Publications
Journal Articles
"When is it Permissible to Impose and Offset Risks? A Response to Barry and Cullity," forthcoming in Ethics.
See also Barry and Cullity's paper.
"Social Entrepreneurship and Obligations of Justice," forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy.
"Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Driving" (with Vikram R. Bhargava), Social Theory and Practice 50 (2024): 179-206.
"Ethical Consumerism, Human Rights, and Global Health Impact," Developing World Bioethics 24 (2024): 31-36.
Part of a symposium on this book by Nicole Hassoun.
"Effective Altruism, Global Justice, and Individual Obligations," Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 21 (2023): 675-692.
"Limitarianism, Institutionalism, and Justice," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (2022): 721-735.
"Offsetting Risks to the Unjustly Advantaged: Why Doing More Good Sometimes Takes Priority Over Offsetting Risks We've Unjustly Imposed," Ethics, Policy, & Environment 25 (2022): 261-263.
See also this paper by H. Orri Stefansson, to which mine is a brief response.
"Exploitation, Trade Justice, and Corporate Obligations," Moral Philosophy and Politics 9 (2022): 11-29.
Part of a symposium on this book by Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner.
"Ethical Consumerism, Democratic Values, and Justice," Philosophy & Public Affairs 49 (2021): 237-274.
"Pandemic Windfalls and Obligations of Justice," Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 14 (2021): 58-70.
"Rawlsian Institutionalism and Business Ethics: Does it Matter Whether Corporations are Part of the Basic Structure of Society?," Business Ethics Quarterly 31 (2021): 179-209.
"The Philosophical Core of Effective Altruism," Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (2021): 93-115.
"Sweatshops, Structural Injustice, and the Wrong of Exploitation: Why Multinational Corporations Have Positive Duties to the Global Poor," Journal of Business Ethics 169 (2021): 43-56.
"The Climate Imperative for Business" (with Eric W. Orts), California Management Review (Insights/Frontier) (2021).
"Effectiveness and Demandingness," Utilitas 32 (2020): 368-381.
"The Value of Fairness and the Wrong of Wage Exploitation," Business Ethics Quarterly 30 (2020): 414-429.
See also this paper by David Faraci, to which mine is a response.
"Justice, Democracy, and the Role of Political Philosophy," Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (2020): 51-56.
See also this paper by Avner de Shalit, to which mine is a response.
"Collective Obligations and the Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism: A Reply to Alexander Dietz," Utilitas 31 (2019): 326-333.
See also Dietz's paper.
"Climate Justice, Climate Policy, and the Role of Political Philosophy," Ethics, Policy, & Environment 22 (2019): 145-147.
See also this paper by Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh, to which mine is a brief response.
"Collective Obligations and Demandingness Complaints," Moral Philosophy and Politics 6 (2019): 113-132.
"Obligations of Productive Justice: Individual or Institutional?," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (2018): 726-753.
"Relational Egalitarianism and the Grounds of Entitlements to Health Care," Ethics Forum 13 (2018): 85-104.
"The Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism," Utilitas 30 (2018) 143-171.
"Prospects for an Inclusive Theory of Justice: The Case of Non-Human Animals," Journal of Applied Philosophy 34 (2017): 679-695.
"Business Ethics and Free Speech on the Internet," Philosophia 45 (2017): 937-945.
Part of a symposium on this book by Raphael Cohen-Almagor.
"Human Rights, Harm, and Climate Change Mitigation," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (2017): 416-435.
"The Demandingness of Morality: Toward a Reflective Equilibrium," Philosophical Studies 173 (2016): 3015-3035.
"Against Rawlsian Institutionalism about Justice," Social Theory and Practice 42 (2016): 706-732.
"Double Counting, Moral Rigorism, and Cohen's Critique of Rawls: A Response to Alan Thomas," Mind 124 (2015): 849-874.
See also Thomas's original paper and his reply to me.
"Climate Change, Moral Intuitions, and Moral Demandingness," Philosophy and Public Issues 4 (2014): 157-189.
Part of a symposium on this book by Tim Mulgan.
"State Action, State Policy, and the Doing/Allowing Distinction," Ethics, Policy, & Environment 17 (2014): 147-149.
See also this paper by David Morrow, to which mine is a brief response.
Book Chapters
"Who is Wronged by Wrongful Exploitation?," forthcoming in Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, eds. Ferguson and Zwolinski (Oxford University Press).
"Utilitarianism and Poverty," in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, eds. Schweiger and Sedmak (Routledge, 2024).
"Relational Egalitarianism, Institutionalism, and Workplace Hierarchy," in Working as Equals: Relational Egalitarianism and the Workplace, eds. Jonker and Rozeboom (Oxford University Press, 2023).
"Facing up to Conflicts Between Ethics and Profits: Against Wishful Thinking in Business," in In Good Conscience: Do the Right Thing While Building a Profitable Business, Ind and Iglesias (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
"Autonomous Vehicles, Business Ethics, and Risk Distribution in Hybrid Traffic," in Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond, eds. Cerny, Hribek, and Jenkins (Oxford University Press, 2022).
"What Should Business Ethics Be? Aims, Methodology, Substance," in Philosophy and Business Ethics: Organizations, CSR, and Moral Practice, eds. Faldetta, Mollona, and Pellegrini (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
"Prospects for an Animal-Friendly Business Ethics," in Animals and Business Ethics, ed. Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
"Public Philosophy in Effective Altruism," in Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy, eds. McHugh, McIntyre, and Olasov (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).
"Climate Justice, Feasibility Constraints, and the Role of Political Philosophy," in Climate Justice and Feasibility: Normative Theorizing, Feasibility Constraints, and Climate Action, eds. Kenehan and Katz (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).
"When Money Shouldn't Be King," in Tom Petty and Philosophy, eds. Auxier and Volpert (Open Court, 2019).
"Benefiting from Unjust Acts and Benefiting from Injustice: Historical Emissions and the Beneficiary Pays Principle," in Climate Justice and Historical Emissions, eds. Meyer and Sanklecha (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Book Reviews
Review of Larry S. Temkin, Being Good in a World of Need, Ethics 133 (2023): 649-653.
Review of Ryan Burg, Business Ethics for a Material World: An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship (with Eric W. Orts), Business Ethics Quarterly 29 (2019): 143-146.
Review of The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers' Perspectives on Philanthropy (ed. Woodruff), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 2018.
Review of Dale Dorsey, The Limits of Moral Authority, Ethics 128 (2017): 235-240.
Review of Darrel Moellendorf, The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy, Ethics, Policy, & Environment 19 (2016): 108-111.
Review of Andrew Mason, Living Together as Equals: The Demands of Citizenship, Mind 124 (2015): 653-656.
Review of Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy (eds. Illingworth, Pogge, and Wenar), Mind 123 (2014): 220-223.
Review of Robert Garner, A Theory of Justice for Animals: Animal Rights in a Nonideal World, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 2014.
Review of Gary E. Varner, Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare's Two-Level Utilitarianism, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, December 2012.