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311Microfinance, Poverty Relief, and Political JusticeIn Tom Sorell & Luis Cabrera (eds.), Is there a Human Right to Microfinance?, Cambridge University Press. pp. 84-104. 2015.
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278Canine Justice: An Associative AccountPolitical Studies 62 (1): 37-52. 2014.A prominent view in contemporary political theory, the ‘associative view’, says that duties of justice are triggered by particular cooperative relations between morally significant agents, and that ‘therefore’ principles of justice apply only among fellow citizens. This view has been challenged by advocates of global justice, who point to the existence of a world-wide cooperative network to which principles of justice apply. Call this the challenge from geographical extension. In this paper, I p…Read more
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275II- What's Wrong with Being Lonely? Justice, Beneficence, and Meaningful RelatopnshipsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90 (1): 49-69. 2016.A life without liberty and material resources is not a good life. Equally, a life devoid of meaningful social relationships—such as friendships, family attachments, and romances—is not a good life. From this it is tempting to conclude that just as individuals have rights to liberty and material resources, they also have rights to access meaningful social relationships. I argue that this conclusion can be defended only in a narrow set of cases. ‘Pure’ social relationship deprivation—that is, depr…Read more
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268On the Value of Constitutions and Judicial ReviewCriminal Law and Philosophy 11 (4): 817-832. 2017.In his thought-provoking book, Why Law Matters, Alon Harel defends two key claims: one ontological, the other axiological. First, he argues that constitutions and judicial review are necessary constituents of a just society. Second, he suggests that these institutions are not only means to the realization of worthy ends, but also non-instrumentally valuable. I agree with Harel that constitutions and judicial review have more than instrumental value, but I am not persuaded by his arguments in sup…Read more
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250Interactive justice, the boundary problem, and proportionalityCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (4): 466-472. 2019.
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233Human Rights, the Political View, and TNCs: An ExplorationIn Tom Campbell & Kylie Bourne (eds.), Political and Legal Approaches to Human Rights. pp. 168-86. 2018.A recently developed view in political theory holds that only political agents, particularly states, can be primary bearers of human-rights duties. Problematically, this so-called ‘political view’ appears unable to account for the human-rights responsibilities of powerful non-state actors, such as transnational corporations (TNCs). Can a recognizably political view respond to this concern? I show that, once the moral underpinnings of the political view are made explicit, it can. I suggest that, …Read more
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113Gillian Brock, Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN-10: 0199230943. £22.50 , £60 (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14 (2): 251-252. 2011.
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98On the Duty to Withhold Global Aid Now to Save More Lives in the FutureEthics and Global Politics 4 (2): 125-34. 2011.The world is riddled with human suffering, poverty, and destitution. In the face of this moral tragedy, the least that the global wealthy can do is try to support aid programs aimed at relieving the plight of the very poor. Many political leaders, pop stars, and religious personalities have realized this, and routinely urge us to be more sensitive to the conditions of the distant needy. Giving aid thus seems to be one of the most important moral imperatives of our time. (Published: 22 June 2011)…Read more
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83Rethinking moral claim rightsJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (4): 433-451. 2023.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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79Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative FrameworkOxford University Press. 2011.Are wealthy countries' duties towards developing countries grounded in justice or in weaker concerns of charity? Justice in a Globalized World offers both an in-depth critique of the most prominent philosophical answers to this question, and a distinctive approach for addressing it.
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41Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe, by Tim Mulgan.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 122 (488): 1161-1164. 2013.
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41Political theorySSRN Electronic Journal. 2014.Political theory, sometimes also called “normative political theory”, is a subfield of the disciplines of philosophy and political science that addresses conceptual, normative, and evaluative questions concerning politics and society, broadly construed. Examples are: When is a society just? What does it mean for its members to be free? When is one distribution of goods socially preferable to another? What makes a political authority legitimate? How should we trade off different values, such as l…Read more
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39This article examines the methodology of a core branch of contemporary political theory or philosophy: “analytic” political theory. After distinguishing political theory from related fields, such as political science, moral philosophy, and legal theory, the article discusses the analysis of political concepts. It then turns to the notions of principles and theories, as distinct from concepts, and reviews the methods of assessing such principles and theories, for the purpose of justifying or crit…Read more
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37Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo , 2015 Oxford, Oxford University Press, xiii 720 pp., £39.99 (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (3): 443-445. 2016.
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33On the Justification of Basic RightsNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 45 (3): 52-63. 2016.
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31Review of Lukas H. Meyer (ed.), Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (7). 2010.
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30The methodology of political theoryIn Herman Cappelen, Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press. 2016.This article examines the methodology of a core branch of contemporary political theory or philosophy: “analytic” political theory. After distinguishing political theory from related fields, such as political science, moral philosophy, and legal theory, the article discusses the analysis of political concepts. It then turns to the notions of principles and theories, as distinct from concepts, and reviews the methods of assessing such principles and theories, for the purpose of justifying or crit…Read more
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26Human rights and discourse theory: some critical remarksCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 17 (6): 674-680. 2014.
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26Arguing for assistance-based responsibilities: are intuitions enough?Ethics and Global Politics 12 (1): 24-32. 2019.Millions of people in our world are in need of assistance: from the global poor, to refugees, from the victims of natural disasters, to those of violent crimes. What are our responsibilities towards them? Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverland’s answer is plausible and straightforward: we have enforceable duties to assist others in need whenever we can do so ‘at relatively moderate cost to ourselves, and others’. Barry and Øverland defend this answer on the ground that it best fits our intuitions …Read more
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24Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and Capabilities, Harry Brighouse and Ingrid Robeyns, eds. , 247 pp., $85 cloth, $29.99 paper (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (1): 95-96. 2011.
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22On Public‐identity DisempowermentJournal of Political Philosophy 30 (4): 462-486. 2021.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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22Two Pictures of the Global-justice Debate: A Reply to TanLaw Ethics and Philosophy 2 219-26. 2014.
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12Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo , 2015 Oxford, Oxford University Press, xiii 720 pp., £39.99 (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 34 (3): 443-445. 2016.
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12Social Liberal or Cosmopolitan? (review)Global Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric 2 50-53. 2009.Review: David Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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10Social Liberal or Cosmopolitan? (review)Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 2 50-53. 2009.Review: David Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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3Social Liberal or Cosmopolitan?Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 2. 2014.Review: David Miller, National Responsibility and Global Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenProfessor
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King's College LondonVisiting Professor
Munich, Bayern, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
Applied Ethics |
Areas of Interest
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Methods in Political Philosophy |
Social Ontology |
Freedom and Liberty |
Global Justice |
Rights |
Democracy |
Legal Authority and Obligation |