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  1. Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude?Christopher Heath Wellman & Phillip Cole - 2011 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question.
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  2. An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation.Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Adam Kern, Allen E. Buchanan, Cecile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, Joseph Heath, Lisa M. Herzog, R. J. Leland, Ephrem T. Lemango, Florencia Luna, Matthew McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, Trygve Ottersen, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok-Chor Tan, Christopher Heath Wellman, Jonathan Wolff & Henry S. Richardson - 2020 - Science 1:DOI: 10.1126/science.abe2803.
    In this article, we propose the Fair Priority Model for COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and emphasize three fundamental values we believe should be considered when distributing a COVID-19 vaccine among countries: Benefiting people and limiting harm, prioritizing the disadvantaged, and equal moral concern for all individuals. The Priority Model addresses these values by focusing on mitigating three types of harms caused by COVID-19: death and permanent organ damage, indirect health consequences, such as health care system strain and stress, as well as (...)
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    A liberal theory of international justice.Andrew Altman & Christopher Heath Wellman - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Christopher Heath Wellman.
    This book advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her rights are placed at center stage insofar as political states are judged legitimate if they adequately protect the human rights of their constituents and respect the rights of all others. Yet, the book argues that legitimate states have a moral (...)
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  4. The Rights Forfeiture Theory of Punishment.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2012 - Ethics 122 (2):371-393.
  5. What are the obligations of pharmaceutical companies in a global health emergency?Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Allen Buchanan, Shuk Ying Chan, Cécile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, Joseph Heath, Lisa Herzog, R. J. Leland, Matthew S. McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, Carla Saenz, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok-Chor Tan, Christopher Heath Wellman, Jonathan Wolff & Govind Persad - 2021 - Lancet 398 (10304):1015.
    All parties involved in researching, developing, manufacturing, and distributing COVID-19 vaccines need guidance on their ethical obligations. We focus on pharmaceutical companies' obligations because their capacities to research, develop, manufacture, and distribute vaccines make them uniquely placed for stemming the pandemic. We argue that an ethical approach to COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution should satisfy four uncontroversial principles: optimising vaccine production, including development, testing, and manufacturing; fair distribution; sustainability; and accountability. All parties' obligations should be coordinated and mutually consistent. For (...)
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    A Theory of Secession.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
    First published in 2005, A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination offers an unapologetic defense of the right to secede. Christopher Heath Wellman argues that any group has a moral right to secede as long as its political divorce will leave it and the remainder state in a position to perform the requisite political functions. He explains that there is nothing contradictory about valuing legitimate states, while permitting their division. Once political states are recognized as valuable because of (...)
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    Rights Forfeiture and Punishment.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2016 - Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
    In Rights Forfeiture and Punishment, Christopher Heath Wellman argues that those who seek to defend the moral permissibility of punishment should shift their focus from general justifying aims to moral side constraints. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment.
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  8. Gratitude as a virtue.Christopher Heath Wellman - 1999 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (3):284–300.
    In my view, gratitude is better understood as a virtue than as a source of duties. In addition to showing how virtue theory provides a better match for our moral phenomenology of gratitude, I argue that recent work in the area of the suberogatory, our considered judgments concerning the role of third parties, our reluctance to posit claim‐rights to gratitude, and the observations of preceding studies of the subject all lend support to my contention that the language of duties is (...)
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    On the Ethics of Vaccine Nationalism: The Case for the Fair Priority for Residents Framework.Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Allen Buchanan, Shuk Ying Chan, Cécile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, R. J. Leland, Florencia Luna, Matthew S. McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok-Chor Tan & Christopher Heath Wellman - 2021 - Ethics and International Affairs 35 (4):543-562.
    COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be scarce for years to come. Many countries, from India to the U.K., have demonstrated vaccine nationalism. What are the ethical limits to this vaccine nationalism? Neither extreme nationalism nor extreme cosmopolitanism is ethically justifiable. Instead, we propose the fair priority for residents framework, in which governments can retain COVID-19 vaccine doses for their residents only to the extent that they are needed to maintain a noncrisis level of mortality while they are implementing reasonable public (...)
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  10. Liberalism, Samaritanism, and Political Legitimacy.Christopher Heath Wellman - 1996 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3):211-237.
  11. Immigration.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  12. Relational facts in liberal political theory: Is there magic in the pronoun 'my'?Christopher Heath Wellman - 2000 - Ethics 110 (3):537-562.
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    Do Legitimate States Have a Right to Do Wrong?Christopher Heath Wellman - 2021 - Ethics and International Affairs 35 (4):515-525.
    This essay critically assesses Anna Stilz's argument in Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration that legitimate states have a right to do wrong. I concede that individuals enjoy a claim against external interference when they commit suberogatory acts, but I deny that the right to do wrong extends to acts that would violate the rights of others. If this is correct, then one must do more than merely invoke an individual's right to do wrong if one hopes to vindicate a legitimate (...)
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  14. Freedom of Movement and the Rights to Enter and Exit.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2016 - In Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Oxford University Press UK.
     
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    A Companion to Applied Ethics.R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.) - 2003 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken together, the essays in this volume – including two overview essays on theories of ethics and the nature of applied ethics – provide a state-of-the-art account of the most pressing moral questions facing us today. Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant problems of practical ethics Offers (...)
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  16. (1 other version)From humanitarian intervention to assassination: Human rights and political violence.Andrew Altman & Christopher Heath Wellman - 2008 - Ethics 118 (2):228-257.
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    Friends, Compatriots, and Special Political Obligations.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2001 - Political Theory 29 (2):217-236.
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    On Conflicts between Rights.Christopher Heath Wellman - 1995 - Law and Philosophy 14 (3/4):271 - 295.
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    Cosmopolitanism, Occupancy and Political Self‐Determination.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2018 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (3):375-381.
    The brand of cosmopolitanism that Cécile Fabre develops in her excellent book, Cosmopolitan Peace, leaves room for qualifying groups to exercise political self‐determination. Important questions thus emerge regarding who is entitled to have a say in the group's self‐determination, questions that take on a heightened practical urgency in the wake of wars that cause massive migration. In this article, I call into question Fabre's contention that the descendants of unjust occupants necessarily acquire occupancy rights which entitle them to a say (...)
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  20. A defense of international criminal law.Andrew Altman & Christopher Heath Wellman - 2004 - Ethics 115 (1):35-67.
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    Debate: Taking Human Rights Seriously.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2012 - Journal of Political Philosophy 20 (1):119-130.
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  22. Procedural rights.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2014 - Legal Theory 20 (4):286-306.
    In this essay, I argue that absent special circumstances, there are no moral, judicial procedural rights. I divide this essay into four main sections. First, I argue that there is no general moral right against double jeopardy. Next, I explain why punishing a criminal without first establishing her guilt via a fair trial does not necessarily violate her rights. In the third section, I respond to a number of possible objections. And finally, I consider the implications of my arguments for (...)
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  23. (2 other versions)Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics.Andrew I. Cohen & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.) - 2005 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on eleven of the most controversial issues in applied ethics Topics addressed include abortion, affirmative action, animals, capital punishment, cloning, euthanasia, immigration, pornography, privacy in civil society, values in nature, and world hunger. Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the (...)
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    A Defense of Stiffer Penalties for Hate Crimes.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2006 - Hypatia 21 (2):62-80.
    After defining a hate crime as an offense in which the criminal selects the victim at least in part because of an animus toward members of the group to which the victim belongs, this essay surveys the standard justifications for state punishment en route to defending the permissibility of imposing stiffer penalties for hate crimes. It also argues that many standard instances of rape and domestic battery are hate crimes and may be punished as such.
