Do I Make a Difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6325659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelly Kagan (0000-0002-0928-2353, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-141 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy & Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3915 • E-ISSN: 1088-4963 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2011.01203.x |
| OpenAlex | W1488737999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
Citation · Library science · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Right Research
How you can help, without making a difference
Charity vs. Revolution
‘Pass the Cocoamone, Please’
Parfit's Ethics
Structural Injustice and Individual Responsibility
The Utilitarian's Global Warming Problem (Why Utilitarians Should Be Social Identity Theorists)
Forms of Life, Honesty and Conditioned Responsibility
Hermeneutical Injustice and Innovation
Why Fly? Prudential Value, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Long-distance Leisure Travel
Common Knowledge
Do We Have the Right to Punish Each Other
Procreation, Footprint and Responsibility for Climate Change
Harm, Insignificant Effects, and the Morality of Procreation
Individual Responsibility, Large-Scale Harms, and Radical Uncertainty
Individual Responsibility to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Kantian Deontological Perspective
On the difficulty in fearing well about climate change
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust
The New ‘Parent’ Corporation (Moral Responsibility for Sophisticated AI Systems)
Sweatshops and Free Action
Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference
The inefficacy objection and new ethical veganism
Respect for Nature, Respect for Persons, Respect for Value
On the Relation Between Collective Responsibility and Collective Duties
An intrapersonal, intertemporal solution to an interpersonal dilemma
The psychological basis of collective action
The problem of insignificant hands
Reasons for action
The problem of collective impact
At least you tried
Indeterminacy and collective harms
Letting others do wrong
Regulating misinformation online
The non-compliance dilemma for team reasoning views of collective moral duties
Cooperation – Kantian-style
Strategic collective action and the proportionality of reasons to expected benefits
Making a vague difference
Collective Actions, Individual Reasons, and the Metaphysics of Consequence
Consequentialism and Collective Action
Counting Your Chickens
Veganism, Animal Welfare, and Causal Impotence
Reclaiming Everyday Peace
Can We Eat Animals Whose Existence Depends on It
Separating the Wrong of Settlement from the Right to Exclude
Ethical Veganism and Free Riding
Legality and Commitment
Consumer Complicity and the Problem of Individual Causal Efficacy
Kantian Free Riding
Difference‐Making Under Metaphysical Indeterminacy
Climate Change
Climate change and economic sanctions
You Can’t Have Your Steak and Call for Political Action on Climate Change, Too
Justifying Subsistence Emissions
Exemplars and Individual Responsibility in Agency-Stultifying Situations
Climate change and individual duties
Ethical consumerism
Global poverty, global sacrifices, and natural resource reforms
Cooperative duties of efficiency and efficacy
Are ‘the affluent’ responsible for global poverty
Individual contributions to collective harm
Law and Morality at War Adil Ahmad Haque
Towards a non-ideal theory of climate migration
Does Purchasing Make Consumers Complicit in Global Labour Injustice
Backward-Looking Principles of Climate Justice
Co-responsibility for Individualists
Libertarianism, Climate Change, and Individual Responsibility
Let Them Eat Plants! Two Arguments for Raising Children on a (Predominantly) Plant-Based Diet
Taxing Meat
Vegan with Traces of Animal-Derived Ingredients? Improving the Vegan Society’s Labelling
Introduction to the Special Issue on Individual Environmental Responsibility
Distributing States' Duties
The Universal Scope of Positive Duties Correlative to Human Rights
Participation and Degrees
Green Votes not Green Virtues
Indeterminacy in Global Warming
The Significance of Tiny Contributions
The Vegan's Dilemma
Unethical Consumption and Obligations to Signal
Olmsted's Police
The pervasive structure of society
Regretful Decisions and Climate Change
Responsibility for strategic ignorance
Indeterminacy and impotence
Collective inaction, omission, and non-action
Increasing the risk that someone will die without increasing the risk that you will kill them
Doing your part
Racial Profiling And Cumulative Injustice
A Kantian solution to the problem of imperceptible differences
Political Theory on Climate Change
Morality and Diachronic Choice
Rethinking the Ethics of GenAI in Higher Education
Why it Can Be Permissible to Have Kids in the Climate Emergency
Why you shouldn’t serve meat at your next catered event
Essentially Aggregative Harm, Restraint, and Collectivization
Climate Change and the Politics of Responsibility
Collective harm and the inefficacy problem
Veganism as Left Praxis
Implicit Coordination
| Unique citing works | 98 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |