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On the Ethics of Interacting Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Kimberley Brownlee
Ordinary interactions are the primary vehicle through which we show respect, give social pleasure, and grease the wheels of healthy sociality. When we do an interactional wrong to someone, we not only convey disrespect by disregarding their interactional needs, but also cause them social pain and erode healthy social relations. Interactional ethics – the study of the ethics of interacting – concerns
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Domestic Violence and Abuse: Expanding Our Conceptual Repertoire Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Macy Salzberger
This article aims to clarify and expand our conceptual repertoire for understanding domestic violence and abuse by making legible different characteristic harms, particularly those that cannot be made sense of in terms of physical harm. Sections 2 and 3 of this article review popular understandings of the harms of domestic violence and abuse. These often emphasize either (a) pain and suffering or (b)
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For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, & Fun. RebeccaRoache, 2024. Oxford, Oxford University Press. ix + 257 pp, £16.99 (hb) Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 David Archard
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The Allocation of Refugees to Host States: Should Refugees' Interests and Preferences be Considered? Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Matthias Hoesch, Susanne Mantel
When states cooperate in refugee protection and implement a scheme with fixed rules allocating refugees to host states, should they consider refugees' interests and preferences regarding where they receive protection? This article briefly examines the kinds of preferences and interests that are relevant to both refugees and states before discussing the moral principles determining the respective weight
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The Paradox of Desert Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 David Benatar
This article describes a paradoxical phenomenon arising from the fact that those who act rightly often pay a price for doing so. The paradox is that the very thing – acting rightly – that incurs the cost also makes the cost (especially) undeserved. In explicating the paradox, I distinguish between two kinds of cost (internal and external), two kinds of unfairness (intrinsic and comparative), and two
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State Borrowing and Global Responsibilities Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 James Pattison
This article explores the ethics of state borrowing to fulfil global responsibilities. Although borrowing may appear attractive in the face of budgetary pressures and an increased number of crises in a changing global order, the article argues that borrowing to fulfil global responsibilities is generally morally problematic. It presents two main objections to borrowing. First, borrowing is often likely
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Non‐Durable Solutions: The Harm of Permanently Temporary Refugee Habitation Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Micah Trautmann
The notion of ‘durability’ plays a central role in the discourse, policies, and practices surrounding forced displacement. Yet, for all the talk of ‘durable solutions’ to refugee situations, durability is in many ways the quality most conspicuously absent in refugees' everyday lives and living spaces. As the world has grown progressively more inured to the practice of using provisional spaces of transit
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The Utilitarian's Global Warming Problem (Why Utilitarians Should Be Social Identity Theorists) Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Patrick Dieveney
Global warming presents challenges to utilitarianism. Its structural features seem to suggest that individuals have no moral obligations to take steps to reduce their carbon footprints. For those who find this to be an unacceptable result, Jamieson proposes an alternative. He argues that utilitarians should embrace a version of virtue ethics. They should embrace what he calls ‘green virtues’. In this
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Collateral Legal Consequences and the Power to Punish Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Andrei Poama, Milena Tripkovic
Collateral legal consequences attached to criminal convictions (CLCs) are often criticised because they expose criminal offenders to various forms of harmful and/or wrongful treatment. In this article, we argue that CLCs are problematic because they undermine the power to punish, a distinct normative power that allows the relevant powerholders to directly change the offender's normative situation.
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It was a Different Time: Judging Historical Figures by Today's Moral Standards Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
How should we respond to historical figures who played an important role in their country's history but have also perpetrated acts of great evil? Much of the existing philosophical literature on this topic has focused on explaining why it may be wrong to celebrate such figures. However, a common response that is made in popular discussions around these issues is that we should not judge historical
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The Problem with Preparing to Kill in Self-Defense Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Lee-Ann Chae
In a society marked by liberal gun ownership laws, and an increasingly militarized police force, how should we think about cases where a homeowner shoots a person who has mistakenly knocked on the wrong door, or where a police officer shoots someone who is unarmed? The general tendency – by shooters, courts, and many observers – is to use the framework of self-defense. However, as I will argue, relying
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How Does Human Agency Actually Work? On Bratman's ‘Core Capacity Thesis’ and the Relation between Philosophy of Action and the Empirical Sciences Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Jonathan Phillips, David Plunkett
Throughout his career, Michael Bratman has developed a detailed model of individual ‘planning agency’, and, more recently, models of joint action and aspects of social life that he argues such planning agency helps support. How might we empirically investigate whether these models capture what is going on in actual human lives? In this article, we critically engage with this broad question by focusing
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The Welfare Argument for Free Time Protection Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Malte Jauch
Demands for free time protections are often justified with appeal to a concern for individuals' welfare. The idea is that people would enjoy greater levels of welfare if they had more access to free time. This article shows that the currently most sophisticated version of the welfare argument is inconclusive. It then shows how this argument can be modified and extended to become conclusive. The main
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Functionalisms and the Philosophy of Action Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Manuel Vargas
Focusing on the recent work of Michael Bratman as emblematic of several important developments in the philosophy of action, I raise four questions that engage with a set of interlocking concerns about systemic functionalism in the philosophy of action. These questions are: (i) Are individual and institutional intentions the same kind of thing? (ii) Can the risk of proliferation of systemic functional
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Inequality in Planning Capacity Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Jennifer M. Morton
Planning allows us to coordinate our actions over time, and the ability to plan is crucial in many areas of our lives. I argue that while planning is deeply embedded in contemporary societies, not all individuals have equal access to the structures that support such planning. This article explores how external planning-support structures are essential to our capacity to plan and how inequality in access
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The Ethics of Viewing Illegally Shared Pornography Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Andrés G. Garcia
I argue that the consumption of illegally shared pornography is often morally problematic. My argument is not based on any general condemnation of pornography or even illegal content sharing as such. Instead, my argument emphasizes that commercial pornography that is illegally shared risks violating the consent and thus the dignity of its performers. In this way, illegally shared pornography is akin
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(Not So) Happy Cows: An Autonomy-Based Argument for Regulating Animal Industry Misleading Commercial Speech Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Rubén Marciel, Pablo Magaña
‘Happy cow messages’ are instances of commercial speech by the animal industry which, by action or by omission, mislead consumers about the harmful effects that the industry has for non-human animals, the environment, or human health. Despite their ubiquity, happy cow messages have received little philosophical scrutiny. This article aims to call attention to this form of speech, and to make the case
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The Know-How of Virtue Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Kathleen Murphy-Hollies
It is widely accepted that virtuous behaviour ought to be motivated in the right way, done for the right reasons, and an appropriate response to the values manifested in a situation. In this article I describe how cases of individuals having poor understanding of the reasons for their behaviour, can nevertheless be conducive to the development of virtue. One way in which giving reasons for one's own
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Access to Non-reimbursed Expensive Cancer Treatments: A Justice Perspective Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Jilles Smids, Eline M. Bunnik
When the cost-effectiveness of newly approved cancer treatments is insufficient or unclear, they may not (immediately) be eligible for reimbursement through basic health insurance in publicly funded healthcare systems. Patients may seek access to non-reimbursed treatment through other channels, including individual funding requests made to hospitals, health insurers, or pharmaceutical companies. Alternatively
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Beyond Ideals of Friendship Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Simon Keller
What makes a friendship a good friendship? One way of answering that question, taken by Aristotle and many philosophers since, is to describe an ideal friendship, and then say that a friendship is a good friendship insofar as it resembles the ideal. An ideal of friendship, so presented, is intended to capture the qualities that all good friendships share, regardless of who the friends are and regardless
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Indifference, Indeterminacy, and the Uncertainty Argument for Saving Identified Lives Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Eric Gilbertson
In some cases where we are faced with a decision of whether to prioritize identified lives over statistical lives, we have no basis for assigning specific probabilities to possible outcomes. Is there any reason to prioritize either statistical or identified lives in such cases? The ‘uncertainty argument’ purports to show that, provided we embrace ex ante contractualism, we should prioritize saving
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After Objectification: Locating Harm Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Rosa Vince
In this article I offer an analysis of harms associated with sexual objectification. Objectification can be benign, but harm tends to occur in three circumstances: (i) when objectification is non-consensual, (ii) when a phenomenon that I term ‘context-creeping’ occurs, and (iii) when the objectification is also enacting or reinforcing some kind of oppression. I defend the view that objectification
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The Present Functions and the Future Persistence of Planning Agency Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Luca Ferrero
Following Bratman, I distinguish between the Cummins or component-function of the planning capacity (its role as a component of larger forms of practical organizations) and its Wright or existence-function – the planning capacity's effect that explains its existence. I agree with Bratman that these functions are distinct. The planning capacity's role within larger practical organizations need not explain
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Work Emails at the Breakfast Table: Proximity of Labour and Capital as an Unexamined Difficulty for the (Just) Distribution of Discretionary Time Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Alastair James
This article examines an omission in the study of discretionary time that bears on proposals currently being evaluated in this part of political philosophy. Specifically, this is the tendency in many jobs for work time to bleed into what is meant to be protected or discretionary time. I refer to this phenomenon as the relative proximity of labour and capital, which has become more prevalent in the
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Ubuntu Thinking on Biodiversity Loss: The Inadequacies of Egalitarian and Communitarian Solutions Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Olusegun Steven Samuel, Rotimi Omosulu
This article evaluates the moral implications of two leading theories on biodiversity preservation/conservation (Paul Taylor's biocentric egalitarianism and J. Baird Callicott's holistic communitarianism). Taylor argues for the moral equality of all members of the Earth's community of life, calling for an ethic of respect for nature to conserve biodiversity. Callicott argues for the moral consideration
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Political Legitimacy and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Ryan Cox
This article sets out an argument from legitimacy for the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia. The article first sets out an understanding of political legitimacy and of legitimacy deficits and argues that the Australian Government faces a legitimacy deficit with respect to its exercise of political power and authority over Indigenous Australians. The deficit arises, it is argued,
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Planning and Its Function in Our Lives Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Michael E. Bratman
Our capacity for planning agency is a core capacity that underlies interrelated forms of mind-shaped practical organization: cross-temporal organization of individual agency, shared agency, social rules, and rule-guided organized institutions. A function of our capacity for planning agency is the support of these forms of practical organization. I highlight Peter Godfrey-Smith's contrast between the
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The Tyranny of Political Correctness? A Game-Theoretic Model of Social Norms and Implicit Bias Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis
This article sets out to describe and solve two puzzles that emerge in segregated labour markets (e.g. the USA or Sweden). First, in many hiring contexts people profess to adhere to egalitarian norms, and specifically to a qualification norm according to which job qualification should be the basis of employment. Still there is evidence of frequent norm violations (discrimination). Surprisingly, the
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Why It Is Not Unreasonable to Fear Terrorism Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Eran Fish
A common view has it that since we are far likelier to be killed in some road or household accident than in a terror attack, our fear of the latter is exaggerated. I argue that terrorism's relatively limited death toll need not mean that fearing it is unreasonable, nor does it immediately imply that counter-terrorism policies are unjustified – whatever other, legitimate concerns these policies give
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The Difficulty of Making Good Work Available to All Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Pascal Brixel
How might good work – skilled, autonomous work which affords workers opportunities for meaningful social cooperation in decent conditions – be made available to all? I evaluate five commonly advanced strategies: an unregulated labor market, egalitarian redistribution of resources, state regulation, collective bargaining, and workplace democracy. Each, I argue, has significant limitations. An unregulated
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The Political Privacy Dilemma: Private Lives and Public Office Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 John William Devine
Should political leaders have a right to privacy? Incursions by new and traditional media into the private lives of political leaders are commonplace. Are such incursions ethically justifiable? Prima facie, the question of ‘political privacy’ seems to involve a conflict between a politician's self-interest in retaining a protected private realm and citizens' public interest in having access to information
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When Is Work Unjust? Confronting the Choice between ‘Pluralistic’ and ‘Unifying’ Approaches Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Sarah C. Goff
Individuals have different experiences of work when they are self-employed, when they perform tasks in the gig economy, and when they follow directives from managers. But such differences are not represented in some of the most prominent non-ideal theories of work. These describe workers as a coherent group, with a position in the structure of the liberal capitalist economy. I present an alternative
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Why Refugees Should Be Enfranchised Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Zsolt Kapelner
Many authors argue that refugees should be enfranchised independently of citizenship. The enfranchisement of refugees is often seen as crucial for affirming their agency in the politics of asylum. However, most arguments in the literature do not explain why precisely it matters that they exercise their agency in the realm of democratic decision-making, i.e. why it matters that refugees participate
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Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter? Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
Our time is marked by a resurgence of hate that threatens to increase oppression. Social media has contributed to this by acting as a medium through which hate speech is spread. How should we model the spread of hate? This article considers two models. First, I consider a simple contagion model. In this model, hate spreads like a virus through a social network. This model, however, fails to capture
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Throwing the Embryos out with the Bathwater? A Novel Evaluation of the Value of Embryos Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Megan Kitts
