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Gopal Sreenivasan

Crown University Distinguished Professor in Ethics
Philosophy
Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708
207 West Duke Building, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works


Equality, opportunity, ambiguity

Journal article Politics Philosophy and Economics · February 1, 2014 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

Duties and Their Direction

Journal article Ethics · April 2010 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Ethics and Epidemiology: Residual Health Inequalities

Journal article Public Health Ethics · November 2009 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Disunity of virtue

Journal article Journal of Ethics · September 1, 2009 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

Ethics and Epidemiology: The Income Debate

Journal article Public Health Ethics · April 2009 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Character and consistency: Still more errors

Journal article Mind · July 2008 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Review of M. Otsuka, Libertarianism without inequality

Journal article Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · May 2007 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Health care and equality of opportunity.

Journal article Hastings Cent Rep · 2007 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

A hybrid theory of claim-rights

Journal article Oxford Journal of Legal Studies · June 1, 2005 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

Does informed consent to research require comprehension?

Journal article Lancet · December 13, 2003 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

International justice and health: a proposal.

Journal article Ethics Int Aff · 2002 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Errors about errors: Virtues theory and trait attribution

Journal article Mind · January 2002 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Understanding alien morals

Journal article Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · January 2001 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

What is the general will?

Journal article Philosophical Review · October 2000 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Interpretation and reason

Journal article Philosophy and Public Affairs · 1998 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite