Needs-centered ethical theory

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-434

  Brock, Gillian ^a   Reader, Soran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0141627497     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021910832459     Document Type: Review

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2. See Sergio Sismondo, "The Mapping Metaphor in Philosophy of Science," Cogito 12 (1998); Jane Azevedo, Mapping Reality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997); David Turnbull, Maps are Territories, Science is an Atlas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
3. See Sergio Sismondo, "The Mapping Metaphor in Philosophy of Science," Cogito 12 (1998); Jane Azevedo, Mapping Reality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997); David Turnbull, Maps are Territories, Science is an Atlas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
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5. See Marcia Baron, Philip Pettit and Michael Slote, Three Methods of Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), p. 1.
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9. See Harry Frankfurt "Necessity and Desire," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (September 1984); David Wiggins, Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), ch. 1; and Garrett Thomson, Needs (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987).
10. See Harry Frankfurt "Necessity and Desire," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (September 1984); David Wiggins, Needs, Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), ch. 1; and Garrett Thomson, Needs (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987).
11. David Copp, "The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Justice, Autonomy, and the Basic Needs," Social Philosophy and Policy 9 (1992); and Len Doyal and Ian Gough, A Theory of Human Need (London: MacMillan, and New York: Guilford, 1991).
12. David Copp, "The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: Justice, Autonomy, and the Basic Needs," Social Philosophy and Policy 9 (1992); and Len Doyal and Ian Gough, A Theory of Human Need (London: MacMillan, and New York: Guilford, 1991).
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14. See Soran Reader, "Principle Ethics, Particularism and Another Possibility, Philosophy 72 (1997), section 3; Gillian Brock, "Just Deserts and Needs," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1999), esp. pp. 178-180; and Gillian Brock, "Morally Important Needs," Philosophia 26 (March 1998).
15. See Soran Reader, "Principle Ethics, Particularism and Another Possibility, Philosophy 72 (1997), section 3; Gillian Brock, "Just Deserts and Needs," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1999), esp. pp. 178-180; and Gillian Brock, "Morally Important Needs," Philosophia 26 (March 1998).
16. See Soran Reader, "Principle Ethics, Particularism and Another Possibility, Philosophy 72 (1997), section 3; Gillian Brock, "Just Deserts and Needs," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1999), esp. pp. 178-180; and Gillian Brock, "Morally Important Needs," Philosophia 26 (March 1998).
17. Gillian Brock, ed., Necessary Goods: Our Responsibilities to Meet Others' Needs (Lanham Md.: Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 11-18.
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19. Margaret Walker, Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1998).
20. This article has benefited from the helpful comments of Thomas Magnell and an anonymous reviewer for the Journal of Value Inquiry. We are grateful for their help.