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18.1 The concept of agent responsibilityIn Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and distributive justice, Oxford University Press Uk. 2011.
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449Why Left‐Libertarianism Is Not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant: A Reply to FriedPhilosophy and Public Affairs 33 (2): 201-215. 2005.In a recent review essay of a two volume anthology on left-libertarianism (edited by two of us), Barbara Fried has insightfully laid out most of the core issues that confront left-libertarianism. We are each left-libertarians, and we would like to take this opportunity to address some of the general issues that she raises. We shall focus, as Fried does much of the time, on the question of whether left-libertarianism is a well-defined and distinct alternative to existing forms of liberal egalita…Read more
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5Self‐ownership, Begetting, and Germline InformationIn Justine Burley & John Harris (eds.), A Companion to Genethics, Blackwell. 2004.The prelims comprise: Introduction The Self‐ownership Paradox Solving the Paradox Acknowledgments.
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7Four. Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical LiberalismIn David Lee Miller & Sohail H. Hashmi (eds.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, Princeton University Press. pp. 79-88. 2002.
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16Disputed land claims: a response to Weatherson and to Bou-Habib and OlsarettiAnalysis 66 (3): 248-255. 2006.
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42Rational RightsAnalyse & Kritik 17 (1): 3-11. 1995.A rational moral code must satisfy the condition of completeness. This same condition applies to a set of moral rights, where it takes the form of requiring that all the rights in that set be compossible: that their respective correlatively entailed duties be jointly fulfillable. Such joint fulfillability is guaranteed only by a set of fully differentiated individual domains. And if moral rights are to play any independent role in moral reasoning - any role logically independent of the values th…Read more
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180Disputed land claims: A response to Weatherson and to bou-Habib and OlsarettiAnalysis 66 (3). 2006.In a paper published in this journal we proposed a method for resolving disputed land claims between two parties (Steiner and Wolff: 2003). In essence the proposal is to hold an auction between the disputants in which the land is given to the higher bidder, but the receipts of the auction to the under-bidder. We claimed that under such circumstances both parties can walk away happy: the higher bidder happy to pay the price bid for the land; the under-bidder happier to have the receipts of the au…Read more
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43Ancestors and DescendantsJournal of Applied Philosophy. forthcoming.This article explores the implications of responsibility‐sensitive justice for one set of intergenerational rights and duties. It focuses on the distinctive set of rights and duties, pertaining to procreation and parenting, that can be derived from Left Libertarianism's foundational entitlements. Broadly speaking, those implied rights and duties are such that all children's ability levels should be of equal value at the threshold of adulthood.
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1May Lockean Doughnuts Have Holes? The Geometry of Territorial Jurisdiction: A Response to NinePolitical Studies 56 (4): 949-956. 2008.The traditional Lockean account of a state's territorial rights construes them as arising from, and coextensive with, the property rights of whichever set of landowners mutually contract to form that state. The coherence of this individualistic account has recently been challenged by Cara Nine. I argue that the reasons offered in support of that incoherence charge are unpersuasive.
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53Exploitation, intentionality and injusticeEconomics and Philosophy 34 (3): 369-379. 2018.:This paper argues that, inasmuch as exploitation is a form of injustice, exploitative acts need not be performed intentionally.
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5X*—Duty-Free ZonesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96 (1): 231-244. 1996.Hillel Steiner; X*—Duty-Free Zones, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 231–244, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelia.
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HOLLIS, M. and NELL, E. "Rational Economic Man: A Philosophical Critique of Neo-Classical Economics" (review)Mind 86 (n/a): 614. 1977.
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3On Obler, "Fear, Prohibition and Liberty" (Volume 9, No. 1, February 1981Political Theory 9 (4): 571-572. 1981.
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29The just provision of health care: a reply to Elizabeth TelferJournal of Medical Ethics 2 (4): 185-189. 1976.Dr Hillel Steiner in this reply to Elizabeth Telfer takes each of her arguments for different arrangements of a health service and examines them--'four positions which can be located on a linear ideological spectrum'--and adds a fifth which could have the effect of 'turning the alleged linear spectrum into a circle'. Underlying both Elizabeth Telfer's article and Dr Steiner's reply, the base is inescapably a 'political' one, but cannot be abandoned in favour of purely philosophical concepts. Wha…Read more
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839An essay on rightsBlackwell. 1994.This book addresses the perennial question: What is justice?
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52Liberalism and NationalismAnalyse & Kritik 17 (1): 12-20. 1995.Historically, liberal political philosophy has had much to say about who is entitled to nationhood. But it has had rather less to say about how to determine the legitimate territorial boundaries of nations and even less to say about what some such nations, so situated, might owe to others. The object of this paper is to show that the foundational principles of liberalism can generate reasonably determinate solutions to these problems. That is, the very same set of basic rights that liberalism as…Read more
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775Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational JusticeIn Axel Gosseries & Lukas Meyer (eds.), Justice Between Generations, Oxford University Press. 2009.Justice and Libertarianism The term ‘justice’ is commonly used in several different ways. Sometimes it designates the moral permissibility of political structures (such as legal systems). Sometimes it designates moral fairness (as opposed to efficiency or other considerations that are relevant to moral permissibility). Sometimes it designates legitimacy in the sense of it being morally impermissible for others to interfere forcibly with the act or omission (e.g., my failing to go to dinner with …Read more
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38How Free: Computing Personal LibertyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 15 73-89. 1983.Judgments about the extent to which an individual is free are easily among the more intractable of the various raw materials which present themselves for philosophical processing. On the one hand, few of us have any qualms about making statements to the effect that Blue is more free than Red. Explicitly or otherwise, such claims are the commonplaces of most history textbooks and of much that passes before us in the news media. And yet, good evidence for the presence of a philosophical puzzle her…Read more
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64The right to trade in human body partsIn Jonathan Seglow (ed.), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, F. Cass Publishers. pp. 187-193. 2002.This essay challenges the coherence of arguments brought in support of prohibiting the sale of human body parts. Considerations of neither social utility nor individual rights nor avoidance of exploitation seem sufficient to ground such a prohibition. Indeed, they may be sufficient to invalidate it
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