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Re-asserting the Specialness of Health Care (2021)
Journal Article
Rumbold, B. (2021). Re-asserting the Specialness of Health Care. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 46(3), 272-296. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhab006

Is health care “special”? That is, do we have moral reason to treat health care differently from how we treat other sorts of social goods? Intuitively, perhaps, we might think the proper response is “yes.” However, to date, philosophers have often st... Read More about Re-asserting the Specialness of Health Care.

Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology (2020)
Journal Article
Rumbold, B. (2021). Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 103(2), 281-312. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2017-0099

Before presenting his own account of value in the Ethics, Spinoza spends much of EIAppendix and EIVPreface attempting to refute a series of axiological ‘prejudices’ that he takes to have taken root in the minds of his readership. In doing so, Spinoza... Read More about Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology.

Affordability and Non-Perfectionism in Moral Action (2019)
Journal Article
Rumbold, B., Charlton, V., Rid, A., Mitchell, P., Wilson, J., Littlejohns, P., …Weale, A. (2019). Affordability and Non-Perfectionism in Moral Action. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22(4), 973–991. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-10028-4

One rationale policy-makers sometimes give for declining to fund a service or intervention is on the grounds that it would be ‘unaffordable’, which is to say, that the total cost of providing the service or intervention for all eligible recipients wo... Read More about Affordability and Non-Perfectionism in Moral Action.