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I work on various uh related issues having to do with our individual obligations of justice uh in particular
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in non ideal conditions in unjust conditions. So uh examples of issues that I've written about include our
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obligations to um redirect a portion of our income to people who are victims of injustice. uh obligations to take
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considerations of justice into account when we're making decisions like uh what
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career we're going to go into or um how we're going to operate our businesses,
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uh things like this. One sort of key theme of my research is that our obligations uh in particular in
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non- ideal conditions are quite a bit more extensive than most people tend to think. So I think for example that we
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can be obligated to take considerations of justice into account when we're deciding for example what career we're
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going to pursue. So that uh it's not necessarily morally permissible to choose whatever career would most
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benefit you or you know the one that's your most preferred of the available options. unjust conditions in particular
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can make it the case that uh if one is overall a beneficiary of injustice that they can have obligations to um make
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choices that are not for example legally required within the system. Um but that
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um would better advance the aims of justice if they were to choose one way rather than another. And this applies I
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think across a broad range of domains. So for example, how we spend our money uh again what careers we pursue, how we
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operate our businesses um and um and other areas as well. The applications uh in most cases are a
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little bit indirect, right? So what I suggest is that um people in their private lives, in their roles within
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companies uh and elsewhere uh are obligated to take considerations of justice into account in deciding uh what
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they're going to do with their resources with you know the uh you know the business that they're running. if they
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have sort of multiple options in terms of um you know what kinds of practices to adopt or what areas to sort of enter
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into or things like this. Um but uh my research is abstract enough that um there are no kind of direct takeaways.
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So I don't say things like you know um actual person X is obligated to do this
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particular thing, right? I sort of try to argue that certain kinds of considerations are relevant and have to
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be taken into account by people who are making decisions um that many people think are um not the kinds of things
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that individuals are obligated to um consider when making decisions like what career to pursue or uh or something
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along these lines. One thing that I've been thinking about is um the conditions in which uh
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private group actions within the economic sphere that are aimed at promoting justice are permissible or
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impermissible. So consumer boycott is sort of one example of this. Um so if we think that we can pursue some important
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justice related aim through uh organizing some kind of collective boycott effort um what conditions do we
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have to meet in order uh for that sort of effort to be permissible in a say liberal democratic society. Um I'm also
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working on several papers um about issues related to climate change. So, um, one issue that I've been thinking
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about is, uh, whether historical emissions make a difference, uh, with regard to what we're obligated to do
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now, who's obligated to do what to, um, for example, mitigate the negative effects of climate change in the future.
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Um, and I'm also hoping to think about uh think more about the the obligations
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of businesses to contribute to the effort to mitigate climate change. [Music]