Journal of Global Ethics

  • Co-existential justice and individual freedom: the primary concern and the normative foundation of global ethics
    Journal of Global Ethics10 January 2025By An-qing Deng The Research Centre for Global Ethics, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of ChinaAn-qing Deng, a professor of philosophy, writes on both classical German philosophy and history of ethics. Among his recent books are A General History of Western Moral Philosophy (Introductory Volume): Existential Ethics (Shanghai 2022) and A General History of Western Moral Philosophy (Modern Volume I): Enlightenment Ethics and Classical Utilitarianism (Shanghai 2024).
  • Human Rights matter: a reassertion of the UN charter and UDHR core values in turbulent times
    Journal of Global Ethics18 December 2024By Bas de Gaay Fortman M. A. Mohamed Salih a Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlandsb International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, NetherlandsBas (Bastiaan) de Gaay Fortman (PhD, Free University of Amsterdam 1966), is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the Netherlands (1972-2002) and Professor of Political Economy of Human Rights at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2002-2007). He has a sermon consent from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN). His several books include: (with M. A. Mohamed Salih, eds.), Hermeneutics, Scriptural Politics, and Human Rights: Between Text and Context (Palgrave Macmillan 2009); and Political Economy of Human Rights. Rights, Realities and Realization (Routledge 2012). A recent co-authored article (with Michela Marcatelli) is titled ‘Between Soft Legality and Strong Legitimacy: A Political Economy Approach to the Struggle for Basic Entitlements to Safe Water and Sanitation’, Human Rights Quarterly, November 2015M. A. Mohamed Salih (PhD in Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester, UK 1983) is Emeritus Professor of Politics of Development at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He is Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate for contributing to the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) Fourth Assessment Report on Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Professor Salih was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (2007) in Theology by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He published on political institutions, including Islamic political parties, ethnicity and the state, and politics of development, environment and climate change.
  • On the need for a global AI ethics
    Journal of Global Ethics29 November 2024By Björn Lundgren Eleonora Catena Ian Robertson Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum Ibifuro Robert Jaja Leonard Dung a Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germanyb Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Swedenc Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, GermanyBjörn Lundgren is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He specializes in AI ethics, information ethics, and privacy. He is presently interested in questions related to methods of doing ethics—in particular, as it pertains to the above-mentioned topics.Eleonora Catena is a PhD student at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She works in AI ethics, focusing on how AI affects the concept and exercise of human autonomy.Ian Robertson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He specializes in epistemology, the philosophy of cognitive science, and the philosophy of AI. He is presently interested in how the way we learn from AI systems structurally parallels with the way we learn from expert testimony.Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum is a PhD student at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He works on risks from AI systems with a focus on commonly under-specified concepts like goals, agency, manipulation and planning.Ibifuro Robert Jaja is a PhD student at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She works on AI governance, particularly exploring how regulations balance innovation with ethical considerations.Leonard Dung is a postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr-University Bochum. He specializes in philosophy of mind and AI and in applied ethics. In particular, much of his research concerns question of the nature, distribution and ethics of consciousness and agency, widely construed.
  • Mental disorder-related stigma: a lived experience lens
    Journal of Global Ethics25 November 2024By Snita Ahir-Knight Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Wellington, New ZealandDr Snita Ahir-Knight (she/her), Lecturer, is the Programme Lead for the lived experience education and research programme World of Difference | He Ao Whakatoihara kore within the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She was previously a visiting research scholar in philosophy and a teaching fellow in ethics at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Snita is a trained child and adolescent therapist, and social worker. She has more than 15 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit, community and mental health sectors in New Zealand and the UK. Her academic background is philosophy; however, her not-for-profit, community and mental health work background alongside her lived experience are important components of how she approaches her teaching and research.
  • A call for solidarity and progress: efforts in development ethics bridging both theory and practice based within North America
    Journal of Global Ethics25 November 2024By Chloe Schwenke Center for Values in International Development, Washington, DC, USADr. Chloe Schwenke is a development ethicist, researcher, academic, writer, and international development practitioner. She currently serves as the president and founder of the non-profit Center for Values in International Development. Chloe is an experienced leader and manager of non-profit organizations, having served previously in the Washington DC region as vice president of Freedom House, as research director at the International Center for Research on Women, and at USAID as Senior Advisor on Democracy, Rights and Governance in Africa, as a political appointee in the Obama administration. She has technical expertise in applied ethics & human rights, ethics of Artificial Intelligence, LGBTQI+ concerns, gender equality and social inclusion, transformational leadership, and public policy. She has both North American and international work experience in 42 countries, and she has lived and worked in East and South Asia, the Middle East (including the Gaza Strip and West Bank), Eastern Europe, and Africa for more than 15 years, with very recent work experience in Bangladesh and India. Chloe earned her doctorate in public policy from the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and her master’s degree from Georgetown University. She is on the adjunct faculty of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.
