Tamsin Donaldson
Biographic Data
| ID | 672117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamsin Donaldson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamsin |
| FAMILY NAME | Donaldson |
| SIGNATURE | DONALDSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1521-6643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When are Customer Boycotts Permissible
This paper examines ethical customer boycotts, instances where individuals choose to boycott for ethical reasons. By focusing on the commercial freedom of the customer, it offers a new framework for distinguishing between permissible and impermissible boycotts. It concludes that individual ethical boycotts are almost never morally impermissible. The scope of the paper is limited. It does not attempt to answer the important question of when an ind…
Business Ethics in a Multipolar World
A teacher–student dynamic has long shaped the West’s approach to business ethics, one relying on Eurocentric moral frameworks to instruct non-Western cultures. This approach presumes the superiority of Eurocentric concepts but is fraying badly. New realities, especially the Global South’s growing military and commercial power, epitomized by BRICS and the SCA (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), have fueled a return to indigenous cultural roots. F…
Intrinsic Values and Human Rights: Corporate Duties Depend on Industry Values
Drawing on the work of Donaldson and Walsh, this article explains why for-profit companies in industries denominated by intrinsic values such as health, education and justice, have heavier responsibilities when it comes to honouring the human rights reflected in their industry identity. Optimized collective value, the overarching aim of any system of business, is defined in terms of the satisfaction of intrinsic values, a definition that gives sp…
David Armstrong on the Metaphysics of Mathematics
This paper has two components. The first, longer component (sec. 1-6) is a critical exposition of Armstrong's views about the metaphysics of mathematics, as they are presented in Truth and Truthmakers and Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics. In particular, I discuss Armstrong's views about the nature of the cardinal numbers, and his account of how modal truths are made true. In the second component of the paper (sec. 7), which is shorter and more…
Justice
Any inquiry about “the circumstances of justice” is ultimately one about the scope of justice.
International Business Ethics
A blizzard of ethical issues surrounds transnational corporations. The most‐discussed involve labor standards, marketing practices, tax policy, economic impact, human rights, host government relations, and environmental responsibilities. Two distinct schools of thought have arisen about transnational responsibilities: the “minimalist” and “maximalist.” The minimalist argues that a transnational corporation's moral responsibilities are linked tigh…
Integrative Social Contracts Theory
Integrative social contracts theory (ISCT) is a normative theory of business ethics.
From speaking Ngiyampaa to speaking English
Note: Shaded area shows the ngurrampaa or 'camp-world' in which the oldest generation of today's Ngiyampaa speakers grew up. Places where later generations grew up are marked with dates showing when people were concentrated or shifted there
Coming up out of the nhaalya: Reminiscences of the life of Eliza Kennedy
In this paper Ngiyampaa words are spelt according to the practical orthography adopted by the community since Donaldson's (1980) Ngiyambaa the language of the Wangaaybuuian was published. Wangaaypuwan was com m only spelt W ongaibon in earlier ethnographic records. Paakantji, too, is the spelling used in the community's readers. It has been rendered as Bagundjior Barkindji. Hercus (1982) uses Bgandji. There is no pracucal orthography for
What’s in a name? An etymological view of land, language and social identification from central western New South Wales
Prehistorians, historians, linguists -people working in each of the disciplines represented at meetings of the Southeast Australia Study Group -are all interested in finding answers of one kind or another to the question 'Who was where when in southeast Australia?' This paper is about Aboriginal views of Aboriginal distribution. In it I draw heavily on what I have learned from a small group of people who still speak their ancestral language, and …
Translating oral literature: Aboriginal song texts
This essay discusses what is involved in making oral literature in Australian languages, especially songs, accessible to speakers of English. It offers a variety of linguistic, technical and above all historical and cultural reasons why so little has been attempted, and why so few of the attempts have been successful. One group of examples of oral literature given, were contributed by the last generation of the Wangaaybuwan people who can still s…
An Economic and Ethical Approach to Charity and to Charity Endowments
We examine how and why donors divide gifts between people in the present (across distance) and between the present and future (across time). US donors tend to give less to charities that benefit the poor and more to charities that benefit the non-poor (such as museums, universities, and arts organizations). Many of these wealthier charities have created endowments that benefit not only present persons, but also future persons. We develop a shorth…
'What They Call That in the Whites?': Ngiyampaa and Other Placenames in a New South Wales Ngurrampaa