As a growing number of embryos collect in fertility clinics, it is imperative to evaluate the permissibility of available options for genetic parents and fertility institutions. Much of the discussion on appropriate treatment of embryos has focused on the circumstances under which it is permissible to destroy embryos for instrumental purposes, and thus has little application to the fertility context
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A Dissolution of the Repugnant Conclusion Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Roberto Fumagalli
This article articulates and defends a dissolution of the so-called repugnant conclusion, which focuses on the notion of life worth living figuring both in Parfit's formulation of the repugnant conclusion and in most responses to such a conclusion. The proposed dissolution demonstrates that the notion of life worth living is plagued by multiple ambiguities and that these ambiguities, in turn, hamper
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‘I Am a Man’: Countering Oppression through Appeal to Kind Membership Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Suzy Killmister
All too often, social kinds function as sites of oppression. To be a woman, to be Black, to be trans – each, in its own way, situates someone at the lower end of a social hierarchy. Membership in such groups thus constitutes a liability: notwithstanding the goods people draw from sharing in these identities, they also stand at perpetual risk of those same identities exposing them to significant harm
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Forgiveness: Overcoming versus Forswearing Blame Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Julius Schönherr
Philosophers often identify forgiveness with either overcoming or forswearing blaming attitudes such as, paradigmatically, resentment for the right reasons; yet there is little debate as to which of the two (if either) is correct. In this article, I present three arguments that aim to strengthen the forswearing view. First, on the overcoming view, many paradigm cases of forgiveness would turn out to
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Responsibility for Future Climate Justice: The Direct Responsibility to Mitigate Structural Injustice for Future Generations Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Daan Keij, Boris Robert van Meurs
In this article we argue that duties towards future generations are situated on the collective level and that they should be understood in terms of collective responsibility for structural injustice. In the context of climate change, it seems self-evident that our moral duties pertain not only to the current generation but to future generations as well. However, conceptualizing this leads to the non-identity
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Stigma, Stereotype, and Self-Presentation Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Euan Allison
How should we interpret the popular objection that stigmatised subjects are not treated as individuals? The Eidelson View claims that stigma, because of its connection to stereotypes, violates an instance of the general requirement to respect autonomy. The Self-Presentation View claims that stigma inhibits the functioning of certain morally important capacities, notably the capacity for self-presentation
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NIMBYism and Legitimate Expectations Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Travis Quigley
An increasing portion of contemporary politics revolves around a set of claims made by those (typically derisively) referred to as NIMBYs. Despite its practical significance, NIMBYism has not received significant attention in academic philosophy. I attempt a charitable but limited reconstruction of NIMBYism in terms of legitimate expectations. I argue that, despite NIMBY expectations being somewhat
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Reciprocity, Vulnerability, and the Moral Significance of Herd Immunity Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Justin Bernstein, Mark Navin
This article proposes a novel defense of vaccine mandates: such policies are justifiable because they protect the capabilities of individuals who cannot cultivate individual immunity against infection. We begin by considering a nearby argument that has recently enjoyed popularity, which claims individuals have an enforceable obligation to get vaccinated because they have benefited from community protection
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Investors versus Workers: A Class-Based Critique of International Investment Treaties Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Mirjam Müller
Bilateral investment treaties constitute an important instrument to facilitate global investment. Recent discussions in political theory have highlighted several normative concerns raised by bilateral investment treaties. One worry is that investment treaties undermine national self-determination as they grant investors far-reaching protections that can be legally enforced. Another worry is that the
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Should Political Philosophers Attend to Victim Testimony? Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Ane Engelstad
There is a growing recognition that victims of injustice may have privileged access to knowledge about the injustices they experience, and that injustices are perpetuated through silencing victims by taking them to be less credible, and through denying them the platform and capacity to speak. However, these are not ideas that political philosophers tend to engage with in a sustained manner, to the
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A Project View of the Right to Parent Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Benjamin Lange
The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution's justification is grounded, at least in part, in the non-instrumental value of the parent–child relationship itself. Such views face the challenge of identifying a specific good in the parent–child relationship that can account for how
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Fairness, Care, and Abortion Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 David O'Brien
Only women can bear the burdens of gestating fetuses. That fact, I suggest, bears on the morality of abortion. To illustrate and explain this point, I frame my discussion around Judith Jarvis Thomson's classic defense of abortion and Gina Schouten's recent feminist challenge to Thomson's defense. Thomson argued that, even assuming that fetuses are morally equivalent to persons, abortions are typically
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Public Health Officials Should Almost Always Tell the Truth Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Samuel Director
One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the lay public relies immensely on the knowledge of public health officials. At every phase of the pandemic, the testimony of public health officials has been crucial for guiding public policy and individual behavior. The reason is simple: public health officials know a lot more than you and I do about public health. As lay people, we rely on experts
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What We Owe Past Selves Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Lauritz Aastrup Munch
Some say that we should respect the privacy of dead people. In this article, I take this idea for granted and use it to motivate the stronger claim that we sometimes ought to respect the privacy of our past selves.
