philosophy, St. Martin's Press. pp. 399--420. 1989.
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2The Varieties of LibertyPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 588-593. 1988.
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