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24How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 CrisisKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 30 (3): 215-242. 2020.Sovereign is he who provides the exception.…The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.In spring 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, world leaders imposed severe restrictions on citizens’ civil, political, and economic liberties. These restrictions went beyond less controversial and less demanding social distanc…Read more
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18If You’re an Egalitarian, You Shouldn’t be so RichThe Journal of Ethics 1-15. forthcoming.G.A. Cohen famously claims that egalitarians shouldn’t be so rich. If you possess excess income and there is little chance that the state will redistribute it to the poor, you are obligated to donate it yourself. We argue that this conclusion is correct, but that the case against the rich egalitarian is significantly stronger than the one Cohen offers. In particular, the standard arguments against donating one’s excess income face two critical, unrecognized problems. First, we show that these ar…Read more
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2An Ethical Assessment of Actual Voter BehaviorIn David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 201-214. 2018.This chapter investigates three basic questions concerning the ethics of voting: is there a duty to vote? Are there moral obligations regulating how one ought to vote? How well do most voters meet these obligations? I argue the answers are, in order: no, yes, and badly.
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6The Ethics ProjectJournal of Business Ethics Education 15 285-302. 2018.This paper describes the “Ethics Project”, a semester-long entrepreneurial activity in which students must make real-life decisions and then reflect upon their decisions. The Ethics Project asks students to think of something good to do, something that adds value to the world, and then do it. Along the way, they must navigate problems of opportunity cost or feasibility versus desirability, must anticipate and overcome strategic and ethical obstacles, and must ensure they add value, taking into a…Read more
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20Against the Moral Powers Test of basic libertyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 492-505. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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41In Our Best Interest: A Defense of PaternalismPhilosophical Quarterly 69 (276): 636-638. 2019.In Our Best Interest: A Defense of Paternalism. Edited by Hanna Jason.
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28The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 84 109-110. 2019.
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1BibliographyIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 251-258. 2019.
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7Chapter 3. The Government Authority Argument for Special ImmunityIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 60-92. 2019.
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NotesIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 239-250. 2019.
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IndexIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 259-270. 2019.
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7Chapter 5. Just Say No: The Ethics of Following Unjust OrdersIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 126-154. 2019.
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18FrontmatterIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. 2019.
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5AcknowledgmentsIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. 2019.
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3Chapter 1. Resistance: The Fourth OptionIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-27. 2019.
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2Chapter 7. Vigilante Justices: What Judges Should Do in Response to Unjust LawIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 181-205. 2019.
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1Chapter 8. Must You Resist? Some Closing ThoughtsIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 206-238. 2019.
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4ContentsIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. 2019.
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12Chapter 2. Defensive Ethics: The General FrameworkIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 28-59. 2019.
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2Chapter 6. Lying with Intent to SabotageIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 155-180. 2019.
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8When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State InjusticePrinceton University Press. 2019.
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Chapter 4. Other General Arguments for Special ImmunityIn When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, Princeton University Press. pp. 93-125. 2019.
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116How Smart is Democracy? You Can't Answer that Question a PrioriCritical Review 26 (1-2): 33-58. 2014.ABSTRACTHélène Landemore claims that under certain conditions, democracies with universal suffrage will tend to make smarter and better decisions than epistocracies, even though most citizens in modern democracies are extremely ignorant about politics. However, there is ample empirical evidence that citizens make systematic errors. If so, it is fatal to Landemore's defense of democracy, which, if it works at all, applies only to highly idealized situations that are unlikely to occur in the real …Read more
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