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Relational Justice: Egalitarian and Sufficientarian Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Andreas Bengtson, Lasse Nielsen
Relational egalitarianism is a theory of justice according to which people must relate as equals. In this article, we develop relational sufficientarianism – a view of justice according to which people must relate as sufficients. We distinguish between three versions of this ideal, one that is incompatible with relational egalitarianism and two that are not. Building on this, we argue that relational
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Against ‘Hate Speech’ Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Dirk Kindermann
This article argues against the term and concept of ‘hate speech’ and in favour of using the concept and term ‘discriminatory speech’. ‘Hate speech’ is a misnomer; we should name the harmful speech in question by what it in fact does: it discriminates. The article argues for this conceptual replacement claim by identifying a number of functions the concept ‘hate speech’ has been meant to serve and
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The Balanced View of the Value of Conscience Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Doug McConnell, Julian Savulescu
On the mainstream view, consciences are valuable because they promote moral unity. However, conscience, so defined, will systematically prevent moral growth that threatens unity, even when unity has formed around oppressive moral values. This motivates Carolyn McLeod's alternative ‘Dynamic View’ whereby consciences are valuable to the extent that they are dynamic. Consciences are dynamic when they
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Punishment, Public Safety, and Collateral Legal Consequences Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Richard L. Lippke
What are termed the ‘collateral legal consequences’ (or CLCs) of criminal conviction have been defended in a variety of ways. The focus in this article is on efforts to justify the burdens and restrictions they involve as nonpenal measures designed to secure public safety. Zachary Hoskins' careful defense of such public-safety CLCs is utilized as a point of departure. Although it is granted that such
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Fitting Moral Admiration: Achievements and Character Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Kyle Fruh
I develop three arguments in support of my contention that we should favor achievements over agents as objects of fitting moral admiration. The first argument impugns the epistemic standing with which characterological admiration is standardly issued. The second argument alleges that there is likely to be a difference between widely held folk concepts of character and traits, on the one hand, and an
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Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’ Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Peter Railton
Ruth Chang has argued convincingly that we must recognize that some choices will not involve strict, univocal comparison of options. How, then, can such choices be made well? Chang suggests that commitment is a fundamental way of ‘putting one's very self’ behind a normative consideration, thereby ‘endow[ing] that consideration with the normativity of a reason’. This view challenges what Chang deems
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Propaganda: More Than Flawed Messaging Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Cory Wimberly
Most of the recent work on propaganda in philosophy has come from a narrowly epistemological standpoint that sees it as flawed messaging that negatively impacts public reasonableness and deliberation. This article posits two problems with this approach: first, it obscures the full range of propaganda's activities; and second, it prevents effective ameliorative measures by offering an overly truncated
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LGBT-Inclusive Education in Liberal Pluralist Societies Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Christina Elizabeth Easton
What should be the aim of LGBT-inclusive, state-mandated curricula in liberal, pluralist societies? In this article, I identify two distinct aims that such curricula might have. The first, LGBT Respect, aims to teach that LGBT individuals have equal political status and rights. The second, LGBT Approval, aims to teach a positive attitude towards LGBT relationships, including that there is nothing wrongful
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On the Duty of Scholars to Aid Their Persecuted Peers Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Shaun O'Dwyer
Global threats to academic freedom are multiplying not only in an era of authoritarian resurgence, but also – less overtly – in an era of increasingly managerial governance of higher-education sectors in democratic nations, where protection of institutional revenue streams, and of institutional reputation, may take priority over protection of scholars' and students' academic freedoms. In such circumstances
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Old Age as a Stage of Life Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Jean Kazez
The objective list account of wellbeing is usually taken to say that the same set of goods is relevant to wellbeing for any person, regardless of age. Coupled with reasonable assumptions about how goods are distributed over the lifespan, that leads to a picture of wellbeing as higher in midlife and lower in childhood and old age. I argue that a stage-relativized objective list theory is more plausible
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Universal Procreation Rights and Future Generations Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Tim Campbell, Martin Kolk, Julia Mosquera
It is often acknowledged that public policies can constrain people's procreative opportunities, in some cases even infringing their procreative rights. However, a topic that is not often discussed is how the procreative choices of one generation can affect the procreative opportunities of later generations. In this article, we argue that the demographic fact that childbearing above the replacement
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How to Argue about Solar Geoengineering Journal of Applied Philosophy (IF 1.104) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Britta Clark
Should high-income countries engage in solar geoengineering research and possible deployment? On the assumption that the speed of the energy transition will be insufficient to abate catastrophic climate impacts, research into solar geoengineering begins to look like a technically and socially feasible route to mitigate such impacts. But on the assumption that a rapid and relatively just energy transition