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82John Stuart Mill on the Ownership and Use of LandPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 12 (2): 10-16. 2005.My aim in this paper is to describe some of John Stuart Mill’s views about property rights in land and some implications he drew for public policy. While Mill defends private ownership of land, he emphasizes the ways in which ownership of land is an anomaly that does not fit neatly into the usual views about private ownership. While most of MiII’s discussion assumes the importance of maximizing the productivity of land, he anticipates contemporary environmentalists by also expressing concerns ab…Read more
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224Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered?Philosophy and Public Affairs 14 (2): 149-164. 1985.
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Nihilism, Reason, and Death: Reflections on John Barth's "Floating Opera"Analecta Husserliana 12 (n/a): 137. 1982.
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62How (Not) to Think About the Death PenaltyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (2): 7-10. 1997.
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521Utilitarianism, Act and RuleInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2014.Act and Rule Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other forms of consequentialism, its core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. More specifically, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they […].
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44Is Terrorism, or War, Ever Justified? Comment on Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of WarSocial Philosophy Today 28 177-185. 2012.Nathanson asks how we can properly understand terrorism such that it is (a) always unjustified, and (b) does not thereby preclude justified warfare. By means of a novel ruleutilitarian argument bolstering the inviolability of noncombatants, he hopes to have crafted such an understanding. While praising Nathanson’s rigor and originality, this paper questions the moral-theoretic completeness of his procedure, and then raises challenges from two directions: (1) an argument for the justifiability of…Read more
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143Patriotism, War, and the Limits of Permissible PartialityThe Journal of Ethics 13 (4): 401-422. 2009.This paper examines whether patriotism and other forms of group partiality can be justified and what are the moral limits on actions performed to benefit countries and other groups. In particular, I ask whether partiality toward one’s country can justify attacking enemy civilians to achieve victory or other political goals. Using a rule utilitarian approach, I then defend the legitimacy of “moderate” patriotic partiality but argue that noncombatant immunity imposes an absolute constraint on what…Read more
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58John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the Alleviation of PovertyJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (2): 161-176. 2012.
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55Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.), The ethics of assistance: Morality and the distant needy (cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2004), pp. XI + 292 (review)Utilitas 19 (2): 264-266. 2007.
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54George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes:Patriotism and Other MistakesEthics 117 (4): 769-773. 2007.
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25Scepticism and concept possessionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 215-223. 1974.This is an attempt to clarify the ways in which traditional empiricist theories of mind lend support to sceptical doubts about physical objects. I argue that a crucial role is played by the assumption that having a concept consists of being able to recognize instances of that concept. I further argue that this view of concept possession is false so that any sceptical view based on empiricist assumptions about the mind is unwarranted
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29Claudia Card, Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, GenocideJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (4): 600-602. 2012.
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12What Is and What Ought to Be Done (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3): 211-212. 1982.
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21Is Terrorism, or War, Ever Justified? Comment on Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of WarSocial Philosophy Today 28 177-185. 2012.Nathanson asks how we can properly understand terrorism such that it is (a) always unjustified, and (b) does not thereby preclude justified warfare. By means of a novel ruleutilitarian argument bolstering the inviolability of noncombatants, he hopes to have crafted such an understanding. While praising Nathanson’s rigor and originality, this paper questions the moral-theoretic completeness of his procedure, and then raises challenges from two directions: (1) an argument for the justifiability of…Read more
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18Rationality, by Harold I. Brown (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 448-451. 1991.
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