Journal ArticleAnalytic Philosophy · September 1, 2025
Emotion and virtue (2020) defends positions about virtue on two adjacent expanses of philosophical terrain. One is a matter of moral psychology, while the other concerns the theory of virtue. My primary thesis identifies a central role for emotion in the p ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2025
This chapter argues that legal human rights should be distinguished from moral human rights. I begin by examining various proposals for how to identify the difference between human rights and other kinds of rights. At least two proposals for how to do this ...
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Journal ArticleCriminal Law and Philosophy · April 1, 2024
I am very grateful to Rachel Barney and Christian Miller for their helpful and challenging comments on my book, Emotion and Virtue (Princeton, 2020). My response aims first to clarify and then to fortify my position on some of the many excellent points the ...
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Journal ArticleSingapore Journal of Legal Studies · January 1, 2024
Unlike rights in personam, which are held against a limited number of people (paradigmatically, one), rights in rem are held against everyone else in the world. Among other things, “everyone” denotes a dynamic collection of persons. However, in Wesley Hohf ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Philosophy and Policy · May 14, 2023
John Locke affirms a right to revolt against tyranny, but he denies that a minority of citizens is at liberty to exercise it unless a majority of their fellow citizens concurs in their judgment that the government is a tyranny. In a recent article, Massimo ...
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Book · January 1, 2020
What must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, Emotion and Virtue ingeniously argues that certain em ...
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Chapter · November 23, 2017
This chapter discusses the direction of epistemological priority between traits and actions in the definition of virtue. Do we first identify a character trait as kind, say, and only then identify its characteristic expressions as kind acts? Or do we ident ...
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Journal ArticleTheoretical medicine and bioethics · August 2016
There are various grounds on which one may wish to distinguish a right to health care from a right to health. In this article, I review some old grounds before introducing some new grounds. But my central task is to argue that separating a right to health ...
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Journal ArticleEtica E Politica · January 1, 2015
It seems to be a commonplace of the philosophical literature that there is no such thing as moral expertise. Or perhaps, more narrowly, that there is no such thing as justified deference to moral expertise, when there is moral expertise. On the other hand, ...
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Journal ArticlePolitics Philosophy and Economics · February 1, 2014
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I distinguish four different interpretations of 'equality of opportunity.' We get four interpretations because a neglected ambiguity in 'opportunity' intersects a well-known ambiguity in 'equality.' The neglected ambiguity holds between substantive and non ...
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Chapter · 2013
Traditional philosophical theories of virtue define a “virtue” as a species of character trait. Many contemporary philosophical theories of virtue follow suit, though not all do. Adopting this traditional definition exposes a theory of virtue to what has c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ethics · September 1, 2009
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This paper argues against the unity of the virtues, while trying to salvage some of its attractive aspects. I focus on the strongest argument for the unity thesis, which begins from the premise that true virtue cannot lead its possessor morally astray. I s ...
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Journal ArticlePolitics Philosophy Economics · January 1, 2007
In this article, I explore some advantages of viewing well-being in terms of an individual's health status. Principally, I argue that this perspective makes it easier to establish that rich countries at least have an obligation to transfer 1 percent of the ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Journal of Legal Studies · June 1, 2005
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In this article, I propose and defend a new analysis of claim-rights. My proposal is a hybrid of the two best known analyses, the Will theory and the Interest theory. For good reason, the debate between these theories is often regarded as a stand-off. That ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ethics · January 1, 2005
This paper examines the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which is one of the World Trade Organisation's free trade agreements. In particular, I examine the extent to which the GATS unduly restricts the scope for national democratic choice. Fo ...
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Journal ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope) · May 2004
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), created under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, aims to regulate measures affecting international trade in services-including health services such as health insurance, hospital services, teleme ...
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