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A proprietarian theory of custodial rights over children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] I defend a view that individuals have custodial rights over children in virtue of being the genetic parents of the child and that those rights are ...
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 ...
The nonepistemic psychological requirements for knowledge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A question tracing back to Plato's Meno asks, "What is knowledge?" Very plausibly, a person knows a proposition only if he believes it and it is true. However, true belief is not sufficient for knowledge. A person who ...
Rawlsian ethical act contractarianism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Assuming that contractarianism is appropriate for developing an ethical theory, which contractarian ethical theory is best? My dissertation provides an answer to this question. Drawing on the work of Rawls, I provide an ...
Responsibility and Compensation Rights
(Routledge, 2009)
I address an issue that arises for rights theories that recognize rights to compensation for rights-intrusions. Do individuals who never pose any risk of harm to others have a right, against a rights-intruder, to full ...
Answers to Five Questions on Normative Ethics
(Automatic Press, 2007)
This article comprises the author's answers to five questions on Normative Ethics posed by the editors of the collection.
Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)
Where there is a fixed population (i.e., who exists does not depend on what choice an agent makes), the deontic version of anonymous Paretian egalitarianism holds that an option is just if and only if (1) it is anonymously ...
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 ...
Consequentialism
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
The three main general approaches to moral theory are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue theory. I shall describe and assess consequentialism. First, however, I shall make a few background remarks on morality.
Against Maximizing Act-Consequentialism
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
Maximizing act consequentialism holds that actions are morally permissible if and only if they maximize the value of consequences—if and only if, that is, no alternative action in the given choice situation has more valuable ...
Who are the least advantaged?
(Clarendon Press, 2007)
The difference principle, introduced by Rawls (1971, 1993), is generally interpreted as leximin, but this is not how he intended it. Rawls explicitly states that the difference principle requires that aggregate benefits ...
Justice in General: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the first volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses the following three (only loosely ...
Distribution of What?: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the fourth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume and the second part of Volume 5: Social ...
Social Contract and the Currency of Justice: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the fifth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses two issues: (1) contractarian ...
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia
(Acumen, 2006)
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), radically changed the landscape in analytic political philosophy. For much of the preceding half-century, under the ...
Distributive Justice
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)
In general, I shall focus on justice as what we morally owe each other. I shall therefore briefly elaborate on this concept of justice. As long as rights are understood very broadly as—perhaps pro tanto and highly ...
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 , ...
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 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 ...
Sen on Sufficiency, Priority, and Equality
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)
I present a critical survey of Sen's work, and related work by others, on certain distribution-sensitive principles of justice. More specifically, I discuss three kinds of such principles: (1) sufficientarian principles, ...