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98Contemporary property rights, Lockean provisos, and the interests of future generationsEthics 105 (4): 791-818. 1995.
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66The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche (edited book)Broadview Press. 2017.This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. A number of key works, including Machiavelli’s _The Prince_, Locke’s _Second Treatise_, and Rousseau’s _The Social Contract_, are included in their entirety. Alongside these central readings are a diverse range of texts from authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, and Henry David Thoreau. The editors have made every effort to include…Read more
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60Social choice and normative population theory: A person affecting solution to Parfit's mere addition paradoxPhilosophical Studies 81 (2-3). 1996.
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50Do future persons presently have alternate possible identities?In David Wasserman & Melinda Roberts (eds.), Harming Future Persons, Springer. pp. 93--114. 2009.
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46Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz (edited book)Lexington Books. 2005.In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick FerrZ. These essays, informed by the insights of FerrZ and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions
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40Ethics, future generations and environmental lawIn Marmor Andrei (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law, Routledge. pp. 397. 2012.
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39Commodification, Exploitation, and the Market for Transplant OrgansIn Sandra Shapshay (ed.), Bioethics at the Movies, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 170. 2009.
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35Markets, Justice, and the Interests of Future GenerationsEthics and the Environment 1 (2). 1996.This paper considers the extent to which market institutions respond to the needs and morally significant interests of future generations. Such an analysis of the intertemporal effects of markets provides important ground for evaluation of normative social theories, and represents a crucial step toward the development of an adequate account of intergenerational justice. After presenting a prima facie case that markets cannot provide appropriate protections for future needs and interests, I evalu…Read more
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31New waves in applied ethics (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2007.This volume contains work by the very best young scholars working in Applied Ethics, gathering a range of new perspectives and thoughts on highly relevant topics, such as the environment, animals, computers, freedom of speech, human enhancement, war and poverty. For researchers and students working in or around this fascinating area of the discipline, the volume will provide a unique snapshot of where the cutting-edge work in the field is currently engaged and where it's headed
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29Many of our obligations to future generations can be understood in terms of the intergenerational benefits and debts we pass on. This article proposes that we can think of environmental debts in the same way as financial debts, and that this will help us to understand our most important obligations of intergenerational justice.
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26Ethics of Scientific Research. Kristin Shrader-Frechette Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Pp. 243. $58.50 ISBN 0-8476-7981-0 ; $26.95 ISBN 0-8476-7981-3 (review)Ethics and the Environment 4 (2): 241-245. 1999.
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25Distributive justiceIn Gerald F. Gaus & Fred D'Agostino (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 467. 2012.
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23Needs, and Climate PolicyIn Gosseries Axel & Meyers L. (eds.), Intergenerational Justice, Oxford University Press. pp. 347. 2009.
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23In 2002, Hugh Laddie lamented the “blind adherence to dogma” that had led to an apparent impasse in philosophical and practical discussions of intellectual property : “On the one side, the developed world side, there exists a lobby of those who believe that all IPRs [intellectual property rights] are good for business, benefit the public at large, and act as catalysts for technical progress. They believe and argue that, if IPRs are good, more IPRs must be better.”1 But “on the other side”, he co…Read more
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21In the film Dirty Pretty Things, one of the main characters, Okwe, discovers that his employer, "Sneaky", is running a peculiar business. During the day Sneaky seems an ordinary hotelier. But on the side he runs a service to provide counterfeit passports for illegal immigrants who wish to remain in Britain. He arranges for poor immigrants to "donate" one of their kidneys, which he sells to people in need of a transplant. In return, he provides the "donors" with forged passports or immigration do…Read more
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20Property rights, human needs, and environmental protection: A response to brockEthics and the Environment 4 (1): 107-113. 1999.
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19The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought - Volume 2: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (edited book, review)Broadview Press. 2008.The second volume of this comprehensive anthology covers the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The anthology is broad ranging both in its selection of material by figures traditionally acknowledged as being of central importance, and in the material it presents by a range of other figures. The material in this volume is presented in three sections. The first, “Power and the State,” includes selections by such figures as Goldman, Lenin, Weber, Schmitt, and Hayek. Among those included in…Read more
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17Paul Thompson. The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental EthicsEnvironmental Ethics 35 (2): 251-254. 2013.
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16The Idea of a Political Liberalism: Essays on RawlsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, just treatment of dissident minorities, the constitutional implications of liberalism, international relations, and the structure of international law. The first comprehensive study of …Read more
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15Intergenerational JusticeIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Problems for a Theory of Intergenerational Justice Libertarianism and Intergenerational Justice A Liberal Theory of Intergenerational Justice Intergenerational Justice and Saving Just Saving behind the Veil of Ignorance Sustainability: Alternative Conceptions Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability Conclusion.
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14Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil, 2nd EdEthics, Policy and Environment 25 (2): 194-223. 2022.Clark WolfDepartment of Philosophy & Religious Studies,Iowa State UniversityPaul Thompson’s Spirit of the Soil was groundbreaking when it appeared in 1995, and has aged remarkably well. The substan...
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13Taking his cue from a brief comment by an obscure Greek poet, Isaiah Berlin made a famous taxological distinction between intellectual hedgehogs and foxes. Intellectual hedgehogs know "one big thing." They have a key insight that gives them a perspective from which to view and discuss many different problems. Intellectual foxes "know many things." "Foxes" have many different and sometimes unrelated insights, flashes of insight and understanding that come from many different sources. When you mee…Read more
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13Displacing the Productionist Paradigm: A Comment on Paul Thompson's Spirit of the Soil, 2nd EditionEthics, Policy and Environment 22 (3): 235-242. 2019.Paul Thompson's book The Spirit of the Soil first appeared in 1995, and has been re-issued in a new edition in 2017. This comment on the new edition addresses Thompson's argument concerning the pro...
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13Reversal Learning Deficits in Criminal Offenders: Effects of Psychopathy, Substance use, and Childhood Maltreatment HistoryJournal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 2016.Deficits in reinforcement learning are presumed to underlie the impulsive and incorrigible behavior exhibited by psychopathic criminals. However, previous studies documenting reversal learning impairments in psychopathic individuals have not investigated this relationship across a continuous range of psychopathy severity, nor have they examined how reversal learning impairments relate to different psychopathic traits, such as the interpersonal-affective and lifestyle-antisocial dimensions. Furth…Read more
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13Review of Bernard E. Rollin, Science and Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (12). 2006.of Bernard E. Rollin , , from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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11Calls to regulate or restrict scientific research are often a matter of politics, and public desire to regulate science may have its source in several different underlying interests: on one side, people may be motivated by an interest to control risks, prevent harms, or limit access to powerful or dangerous technologies. These interests are easy to understand, and often provide entirely appropriate and creditable grounds for regulation. In a darker vein, people may be motivated by more general m…Read more
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10Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz (edited book)Lexington Books. 2005.In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick Ferré. These essays, informed by the insights of Ferré and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions
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