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6Human rights as human independence: a philosophical and legal interpretationUniversity of Pennsylvania Press. 2022.Human Rights as Human Independence offers a comprehensive, systematic, and complete account of the nature, content, and scope of human rights to be used to interpret international documents and make informed decisions about how human rights practice must continue in the years to come.
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18Colonialism and rights supersession: a Kant-inspired perspectiveCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (3): 331-346. 2022.
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11Por qué Una Concepción restrictiva de la razón pública Viola la neutralidad estatalIsonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía Del Derecho 30. 2009.La tesis central de este artículo es que la concepción de la razón pública propuesta por John Rawls, incluso en su versión “inclusiva”, es demasiado restrictiva y viola el principio liberal de legitimidad y la tesis de la neutralidad del estado, que constituyen elementos centrales de la teoría política de Rawls y del liberalismo político en general. Finalmente, se propone una concepción alternativa de la razón pública liberal, centrada únicamente en un deber básico de civilidad, el deber de reci…Read more
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6Do Affluent Countries Violate the Human Rights of the Global Poor?Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 3. 2014.In this article I consider Thomas Pogge’s thesis that affluent countries are violating the human rights of the global poor by contributing support to the current global institutional order. My claim is that affluent countries are not violating the human rights of the global poor in the ways suggested by Pogge. I start by defining a set of conditions that ought to obtain in order to say that a human rights violation has taken place. Then I consider two possible interpretations of Pogge’s thesis a…Read more
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7Do Affluent Countries Violate the Human Rights of the Global Poor?Global Justice Theory Practice Rhetoric 3 22-41. 2010.In this article I consider Thomas Pogge’s thesis that affluent countries are violating the human rights of the global poor by contributing support to the current global institutional order. My claim is that affluent countries are not violating the human rights of the global poor in the ways suggested by Pogge. I start by defining a set of conditions that ought to obtain in order to say that a human rights violation has taken place. Then I consider two possible interpretations of Pogge’s thesis a…Read more
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14Is the State-Centric Conception of Human Rights Suitable for a Globalized World? A Response to Cristina LafontRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofía Política 2 (1). 2013.In her article “Human Rights and the Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions” published in this volume of RLPF, Cristina Lafont argues that in order to impose human rights obligations to global governance institutions, the state-centric conception of human rights that pervades current international politics must be replaced by an alternative, pluralist account. In this response I claim that, when properly interpreted, the state-centric conception is not only perfectly compatible with imposi…Read more
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4¿Pueden los derechos naturales hacer alguna contribución a la filosofía de los derechos humanos?Critica 48 (144): 61-88. 2016.Durante décadas, los filósofos han concebido los derechos humanos como una clase de derechos naturales de los que gozamos por el mero hecho de ser seres humanos. Sin embargo, esta interpretación ha sido severamente cuestionada en los últimos años. Toda una familia de autores, identificados con una concepción “práctico-dependiente”, asevera que los derechos humanos constituyen una práctica sui generis completamente ajena a la tradición del derecho natural. En contra de esta postura, este artículo…Read more
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9Do Affluent Countries Violate the Human Rights of the Global Poor?Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 3 22-41. 2010.In this article I consider Thomas Pogge’s thesis that affluent countries are violating the human rights of the global poor by contributing support to the current global institutional order. My claim is that affluent countries are not violating the human rights of the global poor in the ways suggested by Pogge. I start by defining a set of conditions that ought to obtain in order to say that a human rights violation has taken place. Then I consider two possible interpretations of Pogge’s thesis a…Read more
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32Human Rights, Personal Responsibility, and Human Dignity: What Are Our Moral Duties to Promote the Universal Realization of Human Rights?Human Rights Review 18 (1): 67-85. 2017.According to the orthodox or humanist conception of human rights, individuals have a moral duty to promote the universal realization of human rights. However, advocates of this account express the implications of this duty in extremely vague terms. What does it mean when we say that we must promote human rights satisfaction? Does it mean that we must devote a considerable amount of our time and resources to this task? Does it mean, instead, that we must make occasional donations to charities wor…Read more
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38International Human Rights Obligations within the States System: The Avoidance AccountJournal of Political Philosophy 25 (4): 19-39. 2017.
