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Michael
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at Jerry Cohen’s funeral Publications | Current Research Teaching Material | UCL Staff Page |
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Professor of Philosophy, University
College London ·
B.Phil. 1988, D.Phil. 1990, Balliol
College, Oxford ·
B.A. 1986, Yale University ·
Born 1964, in Palo Alto, California |
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Publications
Books Libertarianism
without Inequality (Oxford University Press,
2003) Review in the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Critical notice in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
[subscription required] Review in Ethics [subscription required] Pdf image of front
and back book covers and book
and chapter abstracts Articles and Book
Chapters ‘Moral Luck: Optional, not Brute’, Philosophical
Perspectives 23 (in press 2009) ‘Reply to Fischer and Tognazzini’, Journal
of Ethics 13 (in press 2009) ‘Owning Persons, Places, and Things’, in I. Carter, M. Kramer, and S.
de Wijze, eds., Hillel Steiner and the
Anatomy of Justice (Oxford: Routledge, 2009) ‘Why it Matters that
Some are Worse Off than Others: An Argument against the Priority View’, Philosophy & Public Affairs 37
(2009): 171-99 [co-authored with Alex Voorhoeve] ‘The Kantian Argument for Consequentialism’, Ratio 22 (2009): 41-58 ‘Freedom of Occupational Choice’, Ratio
21 (2008): 440-53 ‘Double-Effect, Triple-Effect, and the Trolley Problem’, Utilitas, 20 (2008): 92-110 ‘Prerogatives to
Depart from Equality’ [subscription required], in A. O’Hear, ed., Political
Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 58 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 95-111 ‘Comment être libertarien sans être
inégalitaire’ and ‘Réponses’, Raisons Politiques, no. 23
(2006): 9-22 and 163-74 Leading
article and replies (both in French translation) to other articles in an
issue of the journal devoted to the version of left-libertarianism that I
defend in Libertarianism without
Inequality. Click links above for versions in English. ‘Replies’,
Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical
Quarterly 55 (July 2006): 325–336 Replies
to four
articles of a symposium on Libertarianism
without Inequality published in the same issue ‘Saving
Lives, Moral Theory, and the Claims of Individuals’,[1]
Philosophy & Public Affairs, 34
(2006): 109-35 ‘Why
Left-Libertarianism Is Not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant’,[2] Philosophy
& Public Affairs, 33 (2005): 201-15 [co-authored with Peter
Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner] ‘Skepticism
about Saving the Greater Number’,[3]
Philosophy & Public Affairs, 32
(2004): 413-26 ‘Liberty, Equality,
Envy, and Abstraction’, in J. Burley, ed., Dworkin and His Critics (Blackwells,
2004), pp. 70-78 ‘Equality, Ambition,
and Insurance’, Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society supplementary volume, 78 (2004): 151-66 ‘Luck, Insurance, and
Equality’, Ethics, 113 (2002): 40-54 ‘Il personale è politico? Il confine fra pubblico
e privato nella sfera della giustizia distributiva’, Iride:
Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica anno XIV, n. 34, Dicembre 2001, pp.
617-23 This is a translation into Italian of a
previously unpublished paper entitled ‘Is the personal political?: The boundary between the public and the
private in the realm of distributive justice’. Click here
for the paper in English. ‘Scanlon and the
Claims of the Many Versus the One’, Analysis, 60 (2000): 288-93 ‘Making the Unjust
Provide for the Least Well Off’, Journal of Ethics, 2 (1998): 247-59 ‘Incompatibilism and
the Avoidability of Blame’, Ethics, 108 (1998): 685-701 ‘Self-Ownership and
Equality: A Lockean Reconciliation’, Philosophy & Public Affairs,
27 (1998): 65-92 ‘Kamm on the Morality
of Killing’, Ethics, 108 (1997): 197-207 ‘Quinn on Punishment
and Using Persons as Means’, Law and Philosophy, 15 (1996): 201-08 ‘Killing the Innocent
in Self-Defense’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 23 (1994): 74-94 ‘The Paradox of Group
Beneficence’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 20 (1991): 132-49 Internet Publications ‘Commentary
on Ronald Dworkin’s “Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It”’ Brown Electronic Article Review Service in
Moral and Political Philosophy (BEARS) [posted 3 December 1996] |
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Current
Research
Current
research interests: the morality of imposing risks, harming, and saving from
harm; equality and priority; moral luck; exploitation; left-libertarianism;
personal identity. |
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Links to Other Web
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