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32Luck Egalitarianism and COVID-19: The Case for Compensating Children for School ClosuresStudies in Philosophy and Education 42 (1): 65-81. 2023.The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in school closures around the world, leaving lasting negative impacts on many children. Given that such closures are justified public health measures, this raises the question of compensating children for school closures. In this article I address the question of compensation from the perspective of a popular theory of justice: luck egalitarianism. In doing so, I examine a problem with applying luck egalitarianism to children, called the agency assumption. I then a…Read more
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21An Uncertainty Argument for the Identified Victim BiasJournal of Applied Philosophy 39 (3): 504-518. 2022.Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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17‘Take the Pill, It Is Only Fair’! Contributory Fairness as an Answer to Rose’s Prevention ParadoxPublic Health Ethics 14 (3): 221-232. 2021.One proposal to significantly reduce cardiovascular disease is the idea of administering a ‘polypill’—a combination of drugs that reduce the risk of heart disease and carry few side effects—to everyone over the age of 55. Despite their promise, population strategies like the polypill have not been well-accepted. In this article, I defend the polypill by appealing to fairness. The argument focuses on the need to fairly distribute the costs to individuals. While the fact that population strategies…Read more
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26The Sufficientarian Alternative: A Commentary on Setting Health-Care PrioritiesDiametros 18 (68): 46-59. 2020.In this commentary on Torbjörn Tännsjö’s Setting Health-Care Priorities, I argue that sufficientarianism provides a valuable perspective in considering how to set health care priorities. I claim that pace Tännsjö, sufficientarianism does offer a distinct alternative to prioritarianism. To demonstrate this, I introduce sufficientarianism and distinguish two forms: Tännsjö’s “weak sufficientarianism” and an alternative strong form of sufficientarianism that I call “revised lexical sufficientariani…Read more
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