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16Human rights, international human rights, and sovereign political authority: a draft model for understanding contemporary human rightsEthics and Global Politics 7 (4). 2014.
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1Agenda 21 dentro del sistema educativo de los centros. Reorientación de la educación hacia el desarrollo sostenibleContrastes: Revista Cultural 40 71-74. 2005.
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¿Es la pobreza global un problema de derechos humanos? Lo que el argumento cosmopolita no puede probarRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 33 (2): 223-246. 2007.
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Por qué una concepción restrictiva de la razón pública viola la neutralidad estatal: una crítica interna al liberalismo políticoIsonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía Del Derecho 30 101-116. 2009.
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Democracia deliberativa y legitimidad política: Un argumento a favor de la concepción abierta de la razón públicaRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 31 (1): 121-142. 2005.
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30Global deprivation—whose duties? Some problems with the contribution principleMetaphilosophy 39 (4-5): 612-620. 2008.Abstract: In this brief article, I claim that the Contribution Principle invoked by Christian Barry as a key principle for determining who owes what to the global destitute is mistaken as a definitive principle and unjustified as a provisional principle for dealing with global poverty. This principle assumes that merely causing, or contributing to the cause of, a state of affairs may be sufficient to have a special responsibility to bear the costs that this state of affairs entails. I argue that…Read more
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30Derechos humanos: estatistas, no cosmopolitasIsegoría 49 459-480. 2013.La visión imperante en el derecho internacional actual concibe los derechos humanos como normas relativas al trato que los Estados brindan a su propia población. Esta posición, que se conoce como la “perspectiva estatista” sobre los derechos humanos, es actualmente resistida por varios autores. En este artículo intentaré defender la perspectiva estatista contra una serie de críticas recientemente formuladas por Cristina Lafont en Isegoría y en otras importantes revistas especializadas. En partic…Read more
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1Global Poverty, Human Rights and Correlative DutiesCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 22 (1): 79-92. 2009.Does the fact that my actions cause someone to lack access to the objects of her human rights make me a human rights violator? Is behaving in such a way that we deprive someone of access to the objects of her human rights even when we could have avoided behaving in such a way, sufficient to maintain that we have violated her human rights? When an affluent country pursues domestic policies that will foreseeably cause massive deprivation abroad in order to improve its already prosperous economy, h…Read more
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9The Institutional Conception of Human Rights Revisited [Spanish]Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 17 68-91. 2012.En este artículo discuto dos tesis que Thomas Pogge deriva de su concepción institucional de los derechos humanos: la tesis de la culpa y la tesis de la violación global. La tesis de la culpa asevera que los ciudadanos que contribuyen a sostener un régimen institucional que viola derechos humanos sin realizar compensaciones en beneficio de las víctimas, se convierten ellos mismos en violadores de derechos humanos. Por su parte, la tesis de la violación global asevera que al imponer regulaciones …Read more
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37Do Human Rights Derive From Natural Rights? The State of Nature, Political Authority and the Natural Right to IndependencePhilosophical Forum 47 (2): 151-169. 2016.
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23La concepción institucional de los derechos humanos revisadaEidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 17 68-91. 2012.En este artículo discuto dos tesis que Thomas Pogge deriva de su concepción institucional de los derechos humanos: la tesis de la culpa y la tesis de la violación global. La tesis de la culpa asevera que los ciudadanos que contribuyen a sostener un régimen institucional que viola derechos humanos sin realizar compensaciones en beneficio de las víctimas, se convierten ellos mismos en violadores de derechos humanos. Por su parte, la tesis de la violación global asevera que al imponer regulaciones …Read more