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Property as power: A theory of representation Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Rutger Claassen
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Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Andreas T. Schmidt
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Reparations after species extinctions: An account of reparative interspecies justice Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Anna Wienhues, Alfonso Donoso
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Dilemmas of dating: The case of aprioristic sexual lookism Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Rossella De Bernardi
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Reparative justice, historical injustice, and the nonidentity problem Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Felix Lambrecht
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Equal Societies, Autonomous Lives: Reconciling social equality and relational autonomy Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Hugo Cossette‐Lefebvre
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The mirage of a “paradox” of dehumanization: How to affirm the reality of dehumanization Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Maria Kronfeldner
This paper argues that the so‐called ‘paradox’ of dehumanization is a mirage arising from misplaced abstraction. The alleged ‘paradox’ is taken as a challenge that arises from a skeptical stance. After reviewing the history of that skeptical stance, it is reconstructed as an argument with two premises. With the help of an epistemologically structured but pluralistic frame it is then shown how the two
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A troubled inheritance: Overcoming the temporality problem in cases of historical injustice Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Renaud‐Philippe Garner, Marion Godman
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What we owe to impaired agents Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Giacomo Floris
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Non‐ideal theory and critical theory and their relationship to standpoint theory Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Hilkje C. Hänel
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Editor's introduction: Special issue—Rawls at 100; Theory at 50 Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 David Reidy
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Lottocracy and class‐specific political institutions: A plebeian constitutionalist defense Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Vincent Harting
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The harms of the internalized oppression worry Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Nicole Dular, Madeline Ward
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors have no conflicts of interest or external funding to disclose.
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Reparations: Special issue Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christina Nick, Susan Stark
Recent and renewed concern for racial injustice has revived interest in the importance of making reparations for oppressed peoples (Coates, 2014). Philosophers and socio-political theorists have responded by reinvigorating longstanding debates about the requirement for reparations for colonialism, genocide, institutionalized slavery and racial subjugation (Lyons, 2017; Thompson, 2018), as well as exploring
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Accountability in criminal justice Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Erin I. Kelly
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Should nonideal theory rely on ideal theory? Lessons from the Frankfurt School Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Kristina Lepold
While ideal theory tells us “what a perfectly just society would be like” (Rawls, 1971, p. 8), our current social world is far from perfectly just, and we clearly want to know how to orient ourselves and act in these less than perfectly just, or unjust, circumstances. This is why many political philosophers1 today agree that what is needed is nonideal theory. There is, however, disagreement on one
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Workplace democracy: The argument from the worker–society relation Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Zsolt Kapelner
1 INTRODUCTION Numerous arguments have been offered for workplace democracy, that is, the idea that employees should have an equal say in governing the firm. Lately, relational arguments, particularly of a republican and relational egalitarian kind, have become prominent. These claim that workers should have a say in how their firm is governed in order to avoid objectionable, for example, dominating
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Recognition of Reviewers Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-08
In addition to our current editorial board, the Journal of Social Philosophy would like to thank the following reviewers who refereed manuscripts for us from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. Aas, Sean Abundez-Guerra, Victor Adams, Matthew Adkins, Karen Agmon, Shai Al Hashmi, Rufaida Albertsen, Andreas Allais, Lucy Althorpe, Caleb Anderson, Jami Arlen, Gordon Arzuaga, Fabian Aytaç, Uğur Baatz
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The libertarian argument for reparations Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Mark R. Reiff
