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58Libertarian theories of intergenerational justiceIn Axel Gosseries & Lukas H. Meyer (eds.), Intergenerational Justice, 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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94Left-libertarianism and liberty forthcoming in debates in political philosophyIn Thomas Christiano & John Christman (eds.), Debates in Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2009.I shall formulate and motivate a left-libertarian theory of justice. Like the more familiar rightlibertarianism, it holds that agents initially fully own themselves. Unlike right-libertarianism, it holds that natural resources belong to everyone in some egalitarian manner. Left-libertarianism is, I claim, a plausible version of liberal egalitarianism because it is suitably sensitive to considerations of liberty, security, and equality.
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Moral RightsIn David Copp (ed.), The Oxford handbook of ethical theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.This chapter explores the nature of moral rights by examining their formal structure, their status within morality, and rival theories concerning their content. Moral rights are construed as ones which legal systems ought to embody. As such, it is argued that consideration of the possibility of conflicts between rights and other moral values, and among rights themselves, serves to illuminate issues surrounding their content and moral status.
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Moral RightsIn David Copp (ed.), The Oxford handbook of ethical theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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18.1 The concept of agent responsibilityIn Carl Knight & Zofia Stemplowska (eds.), Responsibility and distributive justice, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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165Why 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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6Self‐ownership, Begetting, and Germline InformationIn Justine Burley & John Harris (eds.), A Companion to Genethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Introduction The Self‐ownership Paradox Solving the Paradox Acknowledgments.
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8Four. 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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43Rational 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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104Disputed 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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55Exploitation, 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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163Calibrating EvilThe Monist 85 (2): 183-193. 2002.“This one,” she said, pointing at a chocolate in the box she was handing to me, “is absolutely evil.” And she was right or, at least, half-right: I’ve never tasted chocolate like that before, or since. Should I refrain from doing so?
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