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    From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice
    with Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler
    Philosophy 76 (297): 472-475. 2000.
    This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000, was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings. Probing the implications of the remarkable advances in genetics, the authors ask how should these affect our understanding of distributive justice, equality of opportunity, the rights and obligations as parents, the meaning of disability, and the role of the concept of…Read more
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    The International Dimension of the Problem of Contested Secession
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 4 (1). 2014.
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  • Justifying Preventive War
    In Henry Shue & David Rodin (eds.), Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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    BRICKHOUSE Thomas C. and Nicholas D. Smith (eds): The Trial and
    with Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (3): 507-511. 2002.
  • Justice, Distributive
    In Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 1--655. 1992.
  • The Language of Fund Raising
    In Deni Elliott (ed.), The ethics of asking: dilemmas in higher education fund raising, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 51--52. 1995.
  • Distributive justice
    In Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 655. 1992.
  • Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian intervention
    In Dean Chatterjee & Donald Scheid (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Cambridge University Press. pp. 189--211. 2003.
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    Is there a medical profession in the house
    In Roy G. Spece, David S. Shimm & Allen E. Buchanan (eds.), Conflicts of interest in clinical practice and research, Oxford University Press. pp. 105--36. 1996.
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    Democracy, Elites and Power: John Dewey Reconsidered
    Contemporary Political Theory 8 (1): 68-89. 2009.
    This essay demonstrates that the management and contestability of power is central to Dewey's understanding of democracy and provides a middle ground between two opposite poles within democratic theory: Either the masses become the genuine danger to democratic governance (à la Lippmann) or elites are described as bent on controlling the masses (à la Wolin). Yet, the answer to managing the relationship between them and the demos is never forthcoming. I argue that Dewey's response to Lippmann for …Read more
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    Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation Experiments
    Hastings Center Report 26 (3): 25-30. 1996.
    Our reluctance to measure the morality of past practices is more than a nagging problem for moral theorists. The legitimacy of retrospective moral judgment has fundamental implications for how practices and institutions should be viewed, and judged, now.
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    Les conditions de la sécession
    Philosophiques 19 (2): 159-168. 1992.
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    Review: Marx as Kierkegaard (review)
    Philosophical Studies 53 (1). 1988.
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    Toward a Theory of the Ethics of Bureaucratic Organizations
    Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 419-440. 1996.
    This essay articulates a crucial and neglected element of a general theory of the ethics of bureaucratic organizations, both private andpublic. The key to the approach developed here is the thesis that the distinctive ethical principles applicable to bureaucratic organizations are responses to the distinctive agency-risks that arise from the nature of bureaucratic organizations as complex webs of principal/agent relationships. It is argued that the most important and distinctive ethical principl…Read more
  • Social moral epistemology and the tasks of ethics
    In N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen & Jeff McMahan (eds.), Ethics and humanity: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press. 2010.
    This chapter first identifies what is extremely valuable and distinctive in the approach to Ethics Glover takes in Humanity. It then goes on to argue that Glover's approach is incomplete, because it is insufficiently empirical and, more importantly because it lacks a conceptual framework capable of identifying the full range of topics for empirically informed Ethics research. The needed conceptual framework must incorporate social moral epistemology, which focuses on the interaction between the …Read more
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    Philosophy and public policy: A role for social moral epistemology
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (3): 276-290. 2009.
    abstract Part 1 of this essay argues that one of the most important contributions of philosophers to sound public policy may be to combat the influence of bad Philosophy (which includes, but is not limited to, bad Philosophy produced by accredited academic philosophers). Part 2 argues that the conventional conception of Practical Ethics (CPE) that philosophers bring to issues of public policy is defective because it fails to take seriously the phenomenon of the subversion of morality, the role o…Read more
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    Social moral epistemology and the role of bioethicists
    In Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The ethics of bioethics: mapping the moral landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007.
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    Why not the best?
    with Dan Brock, Norman Daniels, and Dan Wikler
    "Be All You Can Be," the Army recruiting poster urges young men and women. Many parents share the sentiment. They want their children to be the best they can be. For many parents, their most important project in life is to pursue that goal, and they make sacrifices to see it happen. And why shouldn't parents aim to make their offspring the best they can be?
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    Marx as Kierkegaard (review)
    Philosophical Studies 53 (1): 157-172. 1988.
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    Justice as reciprocity versus subject-centered justice
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (3): 227-252. 1990.
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    Book review (review)
    Journal of Business Ethics 13 (2): 94-94. 1994.
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    The Morality of Inclusion
    Social Philosophy and Policy 10 (2): 233-257. 1993.
    Today we are witnessing two dramatic processes: the fragmentation of old states and empires, followed by the emergence of new states and new forms of political association; and the construction of new economies out of the ruins of state socialism. These two processes—the redrawing of political boundaries and the creation of economies—are not independent of one another. In some cases, the desire for a new, more productive economy supplements other motives for state-breaking and state-making. In o…Read more
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    Justice in the Diffusion of Innovation
    with Tony Cole and Robert O. Keohane
    Journal of Political Philosophy 19 (3): 306-332. 2009.
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    The controversy over retrospective moral judgment
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 6 (3): 245-250. 1996.
    : The mandate of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments required that the Committee take a position on the validity of retrospective moral judgments. However, throughout its period of operation, the Committee remained divided on the question of whether sound judgments of individual culpability and wrongdoing should be included in its Final Report. This essay examines the arguments that various committee members marshalled to support their opposing views on retrospective moral…Read more
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    Human rights and the legitimacy of the international order
    Legal Theory 14 (1): 39-70. 2008.
    The international legal order is beginning to take human rights seriously, yet sound justifications for claims about human rights are conspicuously absent. Philosophers have begun to respond to this “justification deficit” by developing theories of human rights. Although a philosophical conception of human rights is needed, it would not be sufficient. The justification of human rights is a dynamic process in which a provisional philosophical conception of human rights both guides and is fleshed …Read more