  • Ethics amid crises
    Journal of Global Ethics14 November 2024By Anthony J. Langlois Stan Perron Dean of Applied Ethics, Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaProfessor Anthony J. Langlois is the Stan Perron Dean of Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Business & Law at Curtin University, where he leads the Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics. He was educated at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University.
  • The need to rethink a hospitable world
    Journal of Global Ethics08 November 2024By Maxime Lallement Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UKMaxime Lallement is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests include contemporary French philosophy, bio-power and biopolitics and the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem.
  • Global solidarity
    Journal of Global Ethics08 November 2024By Tuğba Sevinç Core Program, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TurkeyTuğba Sevinç is an instructor of philosophy at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, specializing in social and political philosophy, with a particular focus on theories of solidarity and social unity, Rawls's political liberalism, liberal nationalism, and Philip Pettit's republicanism.
  • Sustainable development goals and Gandhian constructive programs: pluriversal evolutionary flourishing, transcivilizational dialogues and planetary realizations
    Journal of Global Ethics05 November 2024By Ananta Kumar Giri Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, IndiaAnanta Kumar Giri works as a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Professor Giri has written, edited, co-edited and translated around six dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023); Covid-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility (co-editor, 2024); Social Healing (2023) and Cultivating Integral Development (2023).
  • Global justice research: some priorities
    Journal of Global Ethics05 November 2024By Gillian Brock Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandGillian Brock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has published widely on issues in political and social philosophy, ethics, and applied ethics. Her books include Corruption and Global Justice (Oxford University Press, 2023), Justice for People on the Move: Migration in Challenging Times (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account (Oxford University Press, 2009), Global Health Ethics: New Challenges (with Solomon Benatar, Cambridge 2020), Debating Brain Drain (with Michael Blake, Oxford 2015), and Political Theory and Migration (Polity, 2021).
  • Rethinking the theory and practice of global development
    Journal of Global Ethics30 October 2024By Anna Malavisi Department of History, Philosophy and World Perspectives, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, USAAnna Malavisi is a philosopher, development ethicist and peace activist. She is currently an associate professor and associate chair of the Department of History, Philosophy and World Perspectives at Western Connecticut State University and the vice-president of the Center for Values in International Development. Anna has a number of publications on development ethics and related issues including a book titled: Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice: Rethinking the Theory and Practice.
  • Special Issue: Climate Justice and the Global Development Crisis
    Journal of Global Ethics02 October 2024By Anna Malavisi Tom Hilde Krushil Watene a Western Connecticut State University, USAb University of Maryland, USAc University of Auckland, NZAnna Malavisi is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy and World Perspectives at Western Connecticut State University and Vice-President of the Center for Values in International Development. Anna has a number of publications on development ethics and related issues including a book titled: Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice: Rethinking the Theory and Practice.Tom Hilde is a Research Professor and Head of the Environment/Energy/Sustainability focus area in the School of Public Policy. He is also Co-Director of the Indonesia Program at the Center for Global Sustainability.Krushil Watene is Peter Kraus Associate Professor of Philosophy at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland with affiliations to Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua o Orākei in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Vava'u in Tonga.
  • Zhuangzi on not following the leader
    Journal of Global Ethics24 September 2024By David B. Wong David B. Wong is Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He has authored articles and book chapters in ethical theory and comparative philosophy (Chinese and Western). His books are Moral Relativity (University of California Press, 1984), Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism (2006, Oxford University Press), 名中國古典思想中的譬喻與類比 : 個人、國家與社會的治理 (Metaphor and Analogy in Early Chinese Thought: Governance of the Individual, State and Society). Taipei, Taiwan: Research Center for Chinese Subjectivity in Taiwan and Chengchi University Press, 2022, Moral Relativism and Pluralism (2023, Cambridge University Press). He co-edited with Kwong-loi Shun Confucian ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community (2004, Cambridge University Press).
  • Do expectations of fossil fuel owners matter?
