Here you will find both recent blogposts from Justice Everywhere, and blogs from our old address at justice-everywhere.blogspot.co.uk.
The blog was relaunched in September 2015. Earlier posts are from the old address.
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December 2024
- The Sword is Mightier than The Pen and Reflection on the Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
- Beyond the Ivory Tower Interview with Orysya Bila
- The Return of Parliaments? On France and South Korea’s resistance to authoritarian executives
- Utopia, Dystopia, and Democracy: Teaching Philosophy in Wartime Ukraine
- Redefining limited liability
November 2024
- Academic Dialogue Against the Background of War
- More Than a Name: Decolonising Wildlife
- To Cancel or Not to Cancel? – Questioning the Russian Idea
- Putin’s Use and Abuse of History as a Political Weapon
- The Difficulty of Doing Non-Western Political Theory
- Against the Odds: Defending Defensive Wars
- Free Speech for Political Campaign Lies?
October 2024
- Just War Theory and The Russia-Ukraine War
- Thinking in Dark Times: Life, Death, and Social Solidarity
- Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine
- Beyond the Ivory Tower Interview with Aaron James Wendland
- Free as a Bird?
- At last, justice for the Chagos Islanders?
September 2024
- In Wisława Szymborska Park: Reflections on 15 Years of Citizens’ Budgets in Poland
- Non-monogamy and the “Black Marriage Problem”
- The small-mindedness of means-testing
- Tired of Being an Orca: Ontic Burnout in Zoo Animals
- Welcome to the 2024/2025 season!
August 2024
- From the Vault: Universities, Academia and the academic profession
- From the Vault: Nature, Animals, and the Environment
- From the Vault: The Journal of Applied Philosophy
- From the Vault: Justice, Democracy, and Society
July 2024
June 2024
- Is This Climate Justice? The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union
- 3 Points for a Win and Constitutional Design
- Why Not Remote Voting?
- An alternative procedure for allocating research grants
May 2024
- Why Conscious AI Would Be Bad for the Environment
- The Disruption of Human Reproduction
- What is the real problem with food deserts?
- If animals have rights, why not bomb slaughterhouses?
April 2024
- Why is the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness morally important?
- Critical fandom and problematic fans: what responsibilities do we have?
- The climate justice debate has a baseline problem
- 2024 Grand National: Horses, Harm, and Shared Responsibility
- Beyond the Ivory Tower interview with Martin O'Neill
March 2024
- When whatever you do, you get what you least deserve
- What’s really at stake with Open Access research? The Case of Sci-Hub and the “Robin Hood of Science”
- Beyond the Ivory Tower Interview with Dana Mills
February 2024
- An inverted verification principle for political theory
- Protecting Territorial Minorities: Defensive Federalism
- Driving for Values
- Disney's Frozen: Acceptance, Passing and Covering (Part 2)
- How the animal industry undermines consumers’ autonomy
January 2024
- Disney’s Frozen: Otherness, Masking and Control (Part 1)
- An Interview with Dorothea Gädeke (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- An Interview with Lisa Guenther (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- More Open Access, More Inequality in the Academia
December 2023
- Good Friendships for Real People
- Modern education systems erode trust - this may be a big problem.
- Why we need alternative voting methods
November 2023
- Human dignity doesn’t make sense – but animal dignity might
- Why the economic whole is more than the sum of its parts
- Is resourcist housing policy enough?
- Is it justified for firms to offer prestige based rewards to some employees?
October 2023
- What is next for the environmental movement in the UK?
- Invisible discrimination: the double role of implicit bias
- Intellectually Humble Free Speech Law
- Israel “Is at War with Hamas”, What Does the Ethics of War Say about That?
- Why policymakers should care about post-truth
- What Claims Do We Have Over Our Google Search Profiles?
September 2023
- An ad-hominem attack on… actually, let’s just call it Reply to Van Goozen
- An ad-hominem attack on an ad-hominem attack on non-consequentialism
- An ad-hominem attack on anti-consequentialism
- Countering Social Oppression
- Welcome to our 2023/24 session!
