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About Robert C. Hughes

WebAbout Robert C. Hughes. I am a moral, political, and legal philosopher. In Fall 2023, I became an associate professor of professional practice in the Department of …

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Egalitarian Provision of Necessary Medical Treatment

Web5 than the existing arguments for single-tier health care.7 Absent conclusive evidence whether single-tier health care results in the best health care for the least well-off, it …

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Law and the Entitlement to Coerce

Web3 permissibly be coercively enforced. Such arguments must be either abandoned or refined.5 One cannot straightforwardly argue that a legal requirement should not be …

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Robert C. Hughes: Publications

WebThe Journal of Ethics 24 (2020): 55–78. Final manuscript (PDF, 309KB) (Published version) To prevent citizens from being subject to objectionable forms of private power, …

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Risk, Double Effect, and the Social Benefit Requirement

Web3 in any way because several other drugs with similar efficacy and side effect profiles are already approved.1 Recently, the social benefit requirement in medical research has …

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Exploitation, Deontological Constraints, and Shareholder Theory

Web1008 THE GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY [Vol. 17:1007 maximize their financial returns. Others think that firms and their agents are of-

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Paying People to Risk Life or Limb Robert C. Hughes …

Web3 intend risk in this way or for tree care firms to hire climbers knowing that the climbers will intend risk in this way. The doctrine of double effect is a crucial premise in my argument.

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Pricing Medicine Fairly Robert C. Hughes

Web1 Pricing Medicine Fairly Robert C. Hughes This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Philosophy of Management.

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Law and the Entitlement to Coerce

Web2 arrangements by claiming that coercive enforcement of those laws would be objectionable. Such arguments presuppose that a government is justified in making law only if it has …

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