Thomas Schramme
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Schramme |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Schramme |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRAMME T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6319-6635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sufficiency, Sufficientarianism, and Limits in the Context of Ecological Crisis
The debate on sufficiency has gained momentum in the last few years. Within political philosophy, a group of theories gathered under the label of sufficientarianism has established itself as a cont...
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science
The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural critic…
Empathy as a means to understand people
Misunderstanding other people can be interpreted as the result of an insufficient performance of people's skills to understand other persons and their experiences.But what does understand mean in these contexts?And what are the relevant skills that need to be engaged to successfully understand other people?I argue that understanding other people is a form of recognition of the epistemic validity of another person's perspective.I claim that minima…
Can We Measure the Badness of Death for the Person who Dies
I aim to show that the common idea according to which we can assess how bad death is for the person who dies relies on numerous dubious premises. These premises are intuitive from the point of view of dominant views regarding the badness of death. However, unless these premises have been thoroughly justified, we cannot measure the badness of death for the person who dies. In this paper, I will make explicit assumptions that pertain to the alleged…
Capable deliberators
It is widely assumed that severe mental disabilities prevent relevant deliberative capacities from developing or persisting. Accordingly, excluding many people with mental disabilities from discourse practices seems justified. Against this common assumption I wish to show that the general exclusion is not justified and amounts to a form of epistemic injustice, as theorised by Miranda Fricker. The received norm of capable deliberators is connected…
Need-Based Justice from the Perspective of Philosophy
“Properly a Subject of Contempt”
has become an iconic figure of liberalism. Nevertheless, his credentials as a liberal have occasionally been doubted. For instance, in a recent study, Gregory Claeys claims: "We make Mill 'liberal' by rendering invisible his illiberal themes, in a manner not unlike the old Stalinist erasing of unpersons from pictures." 1 Anti-liberal strands in Mill's work have been alleged before. In particular, Mill allows and even encourages certain interactio…
Who cares what the people think? Revisiting David Miller’s approach to theorising about justice
John Stuart Mill
This work provides an interpretation of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859) and elucidates the fundamental principles of Mill’s concept of liberty. For Mill, the right to form one’s own convictions and live according to them should only be infringed upon for one reason, namely “to prevent harm to others”.
New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
John Stuart Mill
Das Ideal der Individualität und seine Begründung
When consumers make environmentally unfriendly choices
A set of strategies that argue in favour of reducing carbon emissions by restricting private consumer choices on the grounds of their environmental implications are addressed. A number of ways to criticise and ban environmentally unfriendly consumption on the basis of the liberal harm principle and ideas of over- and mis-consumption are discussed. In the final analysis, doubts remain regarding the normative plausibility and political effectivenes…
On the Relationship between Political Philosophy and Empirical Sciences
In this paper, I will focus on the role that findings of the empirical sciences might play in justifying normative claims in political philosophy. In the first section, I will describe how political theory has become a discipline divorced from empirical sciences, against a strong current in post-war political philosophy. I then argue that Rawls’s idea of reflective equilibrium, rightly interpreted, leads to a perspective on the matter of justific…
Begründungsmodelle des Sozialstaats
This essay is concerned with different strategies of justifying a welfare state. I begin with a description of the formal aims of its different versions. I then vindicate the transformation of mutual civic responsibilities into state-controlled institutions. In the main part I develop three accounts that are typically brought forward in order to justify particular institutions of a welfare state. These models focus on freedom, equality, and secur…
Is Rawlsian Justice Bad for the Environment
In this paper I show that Rawls’s contract apparatus in A Theory of Justice depends on a particular presumption that is in conflict with the goal of conserving environmental resources. He presumes that parties in the original position want as many resources as possible. I challenge Rawls’s approach by introducing a rational alternative to maximising. The strategy of satisficing merely goes for what is good enough. However, it seems that under con…
Leftovers as party-poopers
Natürlichkeit als Wert
The predicate “natural” is often used in a normative fashion, especially in Bioethics. But that something is natural does not alone suffice to explain its value. In this essay, I want to fulfil mainly two tasks: Firstly, to differentiate between several usages of the concept of naturalness and scrutinize whether they may serve a function in ethics; secondly, to argue for the (eudaimonistic, not moral) value of naturalness in certain respects. The…
Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ohne Verteilungsgleichheit
Alternative approaches in the discussion of distributive justice differ in their answers to the question „equality of what“? In this essay I intend to ask instead ,why equality?" The article rejects several arguments in favour of distributive equality, mainly on the grounds that they confuse two different kinds of justice, namely ,formal’ justice (equal respect) and distributive justice. The ideal of distributive equality is based on comparisons …
Capable deliberators
It is widely assumed that severe mental disabilities prevent relevant deliberative capacities from developing or persisting. Accordingly, excluding many people with mental disabilities from discourse practices seems justified. Against this common assumption I wish to show that the general exclusion is not justified and amounts to a form of epistemic injustice, as theorised by Miranda Fricker. The received norm of capable deliberators is connected…
