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    • Conflicts of Rights 

      Preda, Adina (Palgrave, 2025)
      It is often assumed that conflicts of rights are both common and inescapable. The main thesis of this chapter is that this assumption is questionable. First, I will define conflicts of rights and contrast the definition I ...
    • Explanation, Justification, and Egalitarianism 

      Spafford, Jesse (2021)
      This paper argues that the philosophy of explanation can help inform core debates in value theory. Specifically, it argues that there is a consistent parallelism between the properties of explanation and the properties of ...
    • Human rights and equality 

      Preda, Adina (2025)
      Human rights are often thought to express an egalitarian idea. This chapter argues that the connection between human rights and equality is more tenuous than it first seems and a robust egalitarianism is neither the input ...
    • Libertatea de exprimare si deplatformarea (Freedom of expression and deplatforming) 

      Preda, Adina (Polirom, 2021)
      Some complain that either the right to freedom of speech or expression or people’s freedom is being restricted in recent times by calls for no platforming certain individuals. This paper aims to argue that such complaints ...
    • Luck Egalitarianism Without Moral Tyranny 

      Spafford, Jesse (2022)
      Luck egalitarians contend that, while each person starts out with a claim to an equal quantity of advantage, she can forfeit this claim by making certain choices. The appeal of luck egalitarianism is that it seems to satisfy ...
    • Moralised Definitions of Freedom, Autonomy, and the Personal Value of Opportunities to Perform Morally Impermissible Actions 

      Intropi, Pietro (2021)
      Are the opportunities to perform morally impermissible actions valuable? And, if so, has their value any role to play in normative arguments? In this essay I examine the personal value of opportunities to perform morally ...
    • Reciprocal Libertarianism 

      Intropi, Pietro (2022)
      Reciprocal libertarianism is a version of left-wing libertarianism that combines self-ownership with an egalitarian distribution of resources according to reciprocity. In this paper I show that reciprocal libertarianism ...
    • Review of: Billy Christmas: Property and Justice. A Liberal Theory of Natural Rights. New York: Routledge, 2021 

      Intropi, Pietro (2022)
      In this book Billy Christmas advances an interpretation of justice grounded in a distinctive theory of property. Christmas’ account of property is at the same time pluralistic – it justifies various forms of property of ...
    • Self-Ownership and the Duty to Assist 

      Spafford, Jesse (2022)
      Libertarians are attracted to the self-ownership thesis because it seems to satisfy four important theoretical desiderata. First, the thesis treats all persons equally by assigning them the same initial set of rights. ...
    • Shameless luck egalitarians 

      Preda, Adina (2023)
      A recurring concern about luck egalitarianism is that its implementation would make some individuals, in particular those who lack marketable talents, experience shame. This, the objection goes, undermines individuals’ ...