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    Reinterpreting Rawls's the law of peoples.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2012 - Social Philosophy and Policy 29 (1):213-232.
    Research Articles Christopher Heath Wellman, Social Philosophy and Policy, FirstView Article.
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    Feinberg's Two Concepts of Rights.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2005 - Legal Theory 11 (3):213-226.
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    Tadros on Non-Responsible Threats.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2023 - Mind 132 (528):959-964.
    One of the many interesting features of Victor Tadros’s excellent book, To Do, To Die, To Reason Why, is his change of heart on the vexing question of whether p.
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  28. A Duty to Obey the Law: For or Against?Christopher Heath Wellman & A. John Simmons - 2009 - Law and Philosophy 28 (1):101-107.
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    Justice.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2002 - In Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 60–84.
    The prelims comprise: Utilitarianism Rawls Libertarianism Post‐Rawlsian Egalitarianism The Bounds of Justice Beyond Justice as Distribution Conclusion Acknowledgments References.
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    Lincoln on Secession.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2003 - Social Theory and Practice 29 (1):113-135.
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    Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Essays on Citizenship and Sovereignty.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2013 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    In this book, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another.
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    Nationalism and Secession.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2003 - In R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 267–278.
    This chapter contains sections titled: What is a Nation? Nations and Personal Identity Nations and Associative Obligations Nations and State‐breaking Conclusion.
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  33. (1 other version)Immigration restrictions in the real world.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2012 - Philosophical Studies (1):1-4.
  34. (1 other version)Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics.R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.) - 2003 - Blackwell.
     
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  35. Amnesties and international law.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2008 - In Larry May (ed.), War: Essays in Political Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Clarifying Forfeiture Theory in Response to Dempsey and Lang.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2020 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 14 (2):215-222.
    This paper clarifies and defends my account of the rights forfeiture theory of punishment in response to analyses by Michelle Madden Dempsey and Gerald Lang.
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    Introduction.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2001 - Law and Philosophy 20 (2):115-120.
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    (1 other version)Introduction.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2003 - Ethics 113 (3):465-467.
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    Introduction.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2000 - Law and Philosophy 19 (6):649-653.
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    Introduction: Symposium on Justice & Foreign Policy.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2016 - Law and Philosophy 35 (3):249-250.
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    Liberalism, communitarianism, and group rights.Christopher Heath Wellman - 1999 - Law and Philosophy 18 (1):13 - 40.
  42. Liberalism, Self-Determination, and Secession.Christopher Heath Wellman - 1994 - Dissertation, The University of Arizona
    This dissertation provides a systematic analysis of when an individual or group has a right to secede that is grounded in self-determination. Since the primary question in a secessionist conflict concerns the territory being contested, any analysis of the right to secede must provide an account of what grounds the existing state's claim to political jurisdiction over its territory. With this in mind, I examine consent and teleological justifications for the state and find both inadequate. ;The consent account posits that (...)
     
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  43. Refugees and the Right to Control Immigration.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2021 - In Russ Shafer Landau (ed.), The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 286-300.
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    The paradox of group autonomy.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2003 - Social Philosophy and Policy 20 (2):265-285.
    This essay explores the prospects of developing a satisfying account of group autonomy without rejecting value-individualism. That is, I will examine whether one can adequately explain the moral reasons to respect a group's claim to self-determination while insisting that only individual persons are of ultimate moral value.
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    The Truth in the Nationalist Principle.Christopher Heath Wellman - 2003 - American Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4):251 - 268.
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    Book ReviewsA. John Simmons,. Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $55.00 ; $21.00. [REVIEW]Christopher Heath Wellman - 2003 - Ethics 113 (2):443-447.
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    Book ReviewsPhilip Soper,. The Ethics of Deference: Learning from Law’s Morals.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 189. $60.00 ; $23.00. [REVIEW]Christopher Heath Wellman - 2005 - Ethics 116 (1):255-259.
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