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2© 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.Importance: Patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome have an elevated risk of developing schizophrenia. Recent reports have suggested that a subgroup of children with 22q11DS display a substantial decline in cognitive abilities starting at a young age.Objective: To determine whether early cognitive decline is associated with risk of psychotic disorder in 22q11DS.Design, Setting, And Participants: Prospective longitudinal cohort study. As pa…Read more
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3The Public Interest: Clarifying a Legal ConceptRatio Juris 37 (2): 110-129. 2024.Appeals to the public interest in law are commonplace, but typically made without clarifying what the public interest is and how it can be determined. In law, this has led to ad hoc applications of the public interest and, consequently, to “judicial idiosyncrasy,” posing a threat to legal certainty. This paper aims to remedy these problems by providing much‐needed conceptual clarification. It proposes that something is in the public interest if it increases the opportunities of the members of th…Read more
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20The Ethics of WhistleblowingRoutledge. 2019.Following the enormous political, legal, and media interest that has surrounded high profile cases of whistleblowing, such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, the fundamental ethical questions surrounding whistleblowing have often been obscured. In this fascinating book Eric Boot examines the ethical issues at stake in whistleblowing. Can the disclosure of classified government documents ever be justified? If so, how? Why does it require justification in the first place? Can there ever be a d…Read more
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92The Feasibility of a Public Interest Defense for WhistleblowingLaw and Philosophy 39 (1): 1-34. 2020.It is commonly stated, by both whistleblower protection laws and political philosophers, that a breach of state secrecy by disclosing classified documents is justified if it serves the public interest. The problem with this defense of justified whistleblowing, however, is that the operative term – the public interest – is all too often left unclarified. This is problematic, because it leaves potential whistleblowers without sufficient certainty that their disclosures will be covered by the defen…Read more
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7Problematische aspecten van Kants plichtenleerAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 114 (2): 179-183. 2022.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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51Obligatory Whistleblowing: Civil Servants and the Complicity-Based Obligation to Disclose Government WrongdoingJournal of Moral Philosophy 16 (2): 131-159. 2019.
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31No Right to Classified Public WhistleblowingRatio Juris 31 (1): 70-85. 2018.Given the crucial role unauthorized disclosures can play in uncovering grave government wrongdoing, it makes sense to search for a defense of justified cases of what I call “classified public whistleblowing.” The question that concerns me is what form such a defense should take. The main claim will be a negative one, namely, that a defense of whistleblowing cannot be based on individual rights, be they legal or moral, though this is indeed the most commonly proposed defense. In closing, I will o…Read more
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85Leaks and the Limits of Press FreedomEthical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2): 483-500. 2019.Political philosophical work on whistleblowing has thus far neglected the role of journalists. A curious oversight, given that the whistleblower’s objective - informing the public about government wrongdoing - can typically not be realized without the media. The present article, therefore, aims to start remedying this neglect by exploring some of the most pressing questions. Accordingly, the paper will be structured as follows: Section 1 will explain why the authorities have treated whistleblowe…Read more
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7Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights DiscourseSpringer Verlag. 2017.This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality. The dominance of what has been labeled “rights talk” leads to the neglect of duties without corresponding rights and stimulates the proliferation of questionable human rights. Therefore, this book argues for a duty-based perspective on morality in order to, first, salvage duties of virtue, and, second, counter the trend of rights-proliferation by providing some conceptual clarity concerning rights and duties that will en…Read more
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21Emanuela Ceva and Michele Bocchiola: Is Whistleblowing a Duty?: Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019 (ISBN: 978-1509529650) (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (3): 867-869. 2021.
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10Emanuela Ceva and Michele Bocchiola: Is Whistleblowing a Duty?: Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019 (ISBN: 978-1509529650) (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (3): 867-869. 2021.
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20Classified Public WhistleblowingSocial Theory and Practice 43 (3): 541-567. 2017.Though whistleblowing is quickly becoming an accepted means of addressing wrongdoing, whistleblower protection laws and the relevant case law are either awkwardly silent, unclear or mutually inconsistent concerning public disclosures of classified government information. I remedy this problem by first arguing that such disclosures constitute a pro tanto wrong as they violate (1) promissory obligations, (2) role obligations and (3) the obligation to respect the democratic allocation of power. How…Read more
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Two Contentious DutiesIn Eric R. Boot (ed.), Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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IntroductionIn Eric R. Boot (ed.), Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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Kant and the Independence of Right and VirtueEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 16 (3): 395-422. 2017.This paper aims to clarify how Kant understood the relation between the two spheres of morals. Did he, as O’Neill claims, acknowledge the need for civic virtue as necessary for maintaining a liberal state? Or did he take the opposite view that citizens’ virtuous dispositions are irrelevant and that all that matters is the justice of institutions? Though The Metaphysics of Morals gives the impression that Kant shared the latter position, I will argue that, in fact, Kant held a position somewhere …Read more
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Duties to the Community and Civic VirtueIn Eric R. Boot (ed.), Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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Subsistence Needs and Individual DutiesIn Eric R. Boot (ed.), Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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4Kant and the In(ter)dependence of Right and VirtueEthic@: An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 16 (3). 2017.This paper aims to clarify how Kant understood the relation between the two spheres of morals (Right and virtue). Did he, as O’Neill claims, acknowledge the need for civic virtue as necessary for maintaining a liberal state? Or did he take the opposite view (shared by many contemporary liberals) that citizens’ virtuous dispositions are irrelevant and that all that matters is the justice of institutions? Though The Metaphysics of Morals gives the impression that Kant shared the latter position, I…Read more