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I'm a philosopher (ABD) at Rutgers and Stockholm University under a cotutelle agreement. Click here for my C.V. or please feel free to email me at james.goodrich - at - mykolab.com
Much of my research is about the ethics of cost-imposition. In particular, I'm interested in why it's sometimes fair to impose costs on others in order to prevent bad outcomes. My dissertation - Preventive Justice: A Consequentialist Approach - takes up questions about fair cost-imposition within the ethics of self-defense in particular and lays the foundations for further work on punishment, civil disobedience, war, triage, reparations, and climate change. In it, I develop a Responsibility-Sensitive Utilitarian moral theory based, in part, on the idea that we have non-Utilitarian reasons of justice to minimize domination. I'm also interested in the philosophy, politics, and economics of information technology. I'm particularly interested in the connections between big data, antitrust policy, and property rights: Can our personal digital data be owned? If so, by whom and what is the normative rationale for recognizing such ownership rights? How does our answer to this question shape the uses to which data can be put? What implications do our answers to these questions have for designing morally desirable antitrust and competition policy? |
Books (Edited)
(2021) Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford: OUP, w/ T. Campbell, J. McMahan, and K. Ramakrishnan
(2022) Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford: OUP, w/ T. Campbell, J. McMahan, and K. Ramakrishnan
Essays in Peer-Reviewed Journals
(Conditional Acceptance) "Culpable Ignorance and the Structure of Exculpation," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
(2016) "Mereological Dominance and the Logic of Better-than," Utilitas 28 (4): 361-367
Essays in Collected Volumes
(2021) "Separating Persons" in Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit
(2021) "Do We Own Our Data?: The Finders-Keepers Ethics of the Cyber Commons" in P. Aligica, G. Choi, and V. Storr (eds.), Culture, Sociality and Morality: New Applications of Mainline Political Economy, Rowman & Littlefield
Encyclopedia Articles & Book Reviews
(2019) "Parfit, Derek" w/ Larry Temkin in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell
(2021) Review of "Why Free Will is Real" by Christian List, Journal of Moral Philosophy 18 (3): 327-329.
Public Philosophy
"Employees, Clients, and Everyone Else: The Duties of Employers During a Pandemic," Dilemmas #4 - the Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University
-Click on "Dilemma 4"; my contribution is the penultimate one.
Essays Under Review
An Essay on Self-Defense (R&R)
In Progress
An Essay on Responsibility, Domination, and Utilitarianism
An Essay on Monopoly Power, Property Rights, and Big Data
An Essay on Historical Injustices and the Non-Identity Problem
An Essay on Egalitarianism and Population Ethics
(2021) Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford: OUP, w/ T. Campbell, J. McMahan, and K. Ramakrishnan
(2022) Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford: OUP, w/ T. Campbell, J. McMahan, and K. Ramakrishnan
Essays in Peer-Reviewed Journals
(Conditional Acceptance) "Culpable Ignorance and the Structure of Exculpation," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
(2016) "Mereological Dominance and the Logic of Better-than," Utilitas 28 (4): 361-367
Essays in Collected Volumes
(2021) "Separating Persons" in Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit
(2021) "Do We Own Our Data?: The Finders-Keepers Ethics of the Cyber Commons" in P. Aligica, G. Choi, and V. Storr (eds.), Culture, Sociality and Morality: New Applications of Mainline Political Economy, Rowman & Littlefield
Encyclopedia Articles & Book Reviews
(2019) "Parfit, Derek" w/ Larry Temkin in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell
(2021) Review of "Why Free Will is Real" by Christian List, Journal of Moral Philosophy 18 (3): 327-329.
Public Philosophy
"Employees, Clients, and Everyone Else: The Duties of Employers During a Pandemic," Dilemmas #4 - the Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University
-Click on "Dilemma 4"; my contribution is the penultimate one.
Essays Under Review
An Essay on Self-Defense (R&R)
In Progress
An Essay on Responsibility, Domination, and Utilitarianism
An Essay on Monopoly Power, Property Rights, and Big Data
An Essay on Historical Injustices and the Non-Identity Problem
An Essay on Egalitarianism and Population Ethics