James Christensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Christensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Christensen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2722-7486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Justice without millionaires
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Striking and the means principle
Some strikes seem insufficiently discriminating. Rather than being aimed exclusively at potentially ‘legitimate’ targets (e.g., employers who, by refusing to pay a fair wage or provide acceptable working conditions, might have made themselves liable to bear certain costs), these strikes are (also) aimed at individuals who do not seem to be liable. Most problematically, such strikes invite the charge that they harm the innocent opportunistically o…
Using Aid to Control Migration
This article examines the practice of using aid to control migration, which we refer to as ‘inducement aid’. We examine two potential objections to inducement aid, each of which concerns a message that the practice communicates to two corresponding audiences: would-be migrants and other developed states. We suggest that the first objection has intuitive force but is undermined by a powerful reply. This finding seems to bolster the intuitive appea…
The morality of substitution intervention
Throughout the Yemeni Civil War, western states have supplied weapons used in the indiscriminate bombing campaign conducted by the Saudis. In defence of their actions, British politicians have argued that they are exchanging weapons for influence, and using the influence obtained to encourage compliance with humanitarian law. An additional premise in the argument is that Britain is using its influence more benignly than alternative suppliers woul…
Justice for Millionaires
In recent years, much public attention has been devoted to the existence of pay discrepancies between men and women at the upper end of the income scale. For example, there has been considerable discussion of the ‘Hollywood gender pay gap’. We can refer to such discrepancies as cases of millionaire inequality . These cases generate conflicting intuitions. On the one hand, the unequal remuneration involved looks like a troubling case of gender inj…
Selling Arms and Expressing Harm
According to an argument commonly made by politicians, selling weapons to oppressive and aggressive regimes can sometimes be permissible because the sale renders the victims of these regimes no worse off than they would have been had the sale not been made. We can refer to this argument as the inconsequence argument . My primary aim in this article is to identify one reason why the inconsequence argument will often not succeed in vindicating arms…
Arming the Outlaws
There is a general presumption against arming outlaw states. But can that presumption sometimes be overturned? The argument considered here maintains that outlaw states can have legitimate security interests and that transferring weapons to these states can be an appropriate way of promoting those interests. Weapons enable governments to engage in wrongful oppression and aggression, but they also enable them to fend off predators in a manner that…
The role of propensity to trust and the five factor model across the trust process
Fair Trade, Formal Equality, and Preferential Treatment
In this paper I criticize the claim that fair trade entails a commitment to an ideal of formal equality according to which all members of the trade regime are to receive and offer equal, or uniform, treatment. I first elaborate on the idea of formal equality and its rationales, identify several positive arguments for departing from formal equality, and respond to a number of objections to “special and differential treatment” for poor countries. I…
Weapons, Security, and Oppression
In recent years a number of philosophers have begun proposing normative principles to regulate international trade. 2 A fundamental question which must be addressed by any normative account of international trade concerns what can be traded, and with whom.That this question is worth asking reflects the fact that the moral permissibility of trading certain commodities, and the moral permissibility of trading certain commodities with particular age…
Arming the Outlaws
There is a general presumption against arming outlaw states. But can that presumption sometimes be overturned? The argument considered here maintains that outlaw states can have legitimate security interests and that transferring weapons to these states can be an appropriate way of promoting those interests. Weapons enable governments to engage in wrongful oppression and aggression, but they also enable them to fend off predators in a manner that…
Weapons, Security, and Oppression
In recent years a number of philosophers have begun proposing normative principles to regulate international trade. 2 A fundamental question which must be addressed by any normative account of international trade concerns what can be traded, and with whom.That this question is worth asking reflects the fact that the moral permissibility of trading certain commodities, and the moral permissibility of trading certain commodities with particular age…
Using Aid to Control Migration
This article examines the practice of using aid to control migration, which we refer to as ‘inducement aid’. We examine two potential objections to inducement aid, each of which concerns a message that the practice communicates to two corresponding audiences: would-be migrants and other developed states. We suggest that the first objection has intuitive force but is undermined by a powerful reply. This finding seems to bolster the intuitive appea…
The role of propensity to trust and the five factor model across the trust process
Weapons, Security, and Oppression
In recent years a number of philosophers have begun proposing normative principles to regulate international trade. 2 A fundamental question which must be addressed by any normative account of international trade concerns what can be traded, and with whom.That this question is worth asking reflects the fact that the moral permissibility of trading certain commodities, and the moral permissibility of trading certain commodities with particular age…
Fair Trade, Formal Equality, and Preferential Treatment
In this paper I criticize the claim that fair trade entails a commitment to an ideal of formal equality according to which all members of the trade regime are to receive and offer equal, or uniform, treatment. I first elaborate on the idea of formal equality and its rationales, identify several positive arguments for departing from formal equality, and respond to a number of objections to “special and differential treatment” for poor countries. I…
The role of propensity to trust and the five factor model across the trust process
Arming the Outlaws
There is a general presumption against arming outlaw states. But can that presumption sometimes be overturned? The argument considered here maintains that outlaw states can have legitimate security interests and that transferring weapons to these states can be an appropriate way of promoting those interests. Weapons enable governments to engage in wrongful oppression and aggression, but they also enable them to fend off predators in a manner that…
Justice for Millionaires
In recent years, much public attention has been devoted to the existence of pay discrepancies between men and women at the upper end of the income scale. For example, there has been considerable discussion of the ‘Hollywood gender pay gap’. We can refer to such discrepancies as cases of millionaire inequality . These cases generate conflicting intuitions. On the one hand, the unequal remuneration involved looks like a troubling case of gender inj…
Selling Arms and Expressing Harm
According to an argument commonly made by politicians, selling weapons to oppressive and aggressive regimes can sometimes be permissible because the sale renders the victims of these regimes no worse off than they would have been had the sale not been made. We can refer to this argument as the inconsequence argument . My primary aim in this article is to identify one reason why the inconsequence argument will often not succeed in vindicating arms…
The morality of substitution intervention
Throughout the Yemeni Civil War, western states have supplied weapons used in the indiscriminate bombing campaign conducted by the Saudis. In defence of their actions, British politicians have argued that they are exchanging weapons for influence, and using the influence obtained to encourage compliance with humanitarian law. An additional premise in the argument is that Britain is using its influence more benignly than alternative suppliers woul…
Using Aid to Control Migration
This article examines the practice of using aid to control migration, which we refer to as ‘inducement aid’. We examine two potential objections to inducement aid, each of which concerns a message that the practice communicates to two corresponding audiences: would-be migrants and other developed states. We suggest that the first objection has intuitive force but is undermined by a powerful reply. This finding seems to bolster the intuitive appea…
Justice without millionaires
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Striking and the means principle
Some strikes seem insufficiently discriminating. Rather than being aimed exclusively at potentially ‘legitimate’ targets (e.g., employers who, by refusing to pay a fair wage or provide acceptable working conditions, might have made themselves liable to bear certain costs), these strikes are (also) aimed at individuals who do not seem to be liable. Most problematically, such strikes invite the charge that they harm the innocent opportunistically o…
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