Human need and related concepts such as basic needs have long been part of the implicit
conceptual foundation for social work theory, practice, and research. However, although the …

According to the so-called Classical Theory, concepts are mentally represented by
individually necessary and jointly sufficient application conditions. One of the principal …

Needs play a key role in many fields of social sciences and humanities, ranging from
normative theories of distributive justice to conceptions of the welfare state. Over time …

The aim of this perspective is to argue that carbon pricing is not unjust. Two important
dimensions of justice are distributive and procedural (sometimes called “participatory”) …

One branch of the responsible innovation literature involves the direction of innovation: if the
public or decision-makers can or should direct innovation, how should innovation be …

Despite growing interest in risks of societal collapse due to anthropogenic climate change,
there exists no consensus about how collapse should be understood. In this article, we …

The theory of needs has a political problem. Whilst contemporary theorists largely recognise
that politics plays an important part in many of the processes surrounding our needs, they …

Instrumentalism about need suggests that the normative significance of an agent's need for x
depends on the end for which x is needed. Instrumental accounts have, however, been …

Responding to the unique challenge posed by the climate crisis, several recent
commentators have invoked the concept of basic needs. Whilst that concept proves useful in …

Facts about need play some role in our causal understanding of the world. We understand,
for example, that people have basic needs for food, water, and shelter, and that people …