Sarah Conly: 2 books
One Child
Do We Have a Right to More?
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked population We live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact. The results, including climate change...
Against Autonomy
Justifying Coercive Paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Since Mill's seminal work On Liberty, philosophers and political theorists have accepted that we should respect the decisions of individual agents when those decisions affect no one other than themselves. Indeed, to respect autonomy is often understood to be the chief way to bear witness to the intrinsic...