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Samantha Brennan

Moral and Political Philosophy

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The Goods Of Childhood, Children’S Rights, And The Role Of Parents As Advocates And Interpreters, Samantha Brennan Dec 2013

The Goods Of Childhood, Children’S Rights, And The Role Of Parents As Advocates And Interpreters, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Moderate Deontology And Moral Gaps, Samantha Brennan Nov 2009

Moderate Deontology And Moral Gaps, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Taking Responsibility For Children, Samantha Brennan, Robert Noggle Dec 2007

Taking Responsibility For Children, Samantha Brennan, Robert Noggle

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Moral Lumps, Samantha Brennan May 2006

Moral Lumps, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

Can all goods or bads be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces? Can all goods or bads be added together with some other good or bad to get a larger amount? Further, how does moral significance track the disaggregation and the aggregation of moral goods and bads? In Part 1, I examine the limits placed on aggregation by moderate deontological moral theories. This paper focuses in particular on the work of Judith Thomson and T.M. Scanlon as well as on some of my own past work on the question of aggregation in the context of overriding rights. In Part …


Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action, By Frances Ferguson, Samantha Brennan Dec 2005

Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did To Action, By Frances Ferguson, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Setting The Moral Compass: Essays By Women Moral Philosophers, Edited By Cheshire Calhoun, Samantha Brennan Sep 2005

Setting The Moral Compass: Essays By Women Moral Philosophers, Edited By Cheshire Calhoun, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Children's Choices Or Children's Interests: Which Do Their Rights Protect?, Samantha Brennan Dec 2001

Children's Choices Or Children's Interests: Which Do Their Rights Protect?, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

DOI:10.1093/0199242682.003.0004 The often‐posed dichotomy between the interest and choice theory of rights can obfuscate a proper understanding of children's rights. We need a gradualist model in which the grounds for attributing rights to a being change in response to the development of autonomy. Rights for children initially function to protect their interests but, as they develop into full‐fledged autonomous choosers, rights function to ensure that their choices, even those that do not serve their welfare, are respected. Keywords: autonomy, choice theory, development, interest theory, rights, welfare


Morality: Its Meaning And Justification, Bernard Gert, Samantha Brennan Dec 2000

Morality: Its Meaning And Justification, Bernard Gert, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


The Moral Status Of Children: Children's Rights, Parents' Rights, And Family Justice, Samantha Brennan, Robert Noggle Dec 1996

The Moral Status Of Children: Children's Rights, Parents' Rights, And Family Justice, Samantha Brennan, Robert Noggle

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


A Question Of Values: New Canadian Perspectives In Ethics And Political Philosophy, Samantha Brennan, Tracy Isaacs, Michael Milde Dec 1996

A Question Of Values: New Canadian Perspectives In Ethics And Political Philosophy, Samantha Brennan, Tracy Isaacs, Michael Milde

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Children's Rights Revisioned: Philosophical Readings, Rosalind Ekman Ladd, Samantha Brennan Sep 1996

Children's Rights Revisioned: Philosophical Readings, Rosalind Ekman Ladd, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


An Essay On Rights, Hillel Steiner, Samantha Brennan Sep 1996

An Essay On Rights, Hillel Steiner, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


How Is The Strength Of A Right Determined? Assessing The Harm View, Samantha Brennan Sep 1995

How Is The Strength Of A Right Determined? Assessing The Harm View, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Moral Literacy, Or How To Do The Right Thing, Colin Mcginn, Samantha Brennan Dec 1994

Moral Literacy, Or How To Do The Right Thing, Colin Mcginn, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Philosophical Anarchism And Political Disobedience, Chaim Gans, Samantha Brennan Sep 1994

Philosophical Anarchism And Political Disobedience, Chaim Gans, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.


Paternalism And Rights, Samantha Brennan Aug 1994

Paternalism And Rights, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.