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Rawls and Economic Liberties
There is widespread agreement among political philosophers that there is a core set of civil and political liberties that ought to be given special...
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The Moral Argument Against Monarchy (Absolute or Constitutional)
I argue that monarchies, in any possible form (absolute or constitutional), should be abolished once and for all. This is because of the deeply...
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Covid heterodoxy in three layers
Lockdowns and related policies of behavioral and economic restriction introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are criticized, drawing on...
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Neurorehabilitation of Offenders, Consent and Consequentialist Ethics
The new biotechnology raises expectations for modifying human behaviour through its use. This article focuses on the ethical analysis of the not so...
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Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19
In this paper we discuss the influence of war as a metaphor in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After an introduction on the traditional...
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Institutional Racism and Social Norms: On the Debate Between Rawls and Mills
In this paper, I engage with the debate between John Rawls and Charles Mills. In the first part, relevant works by Rawls and Mills are mainly...
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Rights
This chapter illuminates the role of citizens’ rights in political liberal theory and how a clearly defined concept of rights can help to clarify...
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Freedom, Firearms, and Civil Resistance
The claim that guns can safeguard freedom is common in US political discourse. In light of a broadly republican understanding of freedom, I evaluate...
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Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty
In this paper, I develop an epistemological argument for freedom from poverty, building on Gerald Gaus’ work on political and moral disagreement in...
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The Power to Exclude: The (Mis)Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors under the Trump and Biden Administration
In “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants” (hereinafter “Biden Plan“), then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “reassert...
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Human Rights and Pluralist Universalism
In this chapter I present the philosophical justification of the theory of human rights here proposed. I begin by confronting two approaches with the...
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Chapter 10 The Conceptual Contingency of Perimeters of Support
It might be thought that liberties by which to claim or invoke rights are either constitutive features of a right-correlative-to-a-duty (‘an RCTD’)...
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The Role of Moral Norms in Political Theory
In the recent debate on political normativity in political philosophy, two positions have emerged among so-called political realists. On the first...
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Promises and Pitfalls of Algorithm Use by State Authorities
Algorithmic systems are increasingly used by state agencies to inform decisions about humans. They produce scores on risks of recidivism in criminal...
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Relational Egalitarianism and Emergent Social Inequalities
This paper identifies a challenge for liberal relational egalitarians—namely, how to respond to the prospect of emergent inequalities of power,...
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Chapter 9 Claims & Invocations of Right
Having a legal right does not entail (also having) a power to commence legal proceedings or to undertake self-help remedies—let alone success in such...
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A Rawlsian Rule for Corporate Governance
Business ethics can be regarded as a field dealing with corporate self-regulation as it relates to the treatment of stakeholders. However, a concern...
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Sustaining Livelihoods or Saving Lives? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-19
An ongoing debate in the United States relating to COVID-19 features the purported tension between containing the coronavirus to save lives or...
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The Indeterminacy of the Principles of Justice: The Debate on Property-Owing Democracy Versus the Welfare State and the Ideal of Social Union
In the past decade, scholars such as Samuel Freeman, Martin O’Neill, Alan Thomas and others have argued that no matter how widely Rawls’s theory of...
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