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“The Reality of Ownership”: Are there any principles of fiscal justice? (This unpublished paper contains a criticism of Liam Murphy & Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice, Oxford UP 2004.) 

General and Particular Considerations in Applied Ethics, from: Albert W. Musschenga, Wim J. van der Steen eds., Reasoning in Ethics and Law: Theory, Principle and Judgement. Ashgate, Aldershot 1999, 19-47. 

Humanitarian Intervention and the Self-Image of the State. From: Arend Soeteman ed., Pluralism and Law. Kluwer, Dordrecht/Boston/London 2001, 107-132. 

The Regulation of Euthanasia: How successful is the Dutch System? In: Stuart J. Youngner, Gerrit K. Kimsma eds.  Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective: Assessing the Dutch Experience. Cambridge University Press, 2012, 351-391. (See also What Kind of Death, chs 10, 12). 

Deugd en plicht. Filosofie & Praktijk 26 (2005), 38-61. 

“Made by Contrivance, and the consent of Men”. Abstract Principle and Historical Fact in Locke’s Political Philosophy. From: Interpretation, 17 (1989-90), 193-221. (This paper argues that the primary connotation of ‘consent’ in Locke is artificiality, not voluntariness. The paper is not available online.) 

Is Human Dignity the Ground of Human Rights? In: Marcus Düwell, Jens Braarvig, Roger Brownsword, Dietmar Mieth eds.The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014, 200-207. (See also What Kind of Death, ch. 9.3.) 

Did Hobbes subscribe to egoism after all? Unpublished paper, 2004. 

Intending for Autonomous Reasons. From: Bruno Verbeek ed., Reasons and Intentions, Ashgate 2008.  (See also: The authority of intention. Ethics 115 (2004), 6-34)

When is a principle a formal principle? Funke Hrsg., Akten des Siebenten Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Mainz 1990, Bouvier, Bonn 1991, II.1, 277-289. (An attempt to analyse a crucial passage from Kant’s Grundlegung.)

Een arrest en zijn ontvangst in de medische wereld. Een uitgebreide versie van een commentaar dat is verschenen in het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 168 (5 sept. 2024): 57-59.