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    The Values of the Virtual.Rami Ali - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):231-245.
    How do we assign values to virtual items, which include virtual objects, properties, events, subjects, worlds, environments, and experiences? In this article, I offer a framework for answering this question. After considering different value theses in the literature, I argue that whether we think these theses mutually exclusive or not turns on our view about the number of value-salient kinds virtual items belong to. Virtual monism is the view that virtual Xs belong to only one value-salient kind in relation to (...)
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    Using Stars for Moral Navigation: An Ethical Exploration into Celebrity.Alfred Archer & Maureen Sie - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):340-357.
    What role do celebrities play in our moral lives? Philosophers have explored the potential for celebrities to function as moral exemplars and role models. We argue that there are more ways in which celebrities play a role in helping us navigate our moral lives. First, gossiping about celebrities helps us negotiate our moral norms and identify competing styles of life. Second, fandom for celebrities serves as the basis for the development of distinct moral communities and identities. Third, celebrities possess high (...)
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    Normalization of Racism and Moral Responsibility: Against the Exculpatory Stance.Federica Berdini & Sofia Bonicalzi - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):246-262.
    In this article, we take the case of racism in contemporary Italy as a starting point for a discussion about moral responsibility for racism in cases where ignorance is involved. We focus on the issue of the normalization of racism and its contribution to different forms of ignorance to assess the extent to which these might potentially mitigate judgments of responsibility for racism, thereby grounding an Exculpatory Stance. After illustrating the phenomenon of the normalization of racism and offering an outline (...)
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    Democratic Privacy.Russell C. Bogue - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):280-302.
    This article proposes a novel justification for privacy rights based on the relationship between privacy and the democratic devices of voting and deliberation. Through an epistemic conception of democracy, I show that privacy, defined as epistemic inaccessibility, justifies a reliance on the vote as the voluntary mechanism of revealing citizen preferences, even in the face of theoretically more responsive methods. Respecting the inaccessibility of citizens' views ensures that democratic governments remain reliant on, rather than merely responsive to, the wills of (...)
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    Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning. CarrieJenkins, 2022. Cambridge, Polity. xviii + 153 pp, £14.99 (pb) £45.00 (hb). [REVIEW]Luke Brunning - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):382-384.
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    Minority Minds: Mental Disability and the Presumption of Value Neutrality.Matilda Carter - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):358-375.
    Elizabeth Barnes has recently developed an account of disability that is sensitive to the role of self-evaluation. To have a physical disability is, according to Barnes, to have a body that is merely different from the norm. Yet, as Barnes notes, some disabilities will genuinely frustrate some life plans. It may be the case, therefore, that a disability is instrumentally bad for a person and that acquiring one may be a genuine loss. Equally, however, a person may genuinely value a (...)
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    Compulsory Vaccination and Nozickian Rights.Simon Clarke - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):303-320.
    This article examines compulsory vaccination from the perspective of Nozick's theory of rights. It argues that the unvaccinated are a threat, even if unintended, to the rights of others. The reasons Nozick provides for when such threats may be forcibly prevented, such as the identifiability of the rights violator, general fear of the risky activity, probability of harm, and the general benefits of the activity, are examined, and it is argued that those reasons weigh in favour of prohibition of the (...)
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    Justice for People on the Move. Migration in Challenging Times.GillianBrock, 2020. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. xiii + 248 pp, $99.99 (hb). [REVIEW]Mario J. Cunningham Matamoros - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):376-378.
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    Living Well Together Online: Digital Wellbeing from a Confucian Perspective.Matthew Dennis & Elena Ziliotti - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):263-279.
    The impact of social media technologies (SMTs) on digital wellbeing has become an increasingly important puzzle for ethicists of technology. In this article, we explain why individualised theories of digital wellbeing (DWB) can only solve part of this puzzle. While an individualised conception of DWB is useful for understanding online self-regulation, we contend that we must seek greater understanding of how SMTs connect us. To build an account of this, we locate the conceptual resources for our account in Confucian ethics. (...)