    Journal of Global Ethics19 August 2024By Rutger Lazou DK Climate Change and Department of Philosophy, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, AustriaRutger Lazou is a postdoctoral researcher in practical philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, where he researches on the duty to inform about the regulatory and non-regulatory change in the context of the energy transition. He obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, having investigated what is owed to the losers of the energy transition, fossil fuel owners in particular. During his doctoral research, he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He also researched the just energy transition in Austria for the TransFair project at the University of Graz. Before this, he studied moral sciences at the University of Ghent. In his master's thesis, he focused on animal ethics, after which he published his book De toekomst van de kat [The Future of Cats] in collaboration with Uitgeverij Houtekiet.
  • Global movements for accelerating climate change action: the case of Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration
    Journal of Global Ethics08 August 2024By Bill Walker Tony Rinaudo Anna Radkovic Andy Mulherin Independent scholar, Melbourne, AustraliaBill Walker served at World Vision Australia where he pioneered its social accountability approach, later called Citizen Voice and Action (CV&A). With colleagues he helped reinvent CV&A from its roots in knowledge-generating praxis of Paulo Freire. Completed at Monash University in 2018, Bill's social science PhD on CV&A praxis used case studies to explore processes by which service marginalised communities learn to become active citizenries, who systematically monitor, make and shape public governance. He has since developed a unit and taught in transformational development, and continues to blog and write journal articles.Tony Rinaudo is widely recognized for his influential contribution to heightening awareness of the impact, efficacy, and uptake of FMNR (Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration). For his service to humanity and the environment in Niger, its government awarded him its highest honor for an expatriate “The Order of Agriculture with Merit” (Merite Agricole du Niger). In 2018, he and FMNR received the Right Livelihood Award, and the World Future Council Agroecology Award. He was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) in 2019. His life work has been in the environmental and humanitarian spheres, focusing on forest and landscape restoration and helping farmers to become self-sufficient through natural farming approaches. As World Vision's Principal Climate Action Advisor, he promotes reforestation initiatives globally.Anna Radkovic is an ecologist who works in the protection and restoration of degraded landscapes. She began her career in Australia but now works in Kenya, partnering with local communities for the conservation of natural landscapes and seascapes.Andy Mulherin recently completed his PhD in educational philosophy at the University of Melbourne and now teaches in indigenous education.
  • Climate justice and global development: outlining a new framework from the work of Achille Mbembe and Charles Mills
    Journal of Global Ethics06 August 2024By Claudia J. Ford Matthew J. LaVine Michael J. Popović a Department of Environmental Studies, State University of New York Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USAb Department of Politics, State University of New York Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USAClaudia J. Ford is a professor of environmental studies who has worked worldwide on global issues of environment, governance, and health.Matthew J. LaVine is an activist for racial, environmental, and social justice at the Center for Equity and Inclusion in Portland and an associate professor at SUNY Potsdam, respectively, the occupied, rightful lands of the Indigenous peoples of the lower Columbia river and the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.Michael J. Popović is chair of the Department of Politics, coordinator for International Studies and a tenured instructor at SUNY Potsdam who works at the intersection of migration studies, international political economy, social justice, cross-cultural dialogue, and planetary thinking.
  • Radical challenges for development ethics in the anthropocene: transformational pathways from the standpoint of future generations
    Journal of Global Ethics06 August 2024By Asuncion Lera St.Clair a Digital Assurance, DNV Group R&D, Oslo, Norwayb Barcelona SuperComputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
  • Scratches on the wall: racial capitalism, climate finance and Pacific Islands
    Journal of Global Ethics31 July 2024By Kirsty Anantharajah Centre for Environmental Governance, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra, Canberra, AustraliaDr. Kirsty Anantharajah's work explores the intersection of environmental crisis, markets and inequality as it manifests in the Asia Pacific region. She has published on issues of racial formation in environmental technologies, renewable energy development and climate change with a particular focus of post-colonial technoscience. She is a research fellow at the Centre for Environmental Governance at the University of Canberra. Previous appointments were at the Australian National University, and the University of New South Wales where she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship.
  • Beyond materialist green transitions: sketching a vitalist approach for evaluating R&I policy towards deep green transformation
    Journal of Global Ethics26 July 2024By Johannes M. Waldmüller Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaJohannes M. Waldmüller is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Co-coordinator of the Research Platform on Latin America at the University of Vienna; Climate Justice Advisor and Project Manager for ‘Brot für die Welt’, Diakonie-ACT, Austria.
  • Embracing alternative pedagogies for integrating global ethics into the business curriculum
    Journal of Global Ethics26 July 2024By Tanya Weiler Deanna Grant-Smith a Education Futures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australiab School of Business & Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, AustraliaTanya Weiler is a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. She teaches into the largest enabling programme in South Australia at UniSA College, as well as having taught at UniSA Business. Tanya's research centres on the transition experiences of students into and out of higher education, with particular emphasis on how this is experienced by people from diverse backgrounds.Deanna Grant-Smith is a Professor of Management at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, where she conducts research into the potential for exploitation and exclusion presented by unpaid and unwaged work. Her teaching experience spans ethics, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, strategic management and socially responsible change management.
