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46A responseCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 11 (4): 553-567. 2008.(2008). A response. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 11, Nationalism and Global Justice – David Miller and His Critics, pp. 553-567. doi: 10.1080/13698230802415961
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393Cosmopolitanism: a critiqueCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (3): 80-85. 2002.Cosmopolitanism, originally a doctrine of world citizenship, has come in recent political philosophy to mean simply an ethical outlook in which every human being is equally an object of moral concern. However ethical cosmopolitans slide from this moral truism to deny, controversially, that as agents we have special duties of limited scope. Political communities create relations of reciprocity between their citizens and pursue projects that reflect culturally specific values and beliefs, generati…Read more
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73‘Are theyMypoor?’: The problem of altruism in the world of strangersCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5 (4): 106-127. 2002.How should we decide when to be altruistic ? who are the poor we ought to help? Empirical evidence reveals that in practice altruistic behaviour is strongly influenced by contextual factors such as the cost of helping, perceptions of the person in need, and the number of other people who are in a position to offer help. Philosophers often argue that we should discount such factors, but I claim that altruism is better understood as doing one's proper share of the work of meeting nee. Three possib…Read more
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43PrefaceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39 (4): 705-708. 2008.
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103Philosophy and ideology in Hume's political thoughtOxford University Press. 1981.This book was written with three aims in mind. The first was to provide a reasonably concise account of Hume's social and political thought that might help students coming to it for the first time. The second aim was to say something about the relationship between philosophy and politics, with explicit attention to Hume, but implicit reference to a general issue. The third is to offer an integrated account of Hume's thought. The book accounts for the varying interpretation of the conservative an…Read more
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131National responsibility and global justiceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 11 (4): 383-399. 2008.This chapter outlines the main ideas of my book National responsibility and global justice. It begins with two widely held but conflicting intuitions about what global justice might mean on the one hand, and what it means to be a member of a national community on the other. The first intuition tells us that global inequalities of the magnitude that currently exist are radically unjust, while the second intuition tells us that inequalities are both unavoidable and fair once national responsibilit…Read more
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15Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political ThoughtOxford University Press. 1981.This book was written with three aims in mind. The first was to provide a reasonably concise account of Hume's social and political thought that might help students coming to it for the first time. The second aim was to say something about the relationship between philosophy and politics, with explicit attention to Hume, but implicit reference to a general issue. The third is to offer an integrated account of Hume's thought. The book accounts for the varying interpretation of the conservative an…Read more
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7096Immigration: The Case for LimitsIn Andrew I. Cohen & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 193-206. 2005.This article by David Miller is widely considered a standard defense of the (once) conventional view on immigration restrictionism, namely that (liberal) states generally have free authority to restrict immigration, save for a few exceptions.
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66Sidgwick and Rawls on distributive justice and desertPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 20 (4): 385-408. 2021.This article explores, comparatively and critically, Sidgwick’s and Rawls’s reasons for rejecting desert as a principle of distributive justice. Their ethical methods, though not identical, each re...
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188On NationalityOxford University Press. 1995.Nationalism is often dismissed today as an irrational political creed with disastrous consequences. Yet most people regard their national identity as a significant aspect of themselves, see themselves as having special obligations to their compatriots, and value their nation's political independence. This book defends these beliefs, and shows that nationality, defined in these terms, serves valuable goals, including social justice, democracy, and the protection of culture. National identities ne…Read more
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2114Our Responsibilities to RefugeesProceedings of the 2018 ZiF Workshop “Studying Migration Policies at the Interface Between Empirical Research and Normative Analysisandquot;. 2019.The paper explores the basis of the responsibilities we owe to refugees. That we have such responsibilities is a very widely shared intuition: the need of those fleeing from persecution seems to call out for a response on our part. But what exactly are our obligations to such people? Who are they owed to and why do we have them? The paper argues in favour of a human rights approach to refugee protection that includes the requirement of the implementation of a burden sharing scheme. DOI 10.17879/…Read more
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35Lea Ypi on global justice and avant-garde political agency: some reflectionsEthics and Global Politics 6 (2): 93-99. 2013.Lea Ypi’s book Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency is a very rich book, and one cannot hope to do it justice in the space of a short discussion.1 In this commentary I will focus on the second part of her title, reserving for another occasion her interesting discussion of equality and sufficiency as principles of global justice. Here I will restrict myself to some remarks about method in political theory, and especially the idea of avant-garde political theory, which is perhaps Ypi’s …Read more
David Miller
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