1 INTRODUCTION The case for reparations for grievous acts of historical injustice has been getting a lot of attention lately, both within and outside academia (e.g., California Reparations Report 2023; Coates, 2014; Martin & Yaquinto, 2007). Those who advance it claim that the injuries inflicted by these acts are ongoing and severe, and the only way that members of the groups that were the focus of
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New perspectives on the legitimacy of international institutions and power Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Gordon Arlen, Antoinette Scherz, Martin Vestergren
In democracies around the world, political forces calling for a rollback of globalization are on the ascendancy. Longstanding consensus about the benefits of free trade and human rights and around the legitimacy of the international institutions enabling these goods has been questioned by successful populist politicians on both sides of the ideological spectrum. Some even claim that the entire liberal
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Critical theory, ideal theory, and conceptual engineering Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Andrea Sangiovanni
I shall take critical theory to have four main characteristics. First, it is a form of social, cultural, or political critique whose aim is emancipation, where emancipation is liberation from oppression or injustice.1 Second, as a result of its emancipatory focus, critical theory is embedded.2 It is embedded in the sense that it is focused on understanding and overcoming forms of unfreedom that impinge
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A couple of reasons in favor of monogamy Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Kyle York
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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Against corporate responsibility Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Lars J. K. Moen
1 INTRODUCTION Corporate responsibility is the view that certain groups, and not just their members, can be responsible for their causal impact on the world. And in the moral sense I shall consider, these groups, and not just their members, are seen as appropriate targets of reactive attitudes like resentment and gratitude. A key challenge for defenders of corporate responsibility is to show how a
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Making the state responsible: A proxy account of legal organizations and private agents acting for the state Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Miguel Garcia-Godinez
1 INTRODUCTION Under which conditions can we make a state responsible for an action? For example, is the United States (and not only Bush and his Cabinet) responsible for declaring war against Iraq? And is there any justification to make citizens contribute collectively to the reparation or compensation of the damages produced by the action? That is, should United States citizens shoulder the burdens
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An irreducible understanding of animal dignity Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Simon Coghlan
1 INTRODUCTION Alongside lively philosophical debate about human dignity (Etinson, 2020; Rosen, 2012), several philosophers have begun asking whether “dignity” could also illuminate our moral relations with nonhuman animals (e.g., Abbate, 2020; Anderson, 2005; Gruen, 2014; Humphreys, 2016; Nussbaum, 2006; Ortiz, 2004). Increasing talk of animal dignity is also occurring in public and even legal discourse
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Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Titus Stahl
1 INTRODUCTION John Rawls famously argues that in order to arrive at a plausible conception of what justice requires politically, we ought to proceed in two steps (Rawls, 1971, pp. 245–246). First, we ought to develop an “ideal theory of justice” that lays out what principles of justice can be justified if we imagine them to govern a society that is unlike ours in that certain limitations are removed
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The fair value of voting rights Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Derrick Darby
A central idea in John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness is that basic political liberties should be afforded fair value in a just liberal democratic society.1 In this article, I argue that an important guideline for guaranteeing the fair value of voting rights, that is, the usefulness to citizens of their right to vote, is to make it easier not harder to exercise this basic political liberty.2
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Federalism as an institutional doctrine Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Michael Da Silva
Federalism is, minimally, a method of allocating final decision-making authority over subjects (e.g., crime, healthcare, and immigration) in a governance unit (e.g., country). Faced with questions of the form “who can decide what when,” federal bodies, like the United States., Canada, Australia, and Germany, provide at least two entities (federal governments, provinces, cities, etc.) with final decision-making
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Partial ectogestation and the right to choose the method by which one ends one's pregnancy Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Kristen Hine
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There are no conflicts of interest.
