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446Structural Injustice and the Place of AttachmentJournal of Practical Ethics 5 (1): 1-21. 2017.Reflection on the historical injustice suffered by many formerly colonized groups has left us with a peculiar account of their claims to material objects. One important upshot of that account, relevant to present day justice, is that many people seem to think that members of indigenous groups have special claims to the use of particular external objects by virtue of their attachment to them. In the first part of this paper I argue against that attachment-based claim. In the second part I suggest…Read more
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314Associative Duties, Global Justice, and the ColoniesPhilosophy and Public Affairs 37 (2): 103-135. 2009.No Abstract
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252Justice in migration: A closed borders utopia?Journal of Political Philosophy 16 (4): 391-418. 2008.No Abstract
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187Structural Injustice, Epistemic Opacity, and the Responsibilities of the OppressedJournal of Social Philosophy 50 (1): 7-27. 2019.
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186Language and luckPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 11 (4): 357-381. 2012.In this article, we examine how language and linguistic membership might feature in luck egalitarianism, what a luck-egalitarian theory of linguistic justice would look like, and, finally, what the emphasis on language teaches us about the validity of standard luck-egalitarian assumptions. We show that belonging to one language group rather than another is a morally arbitrary feature and that where membership of a specific linguistic group affects individual chances, the effects of such bad brut…Read more
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183A Permissive Theory of Territorial RightsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 22 (2): 288-312. 2012.This article explores the justification of states' territorial rights. It starts by introducing three questions that all current theories of territorial rights attempt to answer: how to justify the right to settle, the right to exclude, and the right to settle and exclude with reference to a particular territory. It proposes a ‘permissive’ theory of territorial rights, arguing that the citizens of each state are entitled to the particular territory they collectively occupy, if and only if they a…Read more
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163Finding its Way between Realism and Utopia: Global Justice in Theory and Practice: Brock, Gillian. 2009. Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 288 pp. Brock, Gillian, and Moellendorf, Darrel . 2005. Current Debates in Global Justice. Dordrecht: Springer, 305 ppRes Publica 17 (2): 193-202. 2011.
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153Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.Written by an international team of leading political and legal theory scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping the field, Migration in Political Theory presents seminal new work on the ethics of movement and membership. The volume addresses challenging and under-researched themes on the subject of migration, and debates the question of whether we ought to recognize a human right to immigrate, and whether it might be legitimate to restrict emigration. The authors critically examine cr…Read more
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152On the Confusion between Ideal and Non-ideal in Recent Debates on Global JusticePolitical Studies 58 (3). 2010.
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133Democratic dictatorship: Political legitimacy in Marxist perspectiveEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 277-291. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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132Natura daedala rerum? On the Justification of Historical Progress in Kant’s ‘Guarantee of Perpetual Peace'Kantian Review 14 (2): 103-135. 2010.This article analyses the teleological argument justifying historical progress in Kant's Guarantee of Perpetual Peace. It starts by examining the controversies produced by Kant's claim that the teleology of nature supports the idea of a providential development of humanity towards moral progress and the possibility of achieving a cosmopolitan political constitution. It further illustrates how Kant's teleological argument in Perpetual Peace needs to be assessed with reference to two systematicall…Read more
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127Sovereignty, Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of European Foreign PolicyEuropean Journal of Political Theory 7 (3): 349-364. 2008.This article explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty as a means to conceptualize the ethics of European foreign policy. It starts by discussing the claim that, in order for the EU to play a meaningful role as an international actor, a definition of the common ethical values orienting its political conduct is required. The question of a European federation of states and its ethical conceptualization emerges clearly in some of the philosophical writings of the 17th and 18th c…Read more
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125Territorial Rights and ExclusionPhilosophy Compass 8 (3): 241-253. 2013.Is it possible to justify territorial rights? Provided a justification for territorial rights can be found, does it ground claims toparticularterritories? And provided a claim to particular territories can be justified, what kind of claim is it? Is it a claim to jurisdiction? A claim to control resources? A claim to control the movement of people across borders? In this paper I review some prominent accounts seeking to answer these questions. After outlining their main features, I focus on some …Read more
