Susanne Burri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3874285 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susanne Burri |
| NOMBRES | Susanne |
| APELLIDO | Burri |
| FIRMA | BURRI S |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6200-0717 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Respect for Rights and Liability to Defensive Harm
This paper defends a novel framework for thinking about our rights against being harmed, paying special attention to the conditions under which they are enforceable through a liability mechanism. It contends that a central purpose of our rights is to specify what steps others are required to take, in their role as agents, to avoid harming us. To be geared towards this relational purpose, rights need to be equipped with a subjective component that…
If You Care About a Rule, Why Weaken Its Enforcement Dimension? On a Tension in the War Convention
In War by Agreement (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman argue that the ‘war convention’ – i.e. the international laws and conventions that are widely accepted to govern the use of force between sovereign states – represents a morally binding contract. On their understanding, the war convention replaces a pre-contractual morality governed by principles that so-called reductive individualists hav…
Conceptualising morally permissible risk imposition without quantified individual risks
We frequently engage in activities that impose a risk of serious harm on innocent others in order to realise trivial benefits for ourselves or third parties. Many moral theories tie the evidence-relative permissibility of engaging in such activities to the size of the risk that an individual agent imposes . I argue that we should move away from such a reliance on quantified individual risks when conceptualising morally permissible risk imposition…
The option value of life
This paper argues that under conditions of uncertainty, there is frequently a positive option value to staying alive when compared to the alternative of dying right away. This value can make it prudentially rational for you to stay alive even if it appears highly unlikely that you have a bright future ahead of you. Drawing on the real options approach to investment analysis, the paper explores the conditions under which there is a positive option…
What Do Business Executives Think About Distributive Justice
While there exist extensive literatures on both distributive justice and senior executive pay, and a number of authors (notably the French economist Thomas Piketty) have addressed the implications of high pay for distributive justice, the existing literature fails to address what senior executives themselves think about distributive justice and whether they consider high income inequalities to be morally acceptable. We address this gap by analysi…
Morally Permissible Risk Imposition and Liability to Defensive Harm
This paper examines whether an agent becomes liable to defensive harm by engaging in a morally permissible but foreseeably risk-imposing activity that subsequently threatens objectively unjustified harm. It first clarifies the notion of a foreseeably risk-imposing activity by proposing that an activity should count as foreseeably risk-imposing if an agent may morally permissibly perform it only if she abides by certain duties of care. Those who a…
On the enforceability of poverty-related responsibilities
We argue that even if an agent’s initial responsibilities are not very demanding, it can become permissible to burden her with significant costs if she culpably fails to discharge those responsibilities. In particular, we defend the claim that even if our responsibilities to assist others are not initially very demanding, our failure to live up to them can make us liable to possibly burdensome enforcement costs. Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverla…
Why Moral Theorizing Needs Real Cases
In 1944, the German Wehrmacht started terror bombing London with guided missiles called V-weapons.With the help of double agents that the British authorities had recruited among German spies, it would have been possible to deceive the enemy into redirecting his weapons away from Central London.This would likely have greatly reduced civilian casualties in Central London, while leading to a comparably smaller increase of civilian deaths in some are…
Civilian Immunity Without the Doctrine of Double Effect
Civilian Immunity (‘Immunity’) is the legal and moral protection that civilians enjoy against the effects of hostilities under the laws of armed conflict and according to the ethics of killing in war. Immunity specifies different permissibility conditions for directly targeting civilians on the one hand, and for harming civilians incidentally on the other hand. Immunity is standardly defended by appeal to the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). We s…
The Toss‐Up Between a Profiting, Innocent Threat and His Victim
Why Moral Theorizing Needs Real Cases
In 1944, the German Wehrmacht started terror bombing London with guided missiles called V-weapons.With the help of double agents that the British authorities had recruited among German spies, it would have been possible to deceive the enemy into redirecting his weapons away from Central London.This would likely have greatly reduced civilian casualties in Central London, while leading to a comparably smaller increase of civilian deaths in some are…
The Toss‐Up Between a Profiting, Innocent Threat and His Victim
The Toss‐Up Between a Profiting, Innocent Threat and His Victim
On the enforceability of poverty-related responsibilities
We argue that even if an agent’s initial responsibilities are not very demanding, it can become permissible to burden her with significant costs if she culpably fails to discharge those responsibilities. In particular, we defend the claim that even if our responsibilities to assist others are not initially very demanding, our failure to live up to them can make us liable to possibly burdensome enforcement costs. Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverla…
Why Moral Theorizing Needs Real Cases
In 1944, the German Wehrmacht started terror bombing London with guided missiles called V-weapons.With the help of double agents that the British authorities had recruited among German spies, it would have been possible to deceive the enemy into redirecting his weapons away from Central London.This would likely have greatly reduced civilian casualties in Central London, while leading to a comparably smaller increase of civilian deaths in some are…
Civilian Immunity Without the Doctrine of Double Effect
Civilian Immunity (‘Immunity’) is the legal and moral protection that civilians enjoy against the effects of hostilities under the laws of armed conflict and according to the ethics of killing in war. Immunity specifies different permissibility conditions for directly targeting civilians on the one hand, and for harming civilians incidentally on the other hand. Immunity is standardly defended by appeal to the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). We s…
Morally Permissible Risk Imposition and Liability to Defensive Harm
This paper examines whether an agent becomes liable to defensive harm by engaging in a morally permissible but foreseeably risk-imposing activity that subsequently threatens objectively unjustified harm. It first clarifies the notion of a foreseeably risk-imposing activity by proposing that an activity should count as foreseeably risk-imposing if an agent may morally permissibly perform it only if she abides by certain duties of care. Those who a…
The option value of life
This paper argues that under conditions of uncertainty, there is frequently a positive option value to staying alive when compared to the alternative of dying right away. This value can make it prudentially rational for you to stay alive even if it appears highly unlikely that you have a bright future ahead of you. Drawing on the real options approach to investment analysis, the paper explores the conditions under which there is a positive option…
What Do Business Executives Think About Distributive Justice
While there exist extensive literatures on both distributive justice and senior executive pay, and a number of authors (notably the French economist Thomas Piketty) have addressed the implications of high pay for distributive justice, the existing literature fails to address what senior executives themselves think about distributive justice and whether they consider high income inequalities to be morally acceptable. We address this gap by analysi…
If You Care About a Rule, Why Weaken Its Enforcement Dimension? On a Tension in the War Convention
In War by Agreement (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman argue that the ‘war convention’ – i.e. the international laws and conventions that are widely accepted to govern the use of force between sovereign states – represents a morally binding contract. On their understanding, the war convention replaces a pre-contractual morality governed by principles that so-called reductive individualists hav…
Conceptualising morally permissible risk imposition without quantified individual risks
We frequently engage in activities that impose a risk of serious harm on innocent others in order to realise trivial benefits for ourselves or third parties. Many moral theories tie the evidence-relative permissibility of engaging in such activities to the size of the risk that an individual agent imposes . I argue that we should move away from such a reliance on quantified individual risks when conceptualising morally permissible risk imposition…
Respect for Rights and Liability to Defensive Harm
This paper defends a novel framework for thinking about our rights against being harmed, paying special attention to the conditions under which they are enforceable through a liability mechanism. It contends that a central purpose of our rights is to specify what steps others are required to take, in their role as agents, to avoid harming us. To be geared towards this relational purpose, rights need to be equipped with a subjective component that…
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