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101The morality of nationalismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (3). 2001.Book Information The Morality of Nationalism. Edited by R. McKim and J. McMahan. Oxford University Press. New York. 1997. Pp. xii + 371. Paperback, $42.95.
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28Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, eds., Migration in Political Theory. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (4): 144-146. 2017.
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73How Should We Combat Corruption? Lessons from Theory and PracticeEthics and International Affairs 32 (1): 103-117. 2018.
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322Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and PowerPhilosophical Review 122 (2): 318-322. 2013.
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31Feasibility, Nationalism, Migration, Justification, and Global Justice: Some Further Thoughts'Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 4 50-76. 2011.
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30David Miller, Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (3): 126-128. 2017.
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102Fulfilling Obligations to the Poor: How Should we Decide among Plausible Options?Analysis 74 (1): 90-99. 2014.In Globalization and Global Justice, Nicole Hassoun offers advice on practical ways to fulfill obligations to the poor. Our recommendations must be well informed by empirical evidence, and so important research on poverty that suggests we sometimes focus inadvertently on the wrong objects in our attempted assistance efforts, deserves consideration here. We also need guidelines on how to choose from among plausible policy options on how to help the poor. I offer one and explain why some of Hassou…Read more
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73Book ReviewsAndrew Kernohan,. Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 130 + xiv. $54. 95 (review)Ethics 111 (2): 414-419. 2001.
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67Meeting needs and business obligations: An argument for the libertarian skeptic (review)Journal of Business Ethics 15 (6): 695-702. 1996.In this paper I argue that if we are to have any defensible property rights at all, we must recognize a fundamental commitment to helping those in need. The argument has significant implications for all who claim defensible property rights. In this paper I concentrate on some of the implications this argument has for redefining business obligations. In particular, I show why those who typically would be quite resistant to the idea that businesses have any obligations to assist others in need mus…Read more
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1Immigration and Global Justice: What kinds of policies should a Cosmopolitan support?Etica E Politica 12 (1): 362-376. 2010.What kind of role, if any, can immigration policies play in moving us towards global justice? On one view, the removal of restrictions on immigration might seem to constitute great progress in realizing the desired goal. After all, people want to emigrate mainly because they perceive that their prospects for better lives are more likely to be secured elsewhere. If we remove restrictions on their ability to travel, would this not constitute an advance over the status quo in which people are signi…Read more
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232What do we owe others as a matter of global justice and does national membership matter?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 11 (4): 433-448. 2008.David Miller offers us a sophisticated account of how we can reconcile global obligations and duties to co?nationals. In this article I focus on four weaknesses with his account such as the following two. First, there remains considerable unclarity about the strength of the positive duties we have to non?nationals and how these measure up relative to other positive duties, such as the ones Miller believes we have to co?nationals to implement civil, political, or social rights. Second, just how r…Read more
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Global justiceIn Catriona McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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93The Proper Role of Responsive Democracy, Liberty, and Immigration in Global Justice: Some ClarificationsAstrolabio 12 76-90. 2011.
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18Distributive justiceIn Gerald F. Gaus & Fred D'Agostino (eds.), Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 444. 2012.
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166Contemporary Cosmopolitanism: Some Current IssuesPhilosophy Compass 8 (8): 689-698. 2013.In this article, we survey some current debates among cosmopolitans and their critics. We begin by surveying some distinctions typically drawn among kinds of cosmopolitanisms, before canvassing some of the diverse varieties of cosmopolitan justice, exploring positions on the content of cosmopolitan duties of justice, and a prominent debate between cosmopolitans and defenders of statist accounts of global justice. We then explore some common concerns about cosmopolitanism – such as whether cosmop…Read more
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88Paternalism and the Caring LifeAutonomy and Intervention: Parentalism in the Caring LifeBusiness Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 533. 1996.
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47In this paper I examine the method Aristotle uses in the inquiry into the nature of happiness in the "Nicomachean Ethics". Through analysis of some of the method's features, I explain why labelling it "the onion approach to developing and fleshing out a hypothesis" is appropriate. I show how Aristotle derives a set of necessary conditions and a set of other criteria, or reliable indicators, which any adequate account of the nature of happiness must meet. There are definite benefits to understand…Read more
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103Justice for Irregular Migrants, Refugees and Temporary Workers: Some Issues for CarensJournal of Applied Philosophy 33 (4): 435-442. 2016.The Ethics of Immigration is a wonderfully comprehensive and insightful journey through all the major contemporary ethical issues concerning immigration. Through this outstandingly well-crafted work, Carens builds a compelling case for many important positions on how we should treat migrants. Nevertheless, I believe there are some tensions in his arguments that could do with more analysis. I present some of these issues in this article. These include some important problems with arguments for th…Read more
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109What Does Cosmopolitan Justice Demand of Us?Theoria 51 (104): 169-191. 2004.In this paper I raise three challenges for Moellendorf's account of cosmopolitan justice. First, I argue that in a reconstructed cosmopolitan original position we would choose a 'needs-based minimum floor principle' rather than a 'global difference principle', if these are not co-extensive. Second, I argue that Moellendorf's version of the 'equality of opportunity principle' is too vulnerable to criticisms of cultural insensitivity, though I also note that there are problems with versions of the…Read more
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387The difference principle, equality of opportunity, and cosmopolitan justiceJournal of Moral Philosophy 2 (3): 333-351. 2005.What kinds of principles of justice should a cosmopolitan support? In recent years some have argued that a cosmopolitan should endorse a Global Difference Principle. It has also been suggested that a cosmopolitan should support a Principle of Global Equality of Opportunity. In this paper I examine how compelling these two suggestions are. I argue against a Global Difference Principle, but for an alternative Needs-Based Minimum Floor Principle (where these are not co-extensive, as I explain). Tho…Read more
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81Cosmopolitanism Versus Non-Cosmopolitanism: Critiques, Defenses, Reconceptualizations (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.This volume demonstrates that the debate between cosmopolitans and non-cosmopolitans has become increasingly sophisticated. It advances the discussion on many of the questions over which cosmopolitans and non-cosmopolitans continue to disagree.
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101Reforming Our Taxation Arrangements to Promote Global Gender JusticePhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 141-160. 2009.In this article I examine how reforming our international tax regime could be an important vehicle for realizing key aspects of global gender justice. Ensuring all,including and especially multinationals, pay their fair share of taxes is crucial to ensuring that all countries, especially developing countries, are able to fund education, job training, infrastructural development, programs which promote gender equity, and so forth, thereby enabling all countries to help themselves better. I discus…Read more
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146Concerns about global justice : A response to criticsJournal of Global Ethics 5 (3). 2009.A review essay of Gillian Brock Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (Oxford University Press, 2009)
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259Needs and Global JusticeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 57 51-72. 2005.In this paper I argue that needs are tremendously salient in developing any plausible account of global justice. I begin by sketching a normative thought experiment that models ideal deliberating conditions. I argue that under such conditions we would choose principles of justice that ensure we are well positioned to be able to meet our needs. Indeed, as the experiment aims to show, any plausible account of distributive justice must make space for the special significance of our needs. I go on t…Read more
Areas of Specialization
| Social and Political Philosophy |
| Global Justice |
| International Ethics |
Areas of Interest
| Social and Political Philosophy |
| International Ethics |
| Global Justice |