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14Response to criticsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (4): 624-634. 2024.I would first like to extend gratitude to Jinyu Sun, who has put together this symposium, and to all the contributors for their penetrating critiques. In my short response I cannot do justice to al...
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15Benefiting from WrongdoingIn Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.This chapter investigates the moral status of agents who innocently benefit from the wrongdoing of others. We commonly think that perpetrators should not benefit from their wrongdoings. But sometimes wrongdoings benefit third parties. Clearest examples are historical wrongdoings, such as colonialism and slavery, which have long lasting effects to this very day, benefitting some while harming others. Recent attempts to identify those who should address such wrongdoings suggest that their benefici…Read more
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24Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust StatesJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (1): 42-59. 2021.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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53Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust StatesJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (1): 42-59. 2021.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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19Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?Oxford University Press. 2021."International and domestic laws commonly hold states responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, and reparations for their historical wrongdoings. Some argue that states should incur punitive damages for their international crimes. But there is a troubling aspect to these practices: States are corporate agents, comprised of flesh and blood citizens. When the state uses the public purse to finance its corporate liabilities, the burden falls on these citizens…Read more
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21Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust StatesJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (1): 42-59. 2021.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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21Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust StatesJournal of Political Philosophy 31 (1): 42-59. 2021.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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59A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be UncivilPhilosophical Review 130 (1): 159-162. 2018.
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27The Collective Responsibility of Democratic PublicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (1): 99-123. 2011.Towards the end of her seminal work on the notion of representation Hanna Pitkin makes the following observation:At the end of the Second World War and during the Nuremberg trials there was much speculation about the war guilt of the German people. […] Many people might argue the responsibility of the German people even though a Nazi government was not representative. We might agree, however, that in the case of a representative government the responsibility would be more clear-cut.
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197The collective responsibility of democratic publicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (1): 99-123. 2011.Towards the end of her seminal work on the notion of representation Hanna Pitkin makes the following observation:At the end of the Second World War and during the Nuremberg trials there was much speculation about the war guilt of the German people. [...] Many people might argue the responsibility of the German people even though a Nazi government was not representative. We might agree, however, that in the case of a representative government the responsibility would be more clear-cut.2As Pitkin …Read more
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29The Impact of Corporate Task Responsibilities: A Comparison of Two ModelsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 38 (1): 222-231. 2014.
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277Political Rioting: A Moral AssessmentPhilosophy and Public Affairs 46 (4): 384-418. 2018.Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 384-418, Fall 2018.
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54Voluntary Benefits from WrongdoingJournal of Applied Philosophy 31 (4): 377-391. 2014.The principle of wrongful benefits prescribes that beneficiaries from wrongdoing incur duties towards the victims of the wrongdoing. The principle focuses on involuntary beneficiaries, demanding that they disgorge their tainted benefit. However, it overlooks the duties of beneficiaries who are not straightforwardly involuntary. The article addresses this gap in the literature. It explores the duties of ‘voluntary beneficiaries’, who could avoid receiving the tainted benefit; and the duties of ‘w…Read more
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93Sharing the costs of political injusticesPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 10 (2): 188-210. 2011.It is commonly thought that when democratic states act wrongly, they should bear the costs of the harm they cause. However, since states are collective agents, their financial burdens pass on to their individual citizens. This fact raises important questions about the proper distribution of the state’s collective responsibility for its unjust policies. This article identifies two opposing models for sharing this collective responsibility in democracies: first, in proportion to citizens’ personal…Read more
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36Not in Their Name: Are Citizens Culpable for Their States’ Actions? (review)Journal of Social Ontology 5 (2): 285-288. 2019.
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33" Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State" by Anna Stilz (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (2). 2011.
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803Rethinking Corporate Agency in Business, Philosophy, and LawJournal of Business Ethics 154 (4): 893-899. 2019.While researchers in business ethics, moral philosophy, and jurisprudence have advanced the study of corporate agency, there have been very few attempts to bring together insights from these and other disciplines in the pages of the Journal of Business Ethics. By introducing to an audience of business ethics scholars the work of outstanding authors working outside the field, this interdisciplinary special issue addresses this lacuna. Its aim is to encourage the formulation of innovative argument…Read more
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21Sanctioning Liberal DemocraciesPolitical Studies 57 54-74. 2009.This article examines when economic sanctions should be imposed on liberal democracies that violate democratic norms. The argument is made from the social-liberal standpoint, which recognises the moral status of political communities. While social liberals rarely refer to the use of economic sanctions as a pressure tool, by examining why they restrict military intervention and economic aid to cases of massive human rights violations or acute humanitarian need, the article is able to show why the…Read more
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30Cosmopolitan Justice and Criminal StatesJournal of Applied Philosophy 36 (3): 366-374. 2019.Cécile Fabre's monumental work Cosmopolitan Peace offers a thorough investigation of the responsibilities that agents incur through their involvement in armed conflict. However, her analysis fails to acknowledge the central role that states play in initiating and orchestrating acts of war. I argue that states are corporate moral agents, who are morally responsible for their own wrongdoings during an unjust war, and that this argument is compatible with Fabre's cosmopolitan premises. I then sugge…Read more
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37Fair Play and Wrongful BenefitsJournal of Moral Philosophy 14 (5): 515-534. 2017.According to the fair play defense of political obligations citizens have a reciprocity-based duty to share the costs involved in the production of public goods. But sometimes, states produce collective goods through wrongdoing. For example, sometimes states’ wrongful immigration policies can contribute to the welfare of their own populations. Do citizens have duties of reciprocity in light of such wrongful benefits? I argue that the answer to this question is negative. Drawing on the observatio…Read more
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88Fair Play and Wrongful BenefitsJournal of Moral Philosophy 14 (5): 515-534. 2017._ Source: _Page Count 20 According to the fair play defense of political obligations citizens have a reciprocity-based duty to share the costs involved in the production of public goods. But sometimes, states produce collective goods through wrongdoing. For example, sometimes states’ wrongful immigration policies can contribute to the welfare of their own populations. Do citizens have duties of reciprocity in light of such wrongful benefits? I argue that the answer to this question is negative. …Read more
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19Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State, Anna Stilz , 264 pp., $29.95 cloth, $24.95 paper (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (2): 239-242. 2011.
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Book Review (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (2). 2011.In this highly engaging book, Stilz seeks to offer a liberal solution to the problem of political obligations. To do so, she reconstructs the "duty to justice" argument first developed by Kant and later defended by Rawls.
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48From Corporate Moral Agency to Corporate Moral RightsLaw and Ethics of Human Rights 11 (1): 135-159. 2017.
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46Intending to benefit from wrongdoingPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 15 (3): 280-297. 2016.Some believe that the mere beneficiaries of wrongdoing of others ought to disgorge their tainted benefits. Others deny that claim. Both sides of this debate concentrate on unavoidable beneficiaries of the wrongdoing of others, who are presumed themselves to be innocent by virtue of the fact they have neither contributed to the wrong nor could they have avoided receiving the benefit. But as we show, this presumption is mistaken for unavoidable beneficiaries who intend in certain ways to benefit f…Read more
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43Cosmopolitan justice and the league of democraciesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 15 (5): 649-666. 2012.Cosmopolitan justice calls for extensive institutional transformations at the international level. But in the absence of a global enforcing authority, such transformations are bound to be hampered by a range of obstacles, including non-compliance and coordination problems. What solutions can a cosmopolitan thinker offer to address these challenges? In answering this question, the paper focuses on the role that international cooperation between the world?s democracies can play in promoting cosmop…Read more
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