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53Caney'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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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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50The 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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49Needs, vulnerability, and porous borders: Some issues for Onora O’Neill concerning the distribution of responsibilityActa Philosophica 26 (2): 347-364. 2017.Philosophical theorizing about global justice has evolved into a flourishing, sophisticated, and respectable field. This was not the case about two decades ago and O’Neill’s pioneering work on these topics has been highly influential in these welcome developments. In this paper I aim to review the important role agency, need, and vulnerability play in O’Neill’s normative theorizing, as well as the importance she places on being able to allocate responsibilities, in evaluating how porous borders …Read more
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48International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle groundIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 97--107. 2011.Disturbing international inequalities in health abound. Life expectancy in Swaziland is half that in Japan. A child unfortunate enough to be born in Angola has 73 times as great a chance of dying before age 5 as a child born in Norway. A mother giving birth in southern sub-Saharan Africa has 100 times as great a chance of dying from her labor as one birthing in an industrialized country. For every mile one travels outward toward the Maryland suburbs from downtown Washington, DC on its undergroun…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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47Cosmopolitanism 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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44Reforming 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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43Some future directions for global justiceJournal of Global Ethics 10 (3): 254-260. 2014.The fields of global ethics and global justice have expanded considerably over the last two decades and they now cover a wide variety of topics. Given this huge range there are many areas that are ripe for important developments. In this commentary I identify some useful directions for promising exploration in the field of global justice. I argue that expanded dialogue networks would considerably enhance work in philosophy and be beneficial to other disciplines as well. I indicate also how we co…Read more
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42Why the Heldian Model of Cosmopolitan Democracy Retains Its Promise Despite Kymlicka’s CriticismsPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 9 (2): 31-39. 2002.Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitans maintain that no national categories of people deserve special weight and that, instead, all people everywhere should be objects of moral concern. Arguably, the most developed of these accounts is the cosmopolitan democracy model articulated by David Held, so it is not surprising that it has received the most attention and criticism. In this paper, I outline Held’s model of cosmopolitan democracy and consider the …Read more
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41The Decent Life, Equality, Global Justice and the Role of the State: A Response to Landesman and HolderDiametros 31 157-174. 2012.Cindy Holder and Bruce Landesman pose several interesting challenges for my account of Global Justice. In this article I address their concerns by discussing the content of what we owe one another. When we appreciate all the components of what it is to have a decent life, this will commit us to a much richer picture of what we owe one another than is commonly assumed when talking of decent lives. There is also considerable scope for concern with inequality when that fuller picture is presented. …Read more
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40Is active recruitment of health workers really not guilty of enabling harm or facilitating wrongdoing?Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (10): 612-614. 2013.Hidalgo1 argues that, contrary to widespread belief, active recruitment of health workers ‘generally refrains from enabling harm or facilitating wrongdoing’. In this commentary, I argue that the case is not yet convincing. There are a number of problems with the argument, only some of which I can sketch here. These include: Hidalgo gives an insufficient account of the relevant harms that are inflicted when healthcare workers emigrate. Relatedly, he does not take account of the underlying causes …Read more
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39Justice and NeedsDialogue 35 (1): 81-. 1996.Justice and Needs Is it somehow a requirement of justice that we meet people's needs? So, for instance, do people in need of certain goods necessary to sustain life deserve help from those not (similarly) in need because this is a requirement of justice? According to two recent arguments (one offered by Wiggins and the other offered by Braybrooke), justice requires that needs be met. Wiggins uses a rights-based argument and Braybrooke deploys an argument which relies pivotally on the concept of…Read more
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39Fulfilling 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 Hasso…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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38Liberal nationalism versus cosmopolitanism: locating the disputesPublic Affairs Quarterly 16 (4): 307-327. 2002.
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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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36How Should We Combat Corruption? Lessons from Theory and PracticeEthics and International Affairs 32 (1): 103-117. 2018.
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29What should be done to address losses associated with ‘medical brain drain’?Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 558-559. 2017.
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29Self-determination, Democracy, Human Rights, and Migrants’ RightsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 34 (2): 295-309. 2020.What weight should we place on self-determination, democracy, human rights and equality in an account of migration justice? Anna Stilz and Andrea Sangiovanni offer insightful comments that prompt us to consider such questions. In addressing their welcome critiques I aim to show how my account can help reduce migration injustice in our contemporary world. As I argue, there is no right to free movement across state borders. However, migrants do have rights to a fair process for determining their r…Read more
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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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26Book 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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26Relevant evidence, reasonable policy and the right to emigrateJournal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 568-570. 2017.
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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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25Helping the Homeless of our State SystemSocial Philosophy Today 36 25-47. 2020.Migration often involves leaving one home and trying to build another. Normative issues abound with both aspects, however as we reflect on issues of home and migration, it is hard to go past the thought that the plight of refugees is one of the most pressing. Being a refugee might be the equivalent of being homeless in the international context. And so considering our responsibilities in relation to the homeless in our state system seems especially worthwhile, given the conference theme and the …Read more
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