Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington), "Jane Austen vs. Climate Economics"
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Climate change is a “perfect moral storm”, an intersection of three prominent challenges to ethical action (global, intergenerational and theoretical) that are difficult to overcome. One consequence of this is that we are likely to be attracted to weak or deceptive arguments that appear on the…
Rekha Nath (University of Alabama): Can ‘institutional luck egalitarianism’ avoid the charge of moral absurdity?
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Abstract: In the contemporary liberal egalitarian tradition, the theory of luck egalitarianism has been the dominant explanation of why, and which, inequalities are unjust. According to luck egalitarianism, inequalities that stem from matters of luck—such as a person’s gender or…
Alejandra Mancilla, CAPPE, "An Enforceable Duty of Humanity?"
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One of the main differences between duties of justice and duties of humanity has traditionally been taken to be that the first are enforceable, while the second are not. In the context of the current global justice debate, some philosophers have argued against this distinction, claiming that an…