Most theorists agree that a theory of justice ought to be practical. Janna Thompson argues that there is no theory of global justice that is both morally adequate and realistic. Those that are adequate as far as their moral content is concerned are unrealistic, and those that are realistic do not satisfy our moral intuitions...

Discussing world-wide justice is messy not merely because of its scope, the amount of disagreement about the issues, cultural differences, uncertainty about political possibilities or the outcome of present developments. There are more elementary and fundamental difficulties, argues Janna Thompson. For example, how should we reason about global justice? Can we reason in the same...

Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough's decision in the US to seek out and employ a sperm donor with a family history of deafness in order to maximise their chances of having a deaf child raises a number of ethical questions. Do parents have an obligation to give their children the best lives possible? Do parents...

Leslie Cannold provides an analysis of several philosophically interesting results of a recent study of the fertility decision-making of thirty-five childless/childfree Australian and American women. While most women endorsed and expanded on longstanding normative prescriptions for how a "good" mother ought to feel and behave, they were at a loss (at times quite literally) to...

Igor Primoratz writes that when it first entered political discourse, the word "terrorism" was used with reference to the reign of terror imposed by the Jacobin regime--that is, to describe a case of state terrorism. There are also quite a few historical studies of some other instances of state terrorism, most notably of the period...