August 2023
- From the Vault: Justice, Culture, and Society
- From the Vault: Justice and Protest
- From the Vault: Justice in Education and Upbringing
July 2023
June 2023
- How Should We Understand NIMBYism?
- Why We Should ‘Environmentalise’ the Curriculum
- An Interview with Thomas Shakespeare (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- Feminism without “woman”?
- Taking political education out of families
May 2023
- The care perspective and the police: reform, defund or abolition?
- The Need for Technomoral Resilience
- An interview with Joseph Chan (Beyond the Ivory Tower series)
- Language, justice, and linguistic prejudice in academia
- Artificial Intelligence and the Role of Political Philosophers
April 2023
- Selling Silence: The Morality of Sexual Harassment NDAs
- Attribution fallacy, incentives, and income inequality
- On the Reception of the Mahsa Charter in Online Deliberative Spaces
- The Ethics of Keeping Pets: Why Love is (Still) Not Enough
- The Mahsa Charter: In Search of Unity for the Iranian Opposition
March 2023
- Teaching through experiences - Interview with Stephen Bloch-Schulman
- Student use of ChatGPT in higher education: focus on fairness
- Why schools should teach that it’s okay to be LGBT
- Slow boring or endless weeding? Metaphors for politics
- More of a Royalist than the King and More of a Republican than Robespierre: Tensions between Radical Monarchists and Republicans in the Iranian Diaspora
February 2023
- Turning Fear Into Anxiety
- Ukraine Benefit Conference: 'What Good is Philosophy? The Role of the Academy in a Time of Crisis'
- Visions of desirable futures for Iran after the Mahsa revolution
January 2023
- Confucius's Mistake, and Plato's
- Listening to executive dysfunction
- The Ethics of Keeping Pets: Why Love is Not Enough
- The four-legged therapist: Why getting a pet to improve our mental health may be unethical
December 2022
- Do you think you can do politics innocently?
- Should you be grateful to nature?
- How could paternalism ever be a good thing?
November 2022
- Throwing tomato soup at van Gogh
- Can a 'war on poaching' be just?
- Fiduciary duties of pension fund managers in the anthropocene
- Why justice requires mandatory parenting lessons and therapy
- 'Whataboutism' about justice
- Inequality, Segregation, and Gentrification: It’s Complicated!
October 2022
- Russian refugees? An argument for politicisation not moralization
- Is Ethics Really Good for Business?
- Defending Science Deniers
- Small in the City: The Exclusion of Children from Public Spaces
- The diversity of values in virtual reality
- A Social Ethics of Belief: Two Lessons from W. K. Clifford
September 2022
- How Should We Talk About the Pandemic?
- What is cultural decolonization?
- Is it possible to trust Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
- Factory farm abolition the moderate way
- Does hate speech express hate?
- A puzzle of liberal childrearing: may neutral states allow parents to dominate children's value-formation?
- What, if any, harm can a self-driving car do?
- Welcome back: Launching our 2022/23 season!
August 2022
- From the Vault: Philosophy in Teaching and Public Life
- From the Vault: Philosophy in the Covid-19 Pandemic
- From the Vault: Journal of Applied Philosophy Collaboration
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Climate Ethics
July 2022
- More attention is being paid to formal activism. Informal activism matters too
- An interview with Philippe van Parijs (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- Living under manipulative governments
- Towards a feminist city
June 2022
- Withdrawing and withholding treatment are not always morally equivalent
- What is the wrong of misgendering?
- Why should we protect the vulnerable?
- Why Property-Owning Democracy is Unfree
May 2022
- How does the international order harm disadvantaged societies? A look at the practice of international investment
- Why it’s Wrong to Spy on Animals
- What the pandemic can tell us about prison
- Why we should think twice about persons who struggle to empathize
- An interview with Ciaran Thapar (Beyond the Ivory Tower series)
- How The God Committee gets Organ Allocation and Xenotransplantation Wrong and Why it Matters
April 2022
- Allowing fossil-fuel advertising is harmful and irresponsible
- Self-control and socio-economic disadvantage: trickier than it seems
- An interview with Albert Dzur (Beyond the Ivory Tower series)
- Putting a Price on War
- Should we deprioritize grades? Or not grade at all?
March 2022
- Fatigue and the need for a social energy policy
- How to kill a democracy in 10 easy steps (spoiler alert: exhaust your citizens)
- Brain stew for dinner: information overload and daily burnout as the new normal?
- Why We Can't Have It All When It Comes to the Future of Work
February 2022
- Virtue Signaling and Moral Discourse
- Child Soldiers: Victims or Perpetrators of Crime?
- Rethinking Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change
January 2022
- Are Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Unjustly Disenfranchised?
- The EU needs to be able to Expel Autocratic Members
- On how the Dunning-Kruger effect complicates normative considerations
- Mental Illness and Microaggression
- Is disruptive climate activism morally controversial?
December 2021
November 2021
- How to better care for each other
- Theory, Politics and Socialism: An interview with Paul Magnette (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- A justice-inspired reading of the COP26 discursive arena
- Should land be reclassified as a global commons?
- Is the OECD/G20 international corporate tax reform fair?
October 2021
- The United States' Perils of Presidentialism
- Why we can't quit Facebook - and what to do about it
- A Conversation with Philip Kitcher about Moral Methodology and Moral Progress
- Accounting for global and local justice in behavioural climate policy
- "What I would like is for people to come at the world with lots of different ways of seeing things"; Dr Liam Kofi Bright on the philosophical canon
September 2021
- How to Ask Questions and Alienate People: Is Playing Devil’s Advocate Morally Defensible?
- What the pandemic can teach us about political philosophy
- Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Chapter Preview (Adam Swift)
- Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Chapter Preview (Julia Hermann)
- Welcome back: Launching our 2021/22 season!
August 2021
- From the Vault: Books by the Justice Everywhere Team
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Children and Upbringing
- On The Decision to Leave Afghanistan
- From the Vault: Collaboration with Journal of Applied Philosophy
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Public Philosophy
- Wrongly Weeded Out: Richardson's Removal and Unreasonable Rules
- Vaccine Equity and the Responsibility of Rich Countries
July 2021
- Nicotine Vaccines and Childrens’ Rights to an Open Future
- Dementia, Truthfulness, and Respecting Agency
- Combining public policies and transformative action in fighting against gender violence
- Out today: Political Philosophy in a Pandemic
- COVID-19 and Technomoral Change
- Public-private collaboration in the governance of AI
- Having slaves and raising children
- A Puzzle about Disability and Old Age
June 2021
- Ending Child Marriage in the UK
- We have a duty to pay for kidneys
- A Criminal Law for Semi-Citizens
- On our special relationship with future generations
- What Epistemic Profiles Should We (Not) Foster?
May 2021
- More equal compared to what? How central banks are fudging the issue on inequality
- Is the criminal law the best tool to fight discrimination and hate-based violence?
- Should we revive the ancient practice of ostracism?
April 2021
- What do co-parents owe each other?
- What's the problem with killer robots? Some reflections on the NSCAI final report
- It’s so crazy that you called me a psycho: Why are we still using mental illness slurs?
- Encouraging religious schools to teach good citizens
- Free Speech, Cartoons and Anti-Racism
March 2021
- Political Philosophy and Political Work at the University
- Can Someone Be Too Rich?
- Introducing Political Philosophy with Public Policy
- Is cancel culture good for women?
- An interview with Rowan Cruft (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
February 2021
- The Truth-Revealing Power of Courts
- It is not enough to listen carefully – we also have to identify who is not in the epistemic room
- Political Philosophy in a Pandemic (Book Announcement)
- The Political Power of Food as Medicine
January 2021
- The COVID-19 crisis: what should we do about the zoos?
- The precarious role of social norms in journalism
- With Friends Like These, Free Speech Doesn't Need Enemies
- How Much Does Slaughter Harm Humanely Raised Animals?
