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BAS VAN DER VOSSEN

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This page contains a selection of my published work. For a full list, please consult my CV.

 

Books

  • Political Philosophy: The Basics, Routledge Press, 2024

  • Economic Liberties and Human Rights. Routledge Press, 2019, edited with Jahel Queralt

  • In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty. Oxford University Press, 2018, with Jason Brennan

  • Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? Oxford University Press, 2017, with Fernando Tesón

  • The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism. Routledge Press, 2017, edited with Jason Brennan and David Schmidtz

 

Lockean Theory and Property

  • “Women and Lockean Theory: John Locke, Rachel Speght, and Egalitarian Personhood”. Locke Studies 24 (2024): 1-26. (link)

  • “Now It’s Personal: From Me to Mine to Property Rights”, Law and Philosophy 42 (2023): 177-203, with David Shoemaker (link) (preprint)

  • “Property, the Environment, and the Lockean Proviso”, Economics and Philosophy 37 (2021): 395 - 412 (link) (preprint)

  • “As Good As ‘Enough and As Good’”, The Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2021): 183–203. (link) (preprint)

  • “The Problem of Self-Ownership”, with David Schmidtz, Social Philosophy and Policy 36 (2019): 1 - 8. (link) (preprint)

  • “Imposing Duties and Original Appropriation”, Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (2015): 64-85. (link) (preprint)

  • “Locke on Territorial Rights”, Political Studies 63 (2015): 713–728. (link) (preprint)

  • “What Counts as Original Appropriation”, Politics, Philosophy & Economics 8 (2009): 355-373. (link) (preprint)

Activism in the Academy

  • “Academic Activism Revisited”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2020): 249-257. (link) (preprint)

  • “Political Philosophy as Love of Wisdom”, Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (2020): 23-31. (link) (preprint)

  • “In Defense of the Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics”, Philosophical Psychology 28 (2015): 1045-1063. (link) (preprint)

  • “Depoliticization or Diversity?”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38 (2015): 41-42. (link) (preprint)

  

Political Obligation & Legitimacy

  • “Consent to Unjust Institutions”, Legal Theory 27 (2021): pp. 236 - 251. (link) (published version)

  • “The Asymmetry of Legitimacy”, Law and Philosophy 31 (2012): 565-592. (link) (preprint)

  • “Assessing Law’s Claim to Authority”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 31 (2011): 481–501. (link) (preprint)

  • “Associative Political Obligations”, Philosophy Compass 6/7 (2011): 477–487. (link) (preprint)

  • “Associative Political Obligations: Their Potential”, Philosophy Compass 6/7 (2011): 488–496. (link) (preprint)

  • “Legitimacy and Multi-Level Governance”, in: New Waves in Philosophy of Law. Maksymillian Del Mar (ed.). Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.  (preprint)

Global Justice

  • “Uncertain Rights Against Defense”, Social Philosophy and Policy 32 (2016): pp 129-145. (link) (preprint)

  • “Immigration and Self-Determination”, Politics, Philosophy and Economics 14 (2014): 270-290. (link) (preprint)

  • “Self-Determination and Moral Variation”, in Fernando Tesón (ed.), The Theory of Self-Determination. Cambridge University Press, 2016. (preprint)

  • “The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention”, in: A.I. Cohen & C.H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. (preprint)