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Influence Match: Can Corporate Lobbying Equalise Political Influence?
Some corporations use their disproportionate lobbying power to obstruct policy. This obstructive lobbying violates most people’s claims to equal...
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Loving Somebody: Accounting for Human-Animal Love
In the philosophy of love, the possibility of loving a non-human animal is rarely acknowledged and often explicitly denied. And yet, loving a...
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Review Essay on Matt King, Simply Responsible
This review essay discusses Matt King’s recent book Simply Responsible , in which he defends a unifying account of responsibility that spans not only...
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Moral Transformation as Shifting (Im)Possibilities
The phenomenon of moral transformation, though important, has received little attention in virtue ethics. In this paper we propose a virtue-ethical...
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Group Ownership, Group Interests, and the Ethics of Cultural Exchange
In this essay, we address an important problem in the ethics of cultural engagement: the problem of giving a systematic account of when and why...
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Welfare Subjectivism, Sophistication, and Procedural Perfectionism
Welfare subjectivists face a dilemma. On the one hand, traditional subjectivist theories—such as the desire-fulfillment theory—are too permissive to...
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Conceptual Injustice
In recent years, there has been significant interest in injustices that do not consist in inflicting physical or material harm on others, but operate...
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Answering for Negligence: A Unified Account of Moral and Criminal Responsibility
My aim in this paper is to defend negligence as a legitimate basis for moral and criminal culpability. In so doing, I also hope to demonstrate how...
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Sustainable Institutions: How to Secure Values
Social sustainability plays a prominent role in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, but a proper analysis of the concept is still...
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Intuition about Justice: Desertist or Luck Egalitarian?
There is a large and growing body of empirical work on people’s intuitions about distributive justice. In this paper, we investigate how well luck...
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An Intuitive, Abductive Argument for a Right against Mental Interference
Several authors have recently claimed that we each possess a right against interference with our minds. However, it remains unclear how this claim is...
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Commemoration, Militarism, and Gratitude
Recent years have seen various forms of honorific public art – statues, monuments, and the like – brought under renewed moral scrutiny. This scrutiny...
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Voting Lotteries, Compulsory Voting and Negative Freedom
In this article I aim to counter Jason Brennan’s principled objection to the Representativeness Argument for compulsory voting, and to criticize the...
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May an Artist’s Moral Ill Repute Affect the Meaning of Their Work? An Analysis from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory
The ethical criticism of art has recently begun to address the subject of immoral artists, with two questions seeming to dominate discussion. How...
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Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War
Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate...
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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III Science Goes Vernacular
This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in...
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Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi
The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi’s social, political philosophy. The essays combine philosophical...
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Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr.
This collection of original articles draws from a cross section of distinguished scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. It is focussed primarily on...
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Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least...
