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Hurley on Justice and Responsibility
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
In Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, Susan Hurley defends a reason-responsive account of responsibility, argues that appeals to responsibility cannot provide a justification or non-trivial specification of brute luck egalitarian ...
Why Left-Libertarianism Isn't Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant: A Reply to Fried
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
Over the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in left-libertarianism, which holds (roughly) that agents fully own themselves and that natural resources (land, minerals, air, etc.) belong to everyone in some ...
Left-Libertarianism as a Promising Form of Liberal Egalitarianism
(Center for Philosophic Exchange SUNY Brockport, 2009)
Left-libertarianism is a theory of justice that is committed to full self-ownership and to an egalitarian sharing of the value of natural resources. It is, I shall suggest, a promising way of capturing the liberal egalitarian ...
Libertarianism and the State
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Classical liberalism emphasizes the importance of individual liberty and contemporary (or welfare) liberalism tends to emphasize some kind of material equality. The best known form of libertarianism—right-libertarianism—is ...
Left-Libertarianism and Private Discrimination
(University of San Diego School of Law, 2007)
Left-libertarianism, like the more familiar right-libertarianism, holds that agents initially fully own themselves. Unlike right-libertarianism, however, it views natural resources as belonging to everyone in some egalitarian ...
Robustness and Conceptual Analysis in Evolutionary Game Theory
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
A variety of robustness objections have been made against evolutionary game theory.
One of these objections alleges that the games used in the underlying model are too
arbitrary and oversimplified to generate a robust ...
George Berkeley's Mathematical Philosophy And The Calculus
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007)
Natural rights and two conceptions of promising
(Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2006)
Does one have an obligation to keep one's promises? I answer this question by distinguishing between two broad conceptions of promising. On the normativized conception of promising, a promise is made when an agent validly ...
Of Mice and Men: Equality and Animals
(Springer Verlag, 2005)
Can material egalitarianism (requiring, for example, the significant promotion of fortune) include animals in domain of the equality requirement? The problem can be illustrated as follows: If equality of wellbeing is what ...
Equality, Efficiency, and the Priority of the Worse Off
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Egalitarian theories of justice hold that equality should be promoted. Typically, perfect equality will not be achievable, and it will be necessary to determine which of various unequal distributions is the most equal. All ...
Broome on Moral Goodness and Population Ethics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
In an earlier book, Weighing Goods , John Broome gave a sophisticated defense of utilitarianism for the cases involving a fixed population. In the present book, Weighing Lives, he extends this defense to variable population ...
Brute Luck, Option Luck, And Equality Of Initial Opportunities
(University of Chicago, 2002)
In the old days, material egalitarians tended to favor equality of outcome advantage, on some suitable conception of advantage (happiness, resources, etc.). Under the influence of Dworkin's seminal articles on equality , ...
Choice Versus Autonomy in the GM Food Labeling Debate
(AgBioForum, 2003)
Commentary to and criticism of the article "Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods: Does It Really Provide Consumer Choice?," by Carter and Gruere.
The Great Moral Tragedy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2009)
According to John Dewey, “The separation of warm emotion and cool intelligence is the great moral tragedy,” (238). For when it comes to morality, this “cool intelligence” is trusted to stand alone. The legitimacy of reason ...
The Difference Between Thinking and Action: the Failings of the Moral Resources
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008)
Back to the Garden
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008)
Initiating Coordination
(Philosophy of Science, 2007)
How do rational agents coordinate in a single-stage, noncooperative game? Common knowledge of the payoff matrix and of each player's utility maximization among his
strategies does not suffice. This paper argues that utility ...
Schumann's Use of Musical Personae in the Eichendorff- Liederkreis, Op. 39, Nos. 1 & 8 - “In der Fremde”
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006)
Critical Notice: Child versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law, Melinda Roberts, 1998, Rowman & Littlefield.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000)
In Child versus Childmaker Melinda Roberts provides an enlightening analysis and a cogent defense of a version of the person-affecting restriction in ethics. The rough idea of this restriction is that an action, state of ...
Capabilities vs. Opportunities for Well-being
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum have argued that justice is concerned, at least in part, with the distribution of capabilities (opportunities to function). Richard Arneson, G.A. Cohen, and John Roemer have argued that ...