  • Just transitions as relationship-building
    Journal of Global Ethics25 July 2024By Ushana Jayasuriya Krushil Watene a Department of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australiab Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandUshana Jayasuriya completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in Philosophy. Her research has focussed on climate justice, indigenous rights and the right to develop. She has been involved in projects to create community resources for just transitions focused on gender transitions and transitions in Aotearoa New Zealand.Krushil Watene is Peter Kraus Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland. Krushil's research addresses fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy, particularly those related to well-being, development, and justice. Her primary areas of expertise include mainstream theories of well-being and justice (particularly the capability approach), obligations to future generations, and indigenous (particularly Māori) philosophies. Krushil's recent research pioneers high-level discussions of indigenous concepts in global justice theorising, grounded in research that demonstrates the central role of local Indigenous communities.
  • Agricultural ethics of biofuels: big science and global climate ethics
    Journal of Global Ethics25 July 2024By Paul Banks Thompson Departments of Philosophy and of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USAPaul Banks Thompson is Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University, where he was the inaugural occupant of the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics. He has served as a consultant on ethical issues in agriculture for many organizations including the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the U.S. National Research Council, Genome Canada and the American Veterinary Medical Association.
  • Global poverty and the collective responsibility of adolescents
    Journal of Global Ethics25 July 2024By Gottfried Schweiger Center for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.Gottfried Schweiger works at the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research at the University of Salzburg. He is co-author ofthe books "A philosophical examination of social justice and child poverty" (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and "Ethics and the endangerment of children's bodies" (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). In fall 2024, his new monograph "What is a good childhood?" (written together with Johannes Drerup) will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Climate justice in the intersection between the CBDR&RC principle and intellectual property rights: a critical reading of international cooperation
    Journal of Global Ethics25 July 2024By Lívia Regina Batista-Pritchard Sustainable Futures, Business School, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UKLívia Regina Batista-Pritchard is a Lecturer in Sustainable Management at the Sustainable Futures, Business School, University of Exeter, based at the Penryn Campus (UK). She holds a PhD in Climate Change & Environmental Law (2020) from the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). Her research interests revolve around climate and environmental justice, sustainable governance, transformative social innovations, and intersectionality.
  • The Journal of Global Ethics after Twenty Years
    Journal of Global Ethics12 July 2024By Des Gasper Vandra Harris Agisilaou Thomas R. Wells Editor, Journal of Global Ethics
  • A human rights method of ethics – marrying intuitionism, reasoning, and communication
    Journal of Global Ethics03 July 2024By Cees J. Hamelink Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsCees J. Hamelink (1940), studied moral philosophy and phenomenology of religion at the University of Amsterdam. He worked as journalist, policy adviser and research fellow in several countries. He is emeritus professor of Communication Science and currently Athena professor of Health & Human Rights. He has published 20 monographs and over 200 academic articles.
  • Assessing the capability approach as a justice basis of climate resilience strategies
    Journal of Global Ethics02 July 2024By Jose C. Cañizares-Gaztelu Samantha M. Copeland Neelke Doorn a Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlandsb Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, SpainJosé C. Cañizares Gaztelu (1982) is a post-doc researcher at project HaPEARTH (The Earth as an Idea: History of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, associated to ERC-Cog DEEPMED), where he studies the history and epistemology of the Earth Systems Sciences and the political implications of recent work in this and related disciplines (Universidad de Sevilla). He obtained his PhD from Delft University of Technology with a thesis entitled Normativity and Justice in Resilience Strategies (2023). José Carlos also has a MSc in Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (U. Twente, 2016), as well as degrees in Philosophy (2014) and Telecommunications Engineering (2008) at U. Sevilla. Aside his academic publications, in 2019 he published the book Ultrarracionalismo (Delirio, 2020), a philosophical reflection on the manifold impacts of the co-evolution of ICTs and the Information Society since the 19th century to our days.Samantha M. Copeland is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at Delft University of Technology, a member of the Resilience Lab management team and co-director of the Institute for Health Systems Science at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. Samantha earned her PhD in Philosophy of Science and Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada and was a postdoctoral fellow with the CauseHealth project at the Norwegian University of Life Science, before joining TU Delft. Her work on resilience theory includes articles on social resilience and indicators, urban (climate) resilience, health system resilience, community resilience and the normativity of resilience. Recent books include anthologies Serendipity Science (with co-editors Wendy Ross and Martin Sand, Springer) and Art of Serendipity (co-edited with Wendy Ross); she is co—chair of the international Serendipity Society.Neelke Doorn is Professor Ethics of Water Engineering at Delft University of Technology, and Director of Education of the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management. Neelke holds Master's degrees in Civil Engineering (TU Delft 1997, cum laude), Philosophy (Leiden University 2005, cum laude), and Law (The Open University of the Netherlands 2016, cum laude). She obtained her PhD degree for her thesis on Moral Responsibility in R&D Networks. Recent books include Water Ethics: An Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and the Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering (2021), which she co-edited with Diane Michelfelder. Neelke received prestigious personal grants within the talent scheme from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her work on the ethics of flood risk management (Veni grant) and climate adaptation (Vidi grant).
