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Joseph Mordechai Mazor

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

Selected 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 · 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 ... 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

The Case for Citizen Duty

Journal Article Social 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 ... Full text Cite

Income Redistribution, Body Part Redistribution, and Respect for the Separateness of Persons

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

On the Strength of Children's Right to Bodily Integrity: The Case of Circumcision

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

Can liberal egalitarians protect the occupational freedom of the economically talented?

Journal Article Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy · November 2, 2018 Full text Cite

Libertarianism, Left and Right

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 ... Link to item Cite

The child's interests and the case for the permissibility of male infant circumcision.

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

International Rights Violations and Media Coverage

Journal Article International Journal of Applied Philosophy · 2013 Full text Cite

Liberal Justice, Future People, and Natural Resource Conservation

Journal Article Philosophy & Public Affairs · September 2010 Full text Cite