Philosophy & Public Affairs 36 (1), Winter 2008

The Winter 2008 issue of P&PA has been available for a while now:

Leif Wenar (Philosophy, Sheffield), “Property Rights and the Resource Curse“: 2-32. “The plainest criticism of global commerce today is not that it violates some abstract distributive standard, but that it violates property rights. The international commercial system breaks the first rule of capitalism in transporting stolen goods, and does so on an enormous scale. The priority in reforming global commerce is not to replace `free trade’ with `fair trade.’ The priority is to create trade where now there is theft” (2).

Lucy Allais (Philosophy, Witwatersrand), “Wiping the Slate Clean: The Heart of Forgiveness“: 33-68. Argues that metaphors such as `wiping the slate clean’ capture a core part of forgiveness, one compatible with not changing judgments about the wrongness of the offense.

Weyma Lubbe (Philosophy, Leipzig), “Taurek’s No Worse Claim“: 69-85. Argues that Kamm’s Aggregation Argument is not a valid refutation of Taurek’s No Worse Claim, and the failure of the argument indicates a structural problem with consequentialism.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Philosophy, Copenhagen), “Against Self-Ownership: There Are No Fact-Insensitive Ownership Rights over One’s Body“: 86-118. Argues against the libertarian self-ownership thesis, understood as a freestanding fact-insensitive principle.