- The Left, the Right and Political Realism
- Is it fair to select immigrants based on skill?
December 2020
- Should Uber Become a Worker Cooperative?
- What is Moral Extremism and Why Should We Care About It?
- From Armchair to Engaged Philosophy
- Why We (Usually) Shouldn’t Fund Rebellions
November 2020
- The case for an independent environmental agency
- Selling Weapons to Oppressive Regimes: Does it Make a Difference?
- The COVID-19 crisis: a vulnerability perspective
- A Symposium on The Ethics of Indirect Intervention
- Who should pay the costs of pandemic lockdowns?
- How democratic are pre-election polls?
- An Ethical Code for Citizen Science?
October 2020
- How should we think about the Irrevocability of Capital Punishment and Euthanasia?
- Replying to the reverse discrimination objection: a context-depended argument rather than an abstract one
- The news media are a watchdog, but so are you
- Trump vs Twitter: who has the right to do what?
- The harm in fake news
- Resistance against climate injustice beyond civil disobedience?
- Why There Are Some Things You Can Only Know If You’ve Been Pregnant – And Why This Matters
September 2020
- Propagandists, Degrees of Reliability, and Epistemic Nihilism
- Massively shared obligations: making a difference – together!
- Conceptual Engineering and Structural Injustice
- Should Academics Also Be Activists?
- Intentional (nation-)States: A Group-Agency Problem for the State’s Right to Exclude
- “Level playing fields”: a misguided complaint about discrimination against well-off women
- Should We Punish Non-Citizens?
August 2020
- Welcome back: Launching our 2020-21 season!
- From the Vault: Journal of Applied Philosophy
- From the Vault: Coronavirus
- From the Vault: Beyond the Ivory Tower Series
July 2020
- Causation and Liability to Defensive Harm
- Intellectual Property and the Problem of Disruptive Innovations
- Causal Contribution in War
- The ‘new normal’: a Rawlsian approach
- Causation Doesn’t Come in Degrees
- Forced Marriage in Times of COVID-19
- Introduction: Symposium on War and Causation
- Democracy’s Unpluckable Feathers and Presidential Term Limits
June 2020
- Big Data and the Self: Exploitation Beyond Biopolitics
- Consultation that silences
- Feminism and the top end of the payscale
- Unlocking care in prisons
- The Case for Ethical Guidelines on Universities’ Corporate Partnerships
May 2020
- Structural change, individual change, and four-story walkups
- Attaching strings now is key to shaping post-Covid-19 future
- Norms and Bias: Minding A Different Kind of Gap
- Explaining Injustice: A Symposium on Bias in Context
- Distributing the Deliberative Forum
- How should the NHS respond to professional errors?
- Should Economics be Pluralist?
- Electoral Justice in Pandemic Times
- A new virus, an old problem: Why lessons from poverty and gender inequality in Brazil matter
April 2020
- Non-human Primates in the Laboratory are Poor Models for Human Behavior
- An interview with Rebecca Lowe (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- Left Unity: An Interview with Marius Ostrowski
- Philosophers' Rundown on the Coronavirus Crisis
- Which Option is Best for Me? A Values-Based Proposal for Behavioral Economists
- Should We Shame Those Who Ignore Social Distancing Guidelines?
- Making Sense of “Erasing History”
- Supply Chains, Disaster-Mitigation, and State Manufacturing
- Some Musings On When We Should (Not) Accommodate Injustice
March 2020
- Emergency Ethics for a World Broken by Coronavirus
- Recognition in times of COVID-19
- Should we buy from dictatorships?
- How will the coronavirus affect us - as individuals and as a society?
- What (if anything) is wrong with child labour?
- What are the values of the left?
- Should Parties Be Democratic?
February 2020
- Indigenous Immigrant Identities and Epistemic Injustice
- An Interview with Jonathan Wolff (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
- UCU Strike Meets Jus ad Bellum
- To Strike or Disrupt? (take 2)
- Climate Change, Family Size, and Upbringing
- The Capitalist Cage: Rethinking Structural Domination in the Market
- Can we solve the dilemma between pursuing personal projects and the demands of morality by limiting the scope of morality?
