All Outputs (9)

Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test (2021)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2024). Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 27(5), 684-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2021.1972585

The suggestion that individuals should be considered disadvantaged, and consequently entitled to compensation, only if they consider themselves disadvantaged (Dworkin’s ‘continuity test’) is initially appealing. However, it also faces problems. First... Read More about Disadvantage, Disagreement, and Disability: Re-evaluating the Continuity Test.

Disability: a justice-based account (2020)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2021). Disability: a justice-based account. Philosophical Studies, 178(3), 935-962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01466-3

Most people have a clear sense of what they mean by disability, and have little trouble identifying conditions they consider disabling. Yet providing a clear and consistent definition of disability is far from straightforward. Standardly, disability... Read More about Disability: a justice-based account.

Sexual Perversion: A Liberal Account (2019)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2019). Sexual Perversion: A Liberal Account. Journal of Social Philosophy, 50(3), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12302

Robeyns, Ingrid. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined. Cambridge: Open Book, 2017. Pp. 268. $41.23 (cloth); $22.87 (paper) (2018)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2018). Robeyns, Ingrid. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-examined. Cambridge: Open Book, 2017. Pp. 268. $41.23 (cloth); $22.87 (paper). Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 129(1), 135-139. https://doi.org/10.1086/698739

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, written by Elizabeth Barnes (2018)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2018). The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, written by Elizabeth Barnes. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 15(1), 100-103. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-01501007

Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control (2017)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2017). Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control. Social Theory and Practice, 43(1), 154-179. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20174317

The capability approach aims to ensure that all individuals are able to form and pursue their own conception of the good, whilst the state remains neutral between them, and has done much to include oppressed and marginalized groups. Liberal neutralit... Read More about Capabilities for All? From Capabilities to Function, to Capabilities to Control.

Paternalism (2016)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2016). Paternalism. Analysis, 76(3), 355-373. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anw040

Athletic Policy, Passive Well-Being: Defending Freedom in the Capability Approach (2015)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2016). Athletic Policy, Passive Well-Being: Defending Freedom in the Capability Approach. Economics and Philosophy, 32(01), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266267115000267

G.A. Cohen has criticized the capability approach for focusing on individuals’ freedom – their capability to control their lives – and ignoring benefits achieved passively. He argues that this view of well-being is excessively ‘athletic’. However, if... Read More about Athletic Policy, Passive Well-Being: Defending Freedom in the Capability Approach.

What are Adaptive Preferences? Exclusion and Disability in the Capability Approach (2014)
Journal Article
Begon, J. (2015). What are Adaptive Preferences? Exclusion and Disability in the Capability Approach. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 32(3), 241-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12102

It is a longstanding problem for theorists of justice that many victims of injustice seem to prefer mistreatment, and perpetuate their own oppression. One possible response is to simply ignore such preferences as unreliable ‘adaptive preferences’. Ca... Read More about What are Adaptive Preferences? Exclusion and Disability in the Capability Approach.