  • Modern existential crisis and new final values
    Journal of Global Ethics24 May 2024By Yury Tikhonravova Center for the Study and Development of Intercultural Relations, Moscow, Russiab Visiting Scholar at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ItalyYury Tikhonravov, a PhD in philosophy, writes on final values, their connections to cultural-historical traditions, and on the search for new final values. Among his recent books are Ideological Warfare (Moscow 2022) and Ivan the Fool's Quest for Meaning (Moscow 2020).
  • Global ethics: sentimental education or ideological construction?
    Journal of Global Ethics24 May 2024By Wenyu XieSchool of Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, ChinaWenyu Xie, PhD in religion from Claremont Graduate University in California, USA, and Professor of Comparative Study in the School of Advanced Studies of Confucianism, Shandong University. His specialty is in Greek Philosophy, Christian Thought, and Comparative Studies. His publications include The Concept of Freedom: the Platonic-Augustinian-Lutheran-Kierkegaardian Tradition (2002), Whitehead and China: Relevance and Relationships, editor (2005), and some Chinese Books, as well as over 100 academic essays in English and Chinese journals.
  • Twenty-five years on: to move forward, we should return to Rawls’ The Law of Peoples
    Journal of Global Ethics24 May 2024By Ezekiel VergaraDepartment of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAEzekiel Vergara is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania. He primarily works in political philosophy, focusing on global justice and liberalism. He also has research interests in ethics and metaethics.
  • Some reflections on global justice from one who was both a manager and an academic
    Journal of Global Ethics21 May 2024By Howard HarrisUniSA Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide, AustraliaHoward Harris taught ethics in a business school for two decades. He taught in Malaysia, Singapore Australia and online. He taught development students in a masters degree program at RMIT University in Melbourne. As a chemical engineer he worked in the Pacific Islands for 10 years. He has a PhD in applied philosophy. His interests are in ethics, justice and liturgy.
  • Not just a tool: why social-media use is bad and bad for us, and the duty to quit
    Journal of Global Ethics21 May 2024By Douglas R. CampbellDepartment of Philosophy, Alma College, Alma, MI, USADouglas R. Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College, where he researches and teaches both the history of philosophy and applied ethics, especially the ethics of social media.
  • Global ethics in practice
    Journal of Global Ethics22 April 2024By Desmond McNeillCentre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayDesmond McNeill, political economist, is Professor Emeritus and former Director at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) University of Oslo, Norway. He graduated in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1969 and received a PhD in Economics at University College London in 1988. His books include Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century, Palgrave MacMillan 2021; Development Issues in Global Governance: Public-Private Partnerships and Market Multilateralism, Routledge 2007 (with Benedicte Bull); Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisations, Routledge 2009 (with Asunción Lera St. Clair); Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World? Routledge 2004 (ed. with M. Bøås). Member of the Lancet - University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. Most recent article: Ethics and Human Rights in the World Bank in The Elgar Companion to the World Bank (Vetterlein and Schmidtke, eds.) Elgar Forthcoming.
  • Why a uniform carbon tax is unjust, no matter how the revenue is used, and should be accompanied by a limitarian carbon tax
    Journal of Global Ethics17 April 2024By Fausto CorvinoDepartment of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenFausto Corvino, At the time of writing, Fausto Corvino was Postdoctoral Researcher in Practical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), where he was a member of the Financial Ethics Research Group. At the time of publication, he is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics, Institut supérieur de Philosophie, UCLouvain (Belgium). His research interests lie in intergenerational and global justice, climate ethics and economic ethics. Most recently, his research has focused on the ethics of market-based approaches to climate policy.

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