Harm and Climate Change, Part 1
May 13, 2013
The recent report about atmospheric C02 levels reaching the symbolic level of 400 parts per million calls attention to some of the issues dealt with in the Philosophy Department’s Environmental Ethics module. Suppose you are engaged in an activity that causes significant harm to others. It forces them out of their homes, raises the cost …
Measles, Mill, Madoff
April 26, 2013
What can the state legitimately compel its citizens to do? This is not a question about the means of compulsion (e.g. criminal vs. civil law; incentives vs. penalties) but the question of whether such compulsion is ever justified. There are good reasons to think not. Â One is that it is usually the individual who is …