Is Rawlsian Justice Bad for the Environment
In this paper I show that Rawls’s contract apparatus in A Theory of Justice depends on a particular presumption that is in conflict with the goal of conserving environmental resources. He presumes that parties in the original position want as many resources as possible. I challenge Rawls’s approach by introducing a rational alternative to maximising. The strategy of satisficing merely goes for what is good enough. However, it seems that under con…
Leftovers as party-poopers
Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ohne Verteilungsgleichheit
Alternative approaches in the discussion of distributive justice differ in their answers to the question „equality of what“? In this essay I intend to ask instead ,why equality?" The article rejects several arguments in favour of distributive equality, mainly on the grounds that they confuse two different kinds of justice, namely ,formal’ justice (equal respect) and distributive justice. The ideal of distributive equality is based on comparisons …
Natürlichkeit als Wert
The predicate “natural” is often used in a normative fashion, especially in Bioethics. But that something is natural does not alone suffice to explain its value. In this essay, I want to fulfil mainly two tasks: Firstly, to differentiate between several usages of the concept of naturalness and scrutinize whether they may serve a function in ethics; secondly, to argue for the (eudaimonistic, not moral) value of naturalness in certain respects. The…
Begründungsmodelle des Sozialstaats
This essay is concerned with different strategies of justifying a welfare state. I begin with a description of the formal aims of its different versions. I then vindicate the transformation of mutual civic responsibilities into state-controlled institutions. In the main part I develop three accounts that are typically brought forward in order to justify particular institutions of a welfare state. These models focus on freedom, equality, and secur…
Is Rawlsian Justice Bad for the Environment
In this paper I show that Rawls’s contract apparatus in A Theory of Justice depends on a particular presumption that is in conflict with the goal of conserving environmental resources. He presumes that parties in the original position want as many resources as possible. I challenge Rawls’s approach by introducing a rational alternative to maximising. The strategy of satisficing merely goes for what is good enough. However, it seems that under con…
Leftovers as party-poopers
On the Relationship between Political Philosophy and Empirical Sciences
In this paper, I will focus on the role that findings of the empirical sciences might play in justifying normative claims in political philosophy. In the first section, I will describe how political theory has become a discipline divorced from empirical sciences, against a strong current in post-war political philosophy. I then argue that Rawls’s idea of reflective equilibrium, rightly interpreted, leads to a perspective on the matter of justific…
When consumers make environmentally unfriendly choices
A set of strategies that argue in favour of reducing carbon emissions by restricting private consumer choices on the grounds of their environmental implications are addressed. A number of ways to criticise and ban environmentally unfriendly consumption on the basis of the liberal harm principle and ideas of over- and mis-consumption are discussed. In the final analysis, doubts remain regarding the normative plausibility and political effectivenes…
John Stuart Mill
This work provides an interpretation of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859) and elucidates the fundamental principles of Mill’s concept of liberty. For Mill, the right to form one’s own convictions and live according to them should only be infringed upon for one reason, namely “to prevent harm to others”.
New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
John Stuart Mill
Das Ideal der Individualität und seine Begründung
Who cares what the people think? Revisiting David Miller’s approach to theorising about justice
Need-Based Justice from the Perspective of Philosophy
“Properly a Subject of Contempt”
has become an iconic figure of liberalism. Nevertheless, his credentials as a liberal have occasionally been doubted. For instance, in a recent study, Gregory Claeys claims: "We make Mill 'liberal' by rendering invisible his illiberal themes, in a manner not unlike the old Stalinist erasing of unpersons from pictures." 1 Anti-liberal strands in Mill's work have been alleged before. In particular, Mill allows and even encourages certain interactio…
Can We Measure the Badness of Death for the Person who Dies
I aim to show that the common idea according to which we can assess how bad death is for the person who dies relies on numerous dubious premises. These premises are intuitive from the point of view of dominant views regarding the badness of death. However, unless these premises have been thoroughly justified, we cannot measure the badness of death for the person who dies. In this paper, I will make explicit assumptions that pertain to the alleged…
Capable deliberators
It is widely assumed that severe mental disabilities prevent relevant deliberative capacities from developing or persisting. Accordingly, excluding many people with mental disabilities from discourse practices seems justified. Against this common assumption I wish to show that the general exclusion is not justified and amounts to a form of epistemic injustice, as theorised by Miranda Fricker. The received norm of capable deliberators is connected…
Empathy as a means to understand people
Misunderstanding other people can be interpreted as the result of an insufficient performance of people's skills to understand other persons and their experiences.But what does understand mean in these contexts?And what are the relevant skills that need to be engaged to successfully understand other people?I argue that understanding other people is a form of recognition of the epistemic validity of another person's perspective.I claim that minima…
Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science
The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural critic…
Sufficiency, Sufficientarianism, and Limits in the Context of Ecological Crisis
The debate on sufficiency has gained momentum in the last few years. Within political philosophy, a group of theories gathered under the label of sufficientarianism has established itself as a cont...
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