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52Prenatal Equality of OpportunityJournal of Applied Philosophy 32 (1): 35-49. 2014.In this article, we defend a normative theory of prenatal equality of opportunity, based on a critical revision of Rawls's principle of fair equality of opportunity . We argue that if natural endowments are defined as biological properties possessed at birth and the distribution of natural endowments is seen as beyond the scope of justice, Rawls's FEO allows for inequalities that undermine the social conditions of a property-owning democracy. We show this by considering the foetal programming of…Read more
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46Which Dimensions Should Matter for Capabilities? A Constitutional ApproachEthics and Social Welfare 8 (3): 233-247. 2014.status: published.
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45Sridhar Venkatapuram's Health Justice: A Collection of Critical Essays and A Response from the AuthorBioethics 30 (1): 2-4. 2015.ABSTRACT One of the most ambitious and sophisticated recent approaches to provide a theory of global health justice is Sridhar Venkatapuram's recent work. In this commentary, we first outline the core idea of Venkatapuram's approach to global health justice. We then argue that one of the most important elements of the account, Venkatapuram's basis of global health duties, is either too weak or assumed implicitly without a robust justification. The more explicit grounding of the duty to protect a…Read more
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45Not by Bread Alone: Inequality, Relative Deprivation, and Self RespectPhilosophical Topics 40 (1): 79-96. 2012.Inequality causes a variety of social ills, which give egalitarians reasons for concerns of justice. In particular, inequality is deemed to undermine people’s fundamental moral capacity of self-respect. In this paper, we explore the complex relationship between inequality and self-respect from a philosophical and an empirical angle, arguing that a theory of justice should take both into account. To this purpose, we first clarify the normative objection to inequality from the alleged erosion of s…Read more
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44Global equality of opportunity and self-determination in the context of immigrationCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (6): 726-735. 2017.© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. David Miller’s political philosophy of immigration employs two complementary argumentative strategies to challenge open border theories. The first strategy is to defeat the principled case for open borders, such as the global equality of opportunity argument for more lax immigration control. The second strategy is to establish the democratic community’s prima facie right to determine the shape of its future, including membership and t…Read more
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35The Right to Exclude and the Duty to Include: Self-determination, Equal Opportunity, and ImmigrationJournal of Moral Philosophy 20 (5-6): 483-511. 2023.The immigration debate in political theory has produced a series of accounts that justify the state’s right to exclude potential immigrants, where the right of self-determination figures prominently. We challenge two prominent accounts of the self-determination-based right to exclude and defend a circumscribed right to exclude and a corollary duty to admit immigrants, based on our ‘people relationship goods’ account of self-determination. Our conception reconciles the moral claims of global oppo…Read more
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33Humanity and Justice in Global Health: Problems with Venkatapuram's Justification of the Global Health DutyBioethics 30 (1): 41-48. 2015.One of the most ambitious and sophisticated recent approaches to provide a theory of global health justice is Sridhar Venkatapuram's recent work. In this commentary, we first outline the core idea of Venkatapuram's approach to global health justice. We then argue that one of the most important elements of the account, Venkatapuram's basis of global health duties, is either too weak or assumed implicitly without a robust justification. The more explicit grounding of the duty to protect and promot…Read more
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23What is wrong with the emergency justification of compulsory medical service?Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 560-561. 2017.Michael Blake holds that liberal states are precluded from introducing compulsory medical service to improve access to health care under conditions of critical health worker shortage. "Emergency circumstances" are the only exception when the suspension of liberty may be justified. I argue that there are three problems with Blake's emergency justification of compulsory service. First, his concept of emergency is vague. Second, his account does not really rely on emergency as much as liberty. Thir…Read more
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21From surplus fairness to prospect fairness: Why a deeply egalitarian social union is indispensable for a free EuropeEuropean Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 503-514. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 503-514, June 2022.
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17Symposium on Brain Drain: The Merits and Limits of Furthering Normative Solutions in Source CountriesMoral Philosophy and Politics 3 (1): 1-5. 2016.status: published.
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15Women's Bodies and Global Poverty EradicationGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 8 (1). 2015.
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14Introduction: Voluntariness and MigrationEthics and International Affairs 37 (4): 401-405. 2023.The concept of voluntariness permeates the ethics and politics of migration and is commonly used to distinguish refugees from migrants. Yet, neither the precise nature and conditions of voluntariness nor its ethical significance for migrant rights and state obligations has received enough attention. The articles in this collection move the debate forward by demonstrating the complex ethical judgments involved in delineating voluntary from forced migration and in drawing out its political and ins…Read more
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12Ethics and Policy of Medical Brain Drain: A ReviewSwiss Medical Weekly 143 1-8. 2013.Health-worker migration, commonly called "medical brain drain", refers to the mass migration of trained and skilled health professionals from low-income to high-income countries. This is currently leaving a significant number of poor countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, with critical staff shortages in the healthcare sector. A broad consensus exists that, where medical brain drain exacerbates such shortages, it is unethical, and this review presents the main arguments underpinning this…Read more
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8The Distinction Between Taxation and Public Service in the Debate on EmigrationLaw, Ethics and Philosophy 4 109-118. 2016.status: published.
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6Women’s Bodies and Global Poverty EradicationGlobal Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 8 (1). 2015.n/a
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