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183Future people: a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generationsOxford University Press. 2006.What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He also brings together several different contemporary philosophical discussions, including the demands of morality and international justice. His aim is to produce a coherent, intuitively plausible moral theory that is not unreasonably demanding, even w…Read more
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36Teaching Future GenerationsTeaching Philosophy 22 (3): 259-273. 1999.An introductory ethics course serves many and often disparate ends, so much so that it may be difficult to find a theme or question that can tie these ends together in a coherent course narrative. This paper shares the author’s attempt to do so. In addition to high student interest in the subject, the topic of our obligation to future generations has the advantage of naturally leading a course through several systematic areas of philosophical importance. This topic lends itself not only to moral…Read more
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106Answering to Future People: Responsibility for Climate Change in a Breaking WorldJournal of Applied Philosophy 34 (2). 2017.Our everyday notions of responsibility are often driven by our need to justify ourselves to specific others – especially those we harm, wrong, or otherwise affect. One challenge for contemporary ethics is to extend this interpersonal urgency to our relations with those future people who are harmed or affected by our actions. In this article, I explore our responsibility for climate change by imagining a possible ‘broken future’, damaged by the carbon emissions of previous generations, and then a…Read more
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93Review: Christopher Woodard: Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation (review)Mind 118 (470): 539-542. 2009.
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21The Non-Identity ProblemIn Heather Dyke (ed.), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 209--218. 2003.
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Teoria etica e intuizioni in un mondo in frantumi [Theory and Intuition in a Broken World]la Società Degli Individui 39. 2010.Il cambiamento climatico presenta caratteristiche inedite che mettono in di- scussione il pensiero morale cui siamo abituati. In questo saggio, si rico- struiscono le modifiche che sarebbero necessarie per pensare le questioni morali poste dalla prospettiva di un mondo che subisca gli effetti del cam- biamento climatico: si potrebbe trattare di un mondo in frantumi, dove non ci sono più le condizioni minime di benessere, e le nozioni cui siamo abi- tuati – come certi diritti o l'ideale dell'egua…Read more
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61Reply to John turriInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (4). 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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108Liam Murphy, Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. viii + 168Utilitas 15 (1): 113. 2003.
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31Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric PurposivismOxford University Press UK. 2015.Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that it is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism. He draws on a range of secular and religious ethical traditions to conclude th…Read more