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The Language of Fund RaisingIn Deni Elliott (ed.), The Ethics of Asking: Dilemmas in Higher Education Fund Raising, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 51--52. 1995.
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Distributive justiceIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 655. 1992.
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Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian interventionIn Dean Chatterjee & Donald Scheid (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Cambridge University Press. pp. 189--211. 2003.
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1Is there a medical profession in the houseIn 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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36Democracy, Elites and Power: John Dewey ReconsideredContemporary 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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22Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation ExperimentsHastings 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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73Toward a Theory of the Ethics of Bureaucratic OrganizationsBusiness 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
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456Moral status and human enhancementPhilosophy and Public Affairs 37 (4): 346-381. 2009.No Abstract
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Social moral epistemology and the tasks of ethicsIn 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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178Philosophy and public policy: A role for social moral epistemologyJournal 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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1Social moral epistemology and the role of bioethicistsIn Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007.
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181"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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214Justice as reciprocity versus subject-centered justicePhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (3): 227-252. 1990.
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569Advance directives and the personal identity problemPhilosophy and Public Affairs 17 (4): 277-302. 1988.
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83Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of ForceOup Usa. 2010.This volume collects Allen Buchanan's previously published articles with a focus on ethics and international law, specifically with regard to human rights, the legitimacy of international institutions, and the ethics of force across borders. The work fits together tightly in its systematic interconnections, and collectively it makes the case for a holistic and systematic approach to issues that are at the forefront of current discussions in political and legal philosophy- issues that have tradit…Read more
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158The Ethics of Revolution and Its Implications for the Ethics of InterventionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 41 (4): 291-323. 2013.
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168Equality and human rightsPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 4 (1): 69-90. 2005.There is a puzzling disconnect between recent philosophical literature on equality and the modern theory and practice of human rights. This disconnect is puzzling because the modern human rights movement is arguably the most salient and powerful manifestation of the commitment to equality in our time. One likely source of this disconnect is the tendency of contributors to the philosophical literature on equality to focus on justice within the state, considered in isolation. This article begins t…Read more
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274Social moral epistemologySocial Philosophy and Policy 19 (2): 126-152. 2002.The distinctive aim of applied ethics is to provide guidance as to how we ought to act, as individuals and as shapers of social policies. In this essay, I argue that applied ethics as currently practiced is inadequate and ought to be transformed to incorporate what I shall call social moral epistemology. This is a branch of social epistemology, the study of the social practices and institutions that promote the formation, preservation, and transmission of true beliefs. For example, social episte…Read more
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147Responsibility for global healthTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 27 (1): 95-114. 2005.There are several reasons for the current prominence of global health issues. Among the most important is the growing awareness that some risks to health are global in scope and can only be countered by global cooperation. In addition, human rights discourse and, more generally, the articulation of a coherent cosmopolitan ethical perspective that acknowledges the importance of all persons, regardless of where they live, provide a normative basis for taking global health seriously as a moral issu…Read more
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201Marx, morality, and history: An assessment of recent analytical work on MarxEthics 98 (1): 104-136. 1987.
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185In Harm's Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1994.For several decades the work of Joel Feinberg has been the most influential in legal, political and social philosophy in the English-speaking world. This 1994 volume honours that body of work by presenting fifteen essays, many of them by leading legal and political philosophers, that explore the problems that have engaged Feinberg over the years. Amongst the topics covered are issues of autonomy, responsibility and liability. It will be a collection of interest to anyone working in moral, legal …Read more
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187The Limits of Evolutionary Explanations of Morality and Their Implications for Moral ProgressEthics 126 (1): 37-67. 2015.Traditional conservative arguments against the possibility of moral progress relied on underevidenced assumptions about the limitations of human nature. Contemporary thinkers have attempted to fill this empirical gap in the conservative argument by appealing to evolutionary science. Such “evoconservative” arguments fail because they overstate the explanatory reach of evolutionary theory. We maintain that no adequate evolutionary explanation has been given for important features of human morality…Read more
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90From nuremburg to kosovo: The morality of illegal international legal reformEthics 111 (4): 673-705. 2001.
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