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Joseph Mordechai Mazor

Assistant Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Duke Kunshan University · 2023 - Present DKU Faculty
Assistant Professor of the Practice of DKU Studies at Duke University · 2023 - Present DKU Studies

Recent Publications


On hypothetical consent, regret, and the capacity for autonomy: A response to Pugh's conceptual analysis of the child's right to bodily integrity

Journal Article Clinical Ethics · December 1, 2024 In this issue of Clinical Ethics, Jonathan Pugh rejects hypothetical consent-based conceptions of the child’s right to bodily integrity (RBI). Pugh also questions the relevance of adults’ regret of past bodily infringements in evaluating potential violatio ... Full text Cite

On environmental justice, Part I: an intuitive conservation dilemma

Journal Article Economics and Philosophy · July 24, 2023 This article introduces an intuitive conservation dilemma called the Canyon Dilemma: Is it possible to condemn the mining of the Grand Canyon, even by a poor generation, while also permitting this generation's mining of an unremarkable small canyon? It the ... Full text Cite

On environmental justice, Part II: non-absolute equal division of rights to the natural world

Journal Article Economics and Philosophy · July 24, 2023 This article considers whether any interpretation of the idea of equal claims to the natural world can resolve the Canyon Dilemma (i.e. can justify protecting the Grand Canyon but not a small canyon from mining by a poor generation). It first considers and ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Harvard University · 2009 Ph.D.