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117Self-ownership and the state: A democratic critiqueRatio 24 (1): 91-106. 2011.Libertarians often invoke the principle of self-ownership to discredit distributive interventions authorized by the more-than-minimal state. But if one takes a democratic approach to the justification of ownership claims, including claims of ownership over oneself, the validity of the self-ownership principle is theoretically inseparable from the normative justification of the state. Since the idea of the state is essential to the very assertion (not just the positive enforcement) of the princip…Read more
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106On Revolution in Kant and MarxPolitical Theory 42 (3): 262-287. 2014.This essay compares the thoughts of Kant and Marx on revolution. It focuses in particular on two issues: the contribution of revolutionary enthusiasm to the cause of emancipatory political agents and its educative role in illustrating the possibility of progress for future generations. In both cases, it is argued, the defence of revolution is offered in the context of illustrating the possibility of moral progress for the species, even if not for individual human beings, and brings out the centr…Read more
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94Justice and morality beyond naïve cosmopolitanismEthics and Global Politics 3 (3): 171-192. 2010.Many cosmopolitans link their moral defence of specific principles of justice to a critique of the normative standing of states. This article explores some conceptual distinctions between morality and justice by focusing on the nature of claims they entail, the obligations they generate and the distribution of agency that they require. It then draws out some implications of these distinctions so as to illustrate how states play a non-arbitrary role in the process of both rendering determinate th…Read more
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77From Revelation to Revolution: The Critique of Religion in Kant and MarxKantian Review 22 (4): 661-681. 2017.This article examines Kant’s and Marx’s analysis of religion in its relation to human emancipation. It highlights some important affinities in their accounts of human nature and their critique of religious authority including: the emphasis on freedom as distinguishing human beings from other species, the relation between moral and political progress, the critique of revealed religion, the role of political community and the importance of ethical community to achieve moral emancipation.
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64IX—The Transcendental Deduction of Ideas in Kant’s Critique of Pure ReasonProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (2): 163-185. 2017.
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58Review of Anna Stilz, Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.
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57Kant and HegelBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 32 (1-2). 2011.Special issue on Kant and Hegel
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55Taking Workers as a Class: The Moral Dilemmas of Guestworker ProgrammesIn Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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52Borders of Class: Migration and Citizenship in the Capitalist StateEthics and International Affairs 32 (2): 141-152. 2018.
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47Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political AgencyOxford University Press. 2011.Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency offers a fresh, nuanced example of political theory in an activist mode. Setting the debate on global justice in the context of recent methodological disputes on the relationship between ideal and nonideal theorizing, Ypi's dialectical account shows how principles and agency really can interact
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43Public spaces and the end of artPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (8): 843-860. 2012.This article contributes to studies in democratic theory and civic engagement by critically reflecting on the role of contemporary art for the transformation of the public sphere. It begins with a short assessment of the role of art during the Enlightenment, when the communicative function and the public role of art were most clearly articulated. It refers in particular to the analogies between aesthetic and political judgement in order to understand the emancipatory role of artistic production …Read more
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39The owl of Minerva only flies at dusk, but to where? A reply to criticsEthics and Global Politics 6 (2): 117-134. 2013.The quote that inspires a part of my title will be familiar to most readers. In the concluding paragraphs of the Preface to his Philosophy of Right, Hegel examines the role of philosophy in prescribing principles on how the world ought to be. ‘When philosophy paints its grey in grey’, Hegel writes, citing a part of Goethe’s Faust,'A shape of life has grown old, and it cannot be rejuvenated, but only recognized by the grey in grey of philosophy; the owl of Minerva begins its flight only when the …Read more
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36Irregular Migration, Historical Injustice and the Right to ExcludeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 91 169-183. 2022.This paper makes the case for amnesty of irregular migrants by reflecting on the conditions under which a wrong that is done in the past can be considered superseded. It explores the relation between historical injustice and irregular migration and suggests that we should hold states to the same stringent standards of compliance with just norms that they apply to the assessment of the moral conduct of individual migrants. It concludes that those standards ought to orient migrants and citizens’ m…Read more
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35Political Membership in the Contractarian Defence of CosmopolitanismThe Review of Politics 70 (3). 2008.
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Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |