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Measuring needs: philosophy and the science of measurement
Published on 13 Aug 2025
by Nicole Hassoun Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki and Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, Vestal, New York, USANicole Hassoun is a professor of Philosophy at Binghamton State University of New York. Her research interests focus on issues such as basic needs and well-being, poverty evaluation, distributive justice, access to medicine ethics, and pandemic preparedness and response. Hassoun is the author of the recent book A Minimally Good Life: What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand (Oxford University Press 2024). She has also published about a hundred papers in journals like the American Philosophical Quarterly (2008), Journal of Development Economics (2012), Tropical Medicine and International Health (2021), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2015; 2021), and The European Journal of Philosophy (2011).
Villages, protocols, and the AI-driven future of work: some Wittgensteinian reflections
Published on 12 Aug 2025
by Lisa Herzog Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, The NetherlandsLisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. The current focus of her research is economic democracy and the philosophy of work. In summer 2025, her most recent monograph, The Democratic Marketplace. How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals will be published by Harvard University Press.
Decentring and opening the politics of need
Published on 7 Aug 2025
by Maeve Cooke School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandMaeve Cooke is Full Professor at the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Cooke has published two monographs with MIT Press, Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas’s Pragmatics (1994) and Re-Presenting the Good Society (2006) and over 100 peer-reviewed articles in political theory and critical social theory. Her most recent publications include a monograph with Polity Press Transformations in Critical Theory: Decentrings, Openings, Futures (Spring 2026)
Age-group representation as responsiveness: multilayered congruence for the young
Published on 6 Aug 2025
by Andre Santos Campos Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalAndre Santos Campos is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon. He works mainly on early modern political philosophy, democratic theory and intergenerational justice. Among other works, he is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (Palgrave, 2012) and The Semi-Future Democracy: A Liberal Theory of the Long-term View (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Biases that won’t budge: implicit ageism, or explicit gerontocracy?
Published on 5 Aug 2025
by Alex Madva Department of Philosophy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, USAAlex Madva is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the California Center for Ethics & Policy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium at Cal Poly Pomona. His teaching and research explore how developments in technology and the social sciences inform our understanding of the mind and justice. He is the co-author of Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT 2025) and co-editor of An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind (Routledge 2020) and The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford, 2021).
Basic-needs sufficientarianism
Published on 31 Jul 2025
by Carl Knight Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKCarl Knight is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Glasgow. He works on theories of justice as well as bioethics, climate ethics, discrimination, and moral epistemology. His recent publications include Leaving Nothing to Chance: Equality as Luck Neutralization (Oxford University Press, 2025) and articles in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, and the British Journal of Political Science.
The harms of being trusted or distrusted
Published on 30 Jul 2025
by Matt T. Clark Department of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKMatt T. Clark recently completed his PhD at the University of Leeds, UK, and now holds a Visiting Fellowship there. His main research interests are in the nature of our trust-concepts and their social and political role, the philosophical foundations of public policy, and the nature of organisations and how we can make them better.
Intergenerational harm and injustice in ageing democracies: a defence of age-weighted referendums and intergenerational Commissions
Published on 30 Jul 2025
by Nicola Mulkeen Department of Politics, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UKNicola Mulkeen is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Newcastle University. Her work is in contemporary political philosophy, specifically normative questions that fall at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and economics. She has a strong interest in intergenerational justice and its implications for policy and institutional design for younger and future generations.
Introduction: trust, social cohesion, and integration
Published on 29 Jul 2025
by Kerstin Reibold Mira Bachvarova Patti Tamara Lenard a Institute for Philosophy and First Semester Studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norwayb School of Leadership Studies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canadac Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaKerstin Reibold is a postdoctoral research fellow at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her research focuses on Indigenous rights, climate change, the impact of colonialism on territorial rights, and epistemic injustice. Her work has been published in journals such a Episteme, Inquiry, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.Mira Bachvarova is Associate professor in Leadership Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She is a political theorist with interests in citizenship, multiculturalism and non-domination, political legitimacy, and global justice. She has published in several edited volumes and contemporary political theory journals, including previous issues of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.Patti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. Her most recent book is Democracy and Exclusion (OUP 2023). In Ottawa, she runs a community organization called Rainbow Haven, which sponsors, settles and advocates for LGBTQI+ refugees: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowhavenottawa/.
Needs, judgement, and hubris, or judging politics from the perspective of the pandemic
Published on 28 Jul 2025
by Lawrence Hamilton a Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, UKb Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UKLawrence Hamilton (BA(MA), MPhil, PhD Cantab, MASSAf) is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and holds the SA UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge. His research and teaching focuses on rethinking a range of topics in political theory from the perspective of the Global South. He is the author of How To Read Amartya Sen (Penguin 2020), Amartya Sen (Polity 2019), Freedom is Power: Liberty Through Political Representation (Cambridge University Press 2014), Are South Africans Free? (Bloomsbury 2014) and The Political Philosophy of Needs (Cambridge University Press 2003).
The eco-political wrongs of colonialism
Published on 28 Jul 2025
by Jonathan Kwan Philosophy Program, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAEJonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NYU Abu Dhabi. He works in social and political philosophy, especially as it intersects with environmental philosophy, decolonial philosophy, philosophy of race, and classical Chinese philosophy. His research develops and analyzes the implications of an eco-political principle of self-determination, which links a people’s right to self-determination with a duty of ecological sustainability and a right to ecological integrity. He is also constructing a theory of Confucian eco-democracy that demonstrates how the ecological and democratic commitments within Confucianism are deeply intertwined and that offers novel insights into contemporary debates on green democracy.
Needs, harms, and liberalism
Published on 28 Jul 2025
by Stephen K. McLeod Ashley Shaw Attila Tanyi a Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UKb Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKc Department of Philosophy, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayStephen K. McLeod is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has published on a diverse range of topics. Articles on needs have appeared in International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2011), Bioethics (2014), and Polish Journal of Philosophy (2015). Contributions to liberal theory have appeared in Ethics, Politics & Society (2018) and European Journal of Political Theory (2023, with Attila Tanyi).Ashley Shaw is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds (moving to become Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin from August 2025). He has published on the philosophy of needs in Ethics (2023) and Philosophical Quarterly (2024). Work on topics in the philosophies of mind, language, and action has appeared in Philosophical Quarterly (2020), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2021), Ratio (2021), Mind & Language (2022, with Poppy Mankowitz) and Philosophical Review (2024).Attila Tanyi is Professor of Philosophy at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway (moving to the University of Milan from September 2025). He has published widely in moral, political, and legal philosophy in such journals as Philosophical Studies (2009, 2016, with Vuko Andrić, 2022, 2024, both with Daniel J. Hill and Stephen K. McLeod), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2009, 2016, both with Andrić), Utilitas (2014, with Martin Bruder), Theoria (2017, with Matteo Morganti), Criminal Law and Philosophy (2018, with Hill and McLeod), and Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2022, with Hill and McLeod).
Depending on work: Human needs in the ‘radical turn’ on workplace domination
Published on 23 Jul 2025
by George Boss Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, London, UKGeorge Boss is a Lecturer in Political Theory at SOAS University of London, and incoming Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include the political theory of human needs, social epistemology, normative theories of work, and Marx and Marxism. He is the author of Marx and the Politics of Need (Routledge, forthcoming) and winner of the Sir Ernest Barker Prize, awarded by the Political Studies Association for the best doctoral dissertation in political theory (2023). His published work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Theory (2023), Ethics, Politics & Environment (2024), Global Social Challenges (2023), and the Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy (2021).
Introduction: democratic ethics and voting
Published on 23 Jul 2025
by Annabelle Lever Attila Mráz a Ecole Doctorale, and Cevipof, Sciences Po, Paris, Franceb Institute of Philosophy, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, HungaryAnnabelle Lever is Professor of Political Philosophy at Sciences Po, Paris and a Permanent Researcher at Cevipof. She is the author of On Privacy (Routledge, 2011), editor of New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Cambridge, 2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (Routledge, 2017); Ideas that Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights (Oxford 2019) and is a co-editor of CRISPP. She was the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project, ‘Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective’ https://www.redem-h2020.eu/ and initiated and helps to run the ECPR group on The Political Theory of Elections. https://ecpr.eu/group/political-theory-elections Her Personal website is www.alever.netAttila Mráz is Assistant Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Philosophy, Hungary. His research interests focus on democratic theory, political equality, the ethics of voting and political participation, and political ethics more broadly, especially in non-ideal theory. His work has been published, among other places, in Analyse und Kritik, Contemporary Political Theory, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Legal Theory, and Moral Philosophy and Politics.
Human beings are not toasters: why basic needs fulfillment needs more than energy
Published on 23 Jul 2025
by Daniel Petz Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, Graz, AustriaDaniel Petz currently works as researcher and adjunct lecturer at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. This article is output of his previous post-doctoral work in the FWF-funded project “Intergenerational Climate Justice and Basic Needs” at University of Graz, Austria. His research interests focus on issues of climate justice, currencies of justice, civil resistance, democracy, and human mobility.
A care ethics account of the political nature and moral significance of need
Published on 22 Jul 2025
by Sophie Harbour a Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIS), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKb King’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKSophie Harbour is a Research Associate at the Cambridge Peaceshaping, Climate, and Conflict Lab (CPCCL). She earned her PhD in Political Theory from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2025, with research focusing on the potential of care ethics to inform approaches to political representation and accounts of political judgement. In addition to her academic research, Sophie has served as an external research consultant for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), focusing on theories of climate mobility, water governance, and social innovation.
The theory and the politics of need: introduction
Published on 22 Jul 2025
by George Boss Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London, London, UKGeorge Boss is a Lecturer in Political Theory at SOAS University of London, and incoming Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include the political theory of human needs, social epistemology, normative theories of work, and Marx and Marxism. He is the author of Marx and the Politics of Need (Routledge, forthcoming) and the winner of the Sir Ernest Barker Prize, awarded by the Political Studies Association for the best doctoral dissertation in political theory (). His published work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Theory (), Ethics, Politics & Environment (), Global Social Challenges (), and the Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy ().
How far does occupancy extend? Global supply chains, foreign land acquisitions, and territorial sovereignty
Published on 20 Jul 2025
by Torsten Menge Liberal Arts Program, Northwestern University in Qatar, Doha, QatarTorsten Menge is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. His research is at the intersection of political philosophy, social ontology, and social theory. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled How Power Matters, which aims to clarify how power matters to how we live, elaborate the role that the concept plays in normative theorizing, and explain what is at stake in disagreements about the nature of power. In addition, he is exploring how we should think about political community in the face of globalization and the ongoing legacies of colonialism.
A new way to serve democracy: recruiting poll workers and electoral participation
Published on 18 Jul 2025
by Andreas Brøgger Albertsen Annabelle Lever a Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmarkb Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmarkc Sciences Po, Paris (IEP, Paris), Paris, FranceAndreas Albertsen is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University and at the The Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination – CEPDISC. He is the PI on the research project ‘What is mine to give, but not to sell -The moral limits of the market’ funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. He works primarily on controversial markets, discrimination, political participation and the ethics of health care priority setting. He has published in British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly and Journal of Medical Ethics. Furthermore, he is an elected board member of the ECPR research Network on Voting Advice Applications.Annabelle Lever is Professor of Political Philosophy at Sciences Po, Paris, and a Permanent Researcher at Cevipof. She is the author of On Privacy (Routledge, 2011), editor of New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Cambridge, 2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (Routledge, 2017) and Ideas that Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights (Oxford 2019) and is a co-editor of CRISPP. She was the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project, ‘Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective’ https://www.redem-h2020.eu/ and initiated and helps to run the ECPR group on The Political Theory of Elections. https://ecpr.eu/group/political-theory-elections Her research on sexual and racial equality, religious freedom, judicial review, democratic theory, sortition and the ethics of voting can be found at www.alever.net. Her new research is on the right to stand and the democratic value of elections.
Foundational territories: resource system management across borders
Published on 17 Jul 2025
by Cara Nine Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USACara Nine is a professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She is the author of Global Justice and Territory (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Sharing Territories (Oxford University Press, 2022), along with numerous articles on territorial rights. Dr. Nine has received several grant awards, which she has used to help establish a research community in political philosophy and political theory focused on emerging questions of territoriality.
“Only tall because somebody’s on their knees”: distrust, power, and the pursuit of invulnerability
Published on 16 Jul 2025
by Hale Demir-Doğuoğlu Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, CanadaHale Demir-Doğuoğlu (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies department at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her background is in feminist ethics and feminist epistemology, and her doctoral work focuses on dynamics of interpersonal and institutional (dis)trust in societies that are shaped by historical and ongoing forces of oppression.
People and Places: The ‘River’ and ‘Desert Island’ Models of Territory
Published on 16 Jul 2025
by Margaret Moore Deaprtment of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaMargaret Moore is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of four books, including A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford University Press, 2015), and has published articles in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Political Theory.
Voters’ moral burdens, political equality, and resistance to far-right populism
Published on 9 Jul 2025
by Attila Mráz a Institute of Philosophy, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungaryb Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Swedenc Department of Political Science, University of Lucerne, Luzern, SwitzerlandAttila Mráz is an assistant professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Philosophy, Hungary. His research interests focus on democratic theory, political equality, the ethics of voting and political participation, and political ethics more broadly, especially in non-ideal theory. His work has been published, among other places, in Analyse und Kritik, Contemporary Political Theory, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Legal Theory, and Moral Philosophy and Politics.
Does your vote matter that much? On the ground of electoral duties
Published on 9 Jul 2025
by Chiara Destri Carlo Burelli a CONTRUST Initiative/Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germanyb Department of Humanities, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, GermanyChiara Destri is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Initiative ‘ConTrust: Trust in Conflict’, based at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests lie in normative democratic theory and her work has been published in international journals such as Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.Carlo Burelli is Assistant Professor of political philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont, specializing in political realism. He has authored two books and his work has appeared in international journals such as the European Journal of Political Theory, Political Studies, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. He has also received the 2022 Best Article Award from CRISPP.
A presentist case for rectifying past territorial wrongs
Published on 9 Jul 2025
by Anna Stilz Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USAAnna Stilz is the Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California–Berkeley. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty, she taught for 15 years at Princeton University. She is the author of Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (2009) and Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration (2019). She is the Founding Editor of Free and Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs, and served as Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs from 2020 to 2024.
Territorial rights, domination, and Indigenous-state treaty negotiations
Published on 8 Jul 2025
by Michael Luoma Dept of Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince George, CanadaMichael Luoma is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory (Department of Political Science) at the University of Northern British Columbia. His research focuses on the conditions for legitimate political institutions in multinational contexts marked by enduring and historical injustices, with a focus on the territorial rights of Indigenous and settler peoples. Michael is an active participant in the Indigenous Peoples, Territory, and the Comprehensive Claims Process: Comparing Theories, Comparing Experiences SSHRC Partnership Development project and is currently co-editing a volume on Indigenous self-determination and treaty federalism with Veldon Coburn (McGill).
The political ethics of strategic voting: a compromissory account
Published on 8 Jul 2025
by Andrei Poama Élise Rouméas a Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, University of Leiden, The Hague, The Netherlandsb Department of Global & Local Governance, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsAndrei Poama is a senior assistant professor in political philosophy and public policy at the FGGA, Leiden University. His research agenda covers criminal justice ethics, democratic theory (with a focus on the ethics of voting), and public policy ethics. His work has been published in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Ethics, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (with Annabelle Lever).Élise Rouméas is a senior assistant professor in political philosophy at the Department of Global & Local Governance, Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen. Her research interests include democratic theory with a focus on decision-making procedures (in particular compromise), digital democratic innovations, and religious pluralism. Her articles have been published in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, Social Theory & Practice, Political Studies, and Ethics & Information Technology.
Territorial justice as structural justice: settler colonialism and territorial rights theory
Published on 5 Jul 2025
by Kaitie Jourdeuil Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, CanadaKaitie Jourdeuil is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston. Her research is guided by two central questions: (1) What does it mean to live well in community with one another? and (2) What shared values should guide relationships within our political community and with other communities? Her current work examines how Canadians might revise their shared values and political practices through engagement with Indigenous political thought, and how political theorists can respond to calls to decolonize and Indigenize political theory and Canadian politics. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Reconciliation and trust in settler states
Published on 5 Jul 2025
by Dimitrios Panagos Department of Political Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, CanadaDimitrios Panagos is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Memorial University. He is a specialist in the study of contemporary political philosophy and Aboriginal rights, with research contributions combining both normative and empirical concerns. He has published work on aboriginality, Aboriginal rights, Aboriginal voting behaviour and resource governance. He is currently working on a monograph on settler states, Aboriginal peoples and the problem of political obligation.
What is social trust?
Published on 5 Jul 2025
by Nikolas Kirby School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKNikolas Kirby is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Glasgow. His current research interests focus on social trust, good governance, basic equality, and private law theory. He is the editor of What is Good Government? The Philosophy of Office, Institutions and Administrations (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Introduction: territorial rights: new directions and challenges
Published on 5 Jul 2025
by Margaret Moore Elliot Goodell Ugalde Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, CanadaMargaret Moore is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of four books, including A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford University Press, 2015), and has published articles in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Political Theory.Elliot Goodell Ugalde is a PhD student in Political Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston specializing in political theory, international political economy, and Indigenous resurgence. He served as the research assistant to Dr. Margaret Moore for this special issue and is active in academic and community-based projects on housing justice, labour politics, and decolonial thought.
Racism, cultural integration, and the liberal’s dilemma
Published on 4 Jul 2025
by Kerstin Reibold Institute for Philosophy and First Semester Studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayKerstin Reibold is a postdoctoral research fellow at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her research focuses on Indigenous rights, climate change, the impact of colonialism on territorial rights, and epistemic injustice. Her work has been published in journals such a Episteme, Inquiry, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Unbinding the vote: electoral boundaries and citizen mobility
Published on 4 Jul 2025
by Sarah Birch Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, UKSarah Birch is Professor of Political Science at King’s College London. Her research focuses on elections, political ethics and climate change. Birch is author of Electoral Malpractice (2011), Ethics and Integrity in British Politics (2015) and Electoral Violence, Corruption and Political Order (2020).
Trust and belonging
Published on 3 Jul 2025
by Carolyn McLeod Department of Philosophy, Western University, London, CanadaCarolyn McLeod, FRSC, is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Western University. Author of Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy (MIT Press) and Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests (Oxford), she is an expert on ethical issues in reproductive health care and on trust, conscience, and related moral concepts. Her current research focuses on developing a moral framework for understanding and responding to the distrust of socially marginalized groups in public institutions.
The necessity of labor unions for curbing domination
Published on 2 Jul 2025
by Begum Icelliler Department of Political Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USABegum Icelliler is a PhD Candidate in Political Theory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include the political theory of work, democratic theory, and feminist political theory.
A defence of mixed motivations in democratic elections
Published on 27 Jun 2025
by Valeria Ottonelli Department of Philosophy, University of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyValeria Ottonelli is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Genoa. Her main research interests focus on the theory of just migration policies (The Right Not to Stay, with T. Torresi, OUP 2022) and on the normative theory of democratic institutions and participation. In relation to the latter topic, she has published extensively on voting paradoxes and democratic legitimacy, the ethics of democratic participation and the practice of democratic deliberation.
Towards a conversational theory of voting
Published on 27 Jun 2025
by Corrado Fumagalli a Department of Classics, Philosophy and History, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italyb African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrado Fumagalli is an Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Genoa and an Associate Researcher at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (University of Johannesburg). He is working on a pragmatist approach to democratic legitimacy, normative issues connected with citizens’ engagement in countering intolerant discourses, and the political theory of social change. His work on these topics appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Politics, Political Theory, and Political Studies.
Democratic duties. Why we should vote to rectify political injustice
Published on 26 Jun 2025
by Ludvig Beckman Department of Political Science, Stockholm University and the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, SwedenLudvig Beckman is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden. His research includes books and articles on democratic theory, on topics of popular sovereignty and constitutionalism, the democratic representation of future generations, the boundary problem in democratic theory, the right to vote and electoral ethics. His most recent book is The Boundaries of Democracy. A Theory of Inclusion (Routledge, 2023, with Open access).
Armed and unarmed environmental violence: the case of incendiary kites and balloons in the Gaza–Israel conflict
Published on 19 Jun 2025
by Adi Levy Tamar Meisels a Department of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USAb Political Science, Tel Aviv University, IsraelAdi Levy is an Israel Institute post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Jewish Studies and Political Science at Florida Atlantic University.Tamar Meisels is a professor of government and policy and a political theorist in the Department of Political Science at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University. Recipient of Israel Science Foundation Grant (no. 217/22) that supported this research.
The democratic role of non-state actors in the global governance of artificial intelligence
Published on 18 Jun 2025
by Eva Erman Markus Furendal Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenEva Erman is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. She is the author of The Practical Turn in Political Theory (2018) and Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions (2005), and has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in international scholarly journals. Furthermore, Erman is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ethics & Global Politics (Taylor & Francis).Markus Furendal is a researcher at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and the Institute for Futures Studies. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook on the Global Governance of AI, associate editor of Philosophy and Technology, and has published a number of political-philosophical articles on AI and its social impact.
Reply to critics
Published on 6 Jun 2025
by Patti Tamara Lenard Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaPatti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. She is the author of Democracy and Exclusion (OUP 2023); Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State, 2012); How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism? (Polity Press, 2020), Debating Multiculturalism (with Peter Balint, OUP, 2022); and Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions: Refuge Through Activism at Ottawa’s St. Joe’s Parish’s refugee outreach committee (with Stéfanie Morris, Karina Juma, and Meredith Teretta, UOP, 2022). In Ottawa, she runs a community organization called Rainbow Haven, which sponsors, settles and advocates for LGBTQI+ refugees: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowhavenottawa/.
Suella Braverman’s dream
Published on 4 Jun 2025
by Sarah Fine Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKSarah Fine is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She specialises in issues related to migration, borders, and citizenship, and methodology in political philosophy. She is also interested in work connecting philosophy with the arts.
Don’t bracket the queers! Comment on Patti Lenard’s ‘Resettling (LGBTQ+) refugees’
Published on 4 Jun 2025
by Annamari Vitikainen Department of Philosophy, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayAnnamari Vitikainen is Professor of Philosophy at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Vitikainen’s research interests fall broadly within the field of contemporary political philosophy, including questions of multiculturalism, migration, integration, minority and group rights (incl. indigenous rights), and sexuality and gender. Vitikainen is the author of The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). She has also published e.g. at the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2019); Ethics & Global Politics (2020); Citizenship Studies (2021); Moral Philosophy and Politics (2023); Journal of Social Philosophy (2024). Vitikainen’s present work focuses especially on the Ethics of LGBTIQ+ Refugee Admission and Integration.
Incremental steps and residential security: the methodology of celebrating humble normative improvements
Published on 3 Jun 2025
by Esma Baycan-Herzog Department of Political Science and International Relations and Institute of Citizenship Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandEsma Baycan-Herzog is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on political theory methodology, ethics and politics of migration, citizenship, multiculturalism, nationalism and legitimacy of international institutions. Her contributions appeared in journals such as Democratic Theory, Ethnicities and Ethics & Global Politics, as well as in various collective volumes.
What makes international institutions legitimate to citizens of non-democratic states?
Published on 2 Jun 2025
by Hong Do Department of Political Science, Central European University, Vienna, AustriaHong Do is a doctoral candidate in Political Theory at the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations at Central European University (Austria). Her research focuses on international legitimacy, global public reason and transnational deliberation.
Combatting unjust exclusion and the limits of legitimate state power
Published on 2 Jun 2025
by Andrew Mason Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UKAndrew Mason is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Warwick. He has broad research interests in contemporary political theory, including multiculturalism, civic education, religious schooling, and appearance discrimination. He is the author of several books, including What’s Wrong with Lookism? (OUP, 2023), and co-author (with Matthew Clayton and Adam Swift) of How to Think about Religious Schools (OUP, 2024).
Is residence at the core of subjection?
Published on 2 Jun 2025
by Hallvard Sandven Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayHallvard Sandven is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is interested in a range of topics in social and political philosophy, including institutional legitimacy, migration, and freedom. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in, amongst others, the American Journal of Political Science, Ethics, and Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
What is wrong with contribution-based citizenship: exploitation and the racialized hierarchy of labour
Published on 2 Jun 2025
by Eszter Kollar Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumEszter Kollar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Economics at the Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics in Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.
Political realism via pragmatic genealogy or social contracting?
Published on 30 May 2025
by Paul M. W. Tucker Harvard Kennedy School, MA, USAPaul Tucker is aresearch fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business andGovernment, Harvard Kennedy School. He writes on legitimacy at theintersection of political economy and political theory. He is theauthor of GlobalDiscord (PUP 2022)and Unelected Power(PUP 2018), and is writing a book, starting from Hume-Williams, onhow to hang onto the legitimacy of liberal democratic institutions.
Democracy and Exclusion by Patti T. Lenard: introduction to the symposium
Published on 30 May 2025
by Zsolt Kapelner a Institute of Philosophy and First Semester Studies,UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norwayb Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayZsolt Kapelner is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, and held a postdoctoral position at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. He works on moral and political philosophy, particularly democratic theory. His works have been published, among others, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Social Theory & Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Legitimate realism? On Tucker’s Global Discord
Published on 27 May 2025
by Albert Weale Department of Political Science, UCL, London, UKAlbert Weale is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science UCL. His Modern Social Contract Theory (OUP), a study of contract theories since 1950, was published in 2020. It contextualised his earlier Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (OUP, 2013). He is currently embarked on a social contract theory of constitutional process.
A democracy – if we can keep it: citizenship for nonliberals and terrorists?
Published on 27 May 2025
by Andreas Follesdal Institute of philosophy and first semester studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayAndreas Follesdal, Professor of Political Philosophy, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Institute of philosophy and first semester studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Ph.D. 1991 in Philosophy, Harvard University. He publishes in the field of political philosophy, especially international political theory and international legal theory, most recently a book on Subsidiarity (Cambridge University Press 2025).
Freedom in the Well-ordered Republic
Published on 26 May 2025
by Philip Pettit a University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USAb School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, AustraliaPhilip Pettit divides his year between Princeton University and the Australian National University, teaching philosophy and political theory. His recent books include The State (2023) and When Minds Converse: A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul (2025)
The European Union’s responsibility to protect refugees
Published on 22 May 2025
by Sara Amighetti Siba Harb a Department of Philosophy, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerlandb Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The NetherlandsSara Amighetti is a Postdoc at the Chair of Political Philosophy of the University of Zurich. She works on social and political philosophy. Her research focuses on relational equality, migration and the ethics and politics of reparations.Siba Harb is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Tilburg University. She works on social and political philosophy. Her research focuses on theories of justice and their implications for regional and global institutions and structures.
Legitimate authority, institutional specialisation and distributive international law
Published on 17 May 2025
by Oisin Suttle School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, IrelandOisin Suttle is Associate Professor at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. His research examines questions of justice, authority, and interpretation in international law, with a particular focus on international economic law. He is the author of Distributive Justice and World Trade Law (2018, Cambridge University Press) and has published in leading journals in both law and political philosophy including the European Journal of International Law (2014), Modern Law Review (2017), International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2019), Moral Philosophy and Politics (2022), Politics Philosophy and Economics (2022), and the Journal of Political Philosophy (2023).
Rethinking healthy eating policy and public reason: a reply to commentators
Published on 17 May 2025
by Anne Barnhill Matteo Bonotti a Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USAb School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, USAAnne Barnhill is Associate Research Professor and Core Faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is a philosopher and bioethicist who works at the intersection of philosophy, bioethics, public health, and food and agricultural policy. Her work has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Public Health, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, the Hastings Center Report, and Public Health Ethics. She is the co-author of Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy: A Public Reason Approach (OUP, 2022) and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (OUP, 2018) and Food, Ethics and Society: An Introductory Text (OUP, 2016).Matteo Bonotti is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University. He is a political theorist whose research interests include food justice and healthy eating policy, linguistic justice, democratic theory, political liberalism, civility, and free speech. His work has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, and the European Journal of Political Theory. He is the author of Partisanship and Political Liberalism in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2017) and the co-author of Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy: A Public Reason Approach (OUP, 2022) and Money, Parties and Democracy: Political Finance between Fat Cats and Big Government (OUP, 2025).
The defence and limits of consensual democracy
Published on 15 May 2025
by Thaddeus Metz Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaThaddeus Metz is currently Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. His research interests include cross-cultural moral, political, and legal philosophy, in which he draws on values salient in Global South philosophical traditions and, upon reinterpretation, puts them into debate with characteristically Western views. His book A Relational Moral Theory appeared with Oxford University Press in 2022, whilst the follow-up book titled A Relational Theory of Justice is under contract with the same press.
Legitimate distribution without legislation
Published on 13 May 2025
by Nicole Hassoun a Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finlandb Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, Vestal, United StatesNicole Hassoun is Research Director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, and Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University with a focus on global health justice and population health ethics. She is also the director and founder of the Global Health Impact Project, an initiative that evaluates access to essential medicines and aims to address international health problems. Her recent work revolves around the exploration of health inequalities between different countries, particularly accentuated by the Coronavirus pandemic. She has authored several books, including Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations, published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press; Global Health Impact: Extending Access on Essential Medicines for the Poor, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press; and Global Enough? The Minimally Good Life Account of What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Legitimacy at sea. Authority and extraterritorial border controls
Published on 13 May 2025
by Ludvig Beckman Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenLudvig Beckman is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden. His research on topics in democratic theory include publications on popular sovereignty and constitutionalism, the democratic representation of future generations, the boundary problem in democratic theory, the right to vote and electoral ethics. His most recent book is The Boundaries of Democracy. A Theory of Inclusion (Routledge, 2023, with Open access).
Legitimate international authority and institutional diversity
Published on 9 May 2025
by Antoinette Scherz Oisin Suttle a Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockhom, Swedenb ARENA, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norwayc School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, IrelandAntoinette Scherz is an Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and a Senior Researcher with ENROL at ARENA, University of Oslo. Her work lies at the intersection of political philosophy, legal theory and international political theory with focus on legitimacy, autonomy, democratic theory and democratic backsliding in the EU. Antoinette is the co-editor of three special issue on legitimacy beyond the state and has published in journals such as Journal of European Public Policy (2025), Journal of Social Philosophy (2023), Res Publica (2022), Global Constitutionalism (2021) and European Journal of Political Theory (2021).Oisin Suttle is Associate Professor at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. His research examines questions of justice, authority and interpretation in international law, with a particular focus on international economic law. He is the author of Distributive Justice and World Trade Law (2018, Cambridge University Press), and has published in leading journals in both law and political philosophy including the European Journal of International Law (2014), Modern Law Review (2017), International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2019), Moral Philosophy and Politics (2022), Politics Philosophy and Economics (2022), and the Journal of Political Philosophy (2023).
Climate scientists as trustees in public reason: the legitimacy of political institutions amid non-epistemic values
Published on 8 May 2025
by Antoinette Scherz Laura García-Portela a Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Swedenb ARENA, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norwayc Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsAntoinette Scherz is an Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and a Senior Researcher with ENROL at ARENA, University of Oslo. Her work lies at the intersection of political philosophy, legal theory and international political theory with focus on legitimacy, autonomy, democratic theory and democratic backsliding in the EU. Antoinette is the co-editor of three special issue on legitimacy beyond the state and has published in journals such as Journal of European Public Policy (2025), Journal of Social Philosophy (2023), Res Publica (2022), Global Constitutionalism (2021) and European Journal of Political Theory (2021).Laura García-Portela is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Her works sits at the intersection of climate ethics, philosophy of climate science and philosophy of climate law. She is the author of Rectifying Climate Injustice: Reparations for Loss and Damage (Routledge, 2025) and has published numerous articles in international journals such as European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2023) and Res Publica (2022).
Ideals are important, but our reality has other ideas
Published on 7 May 2025
by Garrath Williams Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UKGarrath Williams is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. He has published in moral philosophy, political theory, and applied ethics. In public health, he has taken part in EU-funded projects on diet- and health-related behaviours in European families and is co-author of Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues (with Kristin Voigt and Stuart Nicholls, Oxford University Press, 2014).
Legitimacy, institutional functions, and the state system
Published on 7 May 2025
by N. P. Adams Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USAN. P. Adams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He researches social and political philosophy and philosophy of law, especially questions of authority and legitimacy. He has published on these and other topics in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, The Journal of Political Philosophy, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Liberal political philosophy and animal rights: a reply to commentators
Published on 6 May 2025
by Josh Milburn Department of International Relations, Politics and History, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United KingdomJosh Milburn is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University. He is the author of Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022) and Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully (Oxford University Press, 2023). His Animals, State, and Utopia: Robert Nozick’s Animal Ethics is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Healthy eating policy and political philosophy and Food, justice, and animals: synopses and critical issues
Published on 5 May 2025
by Tom Bailey Department of History and Humanities, John Cabot University, Rome, ItalyTom Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He has published on Kant, Nietzsche, and Nietzsche’s relation to Kant and on the place of religion in democratic politics, and he has edited or co-edited collections on Rawls and religion, Habermas and global justice, cosmopolitanism, and Nietzsche and Kantian ethics.
Cosmetic liberalism, or narrowing the boundaries of the reasonable
Published on 5 May 2025
by Gianfranco Pellegrino Department of Political Science, LUISS University, Rome, ItalyGianfranco Pellegrino is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at LUISS University. His recent publications include ‘Robust responsibility for climate harms’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21 (4), 2018, ‘The value of plants: On the axiologies of plants’, in M. Di Paola and A. Kalhoff (Eds.), Plant ethics: Concepts and applications (Routledge, 2018), and the collection, co-edited with M. Di Paola, The handbook of the philosophy of climate change (Springer, 2023).
Children’s health, animals’ agency and market values
Published on 3 May 2025
by Tom Bailey Department of History and Humanities, John Cabot University, Rome, ItalyTom Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He has published on Kant, Nietzsche, and Nietzsche’s relation to Kant and on the place of religion in democratic politics, and he has edited or co-edited collections on Rawls and religion, Habermas and global justice, cosmopolitanism, and Nietzsche and Kantian ethics.
Why aquatic animals matter for food justice
Published on 2 May 2025
by Chiawen Chiang Jeff Sebo Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, USAChiawen Chiang is the Fish Behavior and Welfare Researcher and Lab Manager of the New York University WATR-lab, which uses science-based scholarship to advance animal welfare and reveal multispecies interests. Her research focuses on the complex lives of aquatic animals and how their welfare is impacted in aquaculture systems.Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University.
Public reason and food policy
Published on 2 May 2025
by Aurélia Bardon Rossella De Bernardi Valentina Gentile a Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germanyb Department of Antiquity, Philosophy, and History, University of Genova, Genova, Italyc Department of Political Science, LUISS University, Rome, ItalyAurélia Bardon is a Junior Professor in Political Theory at the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on public justification, religion, liberal neutrality, and civility. Her work has appeared in journals, such as American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, CRISPP, Law and Philosophy, and Res Publica.Rossella De Bernardi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory at the University of Genova. She has interests in political and social philosophy, especially in public justification, democratic procedures, discrimination in dating, and affective injustices. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.Valentina Gentile is a Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at Luiss University of Rome. She specializes in normative political philosophy and liberal theory, and particularly in the work of J. Rawls. Her research focuses on moral stability, pluralism and the principles of reciprocity and toleration, transitional justice, equality and social justice. Her work has appeared in International Theory, Journal of Social Philosophy, CRISPP and Philosophia.
Farming insects in the zoopolis?
Published on 30 Apr 2025
by Bob Fischer Department of Philosophy, Texas State University, San Marcos, USABob Fischer is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He is the author of Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2021), a co-author of Wildlife Ethics: The Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation (Wiley, 2023), and the editor of Weighing Animal Welfare: Comparing Well-being Across Species (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Refuge, resettlement, open borders, and voluntary immobility: The Ethics of Immigration in a time of climate change
Published on 28 Apr 2025
by Courtney Jung Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaCourtney Jung is Professor and George Ignatieff Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Jung works on critical theory, identity and identity formation at the intersection of comparative politics and contemporary political theory. Her books engage normative debates about liberalism, multiculturalism, and democratic participation through research into political identity formation, mainly in South Africa and Mexico.
How should we do political theory? Reading Rawls on method
Published on 26 Apr 2025
by Loren King Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaLoren King, is an associate professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University with teaching and research interests in theories of justice and legitimacy, urban studies, and water. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics (2004), Political Theory (2005), Space and Polity (2010), the International Journal of Urban Research (2013), NOMOS LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity (2014), and the Journal of Global Ethics (2018). He directs a water-related charitable endowment in Canada, the Great Lakes Trust.
The virtues of ecological citizenship
Published on 17 Apr 2025
by Wenyang Gao Political Science Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, USAWenyang Gao is a PhD candidate in political theory in the Political Science Department at Brown University. Drawing insights from Confucian philosopher Mencius, her dissertation explores how we can cultivate ecological citizens who live a free and meaningful life. Broadly, Wenyang’s research interests focus on the concept of citizenship in relation to questions of political ethics, civic virtue, identity, political legitimacy, political judgment, and theories of freedom.
A mid-level perspective on the ethics of immigration policies
Published on 14 Apr 2025
by Rainer Bauböck Austrian Academy of Science, ViennaRainer Bauböck is corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and visiting fellow in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. His research interests are in normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights. Together with Jelena Dzankic (European University Institute), Jo Shaw (University of Edinburgh) and Maarten Vink (University of Maastricht), he co-directs GLOBALCIT, an online observatory on citizenship and voting rights.
The freedom of choice and persons in republican theory
Published on 11 Apr 2025
by Frank Lovett Department of Political Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, USAFrank Lovett is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy (by courtesy) and Director of Legal Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His primary research concerns the role of freedom and domination in developing theories of justice, equality, and the rule of law. He is the author most recently of The Well-Ordered Republic (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Illusive methodology: what is normative political theory?
Published on 10 Apr 2025
by Simone Chambers Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine, USASimone Chambers is Professor of Political Science at the University of California Irvine. She has written and published on such topics as deliberative democracy, referendums, constitutional politics, the public sphere, secularism, rhetoric, civility, digital misinformation and the work of Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls. Her most recent book, Contemporary Democratic Theory appeared with Polity Press in 2024.
Mutual engagement as methodology: Joseph Carens and the ‘Toronto School’ of Political Theory
Published on 10 Apr 2025
by Kiran Banerjee Abraham Singer a Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canadab Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USAKiran Banerjee is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair of Forced Migration and Refugee Policy in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. His research addresses global migration governance with a focus on the normative role of international institutions and domestic political actors in responding to forced dis-placement. Published works include the edited volumes Migration Governance in North America (2024) and Emotions, Community and Citizenship (2017) as well as numerous book chapters and articles. Before joining Dalhousie, Dr. Banerjee was a faculty member in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.Abraham Singer is Associate Professor in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. In his research, Dr Singer’s work critically appraises the commercial activity and economic institutions we take for granted by considering them in light of our background socio-political institutions and the underlying moral commitments they imply. His most recent research has focused on the internal governance of corporations and its relationship to social justice.
Political theory in context, normativity without frontiers: thinking along with Joseph Carens
Published on 10 Apr 2025
by Kiran Banerjee Abraham Singer Melissa S. Williams a Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canadab Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USAc Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaKiran Banerjee is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair of Forced Migration and Refugee Policy in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. His research addresses global migration governance with a focus on the normative role of international institutions and domestic political actors in responding to forced displacement. Published works include the edited volumes Migration Governance in North America (McGill-Queens 2024) and Emotions, Community and Citizenship (Toronto 2017) as well as numerous book chapters and articles. Before joining Dalhousie, Banerjee was a faculty member in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.Abraham Singer is Associate Professor in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. In his research, Dr. Singer’s work critically appraises the economic practices and organizations we take for granted by considering them in light of our background socio-political institutions and the underlying moral commitments they imply. He is the author of The Form of the Firm (Oxford 2019), and co-author of The Sanity of Satire (Rowman & Littlefield 2020), and Everyone’s Business (Chicago, 2024).Melissa S. Williams is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Williams’ current project focuses on democratic collective agency beyond the state and collaborative work on Indigenous political innovations. Published work ranges from Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton 1998) to Deparochializing Political Theory (ed., Cambridge 2020), as well as numerous edited volumes and articles in journals such as Political Theory, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Review of Politics, and Polity.
Political economy, institutional reconstruction, and ‘realistic utopia’: a pragmatist view
Published on 10 Apr 2025
by James Johnson Department of Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, USAJames Johnson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester where he teaches social and political theory and is co-director of the program in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Professor Johnson’s current research traverses pragmatist political thought, democratic theory, philosophy of social science, and political economy. His academic papers have appeared in an array of journals. He is the author (with Jack Knight) of The Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism (Princeton University Press, 2014) and (with Susan Orr) Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory? (Polity, 2020).
Is citizenship like feudalism? An egalitarian defense of bounded citizenship
Published on 9 Apr 2025
by Sarah Song UC Berkeley School of Law University of California, Berkeley, CA, USASarah Song is the Milo Rees Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science (by courtesy) at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses in political and legal philosophy, feminist theory, and citizenship and migration studies in the PhD Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) and First Amendment Law in the JD curriculum. She is the author of Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge, 2007), which was awarded the 2008 Ralph Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, and Immigration and Democracy (Oxford, 2018).
Carensian market socialism: a friendly investigation
Published on 7 Apr 2025
by Tom Malleson Department of Social Justice and Peace Studies, King’s University College at Western University, London, CanadaTom Malleson is Associate Professor in the Social Justice and Peace Studies Department at King’s University College at Western University. Their research interests are interdisciplinary, crisscrossing contemporary political theory, feminist theory, political economy, philosophy, and sociology. They are also a longtime anti-authoritarian activist and organizer.
The burdens of jurisdiction and the alleged right to exclude unwanted migrants
Published on 7 Apr 2025
by Arash Abizadeh Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, CanadaArash Abizadeh is R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science and Associate Member of Philosophy at McGill University. His research focuses on democratic theory; identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism; immigration and boundaries; social and political power; and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, particularly Hobbes and Rousseau.
Ideology critique in times of crisis
Published on 7 Apr 2025
by James S. Pearson Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsJames S. Pearson is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and a Junior Researcher at the Centre of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (CFUL). He previously worked as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Leiden University and has held visiting fellowships at Stanford University and the University of Oxford.
Reflections on political theory: a response to my interlocutors
Published on 7 Apr 2025
by Joseph H. Carens Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJoseph H. Carens is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Ethics of Immigration, of Culture, Citizenship, and Community, and of Equality, Moral Incentives and the Market. He has written for the Boston Review, Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, and many other journals. His main research has been in the areas of immigration, multiculturalism, and market equality.
Community and state responsibility to assist in immigrant language acquisition
Published on 1 Apr 2025
by Colin W. Rowe RIPPLE, Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumColin W. Rowe is a Postdoctoral Fellow at RIPPLE, KU Leuven, Belgium and managing editor of Ethical Perspectives. His research interests include the normative concerns around allocating authority between levels of government, federalism, understanding justice beyond distributive justice, and normative environmental political theory. He has published in Nations and Nationalism, International Journal for Minority and Group Rights, American Political Thought, and Ethical Perspectives.
What is work? Engineering a working definition
Published on 21 Mar 2025
by Jens Jørund Tyssedal Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayJens Jørund Tyssedal is a post-doc. in Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests focus on the philosophy of work and labour justice, justice in the distribution of fixed-supply positional goods, and on methods in normative moral and political philosophy. He has also published in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (2023), Journal of Business Ethics (2023), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2021), and has contributed to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2024).
Six arguments in favor of liquid assemblies
Published on 19 Mar 2025
by Chiara Valsangiacomo School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandChiara Valsangiacomo is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland, where she conducts an independent research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project, “Let the future be liquid. Democracy in the twenty-first century”, aims to develop a unified theoretical and normative framework that can be used to evaluate liquid democratic institutions and compare them with other democratic innovations. Prior to joining UCD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA/BA of Arts in Social Sciences from the University of Zurich. She has held visiting positions at the University of Konstanz and University College Dublin. Her research interests include political philosophy, normative democratic theory, democratic innovations and alternative legislatures, as well as theories of political representation and sortition.
The challenge of regulating digital privacy
Published on 15 Mar 2025
by Bartlomiej Chomanski Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, PolandBartlomiej Chomanski is an assistant professor of philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University. His research interests cover the intersection of political philosophy and ethics of digital technologies. His work appeared in such journals as Episteme (2025), Topoi (2024), Philosophy & Technology (2023), Ethics and Information Technology (2022), and Journal of Applied Philosophy (2021),
Relational egalitarianism, future generations, and arguments from overlap
Published on 28 Feb 2025
by Tim Meijers Dick Timmer a Intitute for Philosophy, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlandsb Institute for Philosophy and Political Science, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, GermanyTim Meijers is Assistant Professor at Leiden University. He works on justice between generations, global justice as well as on ethics and the family. His work has been published in journals such as Politics, Philosophy & Economics; Economics & Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Ethics & Global Politics; Philosophy Compass; Journal of Value Inquiry; Ethics & International Affairs and CRISPP.Dick Timmer is Assistant Professor at TU Dortmund University. He works in political philosophy and ethics, with a particular focus on distributive justice. His work has been published in journals such as Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, and Utilitas.
Power and future people’s freedom: intergenerational domination, a Role-Based Model
Published on 26 Feb 2025
by Nicola Mulkeen Department of Politics, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UKNicola Mulkeen is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Newcastle University. Her work is in contemporary political philosophy, specifically normative questions that fall at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and economics. She has a strong interest in intergenerational justice and its implications for policy and institutional design for younger and future generations.
Financial markets: the dynamics of domination
Published on 26 Feb 2025
by Hannah McHugh Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsHANNAH MCHUGH is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University. Hannah was previously a postdoctoral fellow of the Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Hannah conducted her PhD in Political Theory at University College London and has taught at the London School of Economics. Hannah’s main areas of interest are philosophical approaches to the contemporary market economy, neo-republican political theory, theories of political responsibility and social change, as well as feminist political thought. Hannah is Editor of the political philosophy blog What to do about now? (www.whattodoaboutnow.com).
Introduction: relational equality and intergenerational justice
Published on 14 Feb 2025
by Devon Cass Andre Santos Campos a MANCEPT, University of Manchester, Manchester, UKb IFILNOVA, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PortugalDevon Cass is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester (MANCEPT). He works on theories of social and intergenerational justice, focusing on relational egalitarian and republican approaches. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Nova University of Lisbon and received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University in 2021. His work has recently appeared in journals such as Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Res Publica, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and Law and Philosophy.Andre Santos Campos is an Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at NOVA University of Lisbon. He works mainly on early modern political philosophy, democratic theory and intergenerational justice. Among other works, he is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (Palgrave, 2012) and The Semi-Future Democracy: A Liberal Theory of the Long-term View (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Do we have relational reasons to care about intergenerational equality?
Published on 12 Feb 2025
by Caleb Althorpe Elizabeth Finneron-Burns a Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Irelandb Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, London, CanadaCaleb Althorpe is an IRC Government ofIreland Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity CollegeDublin. His research focuses on economic justice and the political theory of work, theories of justice more broadly, and political liberalism. His work has been published in Critical Review of International Social and PoliticalPhilosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and SocialPhilosophy, and Social Theory & Practice.Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for FuturesStudies in Stockholm. Her research interests include intergenerational justice, contractualism, and the ethics of human extinction. She is the author of WhatWe Owe to Future People (Oxford University Press, Finneron-Burns, 2024) and has also published on intergenerational justice and human extinction in a variety of journals including the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Ethics andSocial Philosophy, The Monist, and Utilitas.
The intergenerational justice dilemma for relational egalitarians
Published on 12 Feb 2025
by Andreas Bengtson CEPDISC, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DenmarkAndreas Bengtson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at CEPDISC, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests concern issues such as affirmative action, discrimination, relational egalitarianism and paternalism. He has published articles in American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and The Journal of Political Philosophy.
Making the future safe for relational equality: social categories and intergenerational justice
Published on 9 Feb 2025
by Shuk Ying Chan Department of Political Science, University College London, London, UKShuk Ying Chan is an assistant professor in political theory at University College London. Her research interests focus on the intersection between anticolonial political thought and normative political theory. She is the author of Postcolonial Global Justice (forthcoming with Princeton University Press, 2025), as well as articles published in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
How should relational egalitarians think of social relations? Intergenerational justice and the Argument from Temporal Non-Overlap
Published on 6 Feb 2025
by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen CEPDISC, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DenmarkKasper Lippert-Rasmussen is a professor in political theory at Aarhus University and professor II in philosophy at UiT-The Arctic University of Tromsø. His research interests include egalitarianism, discrimination, and ethics of blame. His most recent book is The Beam and the Mote (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Social relations, institutional status, and future people
Published on 5 Feb 2025
by Devon Cass MANCEPT, University of Manchester, Manchester, UKDevon Cass is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester (MANCEPT). He works on theories of social and intergenerational justice, focusing on relational egalitarian and republican approaches. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Nova University of Lisbon and received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University in 2021. His work has recently appeared in journals such as Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Res Publica, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and Law and Philosophy.
The fabric of zoodemocracy: a systemic approach to deliberative zoodemocracy
Published on 9 Jan 2025
by Pablo P. Castelló Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USAPablo P. Castello is a Research Fellow at the Brooks Jr. Animal Law & Policy program at Harvard Law School. He completed this article as the 2022–2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Animal Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada. Pablo is the author of numerous review articles in journals like the American Political Science Review, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Biological Conservation, and the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.
Why voluntariness cannot ground cultural rights restrictions for immigrants
Published on 23 Dec 2024
by Eszter Kollar Helder De Schutter Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven, Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics in Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, Leuven, KU, BelgiumEszter Kollar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Economics at the Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics in Leuven, at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. Helder De Schutter is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the same institute.Helder De Shutter in Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the Center for Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE) Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Justice for denizens: a conceptual map
Published on 16 Dec 2024
by Johan Olsthoorn Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJohan Olsthoorn is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. He mainly works on past and present theories of justice, rights, and property.
The accessibility of religious reasons: an emotion-based account
Published on 13 Dec 2024
by Jaclyn Rekis Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IsraelJaclyn Rekis is a Postdoctoral Fellow for David Enoch’s ‘Liberalism Rekindled Project’, as part of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include political liberalism, religion, democracy, and political and feminist epistemology. Her work has been published in Hypatia and Political Theology.
The morality of state priorities and refugee admission
Published on 9 Dec 2024
by Patti Tamara Lenard Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, CanadaPatti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. She is the author of Democracy and Exclusion (OUP 2023); Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State, 2012); How should democracies fight terrorism? (Polity Press, 2020), Debating Multiculturalism (with Peter Balint, OUP, 2022); and Ordinary Citizens, Extraordinary Actions, a case-study of St. Joseph’s Parish’s refugee outreach committee (with With Stéfanie Morris, Karina Juma, and Meredith Teretta, UOP, 2022). In Ottawa, she runs a community organization called Rainbow Haven, which sponsors, settles and advocates for LGBTQI+ refugees: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowhavenottawa/.
Welfare paternalism and objections from equality
Published on 7 Dec 2024
by Emma Saunders-Hastings Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USAEmma Saunders-Hastings is an associate professor of Political Science at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on social, political, and economic inequality, with particular attention to the role of private power. She is the author of Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Group-differentiated rights for Indigenous communities that straddle borders
Published on 6 Dec 2024
by Michael Luoma Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, CanadaMichael Luoma is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) and the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity (CSDD) at Queen’s University, Canada.
Rights differentiation within the bounds of egalitarian justice
Published on 6 Dec 2024
by Daniel Sharp Faculty of Philosophy, LMU Munich, Munich, GermanyDaniel Sharp is an assistant professor at the Chair for Philosophy and Political Theory at LMU Munich. He works on migration, citizenship, egalitarianism, and democratic theory. He is writing a book on citizenship.
Democratic justice and status inequality in temporary labor migration
Published on 5 Dec 2024
by Mario J. Cunningham Matamoros Institute of Philosophy, KU, Leuven, BelgiumMario J Cunningham Matamoros is a FWO Fundamental Research PhD Fellow at Research in Political Philosophy & Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE) of KU Leuven’s Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte in Leuven, Belgium. His work focuses on political philosophy and migration ethics.
Denizenship and democratic equality
Published on 5 Dec 2024
by Suzanne A. Bloks Daniel Häuser a Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UKb Department of Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, GermanyDaniel Häuser is a PhD Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg.Suzanne Bloks is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Can there be special rights for some citizens?
Published on 5 Dec 2024
by Andreas Niederberger Department of Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, GermanyAndreas Niederberger is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research focuses on cosmopolitan philosophy, especially on transnational democracy, human rights, and migration.
To take offence – or not to? Introduction to the symposium on Emily McTernan’s On Taking Offence (OUP 2023)
Published on 3 Dec 2024
by Christian Schemmel Department of Politics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UKChristian Schemmel is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Mancept, Department of Politics, University of Manchester.
On the ‘only joking’ defence against offence
Published on 19 Nov 2024
by Richard Child Department of Politics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UKRichard Child is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester. He works on theories of nationalism, global justice, and punishment. He has published articles in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and Jurisprudence.
Taking offence as a civic virtue, on and offline
Published on 11 Nov 2024
by Miriam Ronzoni Politics Department, University of Manchester, UKMiriam Ronzoni is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Manchester
Democracy and the ethics of voting
Published on 8 Nov 2024
by Annabelle Lever Ecole Doctorale, and Cevipof, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceAnnabelle Lever is Professor of Political Philosophy at Sciences Po, Paris and a Permanent Researcher at Cevipof. Her research centrally concerns democratic theory, the political theory of elections and the ethics of voting, and ethics of public policy – especially issues of privacy, equality and security. She is the author of On Privacy (Routledge, 2011), editor of New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Cambridge, 2012) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (Routledge, 2017) and Ideas that Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights (Oxford 2019) and is a co-editor of CRISPP. She was the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project, ‘Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective’ https://www.redem-h2020.eu/ and initated and helps to run the ECPR group on The Political Theory of Elections. https://ecpr.eu/group/political-theory-elections Her Personal website is www.alever.net
A perfectionist original position?
Published on 6 Nov 2024
by Cécile Laborde Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKCécile Laborde holds the Nuffield Chair of Political Theory at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Pluralist Thought and the State (2000), Critical Republicanism (2008) and Liberalism’s Religion (2017). Her work on republicanism, non-domination, secularism, and religion has appeared in Journal of Political Philosophy, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Theory, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy and Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
The emotion(s) of offense and victimhood culture
Published on 6 Nov 2024
by Macalester Bell Department of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, USAMacalester Bell is an associate professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College.
Perfecting justice and legitimacy?
Published on 6 Nov 2024
by Paul Billingham Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKPaul Billingham is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on debates concerning political liberalism, public reason, and religion and politics. His work has been published in various journals in moral, political, and legal philosophy, including Journal of Moral Philosophy; European Journal of Political Theory; Politics, Philosophy & Economics; Legal Theory; and The Philosophical Quarterly.
In defence of taking offence: a reply to critics
Published on 4 Nov 2024
by Emily McTernan Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, University College London, London, UKEmily McTernan is Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London.
Freedom, fairness, and sufficiency in Tahzib’s perfectionist theory of justice
Published on 4 Nov 2024
by Jonathan Quong School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USAJonathan Quong is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Southern California. He works in political, moral, and legal philosophy. He is the author of Liberalism Without Perfection (OUP 2011), and The Morality of Defensive Force (OUP 2020).
A Perfectionist Theory of Justice: Replies to Billingham, Laborde and Quon
Published on 4 Nov 2024
by Collis Tahzib School of Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USACollis Tahzib is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He works on moral and political philosophy. He is the author of A Perfectionist Theory of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2022).
As-if trust
Published on 4 Nov 2024
by Michael K. MacKenzie Alfred Moore a Department of Political Studies, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canadab Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, York, UKMichael K. MacKenzie is the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership and a Professor of Political Studies at Vancouver Island University. He is the author of Future Publics: Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is co-editor (with Maija Setälä and Simo Kyllönen) of Democracy and the Future: Future-Regarding Governance in Democratic Systems (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). He has published numerous other articles on democratic theory, deliberation, democratic institutions, philanthropy, intergenerational relations, trust, and leadership.Alfred Moore is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He is the author of Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Politics of Expertise (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He has written widely on topics in democratic theory, including the politics of expertise, anonymity and deliberation, and democratic non-participation. In 2020-21 he held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the project Rethinking Political Competition.
On the coherence of the Rawlsian non-minimalist methodological approach
Published on 1 Nov 2024
by Jeffrey Carroll Department of General Business, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USAJeffrey Carroll is an Assistant Professor of General Business in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. His research interests include the methodology of political philosophy, democratic theory, the morality of markets, and many other applied issues. He has published in The Journal of Politics, Journal of Business Ethics, Utilitas, Social Theory and Practice, Inquiry, Res Publica, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, The Independent Review, the HEC Forum, amongst others.
Should I get angry – or just take offence? A response to McTernan
Published on 1 Nov 2024
by Christopher Bennett Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UKChristopher Bennett is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, U.K. Much of his research has concerned punishment, blame, apology, forgiveness, emotion, and expressive action. He is the author of The Apology Ritual (Cambridge, 2008), as well as articles in journals such as Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Introduction to the symposium on A Perfectionist Theory of Justice by Collis Tahzib
Published on 30 Oct 2024
by Paul Billingham Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKPaul Billingham is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on debates concerning political liberalism, public reason, and religion and politics. His work has been published in various journals in moral, political, and legal philosophy, including Journal of Moral Philosophy; European Journal of Political Theory; Politics, Philosophy & Economics; Legal Theory; and The Philosophical Quarterly.
The right to information about future climate regulations
Published on 28 Oct 2024
by Rutger Lazou Philosophisches Seminar and Heidelberg Center for the Environment, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, GermanyRutger Lazou is a postdoctoral researcher in practical philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, where he does research on the duty to inform about the regulatory and non-regulatory change in the context of the climate transition. He obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, having investigated what is owed to the losers of the energy transition, fossil fuel owners in particular. During his doctoral research, he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He also did research on the just energy transition in Austria for the TransFair project at the University of Graz. Before this, he studied moral sciences at the University of Ghent. In his master’s thesis, he focused on animal ethics, after which he published his book De toekomst van de kat [The Future of Cats] in collaboration with Uitgeverij Houtekiet.
The ultimate political question? Realism and omnicide
Published on 15 Oct 2024
by Max Bouttell Annette Freyberg-Inan a Department of History, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlandsb Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NetherlandsMax Bouttell is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Maastricht University. His current research into the history and legacy of adaptive architecture considers the connections among counterculture, cybernetics, and neoliberalism.Annette Freyberg-Inan is Professor of International Relations Theory at the University of Amsterdam. She researches and teaches in the fields of International Relations, International Political Economy, European Politics, Political Theory, and Social Science Methodology. Her most recent publications include Universitas: Why Higher Education Must Be International (Lexington Books, 2024); “Critical Theories”, in Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition, eds. Brian C.H. Fong and Ian Chong (Routledge, 2023); “Herman Gorter: An Introduction to the End of a World”, with Alex van Eijk, in The Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century, eds. Laura Horn et al. (Palgrave, 2022); and “Critical Theories and Change in International Relations,” in: Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Change in International Relations, eds. T.V. Paul et al. (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Citizen liabilities for state-perpetrated injustices in non-democracies: toward a new authorisation account
Published on 8 Oct 2024
by Brian Wong Yue Shun Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaBrian Wong Yue Shun is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China. His research interests concern primarily the intersection of political theory, applied ethics, and nascent technologies. His most recent works include ‘Towards A Confucian Ethics Governing Human-AI Relations’ in Dao Companion to Confucian Applied Ethics. New York: Springer Publishing, forthcoming, and ‘How Should Liberal Democratic Governments Treat Conscientious Disobedience as a Response to State Injustice?: A Proposal’, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2022, 91:141 – 167, co-authored with Joseph Chan Cho Wai (Academica Sinica). Brian is currently working on a book on a novel account of reparations for historical injustice.
Have we (really) done enough? Strengthening “outcome responsibility” in assessing moral duties toward refugees of protracted crises
Published on 11 Sep 2024
by Muhammet Ali Asil Department of Government and International Affairs, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD, USAMuhammet Ali Asil is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and International Affairs at Augustana University. His primary research areas are the ethics of forced displacement, refugees, and moral political philosophy.
Care democracy and being part of the story
Published on 8 Sep 2024
by Chikako Endo Graduate School of Human Sciences Osaka University Suita JapanChikako Endo is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Human Sciences Osaka University Her research interests include democratic theory and the political theory of work and welfare Her recent article Structural Change Through Collective Action as Democratic Practice Linking Grassroots Democracy with Social Justice 2023 appears in Political Studies
From legitimate boundaries to legitimate boundary making towards a theory of post sovereign membership politics
Published on 20 Aug 2024
by Svenja Ahlhaus Institute for Political Science University of Muenster Muenster GermanySvenja Ahlhaus is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of M nster She is the leader of the research project Democratic Legitimacy of Strategic Litigation in the Context of Religion in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics EXC 2060 Her research interests focus on democratic theory especially on belonging legal mobilisation and political representation Ahlhaus is the author of Die Grenzen des Demos Campus 2020 and has also published in Constellations and Philosophy amp Social Criticism
The moral roles of democratically elected politicians and civil servants
Published on 20 Aug 2024
by Tine Hindkjaer Madsen Department of Design Media and Educational Science University of Southern Denmark Odense DenmarkTine Hindkjaer Madsen is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern Denmark Her research interests focus on issues such as the roles of politicians civil servants and experts in democratic decision making democratic theory evidence based policy and civil disobedience She has published in Evidence and Policy 2024 The Journal of Moral Philosophy 2021 Criminal Law and Philosophy 2021 and Res Publica 2019 Her current research is funded by The Independent Research Fund Denmark 1023 00002B
Property nature and the freedom to roam
Published on 20 Aug 2024
by David Rischel Politics and International Studies Warwick University Coventry UKDavid Rischel is a PhD student at the Department of Politics and International Studies Warwick University His research focus on issues such as territorial justice and its relation to social justice more broadly territorial jurisdiction secession political autonomy and democracy
The biodiversity crisis and global justice a research agenda
Published on 13 Aug 2024
by Chris Armstrong Department of Politics and International Relations University of Southampton Southampton UKChris Armstrong is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton These days he primarily works on the ocean the biodiversity crisis climate justice territorial rights and various themes in environmental justice He is the author of many books including most recently Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis 2024 A Blue New Deal Why We Need a new Politics for the Ocean 2022 and Why Global Justice Matters 2019
Socialism and non domination a relational egalitarian approach
Published on 8 Jul 2024
by Callum Zavos MacRae Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics Jagiellonian University Krakow PolandCallum Zavos MacRae is a Marie Sk odowska Curie POLONEZ BIS Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University Krakow where he is principal investigator for the project Equality Freedom and Domination His research covers various topics in political philosophy such as theories of equality and freedom the political philosophy of socialism and economic justice He has published papers in Erkenntnis 2023 The Journal of Value Inquiry 2023 and Res Publica 2023
Global egalitarianism and climate change against integrationism
Published on 4 Jul 2024
by Alex McLaughlin Department of Politics University of Exeter Exeter UKAlex McLaughlin is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Exeter His work focuses on questions of global and intergenerational justice particularly as they arise in relation to climate change
The political implications of state neutrality as a range concept
Published on 24 May 2024
by Ben Van de WallInstitute of Philosophy KU Leuven Leuven BelgiumBen Van de Wall obtained his PhD as a member of RIPPLE Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium This article is part of a research project that investigates the relationship between state neutrality and political identity
The political value of letting hopes die
Published on 3 May 2024
by Dana HowardDepartment of Biomedical Anatomy and Education and Department of Philosophy The Ohio State University Columbus OH USADana Howard is an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Division of Bioethics which is housed in the Department of Biomedical Anatomy and Education in the College of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department Her work often focuses on the role that our anticipatory attitudes like hope and retrospective attitudes like regret should play in our decision making both in political and medical contexts
The moral ought in conjectural history
Published on 3 May 2024
by Lea YpiGovernment Department The London School of Economics and Political Science London UKLea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department London School of Economics She is the author of several academic monographs published by Oxford University Press and most recently of Free Coming of Age at the End of History which won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages
Hope in the time of climate change A Kantian perspective
Published on 26 Apr 2024
by Claudia Bl serDepartment of Philosophy University of Augsburg Augsburg GermanyClaudia Bl ser is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on Ethics at the University of Augsburg Germany Her research focuses on practical philosophy broadly construed including the history of ethics especially Kant moral psychology especially forgiveness hope and the philosophy of the emotions in general and practical rationality Bl ser is the author of Zurechnung bei Kant de Gruyter 2014 and co editor with Titus Stahl of The Moral Psychology of Hope Rowman amp Littlefield 2020 as well as the entry Hope in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Introduction the political philosophy of hope
Published on 22 Apr 2024
by Jakob HuberInstitute of Philosophy Freie Universit t Berlin GermanyJakob Huber is Principal Investigator of the Junior Research Group Democratic Hope at Freie Universit t Berlin In his current book project he brings together a broader interest in Immanuel Kant s practical philosophy recent debates about the nature and norms of hope as well as Frankfurt School ideas about history and progress in order to develop a political philosophy of hope Earlier work focused on questions of migration membership and boundaries In his first book published 2022 with Oxford University Press he developed a novel reading of Kant s cosmopolitanism as spelling out the implications of the simple fact that a plurality of corporeal agents coinhabit the earth s spherical surface
The power of hope Powerlessness and strong democratic hope
Published on 22 Apr 2024
by Katharina BauerSchool of Philosophy Erasmus University Rotterdam The NetherlandsKatharina Bauer is Associate Professor at the Erasmus School of Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands She does research on techno moral resilience hope in times of crisis dignity and personal practical necessity
The miraculous end of political hope
Published on 22 Apr 2024
by Loren GoldmanDepartment of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA USALoren Goldman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania In addition to many scholarly journal articles and book chapters he is author of The Principle of Political Hope Oxford University Press 2023 and co translator of Ernst Bloch s Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left Columbia University Press 2019
Ideological hope
Published on 21 Apr 2024
by Titus StahlFaculty of Philosophy University of Groningen Groningen The NetherlandsTitus Stahl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen working on systematic and historical issues in critical theory the philosophy of hope and the philosophy of privacy
Making sense of feasibility constraints An agent centered account
Published on 14 Apr 2024
by Federico ZuoloDepartment of Classics Philosophy and History University of Genova Genova ItalyFederico Zuolo is Associate professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Genoa Italy His research interests focus on feasibility animal ethics public reason the basis of equality and disobedience He is the author of Animals Political Liberalism and Public Reason Palgrave 2020 He has also published in The Journal of Applied Philosophy The Journal of Value Inquiry The Journal of Social Philosophy The European Journal of Political Theory Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Utilitas The International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Correction
Published on 20 Mar 2024
Supersession and compensation for historical injustice
Published on 18 Mar 2024
by Lukas H MeyerTimothy Waligorea Department of Philosophy University of Graz Graz Austriab Department of Political Science Pace University New York USALukas H Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at Karl Franzens Universit t Graz Austria Timothy Waligore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pace University New York US
Cook Ding meets homo oeconomicus Contrasting Daoist and economistic imaginaries of work
Published on 11 Mar 2024
by Lisa HerzogMan Kong LiTatiana Llagunoa Faculty of Philosophy Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen Netherlandsb Department of Social Science The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong Hong Kong ChinaLisa Herzog is a professor of political philosophy and director of the Center for Philosophy Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen Netherlands She works on economic justice organizational ethics the philosophy of markets workplace democracy and political epistemology Her latest monograph Citizen Knowledge Markets experts and the infrastructures of democracy was published with OUP in 2023 Man kong Li is an assistant professor and associate director of the Philosophy Politics and Economics PPE program at the Department of Social Science Hang Seng University of Hong Kong He received his PhD in Political Science from Central European University His research interests include political theory of socialism history of political economy urban social movements and jurisprudence Tatiana Llaguno is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Groningen She obtained her PhD with distinction from the New School for Social Research in New York She specializes in 19th century European philosophy esp Hegel and Marx social and political philosophy and critical theory Her work has been published in the Journal of Social Philosophy and Environmental Values
Cancelling fiduciary excuses
Published on 26 Feb 2024
by Robert E GoodinPhilosophy Australian National University Canberra AustraliaRobert Goodin is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University His research focuses on political theory and public policy He is author of most recently Perpetuating Advantage Mechanisms of Structural Injustice 2023 and Consent Matters 2024 both with Oxford University Press
On corrupt institutions
Published on 16 Feb 2024
by David M C MitchellFaculty of Humanities Northeastern University London London UKDavid Mitchell is an associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University London His research interests include institutional ethics ancient Greek ethics and political philosophy and imagination He has recently published articles in Cortex 2021
Everyday immigration ethics Colombia Venezuela and the case for vernacular response
Published on 14 Feb 2024
by Dan BulleySchool of Law and Social Sciences Oxford Brookes University Oxford UKDan Bulley is Professor of International Relations at Oxford Brookes University His research focuses on the interaction of ethics power and space in international politics particularly in humanitarianism and migration Dan is author ofEthics as Foreign Policy 2009 Migration Ethics and Power 2017 and A Relational Ethics of Immigration 2023 as well as co editor with Jenny Edkins and Nadine El Enany ofAfter Grenfell Violence Resistance and Response 2019
Does public justification face an expert problem Some thoughts in light of the COVID 19 pandemic
Published on 13 Feb 2024
by Andrew ReidPolitical Theory University of Reading Reading UKAndrew Reid is a lecturer in political theory at the University of Reading He works primarily on theories of public justification issues around free speech and mental health in political theory
Cosmopolitan realism and the inward turn
Published on 12 Feb 2024
by Eric W ChengSchool of Political Science and Economics Waseda University Tokyo JapanEric W Cheng is an assistant professor of political theory at Waseda University Japan His research interests focus on the challenges opportunities and limits of liberal democratic citizenship and social inclusion Cheng is the author of Hanging Together Role Based Constitutional Fellowship and the Challenge of Difference and Disagreement Cambridge University Press 2022 He has also published in The Review of Politics 2019 Constellations 2022 Philosophy and Social Criticism 2022 Contemporary Political Theory 2023 and The Good Society 2024
Mills The racial contract and ideal theory
Published on 5 Feb 2024
by D C MatthewDepartment of Philosophy York University Toronto CanadaD C Matthew is a philosopher at York University in Toronto Ontario where he received his PhD in 2012 He is the author of Racial Integration and the Problem of Relational Value Dialogue 2023 and other papers have appeared in Social Theory and Practice Politics Philosophy and Economics and other journals He is interested in political philosophy philosophy of race and Africana philosophy
The limits of nonideal duties a partial vindication of fair shares
Published on 2 Feb 2024
by Naima ChahbounDepartment of Political Science Stockholm University Stockholm SwedenNaima Chahboun is a researcher at the Department of Political Science Stockholm University This article forms part of her postdoctoral project Slack taking as Effective Rights Protection The Cases of Refugee Admission and Climate Mitigation 2022 23 funded by Anna Ahlstr m and Ellen Terserus foundation Previous work has been published in Politics Philosophy amp Economics 2023 Social Theory and Practice 2019 Res Publica 2017 and European Journal of Political Theory 2015
When does attachment to natural resources count
Published on 31 Jan 2024
by Virginia De BiasioDepartment of Politics University of York York UKVirginia De Biasio is a doctoral student in the Department of Politics at the University of York UK Her research focuses on natural resources justice territorial rights and the capabilities approach
What s wrong with relying on targeted advertising Targeting the business model of social media platforms
Published on 29 Jan 2024
by Hwa Young KimPhilosophy University of Zurich Zurich SwitzerlandHwa Young Kim is a Postdoc at the Chair of Political Philosophy at the University of Zurich His current research interests are on integration and political polarisation
What is an ally
Published on 29 Jan 2024
by Holly Lawford SmithWilliam Tuckwella School of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of Melbourne Melbourne Australiab School of Social Work and Arts Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga AustraliaHolly Lawford Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne She works in social moral and political philosophy with a particular interest in feminism She is the author of four books Is it Wrong to Buy Sex A Debate with Angie Pepper Routledge forthcoming Sex Matters Essays in Gender Critical Feminism Oxford University Press 2023 Gender Critical Feminism Oxford University Press 2022 and Not In Their Name Are Citizens Culpable for Their States Actions Oxford University Press 2019 William Tuckwell is a postdoctoral research fellow at Charles Sturt University in Australia He works primarily in epistemology and social and political philosophy His work has been published in Thought A Journal of Philosophy 2020 Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 2022 Social Epistemology 2022 The Oxford Handbook to Consequentialism 2020 and the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2017 2019
Strategic ignorance is it appropriate for indigenous resistance
Published on 26 Jan 2024
by Andrea Sullivan ClarkeDepartment of Philosophy University of Windsor Windsor ON CanadaAndrea Sullivan Clarke is an Assistant Professor and Indigenous Peoples Scholar at the University of Windsor She is a member of the wind clan of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma and conducts research in the area of social epistemology
Charles Mills The Racial Contract at 25 Reconsiderations
Published on 26 Jan 2024
by Lucius T OutlawProfessor of Philosophy Emeritus W Alton Jones Chair Emeritus Vanderbilt University Nashville TN USALucius T Outlaw Jr author of On Race and Phiosophy and Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folks among other writings was born and raised in Starkville Mississippi is a graduate of Fisk University 1967 and earned a Ph D in Philosophy from Boston College 1972 Recently retired 2023 he served on the faculties of Fisk University Morgan State University Haverford College and Vanderbilt University and as a visiting professor at Spelman College Howard University Hamilton College and Boston College He resides in Nashville Tennessee with wife Freida enriched by life shared with nearby four grandchildren and their parents and extended family elsewhere
Do agent neutral amp agent relative reasons have a place in the Racial Contract
Published on 26 Jan 2024
by Frank M KirklandCUNY Hunter College Department of Philosophy amp CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in Philosophy New York USAFrank M Kirkland is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York CUNY He co edited with Bill Lawson Frederick Douglass A Critical Reader His articles on Kant Hegel Husserl Douglass Du Bois amp Crummell have appeared in many journals and anthologies Including Philosophy amp Phenomenological Research Philosophy Compass Critical Philosophy of Race Kantian Review Blackwell s Companion to African American Philosophy and African American Political Thought He is currently working on Hegel s Idealism and the Black Atlantic Tradition
A paradigm shift in normative political theory grappling with Mills s the racial contract 25 Years Later
Published on 26 Jan 2024
by Elvira BasevichPhilosophy University of California DavisElvira Basevich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of California Davis Her research focuses on how historical experiences should inform philosophical methods for defining normative concepts such as freedom and justice Her second monograph A Duboisian Democracy On Method and Practice is forthcoming with Oxford University Press
The roots and routes of the epistemology of ignorance
Published on 25 Jan 2024
by Linda Mart n AlcoffDepartments of Philosophy Graduate Center and Hunter College City University of New YorkLinda Mart n Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY Recent books include Rape and Resistance Polity 2018 The Future of Whiteness Polity 2015 Visible Identities Race Gender and the Self Oxford 2006
On the importance of justice promoting projects besides reform intervention
Published on 21 Dec 2023
by Jennifer C RubensteinDepartment of Politics University of Virginia Charlottesville VA USAJennifer C Rubenstein is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia She is the author of Between Samaritans and States the Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs OUP 2015 as well as numerous articles and book chapters She is working on a book about emergency politics
Rethinking the bounds of politics a symposium on Lucia Rafanelli s promoting justice across borders the ethics of reform intervention Oxford University Press 2021
Published on 21 Dec 2023
by Shuk Ying ChanUniversity College London London UKShuk Ying Chan is a Lecturer Assistant Professor in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at University College London Her work has appeared in Politics Philosophy amp Economics and the American Political Science Review Her forthcoming book Postcolonial Global Justice with Princeton University Press grapples with the moral and political implications of decolonization as an unfinished project of global justice
On the object and subject of reform intervention comments on Lucia Rafanelli s promoting justice across borders
Published on 21 Dec 2023
by Paulina Ochoa EspejoDepartment of Political Science Haverford College Haverford PA USAPaulina Ochoa Espejo is the William Penn Foundation Professor at Haverford College Pennsylvania USA She writes on borders and territorial rights democratic theory and populism She is co editor of the Oxford Handbook of Populism OUP 2017 and the author of On Borders Territories Legitimacy and the Rights of Place OUP 2020 The Time of Popular Sovereignty Process and the Democratic State PSUP 2011 and articles in the American Journal of Political Science Journal of Political Philosophy and Journal of Politics among others
What toleration is not
Published on 19 Dec 2023
by Arash AbizadehDepartment of Political Science McGill University Montreal CanadaArash Abizadeh is R B Angus Professor of Political Science and Associate Member of Philosophy at McGill University He is the author of Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics
Whose duty Which reform
Published on 18 Dec 2023
by David OwenDepartment of Politics and International Relations Centre for Democratic Futures University of Southampton Southampton UKDavid Owen FBA FAcSS is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton His most recent books are The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement co edited with Jamie Draper Oxford University Press forthcoming 2024 Displacement Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health co authored with Natalia Cintra and Pia Riggirozzi Bristol University Press 2023 Democratic Multiplicity co edited with Jim Tully et al Cambridge University Press 2022 What do we owe to refugees Polity 2020
Reflections on reform intervention a reply to critics
Published on 17 Dec 2023
by Lucia M RafanelliDepartment of Political Science and the Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University Washington USALucia M Rafanelli is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University Her research interests include global justice the ethics of intervention the ethics of resistance group agency and ethics and artificial intelligence She is the author of Promoting Justice Across Borders The Ethics of Reform Intervention Rafanelli 2021
Taking responsibility responsibly looking forward to remedying injustice
Published on 17 Dec 2023
by Susan ErckDepartment of Philosophy amp Religion Mississippi State University Mississippi State USASusan Erck is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University She completed her PhD in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center She specializes in Social Philosophy and Political Philosophy She is interested in etiology of injustice and moral and political questions surrounding the achievement of ecological sustainability
Productive freedom
Published on 27 Nov 2023
by Tully RectorFaculty of Law Radboud University Nijmegen The NetherlandsTully Rector is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Law at Radboud University in The Netherlands He works primarily on problems at the intersection of political theory moral philosophy and the philosophy of economics He has recently published papers in the Review of Social Economy Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of Law and Political Economy
The shallow ecology of public reason liberalism
Published on 25 Nov 2023
by Fred MatthewsDepartment of Philosophy University of Bristol Bristol UKFred Matthews is studying for a PhD in philosophy at the University of Bristol specializing in moral and political philosophy He previously studied an MPhil in political theory at the University of Oxford and a BA in philosophy at the University of East Anglia His research interests include liberal political theory virtue ethics applied epistemology and environmental ethics
Realism against delegitimation
Published on 21 Nov 2023
by Dominik AustrupFaculty of Business Economics and Social Sciences DFG Graduate Program Collective Decision Making University of Hamburg Hamburg GermanyDominik Austrup is a doctoral researcher in political theory at the University of Hamburg He is a member of the DFG Graduate Program Collective Decision Making and works mainly in the fields of political realism and democratic theory His research has recently been published in ZPTh Zeitschrift f r Politische Theorie 2023
Constructivist and well being based justifications of human rights Rivals or allies
Published on 20 Nov 2023
by Christian BaatzDepartment of Philosophy Kiel University Kiel GermanyChristian Baatz is Juniorprofessor of Climate Ethics Sustainability and Global Justice at Kiel University Germany He is leading three research projects on the ethics of Carbon Dioxide Removal and a junior research group on the just distribution of climate change adaptation finance He has published in WIRES Climate Change 2023 Analyse amp Kritik 2018 and Environmental Values 2016 among others
Who are the people Associative freedom and the democratic boundary problem
Published on 17 Nov 2023
by Frank DietrichInstitute of Philosophy Heinrich Heine University D sseldorf D sseldorf GermanyFrank Dietrich PhD is a professor of ethics and political philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University of D sseldorf Germany His research focuses inter alia on liberal pluralism territorial rights and secession and has been published in journals including Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Politics Philosophy amp Economics International Theory Journal of Social Philosophy and Journal of Applied Philosophy
Normative behaviourism groups it cannot reach
Published on 16 Nov 2023
by Simon StevensDepartment of Politics and International Relations De Montfort University Leicester UKSimon Stevens is a senior lecturer at De Montfort University whose research interests are civil disobedience homelessness and methods in political philosophy He won first prize in the ISRF International essay competition 2017 has also published in The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Stevens 2023 and is the author of Leper Islands and The Bureaucratisation of Civil Disobedience 2021 Stevens 2023 He is currently writing a political theory textbook for SAGE that aims to transform decolonise and diversify the curriculum and won the 2022 Political Studies Association Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching
Boundaries and varieties of republicanism
Published on 14 Nov 2023
by Adri n HerranzLaw Department Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona SpainAdri n Herranz is a PhD candidate at Pompeu Fabra University His research interests include republican political philosophy economic democracy labour relations and social theory related to the former topics
A Lockean account of the moral status of undocumented immigrants
Published on 9 Nov 2023
by J K NumaoDepartment of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts Faculty of Science and Technology Keio University Yokohama JapanJ K Numao is an Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University His research interests are in political theory and the history of political thought especially the ideas of the seventeenth century English thinker John Locke He has written on topics ranging from toleration to emigration
The claim right to exclude and the right to do wrong
Published on 24 Oct 2023
by Sahar AkhtarMcDonough School of Business Georgetown University Washington USASahar Akhtar is faculty at Georgetown University and writes at the intersection of philosophy politics and economics Her book Immigration and Discrimination is forthcoming with Oxford University Press UK She has published many articles on immigration including recently in Ethics
Introduction to the symposium intentional citizenship and citizens remedial obligation to share the compensation burden
Published on 16 Oct 2023
by Jinyu SunDepartment of Sociology Zhejiang University Hangzhou ChinaJinyu Sun is an Associate Researcher at the Department of Sociology Zhejiang University Her research interests include collective action political obligation and responsibility for injustice
Responsible citizens of responsible states
Published on 16 Oct 2023
by Jeff KingFaculty of Laws University College London London UKJeff King is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Laws University College London and Research Director at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law His research interests span UK and comparative public law including the international law of sovereign debt as well as legal and constitutional theory He is the author of Judging Social Rights CUP 2012 and co editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism CUP 2018 and of the forthcoming The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory CUP 2024 with Richard Bellamy Between 2019 21 he was specialist legal adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution The author thanks Professors Richard Bellamy and Massimo Renzo for comments on an earlier draft
Poetry myth and storytelling in the history of political theory
Published on 10 Oct 2023
by Sophie SmithDepartment of Politics and International Relations University of Oxford Oxford UKSophie Smith is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of University College Her research focuses on early modern political thought and twentieth century intellectual history especially the history of feminist political theory
Testing intentional citizenship
Published on 10 Oct 2023
by Jinyu SunDepartment of Sociology Zhejiang University Hangzhou ChinaJinyu Sun is an Associate Researcher at the Department of Sociology Zhejiang University Her research interests include collective action political obligation and responsibility for injustice
Intentional participation in the state
Published on 9 Oct 2023
by David MillerNuffield College University of Oxford Oxford UKDavid Miller is Professor of Political Theory and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford His research interests include nationality territory and immigration and he is currently beginning a new project on climate migration His books include National Responsibility and Global Justice Oxford University Press 2007 Strangers in Our Midst the Political Philosophy of Immigration Harvard University Press 2016 and Is Self Determination a Dangerous Illusion Polity 2020
Obedience responsibility
Published on 5 Oct 2023
by Richard VernonDepartment of Political Science Western University London CanadaRichard Vernon is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Political Science Western University He works on contemporary political theory especially issues of global and historical justice and selected issues such as toleration and citizenship in the history of political thought
A republican fiscal constitution for the EMU
Published on 21 Sep 2023
by Stefano Merloa UCL Department of Political Science JohnStuart Mill College London UKb VU Amsterdam John Stuart Mill College Amsterdam NLStefano Merlo is a PhD candidate at the John Stuart Mill College VU Amsterdam and Assistant Lecturer at UCL s Department of Political Science He researches at the intersection of political theory political science and macroeconomics and has published in the Journal of Politics the Swiss Political Science Review the Review of Social Economy and the Journal of European Integration
Individuals responsibilities to remove carbon
Published on 21 Sep 2023
by Hanna Sch belUniversity of Fribourg Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute SwitzerlandHanna Sch bel is a PhD student in Environmental Humanities and a research assistant at the University of Fribourg Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute Switzerland In her dissertation on the ethics of carbon dioxide removal she investigates the moral responsibilities of different agents to remove carbon dioxide to mitigate climate change Her research interests include climate justice and environmental justice and particularly the responsibilities of individuals and corporations in these contexts
Correcting unjust enrichment explaining and defending the duty to disgorge the benefits of wrongdoing
Published on 22 Aug 2023
by Edward A Page
A reply to my critics
Published on 19 Aug 2023
by Tae-Yeoun Keum Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USATae-Yeoun Keum is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought (2020).
On the political and normative implications of myth as philosophical discourse
Published on 19 Aug 2023
by Carmen Lea Dege
Should Rawlsian end state principles be constrained by popular beliefs about justice
Published on 19 Aug 2023
by Kim Angell
The forward looking polluter pays principle for a just climate transition
Published on 9 Aug 2023
by Fausto Corvino
If you polluted you re included the all affected principle and carbon tax referenda
Published on 27 Jul 2023
by David Matias Paaske
Casting the first stone did Cohen have standing to condemn Israel s condemnation of terrorism
Published on 26 Jul 2023
by Daniel Statman
From lived urban experiences to cross contextual theory a selection dilemma
Published on 4 Jul 2023
by Marta Wojciechowska
Compromise between realism and moralism Towards an integrated theoretical framework
Published on 21 Jun 2023
by Patrick Overeem
Global justice sovereign wealth funds and saving for the future
Published on 18 Jun 2023
by Elizabeth Finneron Burns
On the reasonability of reasoning with the religiously unreasonable
Published on 10 Jun 2023
by Marilie Coetsee
Democracy and pluralism after European integration Incorporating the contested character of the EU
Published on 31 May 2023
by Bertjan Wolthuis
Down with this sort of thing why no public statue should stand forever
Published on 31 May 2023
by Carl Fox
Voter incompetence and the legitimacy of representative democracy
Published on 25 May 2023
by Andreas T Christiansen
An empirical perspective on improving trust in a polarized age
Published on 1 Mar 2023
by Diana C Mutz
Introduction public justification legitimacy and social trust
Published on 26 Feb 2023
by Adam Gjesdal
Does the empirical trust literature tell us how to restore trust
Published on 24 Feb 2023
by Pierre Guillaume M on
Semi parliamentarism and the challenges of institutional design
Published on 18 Jan 2023
by Sarah Birch
Inclusion and the design of democratic executives in Steffen Ganghof s Beyond presidentialism and parliamentarism
Published on 28 Dec 2022
by Kevin J Elliott
Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarianism introduction to the symposium
Published on 27 Dec 2022
by Albert Weale
Political equality and institutional choice lessons from Steffen Ganghof s beyond parliamentarism and presidentialism
Published on 22 Dec 2022
by James Lindley Wilson
Bureaucratic discretion legitimacy and substantive justice
Published on 7 Dec 2022
by Kate Vredenburgh
Power concedes nothing without a demand the structural injustice of climate change
Published on 30 Nov 2022
by Lukas Sparenborg
Kantian democracy and administrative legitimacy a reply to my critics
Published on 10 Oct 2022
by Chiara Cordelli
Criminalising cubes of truth animal advocacy civil disobedience and the politics of sight
Published on 7 Oct 2022
by Serrin Rutledge Prior
Against the status quo the social as a resource of critique in realist political theory
Published on 26 Sep 2022
by Manon Westphal
Do global justice theorists need to alter their normative focus to accommodate changing empirical circumstances
Published on 19 Sep 2022
by Teppo Eskelinen
Can real actions justify realist principles Normative behaviourism as a member of the realist family
Published on 16 Sep 2022
by Jonathan Floyd
Realism and real politics The gap between promise and practice in Bernard Williams realism
Published on 15 Sep 2022
by Janosch Prinz
Political realism and the relationship between ideal and non ideal theory
Published on 12 Sep 2022
by Greta Favara
Data based radicalism data usage and the problem of critical distance in contextual and empirical political theory
Published on 8 Sep 2022
by Nahshon Perez
Can business corporations be legally responsible for structural injustice The social connection model in legal practice
Published on 7 Sep 2022
by Barbara Bziuk
Firms as coalitions of democratic cultures towards an organizational theory of workplace democracy
Published on 30 Aug 2022
by Roberto Frega
Business interest in human rights regulation shaping actors duties and rights
Published on 23 Aug 2022
by Doris Fuchs
Corporate knowledge and corporate power Reining in the power of corporations as epistemic agents
Published on 22 Aug 2022
by Lisa Herzog
Wealth creation without domination The fiduciary duties of corporations
Published on 18 Aug 2022
by Rutger Claassen
But it s your job the moral status of jobs and the dilemma of occupational duties
Published on 12 Aug 2022
by Lisa Herzog
Contributivist views on democratic inclusion on economic contribution as a condition for the right to vote
Published on 31 Jul 2022
by Jonas Hultin Rosenberg
Guarding against imperium The implications of Pettit s theoretical framework for a model of neo republican democracy
Published on 26 Jul 2022
by Nicholas Dzoba
Introduction methodology and non ideal theory in Christine Hobden s Citizenship in a Globalised World
Published on 23 May 2022
by Stephanie Collins
The elitist defence of democracy against populists using education and money
Published on 14 May 2022
by Tore Vincents Olsen
Cosmopolitan state citizenship realistic utopias and their limits
Published on 13 May 2022
by Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Educating citizens to public reason what can we learn from interfaith dialogue
Published on 10 May 2022
by Aur lia Bardon
Fighting fire with fire the ethics of retaliatory gerrymandering
Published on 15 Apr 2022
by Gianni Sarra
Legislative expatriate representation a conditional defence of overseas constituencies
Published on 13 Apr 2022
by Marcus Carlsen H ggrot
What s wrong with the presentist bias On the threat of intergenerational domination
Published on 8 Apr 2022
by Anja Karnein
Representing non citizens a proposal for the inclusion of all affected interests
Published on 6 Apr 2022
by Benjamin Boudou
Universal enfranchisement for citizens with cognitive disabilities A moral status argument
Published on 6 Apr 2022
by Regina Schidel
The supersession of Indigenous understandings of justice and morals
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Gordon Christie
Group agency and the challenges of repairing historical injustice
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Jeff Spinner Halev
Supersession non ideal theory and dominant distributive principles
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Burke A Hendrix
Superseding structural linguistic injustice Language revitalization and historically sensitive dignity based claims
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Seunghyun Song
Indigenous governance now settler colonial injustice is not historically past
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Esme G Murdock
Colonialism and rights supersession a Kant inspired perspective
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Julio Montero
The supersession thesis climate change and the rights of future people
Published on 1 Apr 2022
by Santiago Truccone Borgogno
In defence of progressive political change against conservative progress and other normative troubles
Published on 31 Mar 2022
by Ilaria Cozzaglio
EU Citizenship for a European Republic of the Free and Equals or of States
Published on 21 Mar 2022
by Dimitrios Efthymiou
How political is Republicanism Walking the fine line between moralism and realism
Published on 2 Mar 2022
by Dorothea G deke
A Republican Europe of States synopsis and introduction to the symposium
Published on 19 Feb 2022
by Richard Bellamy
The open borders debate migration as settlement and the right to travel
Published on 16 Feb 2022
by Ugur Altundal
On the edge of anarchism a realist critique of philosophical anarchism
Published on 13 Feb 2022
by Zolt n G bor Sz cs
Symmetry and interpretation a deliberative framework for judging recognition claims
Published on 7 Jan 2022
by Diana Elena Popescu
Capable deliberators towards inclusion of minority minds in discourse practices
Published on 27 Dec 2021
by Thomas Schramme
The future of work freedom justice and capital in the age of artificial intelligence
Published on 13 Dec 2021
by Filippo Santoni de Sio
Colonial Genealogies of Immigration Controls Self Determination and the Nation State
Published on 2 Dec 2021
by Torsten Menge
On popular votes and the problems of self government A systemic case for ordinary popular vote processes
Published on 8 Nov 2021
by Joseph Lacey
On popular votes and the problems of self government a systemic case for ordinary popular vote processes
Published on 8 Nov 2021
by Joseph Lacey
The role of political ontology for Indigenous self determination
Published on 27 Oct 2021
by Matthias Kramm
Disadvantage disagreement and disability re evaluating the continuity test
Published on 14 Sep 2021
by Jessica Begon
Distributive sufficiency inequality blindness and disrespectful treatment
Published on 6 Jul 2021
by Vincent Harting
The practical relevance of ideal theory as part of the ideal guidance approach
Published on 30 May 2021
by J rgen Sirsch
John Locke on historical injustice the redemptive power of contract
Published on 26 May 2021
by Brian Smith
Education for autonomy and for care a comment on Asha Bhandary s Freedom to Care
Published on 17 May 2021
by Andrea C Westlund
Conditions of radical care a response to Asha Bhandary s Freedom to Care
Published on 10 May 2021
by Kelly Gawel
Just add care and stir The limits of mainstream liberal theory for taking on dependency care
Published on 4 May 2021
by Daniel Engster
Justice autonomy and care symposium on Asha Bhandary s freedom to care liberalism dependency care and justice
Published on 4 May 2021
by Amy Mullin
Agency global responsibility and the speculations of ordinary life
Published on 4 May 2021
by Vafa Ghazavi
Political Liberalism and Cognitive Disability an Inclusive Account
Published on 13 Apr 2021
by Areti Theofilopoulou
Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness contesting goods rules and inequalities
Published on 9 Apr 2021
by Udo Pesch
Homophobes Racists and the child s right to be loved unconditionally
Published on 26 Mar 2021
by Riccardo Spotorno
Unearthing grounded normative theory practices and commitments of empirical research in political theory
Published on 10 Mar 2021
by Brooke Ackerly
Beyond a diachronic indifference Grounding the normative commitment towards intergenerational justice
Published on 2 Mar 2021
by Alberto Pirni
In praise of dystopias a Hobbesian approach to collective action
Published on 1 Mar 2021
by Ioannis D Evrigenis
When is lack of emotion a problem for justice Four views on legal decision makers emotive life
Published on 23 Feb 2021
by Patricia Mindus
Compliance with justice shared values and modus vivendi
Published on 23 Feb 2021
by Francesca De Vecchi
The radical realist critique of rawls a reconstruction and response
Published on 20 Feb 2021
by Paul Raekstad
The radical realist critique of Rawls a reconstruction and response
Published on 20 Feb 2021
by Paul Raekstad
Basic human needs abstraction indeterminacy and the political account of need
Published on 27 Jan 2021
by George Boss
Global in justice and the human right to housing A practice based approach
Published on 10 Dec 2020
by Regina Kreide
Developments and Challenges for a Political Idea of Human Rights
Published on 8 Dec 2020
by David lvarez
Developments and Challenges for a Political Ideal of Human Rights
Published on 8 Dec 2020
by David lvarez
Are human rights associative rights The debate between humanist and political conceptions of human rights revisited
Published on 7 Dec 2020
by Cristina Lafont
Which practice Rescuing the practical conception of human rights
Published on 5 Dec 2020
by Luise K M ller
Add international courts to The Idea of Human Rights and stir on Beitz The Idea of Human Rights after 10 years
Published on 5 Dec 2020
by Andreas Follesdal
May political parties refuse to govern On integrity compromise and responsibility
Published on 20 Nov 2020
by Fabian Wendt
Does collective unfreedom matter Individualism power and proletarian unfreedom
Published on 6 Oct 2020
by Andreas T Schmidt
Neo classical liberalism market freedom and the right to private property
Published on 7 Aug 2020
by Gavin Kerr
Populism on the periphery of democracy moralism and recognition theory
Published on 24 Jul 2020
by Charlene McKibben
Democratic silence two forms of domination in the social contract tradition
Published on 23 Jul 2020
by Toby Rollo
Property without authority Between natural law and the Kantian state
Published on 23 Jul 2020
by Jakob Huber
The great wall of silence voice silence dynamics in authoritarian regimes
Published on 22 Jul 2020
by M nica Brito Vieira
Symposium on Anna Stilz territorial sovereignty A philosophical exploration
Published on 22 Jul 2020
by Margaret Moore
Mind the gaps silences political communication and the role of expectations
Published on 18 Jul 2020
by Theo Jung
Two forms of responsibility Reassessing Young on structural injustice
Published on 30 Jun 2020
by Valentin Beck
The limit of climate justice unfair sacrifice and aggregate harm
Published on 24 Jun 2020
by Alex McLaughlin
Towards Rawlsian property owning democracy through personal data platform cooperatives
Published on 17 Jun 2020
by Michele Loi
A Care Ethical Justification for an Interest Theory of Human Rights
Published on 1 Jun 2020
by Thomas E Randall
Democracy respect for judgement and disagreement on democratic inclusion
Published on 1 Jun 2020
by Jonas Hultin Rosenberg
To think and act ecologically the environment human animality nature
Published on 28 May 2020
by Didier Z iga
Cosmopolitanism and unipolarity the theory of hegemonic transition
Published on 20 May 2020
by Jelena Belic
Beyond the state the moral nexus between corporations and refugees
Published on 14 May 2020
by Benedikt Buechel
Can liberal integrity handle disagreement Perhaps not
Published on 24 Mar 2020
by Alexander S Kirshner
Public property collective integrity and environmental justice
Published on 18 Mar 2020
by Elisabeth Ellis
