Journal ArticleClinical Ethics · January 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 ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics 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 ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics 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 ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Theory and Practice · 2020
This article defends a novel type of institutionalized mass deliberation: Citizen Duty. Citizen Duty would legally require every citizen to engage in one day of diverse, moderated political deliberation prior to major elections. This deliberation w ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy · October 7, 2019
This article considers the question of why labor income may be permissibly redistributed to the poor even though non-essential body parts should generally be protected from redistribution to the infirm – the body-income puzzle. It argues that prop ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Applied Philosophy · February 2019
AbstractThis article considers the question of how much weight the infringement of children's right to bodily integrity should be given compared with competing considerations. It utilises the example of circumcision to expl ...
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Chapter · June 14, 2018
This chapter explores the libertarian account of distributive justice. It explains the self-ownership thesis and then considers criticisms relating to indeterminacy, small incursions, and enforceable duties of assistance. It then turns to questions relatin ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of medical ethics · July 2013
Circumcision of a male child was recently ruled illegal by a court in Germany on the grounds that it violates the child's rights to bodily integrity and self-determination. This paper begins by challenging the applicability of these rights to the circumcis ...
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