Dr. Martijn Boot
Assistant Professor
D. Phil (Ph.D.), University of Oxford, Balliol College
M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science
B.A., M.A., Utrecht University
Research interests:
Ethical theory: Free will, moral responsibility, ethical dilemmas.
Applied ethics: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, healthcare ethics, resource allocation during crises and beyond.
Political philosophy: Global justice, value conflicts and justified decision-making, deliberative democracy, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas.
2024
Boot,
M. (2024, May 7). There is no sufficient reason to
give “last hope” drugs approval and funding.
Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University.
2023
Boot,
M. (2023). 3NT and Justified
Decision-Making. Paper presented at Tokyo Forum for
Analytic Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2023). Imprecise Equality, 3NT, and Justified
Choice. Paper presented at “Normativity:
Theoretical and Ethical Approaches” Colloquium, Zurich,
Switzerland.
2020
Ioannou,
M., Boot, M., Wittingslow,
R., & Mattos, A. (2021). Patriotism
and Nationalism as Two Distinct Ways of Loving One's
Country. In S. Cushing (Ed.), New Philosophical Essays
on Love and Loving Palgrave MacMillan.
Boot,
M. (2020). Compromise Between Incommensurable Ethical
Values. In S. Baume, & S. Novak (Eds.), Compromises
in Democracy (pp. 121-147). (Palgrave Studies in Compromise
after Conflict ). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40802-2_6
Boot,
M. (2020). Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care during
the Corona Crisis: (Invited talk). Paper presented at
Hokkaido University, Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy,
Sapporo, Japan.
2019
Boot,
M. (2019). Compromise between Incommensurable
Values. Paper presented at Invited, ‘Compromise
between Incommensurable Values’, International Colloquium on
Global Ethics of Compromise, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales [School of Advanced Studies in the Social
Sciences]), Paris., Paris, France.
Boot,
M. (2019). The Ethics of Compromise.
Paper presented at Invited, ‘The Ethics of Compromise’,
Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Economic Research., Tokyo,
Japan.
2017
Boot,
M. (2017). Does value pluralism prevent consensus on
justice? Acta Politologica,
9(1), 3-16 .
Boot,
M. (2017). Incommensurability and its implications
for ethical decision-making and justice. Paper
presented at Keynote lecture, Conference on ‘Hard Cases and
Rational Choice’, University of Bern., Bern,
Switzerland.
Boot,
M. (2017). Incommensurability and its Implications
for Practical Reasoning, Ethics and Justice. Rowman and
Littlefield.
Boot,
M. (2017). Problems of Incommensurability.
Social Theory and Practice, 43(2),
313-342. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20171302
Boot,
M. (2017). The Incompleteness of (Theories of)
Justice. Paper presented at Invited, workshop on
‘Empirical Research and Normative Theory’, Department
of Philosophy, University of Oldenburg., Oldenburg, Germany.
Boot,
M. (2017). The Right Balance. Journal
of value inquiry, 51, 13–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-016-9551-z
2016
Boot,
M. (2016). John Martin Fischer, Our Fate: Essays on
God and Free Will. Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews.
Boot,
M. (2016). Radiation and Rational Deliberation.
Ars Vivendi Journal , 3-18.
2015
Boot,
M. (2015). Does Value Pluralism Prevent Consensus
on Supranational and Global Justice?. Paper presented
at Conference on Cultural Diversity and Value Pluralism in European
and Global Politics, Charles University and Anglo American
University, Prague., Prague, Czech Republic.
Boot,
M. (2015). Incommensurability and Moral
Progress. Paper presented at ‘Moral Progress:
Concept, Measurement and Application’, VU University
Amsterdam., Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Boot,
M. (2015). Paradoxes of Conviction: Are nurtured
beliefs irrational? Political
Philosophy , 18, 14-37.
2014
Boot,
M. (2014). The Fourth Value Relation and the
Problem of Relative Weights. Paper presented at The
13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian
Studies (ISUS XIII), Yokohama National University., Yokohama,
Japan.
Boot,
M. (2014). The Right Balance. Paper
presented at Modern Normative Theory Research Group, Senshu
University, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2014). The Right Balance. Paper
presented at Institute of Research for Contemporary Political and
Economic Affairs, Waseda University., Tokyo, Japan.
