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3Sosa on Circularity and CoherenceIn John Greco (ed.), Ernest Sosa: And His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.
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2Future generations and resource sharesIn Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea & Leonard Kahn (eds.), Consequentialism and environmental ethics, Routledge. pp. 136-147. 2013.
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96Enhancement and Cheating: Implications for Policy in SportIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 523-533. 2018.There is a widely held view that the rules forbidding the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are justified on grounds that utilizing these drugs constitutes cheating . In this chapter we engage with this assumption. Relying on an interpretative approach borrowed from Ronald Dworkin, we offer a novel analysis of cheating, one that makes it out to be a matter of inhibiting the attainment of certain sorts of achievements. These achievements are the important goods at the centre of sport, the…Read more
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Paying it Forward: Geoengineering and Compensation for the Further FutureIn Christopher J. Preston (ed.), Climate Justice and Geoengineering: Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene, Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 63-75. 2016.
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148Promises to the selfCanadian Journal of Philosophy 39 (4). 2009.I Can we make promises to ourselves? This is a question that has not received much consideration in the large body of philosophical work on promising. And in what commentary there is, the answer is uniformly negative. I think this negativity is a mistake, and that the conventional view that we can't make reflexive promises is wrong. I also think that this has some important implications for promissory theory in general. In what follows, I will attempt to argue for the first of these two claims, …Read more
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28Promises to the SelfCanadian Journal of Philosophy 39 (4): 537-558. 2009.I Can we make promises to ourselves? This is a question that has not received much consideration in the large body of philosophical work on promising. And in what commentary there is, the answer is uniformly negative. I think this negativity is a mistake, and that the conventional view that we can't make reflexive promises is wrong. I also think that this has some important implications for promissory theory in general. In what follows, I will attempt to argue for the first of these two claims, …Read more
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36Biodiversity and Values in ScienceEthics, Policy and Environment 18 (1): 30-33. 2015.In 1985, wildlife biologist Michael Soulé wrote a manifesto for the new field of Conservation Biology. In it he offered ‘Diversity of organisms is good’ and ‘Ecological complexity is...
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68Sharing the Earth: Sustainability and the Currency of Inter-Generational Environmental JusticeEnvironmental Values 22 (6): 751-764. 2013.Philosophers often understand environmental sustainability as a duty of distributive justice between the generations of the earth. Since every generation is equally entitled to the bounty of the natural environment (the thinking goes) every generation should have a fair share of that bounty. But since generations precede each other in time, it is the duty of earlier generations to ensure that later generations receive their fair share. Acting sustainably is the way of meeting this duty, since su…Read more
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