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73The demandingness of Nozick’s ‘Lockean’ provisoEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (3): 276-292. 2016.Interpreters of Robert Nozick’s political philosophy fall into two broad groups concerning his application of the ‘Lockean proviso’. Some read his argument in an undemanding way: individual instances of ownership which make people worse off than they would have been in a world without any ownership are unjust. Others read the argument in a demanding way: individual instances of ownership which make people worse off than they would have been in a world without that particular ownership are unjust…Read more
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4Nonhuman animals and sovereignty: On Zoopolis, failed states and institutional relationships with free-living animalsIn Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade & Andrew Woodhall (eds.), Intervention or Protest: Acting for Nonhuman Animals, Vernon Press. pp. 183-212. 2016.When considering the possibility of intervening in nature to aid suffering nonhuman animals, we can ask about moral philosophy, which concerns the actions of individuals, or about political philosophy, which concerns the apparatus of the state. My focus in this paper is on the latter, and, in particular, the proposal from Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka that nonhuman animals should be offered sovereignty rights over their territories. Such rights, among other things, seriously limit the occasion…Read more
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48Not Only Humans Eat Meat: Companions, Sentience, and Vegan PoliticsJournal of Social Philosophy 46 (4): 449-462. 2015.
Josh Milburn
Loughborough University
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Loughborough UniversityLecturer
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Animal Ethics |