Law, Ethics and Philosophy

 

Law, Ethics and Philosophy is a new peer-reviewed, open access international journal published by Pompeu Fabra University and dedicated to work in ethics, legal theory, and social and political philosophy. It welcomes clear, concise, rigorous, and original submissions that address concrete issues of public concern as well as more abstract theoretical questions. It also has the distinctive aims of (a) fostering work drawing on a variety of disciplines within the social and natural sciences, including biology, economics, history, and psychology; and (b) promoting dialogue between the Anglophone and non-Anglophone worlds

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  • Hassoun, Nicole (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    Globalization connects everyone, from the world’s poorest slum dweller tothe richest billionaire. Globalization and Global Justice starts by giving a newargument for the conclusion that coercive international institutions ...
  • Temkin, Larry (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    This article responds to Ingmar Persson’s article “Internal or External Grounds for the Nontransitivity of ‘Better/Worse than’”. In his article, Persson argues in favor of an account of supervenience that would be compatible ...
  • Hassoun, Nicole (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
  • Stone, Peter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    Nicole Hassoun’s Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance,Expanding Obligations (2012) offers a novel argument for the existence ofpositive rights for the world’s poor, and explores institutional alternativessuitable ...
  • Tan, Kok-Chor (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
  • Horta, Oscar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    According to the Internal Aspects View, the value of different outcomesdepends solely on the internal features possessed by each outcome and theinternal relations between them. This paper defends the Internal AspectsView ...
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  • González-Ricoy, Iñigo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    The paper discusses the structure, applications, and plausibility of the muchusedparallel-case argument for workplace democracy. The argument restson an analogy between firms and states according to which the justificationof ...
  • Valentini, Laura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
  • Arneson, Richard J. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    This essay argues that when there is a moral duty to procreate,nonprocreators owe assistance in the task of providing for children, evenif their presence renders nonprocreators worse off. When new childrenbring benefits ...
  • Temkin, Larry (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    This article aims to convey a few of the key claims and arguments ofmy book, Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of PracticalReasoning. The article gives an example of a Spectrum Argument, andillustrates that ...
  • Temkin, Larry (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    This article responds to Oscar Horta’s article “In Defense of the InternalAspects View: Person-Affecting Reasons, Spectrum Arguments andInconsistent Intuitions”. I begin by noting various points of agreementwith Horta. I ...
  • Persson, Ingmar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    In his book Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of PracticalReasoning Larry Temkin contrasts two views of ideals for evaluating outcomes:the Internal Aspects View and the Essentially Comparative View. He ...
  • Tan, Kok-Chor (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    In some discussions on global distributive justice, it is argued that the factthat the state exercises coercive authority over its own citizens explains whythe state has egalitarian distributive obligations to its own but ...
  • Goodman, Charles (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014)
    In Globalization and Global Justice, Nicole Hassoun presents a new andfundamental challenge to libertarian political thought. Her LegitimacyArgument tries to show that natural rights libertarians are committed bytheir own ...
  • Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper (Law, Ethics and PhilosophyLaw, Ethics and Philosophy, 2013)
    On Pogge’s view, we —people living in rich countries— do not just allow the global poor to die. Rather, we interfere with them in such a way that we make them die on a massive scale. If we did the same through military ...
  • Smith, Michael (Law, Ethics and PhilosophyLaw, Ethics and Philosophy, 2013)
    The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it explains what a constitutivist theory of reasons is and why the theory promises to deliver the holy grail of moral philosophy, which is an argument to the conclusion that each ...
  • Hreno, Travis (Law, Ethics and PhilosophyLaw, Ethics and Philosophy, 2013)
    Jury nullification, that phenomenon whereby a jury returns a not-guilty verdict for a defendant it believes to be technically guilty of the alleged crime, is, obviously, a controversial issue. What is not a matter of ...
  • Firth, Joanna (Law, Ethics and PhilosophyLaw, Ethics and Philosophy, 2013)
    Jonathan Wolff, amongst others, has criticised luck egalitarian theories of distributive justice because these theories require untalented citizens to reveal their lack of talent to the state. He believes that, even in an ...
  • Donaldson, Sue; Kymlicka, Will (Law, Ethics and PhilosophyLaw, Ethics and Philosophy, 2013)
    In their commentaries on Zoopolis, Alasdair Cochrane and Oscar Horta raise several challenges to our argument for a “political theory of animal rights”, and to the specific models of animal citizenship and animal sovereignty ...

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