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Structural transformation and reparative obligation: Reinterpreting the beneficiary pays principle Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Hochan Kim
1 INTRODUCTION Unredressed injustices in national and global history raise important normative questions. These questions are highlighted by the growing chorus of voices in public and academic discourse calling for agents, especially those in the Global North, to recognize and redress the major injustices of their past, most notably colonialism, chattel slavery, and segregation.1 One is the justification
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Climate hypocrisy and environmental integrity Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Valentin Beck
1 INTRODUCTION Climate change poses an existential threat to the world's ecosystems and to human societies. In order to slow and eventually halt global warming, governments, firms, and civil society must enact radical structural change in order to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use. Cynicism, pessimism, and defeatism are currently prevalent, however, and threaten to undermine the
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Reparations as balance Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Luke Moffett
1 INTRODUCTION Reparations are often justified as a means to ensure “peace,” “reconciliation,” or to “vindicate victims” (Bottigliero, 2004, 14; Greiff, 2006, 463–466; Laplante, 2015, 555–557). The justification of reparations range from corrective justice notions of restitutio in integrum (returning all that is lost) to moral notions of recognition and relational restoration, to even communitarian
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Responding to microaggression with irony: The case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica, Javiera Perez Gomez
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
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Ideal theory, political liberalism, and the well-ordered society Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Samuel Freeman
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Addressing the rise of inequalities: How relevant is Rawls's critique of welfare state capitalism? Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Catherine Audard
1 INTRODUCTION Recent studies by economists such as Piketty (2013, 2019) and Atkinson (2015) have contested the well-established view that post-war redistribution policies have been successful in the long term at slowing down the rise of structural inequalities. In reality, the claim goes, they have dealt mostly with reducing inequalities of income through redistribution and have left inequalities
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The importance of contingently public goods Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Friedemann Bieber
1 INTRODUCTION Public goods have recently received increasing attention by philosophers. In addition to work on the historical origins of the notion of public goods (Desmarais-Tremblay, 2017), their relevance to the thinking of particular political theorists (de Jongh, 2022) and the justifiability of particular public goods, such as the arts (Kessler, 2018), there have been a number of systematic attempts
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Stability and disruptive speech Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Carl Fox
1 INTRODUCTION One of the big political challenges we face is deciding what to do about the explosion of disruptive speech. By disruptive speech, I mean speech that challenges or subverts widespread existing social and political norms. There are many kinds of disruptive speech, and not all of them are bad. In fact, as we shall see, some of them are indispensable to a healthy public sphere. However
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The inefficacy objection and new ethical veganism Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Lucia Schwarz
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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A path to repair of the past Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Susan Stark
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author has no conflicts of interest.
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Does ectogestation have oppressive potential? Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 J. Y. Lee, Andrea Bidoli, Ezio Di Nucci
1 INTRODUCTION Ectogestation refers to full or partial gestation of a fetus ex utero. Partial ectogestation refers to the removal of a developing fetus from the pregnant person's body and its placement into an artificial placenta1 to complete gestation (Kaczor, 2005). In this sense, it may be seen as an “alternative to neonatal intensive care,” (Romanis & Horn, 2020) or imagined as a more advanced
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Can narratives about sovereign debt be generally ideologically suspicious? An exercise in broadening the scope of ideology critique Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Ben Cross, Janosch Prinz
1 INTRODUCTION One of the most distinctive features of recent political realist literature has been the reemphasis on ideology critique as a valuable tool for doing political theory (Cross, 2021, 2022; Finlayson, 2016; Geuss, 2008; Prinz & Rossi, 2017, 2021; Raekstad, 2021; Rossi, 2019; Rossi & Argenton, 2021). Broadly speaking, ideology critique seeks to unmask certain beliefs, desires, practices
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Fame and redemption: On the moral dangers of celebrity apologies Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Benjamin Matheson
1 INTRODUCTION After he was caught cheating on his wife, Tiger Woods said that: I was wrong. I was foolish. I don't get to play by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me. I brought this shame on myself. I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me. … Parents used to point to me as a role
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Political liberalism today Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 J. Donald Moon
CONFLICT OF INTEREST I have no conflict of interests with respect to this article.
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Analyzing social wrongs Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Hilkje C. Hänel, Sally Haslanger, Odin Kroeger
Academic philosophy has witnessed a significant change in the last years from nonideal investigations of social wrongs as being a rather marginal topic in comparison to what was assumed to be more fundamental questions to those very investigations drawing significant attention and taking their rightful place in the midst of the profession of philosophy. Yet, despite these advances and the increasing
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The normative justification of obligatory integration policies Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Matthias Hoesch
1 INTRODUCTION Since the late 1990s a class of political measures that can be called “obligatory integration policies” has constantly gained importance in Europe (cf. Goodman, 2010; Goodman & Wright, 2015; Joppke, 2017; Michalowski & van Oers, 2012; Triadafilopoulos, 2011). These policies require immigrants to take certain actions or to demonstrate certain competences that, in the eyes of the host
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Political activism, egalitarian justice, and public reason Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Blain Neufeld
CONFLICT OF INTEREST No conflict of interest.
