Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

In "Coercion and Instrumental Necessity," Daniel Koltonski argues that Brixel's account of autonomy is mistaken and we thus need a different explanation of how volitional coercion undermines a person’s freedom. Read more at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

What does an action need to be motivated by in order to be praiseworthy? Find Stavros Orfeas Zormpalas's answer in "Moral Motivation and Rich Representation" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Alejandro Vesga explores one of the ways in which the personhood-constituting role of second-personal recognition can serve oppressive ideologies in "Virulent Claims." Read it at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Michael Vollmer challenges the distinction between authoritative and formal normativity in "Revisiting the Authoritative/Formal Distinction" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

In "Misinterpretive Frames and Epistemic Contamination," Emilia L. Wilson explores the ways in which our shared interpretive frames can produce misunderstanding in ways that sustain injustice. Read more at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Billy Christmas defends the Lockean model of common property in "Against the Public Ownership Conception of Shared Property" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to find new papers about shared property, misinterpretive frames, the authorative/formal distinction, virulent claims, moral motivation, and coercion. #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Johan E. Gustafsson and Dean Spears discuss different ways of evaluating prospects in "Ex Post Average Utilitarianism Can Be Worse for All Affected, Even If No Contingently Existing Person Is Affected" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Xinkan Zhao proposes a new way for metaethical contextualists to understand disagreement in "The Problem with Opaqueness" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Anthony Nguyen develops an intermediary position between orthodox just war theory and revisionism in "A Contractualist Defense of Limited Moral Equality of Combatants" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

In "Audacious Integrity," Tamara Fakhoury asks what can be said in favor of resisting oppression through actions that are themselves morally fraught. Find her answer at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Is there such a thing as too much cognitive assistance for children? Nate Sharadin argues that there is at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

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"Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?" Find Eleanor Gordon-Smith's answer at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Tim Meijers and Manuel Sá Valente discuss the temporal scope of "having too much" in "No Time for Limitarianism?" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

There is a new JESP issue! Head over to www.jesp.org to find papers on having too much, the obligations of journalists, extreme cognitive assistance, imperfect resistance, the moral equality of combatants, metaethical contextualism, and ex post average utilitarianism. #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory

Susumu Cato identifies a previously overlooked connection between significant results in the literature on Millian superiorities in "Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Vincent Chiao questions whether suppressing private violence and enforcing the law are powers that only the state may exercise in "Must States Do It Themselves?" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

When journalists adhere to principles of objectivity, are they undermining the democratic goals of mainstream news journalism? Dhananjay Jagannathan and Clara Ence Morse argue that they are in "News Journalism and the Principles of Objectivity" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil

How can we care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguistic meaning? Magnus Ferguson proposes an answer in "Speechlessness and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

Leo Eisenbach explores the relation between epistemic and moral praiseworthiness in "Unifying Moral and Epistemic Praiseworthiness" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

What is owed to individuals who find themselves in a stateless condition? Find Davide Pala's answer in "The Naturalization of the Vulnerable" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

Why does political authority seem to curb our libery in a way that the authority involved in property ownership does not? David Owens discusses in "Liberty, Equality, Authority" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

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The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to find new papers on liberty, equality, and authority; the naturalization of the vulnerable; speechlessness in Arendt; objectivity and news journalism; delegating state coercion; and Millian superiorities.

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