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24Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and CollectivizationPolitical Theory 52 (1): 34-59. 2024.Some of the most pressing contemporary social problems result from the amalgamation of a mass of actions that are not intentionally coordinated. Although these essentially aggregative harms are foreseeable, it is unclear what moral duties individuals have with regards to them. This paper offers a new analysis of these problems and uses a nonideal contractualist approach to argue in favour of two kinds of duties for individuals. Collectivization duties that require individuals to act responsively…Read more
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24Beyond Claim‐Rights: Social Structure, Collectivization, and Human RightsJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (2): 162-184. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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20Injustice and Collectivization in World PoliticsGlobal Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 11 (2): 29-50. 2019.In Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics Catherine Lu endorses the idea that those who contribute to the reproduction of structural injustice have responsibilities to address that injustice. However, in the book, Lu does not explore the grounds and justification for recognising such a responsibility. In order to address this deficit, this paper proposes that those likely to contribute to the reproduction of structural injustice, in the future, have precautionary duties, in the present, th…Read more
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11Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance, Gwilym David Blunt (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 298 pp., cloth $99.99, eBook $80 (review)Ethics and International Affairs 34 (3): 415-418. 2020.
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43A structural approach to the human right to just and favourable working conditionsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (7): 863-883. 2019.
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82The Tragedy of the Commons as an Essentially Aggregative HarmJournal of Applied Philosophy 31 (3): 223-236. 2014.This article identifies ‘the tragedy of the commons’ as an essentially aggregative harm and considers what agents in such a scenario owe to one another. It proposes that the duty to take reasonable precautions requires that agents make efforts to establish collective solutions to any essentially aggregative harm to which they would otherwise contribute. Baylor Johnson has argued that the general obligation to promote the common good requires that agents make efforts to establish a collective agr…Read more
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