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Crown Professor of Ethics
Professor of Philosophy
Duke University

Complete Papers

  1. "Virtue and its moral psychology," Analytic Philosophy 66(3) (2025): 472-92.
  2. "Rights in rem and the multital menagerie," Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2024): 361-76.
  3. "Three concepts of legitimacy," Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 10 (2024): 1-27.
  4. "Courage, consistency, and other conundra," Criminal Law and Philosophy 18(1) (2024): 281-96.
  5. "Rights against the world," Analysis 84(2) (2024): 311-19.
  6. "Rights and revolution: Is there a liberty to 'go it alone'?," Social Philosophy and Policy 40(2) (2023): 387-407.
  7. "Deference and delegation: What is the difference?," Zeitschrift fuer Ethik und Moralphilosophie 3(2) (2020): 345-52.
  8. "Whither and whether with the formative aim thesis," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 52(5) (2019): 1331-1357.
  9. "Emotions, reasons, and epistemology," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97 (2018): 500-506.
  10. "Acts, agents, and the definition of virtue," Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 7 (2017): 251-74.
  11. "Health care and human rights: Against the split duty gambit," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37 (2016): 343-64.
  12. "A plea for moral deference," Ethics & Politics 27 (2015): 41-59.
  13. "Equality, opportunity, ambiguity," Politics, Philosophy and Economics 13 (2014): 82-92.
  14. "A human right to health? Some inconclusive scepticism," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 86 (2012): 239-65.
  15. "Duties and their direction," Ethics 120 (2010): 465-94.
  16. "Ethics and epidemiology: residual health inequalities," Public Health Ethics 2 (2009): 244-49.
  17. "Disunity of virtue," Journal of Ethics 13 (2009): 195-212.
  18. "Ethics and epidemiology: the income debate," Public Health Ethics 2 (2009): 45-52.
  19. "Character and consistency," Mind 117 (2008): 603-12.
  20. "Health and justice in our non-ideal world," Politics, Philosophy and Economics 6 (2007): 218-36.
  21. "Health care and equality of opportunity," Hastings Center Report 37(2) (2007): 21-31.
  22. "Does today’s international trade agreement bind tomorrow’s citizen?," Chicago-Kent Law Review 81 (2006): 119-45.
  23. "A hybrid theory of claim-rights," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 25 (2005): 257-74.
  24. "Does the GATS undermine democratic control over health?," Journal of Ethics 9 (2005): 269-81.
  25. "Does informed consent to research require comprehension?," The Lancet 362 (2003): 2016-18.
  26. "International Justice and Health: A Proposal," Ethics and International Affairs 16 (2002): 81-90.
  27. "Errors about errors: Virtue theory and trait attribution," Mind 111 (2002): 47-68.
  28. "Judicial review and individual self-rule," Teor a Jur dica 2 (2001): 1-13.
  29. "A proliferation of liberties," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2001): 229-237.
  30. "Understanding alien morals," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (2001): 1-32.
  31. "What is the general will?," The Philosophical Review 109 (2000): 545-581.
  32. "Interpretation and Reason," Philosophy and Public Affairs 27 (1998): 142-171.

Chapters

  1. "Deontological rights." In M. Gilbert, J. Helmreich, and G. Sreenivasan (eds.) Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), in press.
  2. "Legal human rights, as distinct from moral ones." In J. Tomalty and K. Woods (eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Human Rights (Routledge, 2025): 38-49.
  3. "Taking international legality seriously: A methodology for human rights." In A. Etinson (ed.) Human Rights: Moral or Political? (Oxford, 2018): 211-29. With Allen Buchanan.
  4. "Public goods, individual rights, and third party benefits." In M. McBride (ed.) New Essays on the Nature of Rights (Hart, 2017): 127-48.
  5. "Character education and the rearguard of situationism." In W. Sinnott-Armstrong and C. Miller (eds.) Moral Psychology, volume 5 (MIT, 2017): 131-62.
  6. "The situationist critique of virtue ethics." In D. Russell (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge, 2013): 290-314.
  7. "Why justice requires rationing in health care." In R. Rhodes, M. Battin, and A. Silvers (eds.) Medicine and Social Justice, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 2012): 143-53.
  8. "What is non-ideal theory?" In M. Williams and J. Elster (eds.) Transitional Justice, NOMOS LI (NYU, 2012): 233-56. Abridged version in J. Millum and E. Emanuel (eds.) Global Justice and Bioethics (Oxford, 2012): 135-52.
  9. "Global health and non-ideal justice." In P. Singer and A. Viens (eds.) Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics (Cambridge, 2008): 369-75.
  10. "In defence of the hybrid theory." In E. Villanueva (ed.) Law: Metaphysics, Meaning, and Objectivity (Rodopi, 2007): 299-307.

Reviews

  1. "Injustice and inequalities in health," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2020).
  2. Review of M. Gilbert, Rights and Demands: Oxford, 2018. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2019).
  3. "Justice, Inequality, and Health," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2014).
  4. Review of D. Estlund, Democratic Authority: Princeton, 2008. Iyyun 58 (2009): 62-72.
  5. Review of M. Otsuka, Libertarianism without inequality: Clarendon, 2003. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007): 792-796.
  6. Review of S. Nichols, Sentimental Rules: Oxford, 2004. Ethics 16 (2006): 800-805.