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105Concerns 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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109Morally important needsPhilosophia 26 (1-2): 165-178. 1998.Frankfurt argues that there are two categories of needs that are at least prima facie morally important (relative to other claims). In this paper I examine Frankfurt's suggestion that two categories of needs, namely, nonvolitional and constrained volitional needs, are eligible for (at least prima facie) moral importance. I show both these categories to be defective because they do not necessarily meet Frankfurt's own criteria for what makes a need morally important. I suggest a further category …Read more
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53What 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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18How Should We Discharge Our Responsibilities to Eradicate Poverty?Res Publica 22 (3): 301-315. 2016.In this article I present four central challenges for Hennie Lötter’s book Poverty, Ethics and Justice. The first criticism takes issue with Lötter’s focus on social rather than global justice. Though he seems to be concerned with poverty everywhere, he takes social rather than global justice as the primary unit of analysis and this leads to a certain blindness to the ways in which discharging duties to the poor is a global not just society or state level project. My alternative perspective also…Read more
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299The 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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48Global Distributive Justice, Entitlement, and DesertCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 31 (sup1): 109-138. 2005.The facts of global poverty are staggering. Consider, for instance, how 1.5 billion people subsist below the international poverty line, which means about a quarter of the world's current population lives in poverty. There is much talk about how freer markets will help the situation of these people, in particular how it will help the worst off. So far the evidence for this claim is fairly unclear. ‘At any rate, on several accounts, alleviating the worst aspects of poverty would impose fairly sma…Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Global Justice |
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Social and Political Philosophy |
International Ethics |
Global Justice |