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50Paternalism and RightsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3): 419-440. 1994.When, if ever, are we justified in infringing a rights claim on the basis of benefit to the right bearer? If we assume that the rights of individuals can be overridden on the basis of what is at stake for others- that is, that rights have thresholds - we can ask how these thresholds are affected when the person who will benefit from the right being overridden is the right bearer herself.
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46An Essay on RightsPhilosophical Review 105 (4): 557. 1996.Steiner’s book is an engaging and challenging romp through important issues in rights theory, moral and economic reasoning, theories of freedom, and questions of justice. An Essay on Rights develops and connects themes pursued by Steiner in a series of articles written over the past two decades.
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45I'm going to focus my comments on a relatively small part of Joe Heath's book, the section on the household division of labour. Although it's a small piece of a much larger picture, I've chosen this area for two reasons: First, it connects with my own interests in issues of family justice. Second, I think for me it highlights a potentially larger problem concerning the relationship between justice and efficiency. When Heath puts the contrast between those who place rights before efficiency in te…Read more
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43How Is the Strength of a Right Determined? Assessing the Harm ViewAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 32 (4): 383-392. 1995.
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36A Question of Values: New Canadian Perspectives in Ethics and Political Philosophy (edited book)Rodopi. 1997.This volume contains ten chapters, each of which takes up a different question in contemporary moral or political philosophy. The volume has three parts: meta-ethics, issues in freedom and autonomy, and contemporary political philosophy. In the meta-ethical section, the chapters address issues concerning acts and their value, the plausibility of aggregation and counting with respect to the value of human lives, and the role of moral character in causing and explaining moral behavior. In the seco…Read more
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36Permissible Progeny?: The Morality of Procreation and Parenting (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2015.This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. The other half of the volume considers moral and political questions about adoption and parenting. This collection builds on existing literature by advancing novel perspectives on existing debates. It also raises new issues deserving of our attention.
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35The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought - Volume 1: From Plato to Nietzsche (edited book, review)Broadview Press. 2008.This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth century. The anthology offers both depth and breadth in its selection of material by central figures, while also representing other currents of political thought. Thucydides, Seneca, and Cicero are included along with Plato and Aristotle; Al-Farabi, Marsilius of Padua, and de Pizan take their place alongside Augustine and Aquinas; Astell and Constant…Read more
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33Report on the 18th international social philosophy conferenceJournal of Value Inquiry 37 (1): 101-107. 2003.
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26The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought - Volume 2: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (edited book, review)Broadview Press. 2008.The second volume of this comprehensive anthology covers the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The anthology is broad ranging both in its selection of material by figures traditionally acknowledged as being of central importance, and in the material it presents by a range of other figures. The material in this volume is presented in three sections. The first, “Power and the State,” includes selections by such figures as Goldman, Lenin, Weber, Schmitt, and Hayek. Among those included in…Read more
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25See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink FitnessInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (2): 1-11. 2016.This special issue of IJFAB starts from the premise that fitness is a feminist issue, and, more specifically, it is an issue that ought to be of concern to feminists interested in bioethics. While a neglected concept in feminist bio-ethics, fitness is of key importance to women’s health and well-being. Not only that, it is also an area of women’s lives that invites unwelcome policing and advice from friends, family members, medical practitioners, and even strangers. People have a difficult time …Read more
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23Joseph Millum, The Moral Foundations of ParenthoodJournal of Moral Philosophy 19 (4): 438-441. 2022.
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18Margins within the Marginal: Bi-invisibility and Intersexual PassingIn Dennis Cooley & Kelby Harrison (eds.), Passing/Out: Queer Identities Veiled and Revealed, Ashgate. 2012.
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