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\u2018Risk pooling, reciprocity, and voluntary association<\/a><\/strong>\u2019, Economics and Philosophy<\/em> 41 (2025): 188\u2013191 (book symposium on How to Pool Risks across Generations<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\u2018Replies to Barr, van Ewijk, Heath, Karnein and Schokkaert<\/a><\/strong>\u2019, Economics and Philosophy<\/em> 41 (2025): 224\u2013228 (book symposium on How to Pool Risks across Generations<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\u2018Equal Chances versus Equal Outcomes: When Are Lotteries Fair and Justified?<\/a><\/strong>\u2019, Political Philosophy<\/em> 1 (2024): 381\u2013398<\/p>\n

How to Pool Risks across Generations: The Case for Collective Pensions<\/em><\/a> (OUP Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics, 2023) Oxford Scholarship Online version, including book and chapter abstracts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Fair Terms of Social Cooperation among Equals<\/a><\/strong>\u2019, Journal of Practical Ethics<\/em> 11 (2023): 59\u201368<\/p>\n

\u2018Prioritarianism, Population Ethics, and Competing Claims<\/a>\u2019, in J. McMahan, et al., eds., Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit<\/em>\u00a0(OUP, 2022)<\/p>\n

\u2018If One Can\u2019t Lose Such a Right in These Circumstances, One Never Had It in the First Place<\/a><\/strong>\u2019,\u00a0Criminal Law and Philosophy<\/em> 16 (2022): 503\u2013509<\/p>\n

\u2018Does the Universities Superannuation Scheme Provide a Model of Reciprocity Between Generations?<\/a><\/strong>\u2019,\u00a0LSE Public Policy Review<\/em>\u00a02 (2021): 1\u20136.<\/p>\n

\u2018Appropriating Lockean Appropriation on Behalf of Equality<\/a>\u2019, in J. Penner and M. Otsuka, eds.,\u00a0Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives<\/em>\u00a0(CUP, 2018) (Open-access version<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\u2018Personal Identity, Substantial Change, and the Significance of Becoming<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Erkenntnis<\/em>, 83 (2018): 1229\u20131243<\/p>\n

\u2018Equality versus Priority<\/a>\u2019, in Serena\u00a0Olsaretti, ed.,\u00a0Oxford Handbook of Distributive Justice<\/em>\u00a0(OUP, 2018) [co-authored with Alex Voorhoeve] (Open-access version<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2018How it Makes a Moral Difference that One is Worse Off than One Could Have Been\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Politics, Philosophy & Economics,<\/em> 17 (2018): 192\u2013215 (Open-access version<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\u2018How to Guard Against the Risk of Living Too Long: the case for collective pensions\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy<\/em>, v. III (OUP, 2017) (Open-access version<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

\u2018Why Even Diminishing Principles of Entitlement Must Be Regulated by Strictly Egalitarian Principles\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies<\/em>, 14 (2016): 158\u201368<\/p>\n

\u2018Can an\u00a0Incompatibilist\u00a0Outfox a Compatibilist Hedgehog?\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy<\/em>, 19 (2016): 456\u201369<\/p>\n

\u2018The Moral Responsibility Account of Liability to Defensive Killing\u2019<\/a>, C. Coons and M. Weber, eds.,\u00a0The Ethics of Self-Defense<\/em>\u00a0(OUP, 2016)<\/p>\n

\u2018Risking Life and Limb: How to Discount Harms by Their Improbability\u2019<\/a>, in I. G. Cohen, N. Daniels, and N. Eyal, eds.,\u00a0Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective<\/em>\u00a0(OUP, 2015)<\/p>\n

\u2018Prioritarianism and the Measure of Utility<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Journal of Political Philosophy<\/em>, 23 (2015): 1\u201322<\/p>\n

\u2018Prioritarianism and the Separateness of Persons\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Utilitas<\/em> 24 (2012): 365\u201380 [for a special issue on \u2018Why it Matters that Some are Worse Off than Others\u2019]<\/p>\n

\u2018Are Deontological Constraints Irrational?<\/a>\u2019, in R. Bader and J. Meadowcroft, eds.,\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to Nozick\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Anarchy, State, and Utopia (CUP, 2011)<\/p>\n

\u2018Licensed to Kill\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Analysis<\/em> 71 (2011): 523\u201332<\/p>\n

\u2018Reply to Crisp<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Utilitas<\/em> 23 (2011): 109\u201314 [co-authored with Alex Voorhoeve]<\/p>\n

\u2018Justice as Fairness: Luck Egalitarian, Not Rawlsian<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Journal of Ethics<\/em> 14 (2010): 217\u201330<\/p>\n

\u2018A Rejoinder to Fischer and\u00a0Tognazzini<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Journal of Ethics<\/em> 14 (2010): 37\u201342<\/p>\n

\u2018Moral Luck: Optional, not Brute<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Philosophical Perspectives<\/em> 23 (2009): 373\u201388<\/p>\n