January 2020
- Against Pharmaceutical Libertarians
- An Interview with Marc Stears (Beyond the Ivory Tower series)
- Why citizens should choose which refugees to admit to their states
- No more victims: Machismo and gender violence in Latin America advertising
- Was the Killing of General Soleimani Justified? An Ethical Analysis
- Feminism for Working-Class Women Is the Best Feminism
- An Interview with Baroness Onora O'Neill (Beyond the Ivory Tower series)
- Introducing: Beyond the ivory tower
December 2019
- Happy Holidays!
- Conference Announcement: Ethics in a Global Environment
- UK General Election 2019: Spare a Thought for the Badgers
- What do we owe the victims of exploitation?
- The Potential Mediating Role of the Artificial Womb
- Is it wrong to enjoy violent horror films?
- Should central banks create their own cryptocurrency?
November 2019
- To Strike or Disrupt?
- Why Two Parents Rather than One or Five?
- From Fact-Checking to Value-Checking
- Should governments care about the fertility gap?
- Announcement: MOOC on 'Inequality and Democracy'
- Multi-parenting: what would it take for it to work?
October 2019
- Should We Be Cheering the Death of al-Baghdadi?
- The Women Men Don't Hear
- Call for Applications: Stanford Center for Ethics Postdoctoral Fellowships
- The Farewell: What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You?
- Private Wrongs and Public Resignations
- Response: Against a Second Referendum
- My pension fund, my conscience
- Child Poverty through Philosophers’ Eyes
September 2019
- Compulsory voting and same-sex marriage referendums
- In Defence of a Second Referendum
- What should I do about climate change and other global environmental problems?
- People versus Parliament: an interpretation
- Justice Everywhere is back!
August 2019
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Children and Politics
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Public Philosophy
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
- From the Vault: Good Reads on the Ethics and Politics of Technology
July 2019
- From the Vault: The "Just Wages" Series
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Justice and the Academy
- Grade Inflation, Market Ideology and the Contradictions of UK Higher Education Policy
- In Defence of Children’s Civil Disobedience
- Are 'New Harms' really all that new?
June 2019
- Why We Need More Materialism
- Markets and meaning - thinking about their relation
- Universities and Democratic Legitimacy (Part 2)
- Universities and Democratic Legitimacy (Part 1)
- My body, my self? - #everydaylookism
May 2019
- Why Isn’t Ethical Approval Required for Television Shows?
- Votes for children: going back to first principles
- More Gender Justice Through the Artificial Womb?
April 2019
- Should we obey immigration laws?
- Earth Day 2019 – Protecting Species or Individuals?
- Why Should Children Have the Right to Vote?
- Nudging and Market Influence: Why the focus on government nudges?
- On the Very Idea of a Just Wage: Response to Critics (Just Wages Series)
March 2019
- On the Very Idea of an Efficient Wage (Just Wages Series)
- Is the Market Wage the Just Wage? (Just Wages Series)
- Talents and Wages (Just Wages Series)
- On the Very Idea of a Just Wage (Just Wage Series Introduction)
- What would it take to turn Facebook into a democracy?
February 2019
- Public Ethics for Everyone: The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy
- Multiculturalism’s weak pulse – still alive?
- Justice and "Contingent Faculty"
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
January 2019
- "Hackable" Humans and the Need for Philosophy
- Technological Justice
- Call for Papers: Stanford Junior Scholars Workshop
December 2018
- “Dumbed down for the masses”? Public philosophy in different keys, and why it matters for justice
- 5th Annual Conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics
- Philosophical experiment about inequality
November 2018
- Who Cares: Emotional Labour in Academia
- American democracy is compromised. Its institutions must act to save it
- The United States Needs a Democracy Movement
October 2018
- Conference Announcement: ASPP Annual Conference 2019
- Brazil’s Elections & The Defeat of Political Liberalism
- Lectureships at Newcastle Politics Department: Information & Applications
- On the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars: An Interview with Johannes Himmelreich
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
- The Philosopher Queens
September 2018
- Why central banks must change before the next crisis hits
- How Workplace Wellness Programs Harm People with Disabilities
- Are multi-buy discount bans paternalistic?