The liberal populism of Shmuel Nili s The People s Duty
Published on 18 Mar 2020
by James Lindley Wilson
Long term urgent interests and human rights practice a challenge to the political conception
Published on 6 Mar 2020
by Andre Santos Campos
The costs and benefits of prosecution a contractualist justification of amnesty
Published on 6 Mar 2020
by Robert Patrick Whelan
Easterlin paradox a revisionist account for the enlightened politician
Published on 29 Jan 2020
by Shiri Cohen Kaminitz
Free to be you and me an introduction to Ghosh s De Moralizing Gay Rights
Published on 7 Jan 2020
by Patti Tamara Lenard
The significance of being gay in Ghosh s De Moralizing Gay Rights
Published on 7 Jan 2020
by Kerri Woods
On being good gay covering and the social structure of being LGBT
Published on 4 Jan 2020
by Annamari Vitikainen
Green republicanism and a Just Transition from the tyranny of economic growth
Published on 24 Dec 2019
by John Barry
Why indigenous land rights have not been superseded a critical application of Waldron s theory of supersession
Published on 10 Dec 2019
by Kerstin Reibold
Vulnerability and non domination a republican perspective on natural limits
Published on 6 Dec 2019
by Peter F Cannav
Educational adequacy and educational equality a merging proposal
Published on 4 Dec 2019
by Fernando de los Santos Men ndez
Preference transformation through green political judgement formation Rethinking informal deliberative citizen participation processes
Published on 4 Dec 2019
by Carolin Bohn
The irrelevance of poverty for the morality of the lending system
Published on 28 Nov 2019
by Cristian Dimitriu
Against the anticosmopolitan basic structure argument the systemic concept of distributive justice and economic divisions of labor
Published on 27 Nov 2019
by Edward Andrew Greetis
Reconfiguring non domination green politics from pre emption to inoperosity
Published on 27 Nov 2019
by Luigi Pellizzoni
A mission driven research program on solar geoengineering could promote justice and legitimacy
Published on 22 Nov 2019
by David R Morrow
Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges what we can learn from moral emotions and art
Published on 22 Nov 2019
by Sabine Roeser
Fighting risk with risk solar radiation management regulatory drift and minimal justice
Published on 21 Nov 2019
by Jonathan Wolff
Accessibility pluralism and honesty a defense of the accessibility requirement in public justification
Published on 23 Aug 2019
by Baldwin Wong
Rationalism and the silencing and distorting of Indigenous voices
Published on 26 Jul 2019
by Yann Allard Tremblay
The mirage of mark to market distributive justice and alternatives to capital taxation
Published on 26 Jul 2019
by Charles Delmotte
Democracy in contested territory on the legitimacy of global legal pluralism
Published on 25 Jul 2019
by Anna Jurkevics
The neorepublican challenge to egalitarian liberalism evaluating justifications of redistributive institutions
Published on 19 Jul 2019
by J rgen Sirsch
Popular sovereignty facing the deep state The rule of recognition and the powers of the people
Published on 17 Jul 2019
by Ludvig Beckman
Nonalienation among peoples Symposium on Catherine Lu s Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics
Published on 3 Jun 2019
by Peter Niesen
Structural injustice and the legitimacy of the state centric system
Published on 28 May 2019
by Reinhard Wolf
Global reserve currencies from the perspective of structural global justice distribution and domination
Published on 12 May 2019
by Lisa Herzog
A realistic conception of politics conflict order and political realism
Published on 4 May 2019
by Carlo Burelli
Introduction to a Symposium on Peter Balint s Respecting Toleration
Published on 26 Apr 2019
by Jonathan Seglow
The good of toleration changing social relations or maximising individual freedom
Published on 25 Apr 2019
by Emanuela Ceva
Arendt and political realism towards a realist account of political judgement
Published on 25 Apr 2019
by Gisli Vogler
Accommodating toleration on Balint s classical liberal response to the multiculturalism challenge
Published on 25 Apr 2019
by Sune L gaard
Why we should care about poverty and inequality exploring the grounds for a pluralist approach
Published on 22 Feb 2019
by Irene Bucelli
Differentiating hate speech a systemic discrimination approach
Published on 4 Feb 2019
by Katharine Gelber
The end of discretionary immigration policy A blueprint to prevent multidimensional domination
Published on 4 Feb 2019
by Johan Rochel
Our wildest imagination violence narrative and sympathetic identification
Published on 28 Jan 2019
by Jade Schiff
Legitimacy beyond the state institutional purposes and contextual constraints
Published on 21 Jan 2019
by N P Adams
The arts of refusal tragic unreconciliation pariah humour and haunting laughter
Published on 18 Jan 2019
by Bronwyn Anne Leebaw
How America disguises its violence colonialism mass incarceration and the need for resistant imagination
Published on 16 Jan 2019
by Shari Stone Mediatore
The UN Security Council normative legitimacy and the challenge of specificity
Published on 14 Jan 2019
by Antoinette Scherz
The arbitrary circumscription of the jurisdiction of the international criminal court
Published on 14 Jan 2019
by Thomas Christiano
On representation s art violence and the political imaginary of South Africa
Published on 14 Jan 2019
by Eliza Garnsey
The legitimacy of occupation authority beyond just war theory
Published on 14 Jan 2019
by Cord Schmelzle
The subversive potential of Leo Tolstoy s defamiliarisation a case study in drawing on the imagination to denounce violence
Published on 11 Jan 2019
by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
The art and politics of imagination remembering mass violence against women
Published on 9 Jan 2019
by Maria Alina Asavei
Normative theorizing and political data toward a data sensitive understanding of the separation between religion and state in political theory
Published on 20 Dec 2018
by Nahshon Perez
Pluralism conflict and justification the stability function of religious exemptions
Published on 14 Dec 2018
by David Golemboski
On a radical democratic theory of political protest potentials and shortcomings
Published on 10 Dec 2018
by Christian Volk
Foucauldian security and the threat to democratic policy making
Published on 19 Oct 2018
by Richard Togman
Property rights of personal data and the financing of pensions
Published on 8 Oct 2018
by Francis Cheneval
Morally evaluating human smuggling the case of migration to Europe
Published on 28 Sep 2018
by Eamon Aloyo
Normative behaviourism as a solution to four problems in realism and non ideal theory
Published on 1 Aug 2018
by Jonathan Floyd
Religion and discrimination extending the disaggregative approach
Published on 21 Jun 2018
by Daniel Sabbagh
The deep error of political libertarianism self ownership choice and what s really valuable in life
Published on 20 Jun 2018
by Dan Lowe
Individual integrity freedom of association and religious exemption
Published on 20 Jun 2018
by Peter Jones
Is epistemic accessibility enough Same sex marriage tradition and the Bible
Published on 20 Jun 2018
by Aur lia Bardon
Interactive justice the boundary problem and proportionality
Published on 16 Jun 2018
by Laura Valentini
Framing and reframing R2P a responsibility to protect humanity from evil
Published on 8 Jun 2018
by Christof Royer
Why states have no right to privacy but may be entitled to secrecy a non consequentialist defense of state secrecy
Published on 7 Jun 2018
by Dorota Mokrosinska
Liberal nationalism immigration and the problem of multiple national identities
Published on 6 Jun 2018
by Lior Erez
Cracking the whip the deliberative costs of strict party discipline
Published on 6 Jun 2018
by Udit Bhatia
Reply what interactive justice in conflict management requires
Published on 6 Jun 2018
by Emanuela Ceva
The indirect gender discrimination of skill selective immigration policies
Published on 5 Jun 2018
by Desiree Lim
A structural approach to the human right to just and favourable working conditions
Published on 26 Mar 2018
by Elizabeth Kahn
On Who matters extending the scope of luck egalitarianism to groups
Published on 23 Mar 2018
by Sara Amighetti
Unequally egalitarian Defending the credentials of social egalitarianism
Published on 27 Feb 2018
by David V Axelsen
Equality value pluralism and relevance Is luck egalitarianism in one way good but not all things considered
Published on 19 Feb 2018
by Tim Meijers
Are inequalities between us and the dead intergenerationally unjust
Published on 15 Feb 2018
by Axel Gosseries
Self determination non domination and constraints on territorial rights
Published on 25 Jan 2018
by Mira Bachvarova
The injustice of the migrant journey to the United States
Published on 20 Jan 2018
by Amy Reed Sandoval
Fact of the matter Rawls political ideals and worldview consensus
Published on 26 Dec 2017
by Jeremy Neill
Against international criminal tribunals reconciling the global justice norm with local agency
Published on 6 Dec 2017
by Peter J Verov ek
A republic of rules procedural arbitrariness and total institutions
Published on 6 Dec 2017
by Orlando Lazar
Multiculturalism in contemporary Britain policy law and theory
Published on 1 Dec 2017
by Richard T Ashcroft
Liberal democracy nationalism and culture multiculturalism and Scottish independence
Published on 29 Nov 2017
by Richard T Ashcroft
The role of interpretation of existing practice in normative political argument
Published on 18 Nov 2017
by Sune L gaard
Kant and the critique of the ethics first approach to politics
Published on 18 Nov 2017
by Christian F Rostb ll
What Mr Spock told the earthlings the aims of political philosophy action guidingness and fact dependency
Published on 16 Nov 2017
by Kasper Lippert Rasmussen
What undermines solidarity Four approaches and their implications for contemporary political theory
Published on 8 Nov 2017
by Charles H T Lesch
Flourishing children flourishing adults families equality and the neutralism perfectionism debate
Published on 7 Nov 2017
by Christine Sypnowich
The challenge of cultural diversity the limited value of the right of exit
Published on 6 Nov 2017
by Andrew Fagan
The critique of multiculturalism in Britain integration separation and shared identification
Published on 6 Nov 2017
by Andrew Mason
Solidarity as environmental justice in brownfields remediation
Published on 6 Nov 2017
by Avery Kolers
Deciding the demos three conceptions of democratic legitimacy
Published on 16 Oct 2017
by Ludvig Beckman
Democratic epistemology and democratic morality the appeal and challenges of Peircean pragmatism
Published on 28 Jul 2017
by Annabelle Lever
The labors of justice democracy respect and judicial review
Published on 23 Jun 2017
by Jeffrey W Howard
A tax dead on arrival classical liberalism inheritance and social mobility
Published on 21 Jun 2017
by sbj rn Melkevik
A multidimensional account of democratic legitimacy how to make robust decisions in a non idealized deliberative context
Published on 19 May 2017
by Enrico Biale
Democratic deliberation respect and personal storytelling
Published on 16 May 2017
by Valeria Ottonelli
Republican ecological citizenship in the 2015 Papal Encyclical on the environment and climate change
Published on 21 Apr 2017
by Chris Hilson
Ownness created a new freedom Max Stirner s alternative concept of liberty
Published on 24 Jan 2017
by Saul Newman
Obligations of productive justice individual or institutional
Published on 5 Dec 2016
by Brian Berkey
Can liberal egalitarians protect the occupational freedom of the economically talented
Published on 29 Nov 2016
by Joseph Mazor
Global equality of opportunity and self determination in the context of immigration
Published on 5 Oct 2016
by Eszter Kollar
Idealism realism and immigration David Miller s Strangers in Our Midst
Published on 21 Sep 2016
by Phil Parvin
Is unauthorized immigration an immoral act On David Miller s weak cosmopolitan defense of the right to exclude
Published on 14 Sep 2016
by Oliviero Angeli
Justified state partiality and the vulnerable subject in migration
Published on 9 Sep 2016
by Christine Straehle
State borders as defining lines of justice why the right to exclude cannot be justified
Published on 31 Aug 2016
by Julie Arrildt
No right to unilaterally claim your territory on the consistency of Kantian statism
Published on 8 Jun 2016
by Jakob Huber
Membership ballots and the value of intra party democracy
Published on 10 Mar 2016
by Fabio Wolkenstein
Justice in a non ideal world the case of climate change
Published on 22 Feb 2016
by Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh
What is democratic reliability Epistemic theories of democracy and the problem of reasonable disagreement
Published on 19 Jan 2016
by Felix Gerlsbeck
Luck egalitarianism and what valuing responsibility requires
Published on 16 Nov 2015
by Alexandra Couto
Transparency from Bentham s inventory of virtuous effects to contemporary evidence based scepticism
Published on 11 Nov 2015
by Sandrine Baume
Privatising war assessing the decision to hire private military contractors
Published on 2 Oct 2015
by Isaac Taylor
Majesty and mercy undocumented immigration deferred removal action and the spectacle of sovereign exceptionalism
Published on 24 Jul 2015
by Joanna Mosser
Transforming but not transcending the state system On statist cosmopolitanism
Published on 23 Jun 2015
by Luke Ula
Fairness to non participants a case for a practice independent egalitarian baseline
Published on 1 Jun 2015
by Merten Reglitz
Can my religion influence my conception of justice Political liberalism and the role of comprehensive doctrines
Published on 23 Apr 2015
by Paul Billingham
Review article the moral right to health a survey of available conceptions
Published on 7 Apr 2015
by Benedict E Rumbold
Supreme Emergencies ontological holism and rights to communal membership
Published on 10 Mar 2015
by J Toby Reiner