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    Capabilities and health
    Journal of Medical Ethics 31 (5): 299-303. 2005.
    Sen’s capabilities approach offers a radical generalisation of the conventional approach to welfare economics. It has been highly influential in development and many researchers are now beginning to explore its implications for health care. This paper contributes to the emerging debate by discussing two examples of such applications: first, at the individual decision making level, namely the right to die, and second, at the social choice level. For the first application, which draws on Nussbaum’…Read more
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    Markets, Governance and Human Development
    with Miriam des GasperTeschl
    Revue de Philosophie Économique 11 (1): 3. 2010.
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    How to theorize about subjective language: a lesson from ‘de re’
    Linguistics and Philosophy 45 (3): 619-681. 2022.
    Subjective language has attracted substantial attention in the recent literature in formal semantics and philosophy of language Subjective meaning: alternatives to relativism, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp 1–19, 2016; Lasersohn in Subjectivity and perspective in truth-theoretic semantics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017; Vardomskaya in Sources of subjectivity, Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago, IL, 2018; Zakkou in Faultless disagreement: a defense of contextualism in the realm of personal taste…Read more
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    New Frontiers of the Capability Approach (edited book)
    with Flavio Comim and Shailaja Fennell
    Cambridge University Press. 2018.
    For over three decades, the capability approach proposed and developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum has had a distinct impact on development theories and approaches because it goes beyond an economic conception of development and engages with the normative aspects of development. This book explores the new frontiers of the capability approach and its links to human development in three main areas. First, it delves into the philosophical foundations of the approach, re-examining its links t…Read more