Responsibility in an Interconnected World

Susan Murphy is the Assistant Professor in International Development Practice with the School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin and programme coordinator for the joint TCD UCD Masters in Development Practice (MDP).  Susan lectures on Gender, Social Inclusion, Climate Justice, human rights and Development. Her research interests are in applied normative international political theory, issues in global justice and development, human rights and climate change, gender and social inclusion. Since completing her PhD in the School of Politics and International Relations UCD in 2012, she has published in national and international peer-review journals on matters related to international development and normative political theory including Irish Studies in International Affairs, The Economic and Social Review, The Journal of Global Justice: Theory, Practice, and Rhetoric, and the Journal of Global Ethics. She is currently leading baseline research projects on gender andeducation, and the gendered dimensions of climate change in East Africa. Susan is also a member of the steering committee of the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI), School of Natural Sciences Research Ethics Committee, and INTEGER Natural Sciences Committee. External roles include non-executive Director - Oxfam Ireland Council; committee member of Future Earth Ireland; Visiting lecturer to the School of Politics and International Relations UCD; and Visiting fellow with REPOA, Policy Research for Development, Tanzania.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter One: The assistance industry - crisis and change.- Chapter Two: Contemporary ethical approaches to the practice of assistance and foundational accounts of moral duty.- Chapter Three: Contemporary philosophical faces of deontology and consequentialism - John Rawls and Peter Singer.- Chapter Four: The ‘terrible beauty’ of imperfect duties - Onora O’Neill and Amartya Sen on the duty of assistance.- Chapter Five: Adjudicating between O’Neill and Sen on assistance.- Chapter Six: Defending an interconnected ethical account of assistance.- Chapter Seven: Implications for Practice and Policy.

“In Responsibility in an Interconnected World, Susan P. Murphy aims to provide a practical approach to charitable giving that is grounded in the moral duty to assist. … Responsibility in an Interconnected World is commendable for pushing us to think more holistically about the duty to assist.” (Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 31 (3), 2017)“Susan Murphy’s book provides an excellent analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of development-aid assistance. … The structure of the book is very reader-friendly, with an abstract for each chapter. It is particularly helpful for readers interested in different aspects of the book, either the philosophical underpinnings, or the more practical aspects of the arguments.” (Nita Mishra, The European Journal of Development Research, 2017)