- Climate ethicists flying to conferences? The middle ground regarding voluntarily offsetting emissions
August 2018
- Current Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
- From the Vault: Good Reads in Left-Wing Politics
June 2018
- Debate the Future of the European Union with Political Philosophers
- Call for Applications: Equality and Citizenship Summer School in Rijeka
- Plastic Pollution: How to avoid further degrading our natural environment
May 2018
April 2018
- A Moral Case for Strikes against Syria? Part II: Punitive Strike
- A Moral Case for Strikes against Syria? Part I: Humanitarian Intervention
March 2018
February 2018
- Workplace Democracy – a proposal for saving democracy
- What's wrong with an epistocratic council?
- Against Indiscriminate Killing Even in Supreme Emergencies
- Winner of the 2nd Jonathan Trejo-Mathys Essay Prize Announced
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
January 2018
- What, if anything, is wrong with private money in political philosophy?
- Iris Young, Bad Dates and #MeToo
December 2017
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
- Call for papers - Exploring the Migration-Terrorism Nexus from a Justice Perspective
- CEU update/ application news
November 2017
- Sufficiency on Political Inequality
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
- Durkheim on social justice (or: why political theorists should read sociology)
- Should 'We' Take Seriously the Worries of Voters of the Alternative For Germany?
- Climate Justice in Global Perspective
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
October 2017
- Political Theory Podcasts
- Why should housing be fit for human habitation?
- Recent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy
- Justice and the Great Recession: Has the financial crisis increased inequality?
September 2017
- Conference call: A Post-liberal World?
- Conference Call: How should we distribute atypical goods of justice?
- Is it immoral to send your children to private school?
- Ought non-mobile citizens of the EU be compensated for the costs of mobility?
- Who can speak for/with/about whom? Two metaphors, and why they matter
August 2017
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Democracy and Politicians
- From the Vault: Good Reads in Economic Ethics
- From the Vault: Good Reads on Academic Practice
July 2017
- CFA: Workshop on “Justice for Millionaires?”, University of Essex, December 12-13th 2017
- Germany and European Solidarity (or Lack thereof!): Why We Need the Right Kind of Leader
June 2017
- More Solidarity among EU Citizens
- Is Aid Effective?
- Global Justice meets Global Democracy
- Call for Papers: Journal of Global Ethics Special Issue on Education and Migration
May 2017
April 2017
- If everything is measured, can we still see one another as equals?
- Maternity leave: why should employers pay?
- Are Sweatshops Drivers for Gender Equality?
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
- The case for a duty of development assistance
- There is too much division of labour: Against all-or-nothing social roles
December 2016
- Debate, Dissent, and Safer Spaces
- Support Early Career Researchers, Increase Diversity
- 'We Middle-Class Liberals'
November 2016
- On Sneering Metropolitan Elites – Has liberal diversity become an ideology?
- Blind Reviewing for Workshops
- How to recognise bullshit on the Internet
October 2016
- The Future of Disabilities: Will prenatal testing transform bad brute luck into a case of expensive tastes?
- 6 Tips for Graduate Political Theory Students
- Unsettling Times – Between Tormenting Questions and Business as Usual
- Evidence for a non-ideal theory of freedom of expression (Remembering Anna Politkovskaya)
- Resisting TTIP and Corporatocracy
- Announcement – Book symposium: Sufficiency
- John Rawls and contemporary political philosophy
September 2016
- Should MPs be subject to mandatory deselection?
- Announcement - New Issue of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric
- A randomly selected chamber? Exploring some challenges
- What should voters look for in their politicians?
