Works by Susanne Burri

This paper examines whether an agent becomes liable to defensive harm by engaging in a morally permissible but foreseeably risk-imposing activity that subsequently threatens objectively unjustified harm. It first clarifies the notion of a foreseeably risk-imposing activity by proposing that an activity should count as foreseeably risk-imposing if an agent may morally permissibly perform it only if she abides by certain duties of care. Those who argue that engaging in such an activity can render an agent liable to defensive harm (...)

Obligations in the Law in Philosophy of Law

Responsibility and the Law in Philosophy of Law

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The Toss-Up Between a Profiting, Innocent Threat and His Victim.Susanne Burri - 2015 - Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (2):146-165.

Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous

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Personal Sovereignty and Our Moral Rights to Non‐Interference.Susanne Burri - 2016 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (1):621-634.

In this article, I defend the inviolability approach to solving the paradox of deontology against a criticism raised by Michael Otsuka. The paradox of deontology revolves around the question whether it should always be permissible to infringe someone's right to non-interference when this would serve to minimize the overall number of comparable rights infringements that occur. According to the inviolability approach, rights to non-interference protect and give expression to our personal sovereignty, which is not advanced through the minimization of rights (...)

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Toleration in Normative Theories in Social and Political Philosophy

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Moral Aggregation, Iwao Hirose. Oxford University Press, 2015, Xiii + 234 Pages. [REVIEW]Susanne Burri - 2016 - Economics and Philosophy 32 (1):149-156.

Philosophy of Economics in Philosophy of Social Science

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Civilian Immunity Without the Doctrine of Double Effect.Yitzhak Benbaji & Susanne Burri - forthcoming - Utilitas:1-20.

Civilian Immunity is the legal and moral protection that civilians enjoy against the effects of hostilities under the laws of armed conflict and according to the ethics of killing in war. Immunity specifies different permissibility conditions for directly targeting civilians on the one hand, and for harming civilians incidentally on the other hand. Immunity is standardly defended by appeal to the Doctrine of Double Effect. We show that Immunity's prohibitive stance towards targeting civilians directly, and its more permissive stance towards (...)

Normative Ethics

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A Rights-Based Perspective on Permissible Harm.Susanne Burri - unknown

This thesis takes up a rights-based perspective to discuss a number of issues related to the problem of permissible harm. It appeals to a person’s capacity to shape her life in accordance with her own ideas of the good to explain why her death can be bad for her, and why each of us should have primary say over what may be done to her. The thesis begins with an investigation of the badness of death for the person who dies. (...)

The Badness of Death in Applied Ethics

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Defensive Liability: A Matter of Rights Enforcement, not Distributive Justice.Susanne Burri - forthcoming - Criminal Law and Philosophy:1-15.

The Moral Responsibility Account of Liability to Defensive Harm states that an agent becomes liable to defensive harm if, and only if, she engages in a foreseeably risk-imposing activity that subsequently threatens objectively unjustified harm. Advocates of the account contend that liability to defensive harm is best understood as an aspect of distributive justice. Individuals who are liable to some harm are not wronged if the harm is imposed on them, and liability to defensive harm thus helps ensure that harm (...)

Distributive Justice in Social and Political Philosophy

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Rights in Social and Political Philosophy

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Philip Pettit’s The Robust Demands of the Good.Susanne Burri & Nathan P. Adams - 2018 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 5 (1):1-8.

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London Under Attack.Susanne Burri - unknown

Susanne Burri explores some of the moral complexities of the WWII bombings.

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The Option Value of Life.Susanne Burri - 2021 - Economics and Philosophy 37 (1):118-138.

This paper argues that under conditions of uncertainty, there is frequently a positive option value to staying alive when compared to the alternative of dying right away. This value can make it prudentially rational for you to stay alive even if it appears highly unlikely that you have a bright future ahead of you. Drawing on the real options approach to investment analysis, the paper explores the conditions under which there is a positive option value to staying alive, and it (...)

Normative Economics in Philosophy of Social Science

Rational Choice Theory in Philosophy of Social Science

Values in Economics in Philosophy of Social Science

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What Do Business Executives Think About Distributive Justice?Susanne Burri, Daniela Lup & Alexander Pepper - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-19.

While there exist extensive literatures on both distributive justice and senior executive pay, and a number of authors have addressed the implications of high pay for distributive justice, the existing literature fails to address what senior executives themselves think about distributive justice and whether they consider high income inequalities to be morally acceptable. We address this gap by analysing a unique dataset comprising the views of over 1000 senior executives from across the world, which was constructed using a survey instrument (...)

Business Ethics in Applied Ethics

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Was Niemanden Angeht.Susanne Burri - 2019 - In Emmanuel Alloa, Michael G. Festl, Federica Gregoratto & Thomas Telios (eds.), Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk Und Wirken. Transcript Verlag. pp. 67-78.

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