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28Meeting needs and business obligations: An argument for the libertarian skeptic (review)Journal of Business Ethics 15 (6). 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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149Global Health and Global Health Ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.Machine generated contents note: Preface; Introduction; Part I. Global Health, Definitions and Descriptions: 1. What is global health? Solly Benatar and Ross Upshur; 2. The state of global health in a radically unequal world: patterns and prospects Ron Labonte and Ted Schrecker; 3. Addressing the societal determinants of health: the key global health ethics imperative of our times Anne-Emmanuelle Birn; 4. Gender and global health: inequality and differences Lesley Doyal and Sarah Payne; 5. Heath…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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Global justiceIn Catriona McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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68The New NationalismsThe Monist 82 (3): 367-386. 1999.Nationalism has been a cause of great misery in the world. In this century alone we have seen a number of hideous forms of nationalism leading to genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced relocations, and civil wars. The violent conflicts between Serbians, Croatians, and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia; the Hutus and the Tutsis in Central Africa; Palestinians and Jews in the Middle East; Afrikaners, Zulus, and Xhosas in Southern Africa; and the Nazis and non-Aryans, are just some of these.
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19Distance, Moral Relevance ofIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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2Self-Determination and Global Justice: Mutually Reinforcing Rather Than in TensionPublic Affairs Quarterly 26 (1): 57-65. 2012.Self-determination does and should play an important role in our conceptions of what it is to treat persons and peoples justly. I write at a time when the Middle East is erupting with demands for more appropriate rule by and for the people . Indigenous peoples around the world have been demanding better control over their traditional lands, over the last few decades in particular. And a serious global recession has affected all local economies since 2008, raising pertinent issues about the wisdo…Read more
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15Paternalism and the Caring LifeAutonomy and Intervention: Parentalism in the Caring LifeBusiness Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 533. 1996.
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Basic Liberties and Global JusticeCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 19 (2). 2006.My primary goals in this article are to show: first, that we can identify and justify which basic freedoms are important ones to protect in the global context; second, that we can monitor whether we are making progress with respect to whether more or fewer people are enjoying the important freedoms; third, that we can identify some key institutions that play a central role in fortifying those freedoms; fourth, that we can help build or fortify local capacity with respect to protecting basic free…Read more
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58Justice 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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88What 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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289Taxation and global justice: Closing the gap between theory and practiceJournal of Social Philosophy 39 (2). 2008.I examine how reforming our international tax regime could be an important vehicle by which we can begin to realize global justice. For instance, eliminating tax havens, tax evasion, and transfer pricing schemes are all important to ensure accountability and to support democracies. I argue that the proposals concerning taxation reform are likely to be more effective in tackling global poverty than Thomas Pogge's global resources dividend because they target some of the central issues more effect…Read more
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38Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?Oup Usa. 2014.Many of the most skilled and educated citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate. How may those societies respond to these facts? May they ever legitimately prevent the emigration of their citizens? Gillian Brock and Michael Blake debate these questions, and offer distinct arguments about the morality of emigration.
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12Review of Stan Van Hooft, Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1). 2010.
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36Consumer Complicity and Labor ExploitationCroatian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 113-125. 2016.Are consumers in high-income countries complicit in labor exploitation when they buy good produced in sweatshops? To focus attention we consider cases of labor exploitation such as those of exposing workers to very high risks of irreversible diseases, for instance, by failing to provide adequate safety equipment. If I purchase a product made under such conditions, what is my part in this exploitation? Is my contribution one of complicity that is blameworthy? If so, what ought I to do about such …Read more
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131Needs 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
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25Are Corporations Morally Defensible?Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (4): 703-721. 1998.Are corporations morally defensible sorts of entities? How might we go about showing that they are? Thomas Donaldson offers us the most detailed contractarian justification for the moral defensibility of corporations. In this paper I show how we can significantly develop this sort of justification to yield a more compelling contractarian justification, though one that is importantly conditional. The primary points I take up in this paper are these:1. The question Donaldson poses to generate his …Read more
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78What do we owe co-nationals and non-nationals? Why the liberal nationalist account fails and how we can do betterJournal of Global Ethics 1 (2). 2005.Liberal nationalists have been trying to argue that a suitably sanitized version of nationalism - namely, one that respects and embodies liberal values - is not only morally defensible, but also of great moral value, especially on grounds liberals should find very appealing. Although there are plausible aspects to the idea and some compelling arguments are offered in defense of this position, one area still proves to be a point of considerable vulnerability for this project and that is the issue…Read more
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193Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan AccountOxford University Press. 2009.Gillian Brock develops a model of global justice that takes seriously the moral equality of all human beings notwithstanding their legitimate diverse identifications and affiliations. She addresses concerns about implementing global justice, showing how we can move from theory to feasible public policy that makes progress toward global justice
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60The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2005.In a period of rapid internationalization of trade and increased labor mobility, is it relevant for nations to think about their moral obligations to others? Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political philosophers and theorists to explore cosmopolitanism: what it co…Read more
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87Does obligation diminish with distance?Ethics, Place and Environment 8 (1). 2005.Many people believe in what can be described as a 'concentric circles model of responsibilities to others' in which responsibilities are generally stronger to those physically or affectively closer to us - those who, on this model, occupy circles nearer to us. In particular, it is believed that we have special ties to compatriots and, moreover, that these ties entail stronger obligations than the obligations we have to non-compatriots. While I concede that our strongest obligations may generally…Read more
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52Caney's global political theoryJournal of Global Ethics 3 (2). 2007.In this critical discussion of Simon Caney's global political theory, I focus on two broad areas. In the first area, I consider Caney's suggestions concerning global equality of opportunity and note several problems with how we might develop these ideas. Some of the problems concern aggregation, while others point to difficulties with what equality of opportunity means in a culturally plural world, where different societies might value, construct, and rank goods in different ways. In the second …Read more
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17Paternalism and the (Overly?) Caring Life (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 533-548. 1996.
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