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Social pathologies of informational privacy Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Wulf Loh
1 INTRODUCTION Following the recent practice turn in privacy research, informational privacy is increasingly analyzed with regard to the “appropriate flow of information” within a given practice, which preserves the “contextual integrity” of that practice (Nissenbaum, 2010, p. 149; 2015). Such a practice-theoretical take on privacy emphasizes the normative structure of practices as well as its structural
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Neither race nor ethnicity: Latinidad as a social affordance Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Alejandro Arango, Adam Burgos
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare no potential conflict of interests.
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Tying ourselves to the mast, or acting for the sake of justice? Ethos, individual duties, and social sanctions Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Markus Furendal
1 INTRODUCTION Political philosophy often focuses on what the state may legitimately do to, or in the name of, its citizens. Yet, how well a society lives up to political-philosophical ideals arguably also depends on the decisions that individuals make in their daily lives regarding, for instance, how to treat others, what to work with, and how to spend their free time. Many contemporary social movements
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Indigenizing wild animal sovereignty Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Dennis Papadopoulos
1 INTRODUCTION I encountered a turtle midway through crossing the road. I stopped the car and waited for her, but she had seized up. I got out and gently lifted her to the side of the road. It was a face-to-face encounter with a wild animal who had unknowingly entered a “human” world. Her action disrupted my naive attitude that a road is a place for me to drive along, a place for cars, and not a place
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What is wrong with persecution Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Rebecca Buxton
1 INTRODUCTION The fact that persecution is seriously wrong should be obvious. Many of the worst events in human history were acts of persecution. During the reign of the Roman Empire, Christians were beaten, murdered, and forced to fight with wild animals. Until recently, Black Americans were hunted down by mobs and lynched by their compatriots.1 They were often publicly hanged, but some were also
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The wrongs, harms, and ineffectiveness of torture: A moral evaluation from empirical neuroscience Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Nayef Al-Rodhan
1 INTRODUCTION Torture is banned by numerous international and regional treaties.1 The United Nations' Convention against Torture (United Nations, 1984) defines torture as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining […] information or a confession, punishing him […], or intimidating or coercing him […]
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Rethinking the right to know and the case for restorative epistemic reparation Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Melanie Altanian
1 INTRODUCTION In the spirit of this special issue to center on wronged individuals and groups, their account of how the wrongs should be understood and repaired, and what actions promote repair, this article focuses on individuals and groups wronged by genocide and their entitlement to epistemic reparation in the aftermath of genocide. I argue that epistemic reparation requires not only fulfillment
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Reparative responsibility for the harms of forced migration Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-11 Laura Santi Amantini
1 INTRODUCTION According to the UNHCR (2021), in 2020 there were over 82 million displaced people worldwide who had been forced to migrate as a result of persecution, conflict, and violence. While few of them had reached Western countries to claim asylum, more than half (48 million) were internally displaced people (IDPs) and a large share of the internationally displaced had moved to neighboring countries
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Direct and structural injustice against refugees Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Bradley Hillier-Smith
1 INTRODUCTION The dominant philosophical approach to understanding the moral duties that states in the Global North have toward the 26 million refugees worldwide is what we can call the Duty of Rescue Approach.1 According to this approach, states in the Global North (hereafter Northern states) are mere innocent bystanders overlooking the humanitarian crisis of refugee displacement unfold, and these
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Digital participatory democracy: A normative framework for the democratic governance of the digital commons Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Alec Stubbs
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Official apologies as reparations for dirty hands Journal of Social Philosophy (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Christina Nick
1 INTRODUCTION The problem of dirty hands is, roughly speaking, concerned with situations in which an agent is faced with a choice between two evils so that, no matter what they do, they will have to violate something of important moral value. Theorists have been primarily concerned with dirty hands choices arising in politics because they are thought to be particularly frequent and pressing in this