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Care and resentment. An essay on moral temporality
Whereas caring is commonly perceived as a moral virtue or a socially beneficial ethical practice, resentment appears to represent its opposite....
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Preach! (Practice not Included): A Qualified Defense of Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is generally treated as particularly repugnant, perhaps the “only unforgivable sin.” I argue that this attitude is misplaced....
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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms
The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European...
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Kee** Hohfeld Simple
In this paper, I want to engage in, and move forward, a heated contemporary debate over certain normative positions within the well-known Hohfeldian...
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Moves & Rules: Addressing the Puzzle of Social Rule-Following
I explore a puzzle at the heart of the so-called ‘practice theory of rules’: how can rules, operating as normative standards, be determined by the...
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Arbitrary Power: Caricature and Concept
Arbitrary power is often understood as bearing some kind of relation to tyrannical rule, a relation that is thought to explain why arbitrary power is...
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Recourse, Litigation, and the Rule of Law
Recent high-profile lawsuits have supported competing narratives that alternately depict civil litigation as an essential instrument of the rule of...
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A step in the right direction, or more of the same? A systematic review of the impact of human rights due diligence legislation
Recently, there has been a strong push for binding human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation, both at the national and European levels. As...
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Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts
By supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological...
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Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing
This essay accomplishes two goals. First, contra accepted interpretations, I reveal that the early Husserl executed valuable and extensive...
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Anarchism: war, violence and scapegoating
This article gives an anarchist account of politics as war to theorise an anarchist Realpolitik . Mikhail Vereshchagin’s killing in War and Peace ...
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Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience
This article is a theo-phenomenological study on discernment in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, particularly as it is described in the Philokalia and...
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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition , an Ideal continuum ,...
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The Power to Exclude: The (Mis)Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors under the Trump and Biden Administration
In “The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants” (hereinafter “Biden Plan“), then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “reassert...
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“The Union of the Soul and the Body”: Merleau-Ponty on Being in the World
Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the body is often depicted as emphasizing the distinction between the physical and the conscious dimension of the body....