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54Climate Justice: A Literary ReviewInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (1): 246-262. 2016.This paper seeks to provide a literary review of advancements in climate change ethics, primarily concerning the issue of climate justice. Through a close examination of three recent books written on this topic, I intend to identify which author’s approach has been the most successful in analyzing the various moral problems associated with climate justice, before elucidating what weaknesses and shortcomings need to be addressed in moving forward. The books examined are The Moral Challenge of Dan…Read more
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32Climate Justice: A Literary ReviewThe Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy, by Darrel Moellendorf. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future, by Dale Jamieson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change, edited by Margaret Alson and Kerri Whittenbury. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013 (review)International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (1): 246-262. 2016.
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11Alan H. Lockwood, Heat Advisory: Protecting Health on a Warming PlanetEnvironmental Values 26 (5): 655-657. 2017.
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12Justice, care, and value: a values-driven theory of care ethicsRoutledge. 2023.In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall advances the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct (and preferable) theory of distributive justice. Advancing the care ethical literature this book defends a vision of society that can best enable such relations to flourish. Specifically, Randall uses breakthrough arguments to propose a values-driven theory of care ethics that identifies good caring relations through classifying the values of care. He argues that such a theory gives us unique a…Read more
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13A Care Ethical Engagement with John Locke on TolerationPhilosophies 7 (3): 49. 2022.Care theorists have yet to outline an account of how the concept of toleration should function in their normative framework. This lack of outline is a notable gap in the literature, particularly for demonstrating whether care ethics can appropriately address cases of moral disagreement within contemporary pluralistic societies; in other words, does care ethics have the conceptual resources to recognize the disapproval that is inherent in an act of toleration while simultaneously upholding the po…Read more
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27A Care Ethical Justification for an Interest Theory of Human RightsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (4): 554-578. 2023.Care ethics is often criticized for being incapable of outlining what responsibilities we have to persons beyond our personal relations, especially toward distant others. This criticism centres on care theorists’ claim that the concerns of morality emerge between people, generated through our relations of interdependent care: it is difficult to see how moral duties can be applied to those with whom we do not forge a relationship. In this article, I respond to this criticism by outlining a care e…Read more
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57Care Ethics and Obligations to Future GenerationsHypatia 34 (3): 527-545. 2019.A dominant area of inquiry within intergenerational ethics concerns how goods ought to be justly distributed between noncontemporaries. Contractualist theories of justice that have broached these discussions have often centered on the concepts of mutual advantage and reciprocal cooperation between rational, self‐interested beings. However, another prominent reason that many in the present feel that they have obligations toward future generations is not due to self‐interested reciprocity, but sim…Read more
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14Wollstonecraft, Mill & Women’s Human Rights by Eileen Hunt Botting: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016Human Rights Review 20 (1): 135-137. 2019.