\u2018Owning Persons, Places, and Things<\/a>\u2019, in I. Carter, M. Kramer, and S. de\u00a0Wijze, eds.,\u00a0Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2009)<\/p>\n

\u2018Why it Matters that Some are Worse Off than Others: An Argument against the Priority View<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs<\/em>\u00a037 (2009): 171\u201399 [co-authored with Alex Voorhoeve]<\/p>\n

\u2018The Kantian Argument for Consequentialism<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Ratio<\/em>\u00a022 (2009): 41\u201358<\/p>\n

\u2018Freedom of Occupational Choice<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Ratio<\/em> 21 (2008): 440\u201353<\/p>\n

\u2018Double-Effect, Triple-Effect, and the Trolley Problem<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Utilitas<\/em>, 20 (2008): 92\u2013110<\/p>\n

\u2018Prerogatives to Depart from Equality<\/a>\u2019, in A.\u00a0O\u2019Hear, ed.,\u00a0Political Philosophy,<\/em> Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 58 (CUP, 2006), pp. 95\u2013111<\/p>\n

\u2018Comment \u00eatre libertarien sans \u00eatre in\u00e9galitaire\u2019 and \u2018R\u00e9ponses\u2019,\u00a0Raisons Politiques<\/em>, no. 23 (2006): 9\u201322 and 163\u201374<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Libertarianism without Inequality<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Replies<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Iyyun<\/em>: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly<\/em>\u00a055 (July 2006): 325\u2013336<\/p>\n

Replies to four articles of a symposium on\u00a0Libertarianism without Inequality<\/em>\u00a0published in the same issue<\/p>\n

\u2018Saving Lives, Moral Theory, and the Claims of Individuals<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,[1]<\/a>\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs,<\/em>\u00a034 (2006): 109\u201335<\/p>\n

\u2018Why Left-Libertarianism Is Not Incoherent, Indeterminate, or Irrelevant<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,[2]<\/a>\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs,<\/em>\u00a033 (2005): 201\u201315 [co-authored with Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner]<\/p>\n

\u2018Skepticism<\/strong>\u00a0about Saving the Greater Number<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,[2]<\/a>\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs,<\/em>\u00a032 (2004): 413\u201326<\/p>\n

\u2018Liberty, Equality, Envy, and Abstraction<\/a>\u2019, in J. Burley, ed.,\u00a0Dworkin and His Critics\u00a0<\/em>(Blackwells, 2004), pp. 70\u201378<\/p>\n

\u2018Equality, Ambition, and Insurance<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society\u00a0<\/em>supplementary volume, 78 (2004): 151\u201366<\/p>\n

Libertarianism without Inequality<\/em>\u00a0(OUP, 2003)<\/a><\/p>\n

Review in the\u00a0Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Critical notice in\u00a0Philosophy and Phenomenological Research<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Review in\u00a0Ethics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pdf image of front and back book covers<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Luck, Insurance, and Equality<\/a><\/strong>\u2019,\u00a0Ethics,<\/em>\u00a0113 (2002): 40\u201354<\/p>\n

\u2018Il personale \u00e8 politico? Il confine fra pubblico e privato nella sfera della giustizia distributiva\u2019,\u00a0Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica<\/em>\u00a0anno XIV, n. 34, Dicembre 2001, pp. 617\u201323<\/p>\n

This is a translation into Italian of a previously unpublished paper entitled \u2018Is the personal\u00a0political?:\u00a0The boundary between the public and the private in the realm of distributive justice\u2019.\u00a0Click here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for the paper in English.<\/p>\n

\u2018Scanlon and the Claims of the Many Versus the One<\/strong>\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0Analysis,\u00a0<\/em>60 (2000): 288\u201393<\/p>\n

\u2018Making the Unjust Provide for the Least Well Off<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Journal of Ethics,<\/em> 2 (1998): 247\u201359<\/p>\n

\u2018Incompatibilism and the\u00a0Avoidability\u00a0of Blame<\/a><\/strong>\u2019,\u00a0Ethics,<\/em> 108 (1998): 685\u2013701<\/p>\n

\u2018Self-Ownership and Equality: A Lockean Reconciliation<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs,<\/em> 27 (1998): 65\u201392<\/p>\n

\u2018Kamm on the Morality of Killing<\/a><\/strong>\u2019,\u00a0Ethics,<\/em> 108 (1997): 197\u2013207<\/p>\n

\u2018Quinn on Punishment and Using Persons as Means<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Law and Philosophy,<\/em> 15 (1996): 201\u201308<\/p>\n

\u2018Killing the Innocent in Self-Defense<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs,<\/em> 23 (1994): 74\u201394<\/p>\n

\u2018The Paradox of Group Beneficence<\/a>\u2019,\u00a0Philosophy & Public Affairs,<\/em> 20 (1991): 132\u201349<\/p>\n

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Edited books<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Penner and Michael Otsuka, eds.,\u00a0Property Theory: Legal and Political Perspectives<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2018)<\/p>\n

G. A. Cohen, Finding Oneself in the Other<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n

G. A. Cohen, On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice and Other Essays in Political Philosophy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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