Dr Elizabeth Ashford

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2470

Email

ea10@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Moral Philosophy (my areas of particular interest are the formulation of utiltiarianism; utilitarian and Kantian conceptions of impartiality and their implications for the demandingness of our obligations to those in need; and the possiblity of a pluralist intergration of Kantianism and utilitarianism).

Selected publications

• Open access

  IV - The infliction of subsistence deprivations as a perfect crime

  Ashford, E., 1 Apr 2018, In: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 118, 1, p. 83-106

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Severe poverty as an unjust emergency

  Ashford, E., 2 Aug 2018, The ethics of giving: philosophers' perspectives on philanthropy. Woodruff, P. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 103-148

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Nature of Violations of the Human Right to Subsistence

  Ashford, E., 15 Mar 2018, Human Rights: Moral or Political. Etinson, A. (ed.). Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A moral inconsistency argument for a basic human right to subsistence

  Ashford, E., 30 Apr 2015, Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. Cruft, R., Liao, M. & Renzo, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 515-534 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Responsibility for Violations of the Human Right to Subsistence

  Ashford, E., 2014, Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights. Meyers, D. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 95-118 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Severe Poverty as a Systemic Human Rights Violation

  Ashford, E., Jul 2013, Cosmopolitanism versus non-cosmopolitanism: Critiques, Defenses, Reconceptualizations. Brock, G. (ed.). 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 129-155 27 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Obligations of Justice and Beneficence To Aid the Severely Poor

  Ashford, E., 2011, Giving Well : The Ethics of Philanthropy. Illingworth, P., Pogge, T. & Wenar, L. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 26-45 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• In What Sense Is the Right to Subsistence a Basic Right?

  Ashford, E., 2009, In: Journal of Social Philosophy. 40, 4, p. 488-503 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Alleged Dichotomy Between Positive and Negative Rights and Duties

  Ashford, E., 2009, Global Basic Rights. Beitz, C. R. & Goodin, R. E. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 92-112 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Contractualism

  Ashford, E. & Mulgan, T., 2007, Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. Zalta, E. N. (ed.).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

 

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