2013
Boot,
M. (2013). Conflicts of
Justice. Paper presented at Tokyo Forum for Analytic
Philosophy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
2012
Boot,
M. (2012). Does Global Spread of Liberal Democracies
Promote Consensus on Justice? Ritsumeikan Studies
in Language and Culture , 85-102.
Boot,
M. (2012). Incommensurability and the Scales of
Justice. Paper presented at 7th International
Conference on Applied Ethics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.,
Sapporo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2012). Incommensurability and the Scales of
Justice. Paper presented at Political Theory Research
Seminar, Waseda University., Tokyo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2012). Incommensurability and the Scales of
Justice. Paper presented at International Conference
‘Incommensurability 50’, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan.
Boot,
M. (2012). Radiation and Rational
Deliberation. Paper presented at The 8th International
Conference of the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier
Sciences, ‘Catastrophe and Justice’, Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto., Kyoto, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2012). The Aim of a Theory of Justice.
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice,
15, 7-21. Article DOI 10.1007/s10677-011-9308-5.
2011
Boot,
M. (2011). Does global spread of democracy promote
consensus on global justice?. Paper presented at 7th
International Conference Multiculturalism and Social Justice:
Democracy and Globalization, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
, Kyoto, Japan.
, Kyoto, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2011). Indeterminability. Paper
presented at 'Indeterminability’, GLOPE research seminar,
Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University,
Tokyo., Tokyo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2011). Radiation and Rational
Deliberation. Paper presented at ‘Radiation and
Rational Deliberation’, GLOPE research seminar, Faculty of
Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo.
, Tokyo, Japan.
, Tokyo, Japan.
2010
Boot,
M. (2010). Are Conflicts of Human Rights
Resolvable?. Paper presented at Master Class with James
Griffin, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen,
Amsterdam., Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Boot,
M. (2010). Problems of
Incommensurability. Paper presented at Second Annual
Dutch Conference in Practical Philosophy, Netherlands School for
Research in Practical Philosophy, Groningen., Groningen,
Netherlands.
2009
Boot,
M. (2009). Equity versus efficiency in the
distribution of health care resources. Paper presented
at Fourth International Conference on Applied Ethics, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2009). Parity, Incomparability and Rationally
Justified Choice. Philosophical
Studies, 146, 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-008-9245-x
Boot,
M. (2009). Rationality of Nurtured
Beliefs. Paper presented at International philosophy
conference on Responsible Belief in the Face of Disagreement, VU
University Amsterdam., Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Boot,
M. (2009). The Good, the Just and the Right: Do
they coincide?. Paper presented at ‘The Good, the
Just and the Right: Do they coincide?’ Waseda University,
Political Theory Research Seminar, Tokyo., Tokyo, Japan.
Boot,
M. (2009). The Good, the Just and the Right: do
they coincide?. Paper presented at First Annual Dutch
Conference in Practical Philosophy, Netherlands School for Research
in Practical Philosophy., Doorn, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Boot,
M. (2009). The Good, the Just and the Right in the
distribution of scarce health care resources. Paper
presented at Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
(EIPE)
, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2008
Boot,
M. (2008). Conflicts of Justice. Paper
presented at Political Theory Workshop, The University of Chicago,
Chicago, United States.
Boot,
M. (2008). Rationally Justified
Choice. Paper presented at The London School of
Economics and Political Science, The Choice Group, London, United
Kingdom.
2007
Boot,
M. (2007). Conflicts of Justice. Paper
presented at The Program in Ethics and Health, Cambridge, United
States.
2006
Boot,
M. (2006). Incommensurability and the Scales of
Justice. Paper presented at Eighth Annual Graduate
Conference in Political Theory, University of Warwick., Warwick,
United Kingdom.
Boot,
M. (2006). Incomparability, Justified Choice and
Justice. Paper presented at ALSP 2006 Annual
Conference, Social Justice in Practice, University College Dublin.,
Dublin, Ireland.
2005
Boot,
M. (2005). Incomparability. Paper
presented at Political Theory Graduate Students Research Workshop,
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of
Oxford., Oxford, United Kingdom.
Boot,
M. (2005). Justitia’s Impasse.
Paper presented at Political Theory Conference, Manchester
Metropolitan University., Manchester, United Kingdom.
Boot,
M. (2005). Justitia’s Impasse.
Incommensurability and it’s implications for
justice.. Paper presented at Political Theory Graduate
Students Research Workshop, Department of Politics and
International Relations, University of Oxford., Oxford, United
Kingdom.
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