The Business Ethics of Bioethics Consulting
In examining the question, How can bioethicists consult ethically. I want to draw lessons from the field of business ethics. Not only does the business ethics literature offer concepts that shed light on issues of conflict of interest in a for-profit environment, but business ethicists inside and outside academe have consulted actively to corporations for over a decade and have learned from their experience. Leading consulting firms and many acco…
The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications
International Deontology Defended: A Response to Russell Hardin
Donaldson argues that agreeing with Hardin to banish deontological justifications from international discussion amounts to abandoning the power of deontology to interpret political intent and to establish hard limits on political behavior. The moral language of deontology may not be sufficient for the moral interpretation of international affairs, he admits, but does turn out to be necessary
Toward a Unified Conception of Business Ethics: Integrative Social Contracts Theory
The Six Nations of New York
The Six Nations of New York. The 1892 Extra Census Bulletin
Morally privileged relationships
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
What Justice Demands
*0034–6764/82/1201–301/$1.50/0. Notes *0034–6764/82/1201–301/$1.50/0
Business Ethics: The Present and the Future
Even casual awareness of that fragment of recent intellectual history related to corporate behavior should dispel the belief that scholarly interest in business ethics represents a kneejerk reaction to the Gulf, Lockheed, and similar fiascoes. Such interest has been simmering for a long time. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since William Ruder, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy Administration, completed a government-sponsored survey…
A mistake in Anscombe's account of voluntary action
Doorframes on the Earliest Orissan Temples
Translating oral literature: Aboriginal song texts
This essay discusses what is involved in making oral literature in Australian languages, especially songs, accessible to speakers of English. It offers a variety of linguistic, technical and above all historical and cultural reasons why so little has been attempted, and why so few of the attempts have been successful. One group of examples of oral literature given, were contributed by the last generation of the Wangaaybuwan people who can still s…
Coming up out of the nhaalya: Reminiscences of the life of Eliza Kennedy
In this paper Ngiyampaa words are spelt according to the practical orthography adopted by the community since Donaldson's (1980) Ngiyambaa the language of the Wangaaybuuian was published. Wangaaypuwan was com m only spelt W ongaibon in earlier ethnographic records. Paakantji, too, is the spelling used in the community's readers. It has been rendered as Bagundjior Barkindji. Hercus (1982) uses Bgandji. There is no pracucal orthography for
What’s in a name? An etymological view of land, language and social identification from central western New South Wales
Prehistorians, historians, linguists -people working in each of the disciplines represented at meetings of the Southeast Australia Study Group -are all interested in finding answers of one kind or another to the question 'Who was where when in southeast Australia?' This paper is about Aboriginal views of Aboriginal distribution. In it I draw heavily on what I have learned from a small group of people who still speak their ancestral language, and …
International Deontology Defended: A Response to Russell Hardin
Donaldson argues that agreeing with Hardin to banish deontological justifications from international discussion amounts to abandoning the power of deontology to interpret political intent and to establish hard limits on political behavior. The moral language of deontology may not be sufficient for the moral interpretation of international affairs, he admits, but does turn out to be necessary
What Justice Demands
*0034–6764/82/1201–301/$1.50/0. Notes *0034–6764/82/1201–301/$1.50/0
Propitious-Apotropaic Eroticism in the Art of Orissa
Doorframes on the Earliest Orissan Temples
A mistake in Anscombe's account of voluntary action
Business Ethics: The Present and the Future
Even casual awareness of that fragment of recent intellectual history related to corporate behavior should dispel the belief that scholarly interest in business ethics represents a kneejerk reaction to the Gulf, Lockheed, and similar fiascoes. Such interest has been simmering for a long time. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since William Ruder, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy Administration, completed a government-sponsored survey…
What Justice Demands
*0034–6764/82/1201–301/$1.50/0. Notes *0034–6764/82/1201–301/$1.50/0
Morally privileged relationships
Songs of Aboriginal Australia
Toward a Unified Conception of Business Ethics: Integrative Social Contracts Theory
The Six Nations of New York
The Six Nations of New York. The 1892 Extra Census Bulletin
The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications
International Deontology Defended: A Response to Russell Hardin
Donaldson argues that agreeing with Hardin to banish deontological justifications from international discussion amounts to abandoning the power of deontology to interpret political intent and to establish hard limits on political behavior. The moral language of deontology may not be sufficient for the moral interpretation of international affairs, he admits, but does turn out to be necessary