- Reminder - Call for Papers: Labour Market Injustice Workshop
August 2016
July 2016
- Experiencing and responding to hate
- TTIP – What we’ve learned in the debate
- TTIP and Human Rights: The Need to Fight Harmful Tax Practices
June 2016
- Dear fellow Europeans (in passport and spirit),
- Euthanasia and Slippery Slope Arguments
- Call for Papers: Labour Market Injustice Workshop
- Interview: Peter Dietsch on Catching Capital
May 2016
April 2016
- Migration & Feasibility: Real Constraints or Cheap Excuses?
- Why good intentions need informed intentions
- On what we should get out of work (other than money!)
March 2016
- Writing a good referee report for a journal article
- Are financial markets – markets?
- If everything is measured, can we still see one another as equals?
- Standing together for women’s empowerment: the UN strategic shift is worth a try
- Call for Papers: Global Justice and Political Reality
February 2016
- Criminal (in)justice and social contribution
- More thoughts on the £35,000 threshold - a response to Jesper Pedersen
- Is the £35,000 rule unjust?
- Voters or residents: how should we draw our electoral map?
January 2016
- Good books for a ‘first read’ in political philosophy / ethics
- What can republicanism offer the left?
- It's raining men, hallelujah! On migration and sex ratios
- "Refugees" and "economic migrants" - a morally problematic distinction
- Fairness(es) and the INDCs
December 2015
- The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A historical landmark or an empty box? (longread)
- Addressing “the social” in normative theorizing
- Climate Change’s “Climate Problem”: Where are all the women?
November 2015
- How do people vote against their own interests?
- On 'negotiating the balance between personal freedom and really cool free stuff'
- Leaders and their responsibility for knowledge
- Do I make a difference? (4): The agency of individuals and households
- Do I make a difference? (3): Unilateral duties to reduce greenhouse gases or promotional duties?
October 2015
- Valuing Aims vs. Valuing Implementation, on wedding day organisation and assessing 'impact'
- What’s bad about unemployment and what should we do about it?
- (One of) Effective Altruism’s blind spot(s), or: why moral theory needs institutional theory
- Do I make a difference? (2): A threshold phenomenon?
- Do I make a difference? (1): The exceedingly small but fully real effects of my greenhouse gas emissions
- Mass incarceration
- Sacrificed for hope?
- The Quasi-Gated Community
September 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
- Beneficial competition or attack on legitimate interests: What to make of Uber’s disruption of the taxi industry?
- On taxing meat – why (not)?
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
- Two arguments on Scottish Independence, one for and one against
- In defence of a constitution for the UK
September 2014
July 2014
- The right to freedom of expression on facebook: Do we have a valid claim against censorship in social media?
- What does it mean to be a spectator to injustice everwhere?
- Dribbling responsibility: What do we owe to the real losers of the World Cup?
- Taxing FIFA: Asides from having their board room modelled on the war room from doctor strangelove, are there any other reasons as to why FIFA should be taxed?
June 2014
- 21st Century Smoking
- Does systemic injustice justify Robin Hood Strategies?
- The Need for Content Notes and Trigger Warnings in Seminars
- Should we have a compulsory national civilian service?
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
- What is the value of (even fair) equality of opportunity in an unjust society?
- Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: An unjust system, how should individuals act?
- Supply, investment, and the allocation of scarce goods: How not to argue against rent control
- Higher Education Pay Disputes and Industrial Action
February 2014
- What language should we use? Aesthetics vs. inclusiveness
- Scoring For Loans, or the Matthew Effect in Finance
- Nudge, Nudge? Privatizing Public Policy
- Capping Working Hours
January 2014
December 2013
- Ethical trading as profit sharing: An alternative perspective on the terms of international market transactions
- Questioning the State
November 2013
- How poverty antagonises the interests of children and those of women
- Should Snowden go back to America?
- Moral Motivation and Sustainable Behaviour Change
- ‘Social’ Deprivation
October 2013
- Privatising Royal Mail: An Objection to Sub-Contracting a Commitment
- Rewards and Responsibility in the Banking Sector
- The Moral Limits of Markets
- An Age Old Old Age Question