The Business Ethics of Bioethics Consulting
In examining the question, How can bioethicists consult ethically. I want to draw lessons from the field of business ethics. Not only does the business ethics literature offer concepts that shed light on issues of conflict of interest in a for-profit environment, but business ethicists inside and outside academe have consulted actively to corporations for over a decade and have learned from their experience. Leading consulting firms and many acco…
'What They Call That in the Whites?': Ngiyampaa and Other Placenames in a New South Wales Ngurrampaa
An Economic and Ethical Approach to Charity and to Charity Endowments
We examine how and why donors divide gifts between people in the present (across distance) and between the present and future (across time). US donors tend to give less to charities that benefit the poor and more to charities that benefit the non-poor (such as museums, universities, and arts organizations). Many of these wealthier charities have created endowments that benefit not only present persons, but also future persons. We develop a shorth…
From speaking Ngiyampaa to speaking English
Note: Shaded area shows the ngurrampaa or 'camp-world' in which the oldest generation of today's Ngiyampaa speakers grew up. Places where later generations grew up are marked with dates showing when people were concentrated or shifted there
Coming up out of the nhaalya: Reminiscences of the life of Eliza Kennedy
In this paper Ngiyampaa words are spelt according to the practical orthography adopted by the community since Donaldson's (1980) Ngiyambaa the language of the Wangaaybuuian was published. Wangaaypuwan was com m only spelt W ongaibon in earlier ethnographic records. Paakantji, too, is the spelling used in the community's readers. It has been rendered as Bagundjior Barkindji. Hercus (1982) uses Bgandji. There is no pracucal orthography for
What’s in a name? An etymological view of land, language and social identification from central western New South Wales
Prehistorians, historians, linguists -people working in each of the disciplines represented at meetings of the Southeast Australia Study Group -are all interested in finding answers of one kind or another to the question 'Who was where when in southeast Australia?' This paper is about Aboriginal views of Aboriginal distribution. In it I draw heavily on what I have learned from a small group of people who still speak their ancestral language, and …
Translating oral literature: Aboriginal song texts
This essay discusses what is involved in making oral literature in Australian languages, especially songs, accessible to speakers of English. It offers a variety of linguistic, technical and above all historical and cultural reasons why so little has been attempted, and why so few of the attempts have been successful. One group of examples of oral literature given, were contributed by the last generation of the Wangaaybuwan people who can still s…
Justice
Any inquiry about “the circumstances of justice” is ultimately one about the scope of justice.
International Business Ethics
A blizzard of ethical issues surrounds transnational corporations. The most‐discussed involve labor standards, marketing practices, tax policy, economic impact, human rights, host government relations, and environmental responsibilities. Two distinct schools of thought have arisen about transnational responsibilities: the “minimalist” and “maximalist.” The minimalist argues that a transnational corporation's moral responsibilities are linked tigh…
Integrative Social Contracts Theory
Integrative social contracts theory (ISCT) is a normative theory of business ethics.
David Armstrong on the Metaphysics of Mathematics
This paper has two components. The first, longer component (sec. 1-6) is a critical exposition of Armstrong's views about the metaphysics of mathematics, as they are presented in Truth and Truthmakers and Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics. In particular, I discuss Armstrong's views about the nature of the cardinal numbers, and his account of how modal truths are made true. In the second component of the paper (sec. 7), which is shorter and more…
Intrinsic Values and Human Rights: Corporate Duties Depend on Industry Values
Drawing on the work of Donaldson and Walsh, this article explains why for-profit companies in industries denominated by intrinsic values such as health, education and justice, have heavier responsibilities when it comes to honouring the human rights reflected in their industry identity. Optimized collective value, the overarching aim of any system of business, is defined in terms of the satisfaction of intrinsic values, a definition that gives sp…
Business Ethics in a Multipolar World
A teacher–student dynamic has long shaped the West’s approach to business ethics, one relying on Eurocentric moral frameworks to instruct non-Western cultures. This approach presumes the superiority of Eurocentric concepts but is fraying badly. New realities, especially the Global South’s growing military and commercial power, epitomized by BRICS and the SCA (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), have fueled a return to indigenous cultural roots. F…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · History (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Ethics in Business and Education (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)