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    Comments on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’.Pamela Hieronymi - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):211-219.
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    On Gratitude to Nature.Max Lewis - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):321-339.
    In this article, I argue that it cannot be fitting to be grateful to nature. I start by arguing that gratitude to someone/something can be fitting even if they do not intentionally benefit one. I then argue that a recent view on which it can be fitting to be grateful to nature faces counterexamples. Finally, I argue that it cannot be fitting to be grateful to nature, because it is fitting to be grateful to someone/something only if they manifest the (...)
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    On Three Dogmas of Normativity.Philip Pettit - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):205-210.
    Ruth Chang argues against three dogmas of normativity. Her argument, as least about the first two, is defensible, but defensible on a naturalistic account of normativity that she may not find congenial.
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    Commitment and Reasons – A Comment on Ruth Chang, ‘Three Dogmas of Normativity’.Peter Railton - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):220-230.
    Ruth Chang has argued convincingly that we must recognize that some choices will not involve strict, univocal comparison of options. How, then, can such choices be made well? Chang suggests that commitment is a fundamental way of ‘putting one's very self’ behind a normative consideration, thereby ‘endow[ing] that consideration with the normativity of a reason’. This view challenges what Chang deems to be three dogmas of normativity, and the current comment critically assesses the relation of her view to the first (...)
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    Demystifying Emotions – A Typology of Theories in Psychology and Philosophy. Agnes Moors, 2022. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. i–xviii + 382 pp, £95.00 (hb). [REVIEW]Sanja Särman - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (2):379-381.
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    (E)‐Trust and Its Function: Why We Shouldn't Apply Trust and Trustworthiness to Human–AI Relations.Pepijn Al - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):95-108.
    With an increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, theorists have analyzed and argued for the promotion of trust in AI and trustworthy AI. Critics have objected that AI does not have the characteristics to be an appropriate subject for trust. However, this argumentation is open to counterarguments. Firstly, rejecting trust in AI denies the trust attitudes that some people experience. Secondly, we can trust other non-human entities, such as animals and institutions, so why can we not trust AI systems? (...)
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  16. A Problem for Generic Generalisations in Scientific Communication.Mark Bowker - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):123-132.
    Generic generalisations like ‘Opioids are highly addictive’ are very useful in scientific communication, but they can often be interpreted in many different ways. Although this is not a problem when all interpretations provide the same answer to the question under discussion, a problem arises when a generic generalisation is used to answer a question other than that originally intended. In such cases, some interpretations of the generalisation might answer the question in a way that the original speaker would not endorse. (...)
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    Migration, Open Borders, Human Rights, and Democracy.Gillian Brock - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):1-14.
    Two important recent books on migration and justice argue for different approaches to how we should view borders. Alex Sager defends open borders, while Sarah Song argues for the rights of democratic communities to find their own balance between open and closed borders. While both authors present significant considerations in defence of their views, in this article I argue that a human-rights-oriented account of migration justice captures their strengths well while not sharing the weaknesses I identify with each. In addition, (...)
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    A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy.Toby Svoboda, 2022. New York, Routledge. vii + 124 pp, $160 (hb) $44.05 (e‐book). [REVIEW]Kyle Fruh - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):169-171.
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    It's Difficult to Explain Away the Appearance That Causation Comes in Degrees: A Reply to Sartorio.Joshua Goh - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):109-122.
    Does the relation of (actual) causation admit of degrees? Is it sensible to say, for example, that ‘as compared to his consuming the light beer, Clement’s consuming the moonshine was more a cause of his becoming drunk’? Suppose the answer is ‘yes’. Suppose also that country A unjustifiably ignites a lethal war with country B, and you intuit that, while most combatants of A are liable to lethal counterattack, most non-combatants of A aren’t similarly liable. Then, you might support your (...)
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  20. Why Migration Justice Still Requires Open Borders.Alex Sager - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):15-25.
    I revisit themes from Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (2020) in dialogue with Gillian Brock's Justice of People on the Move (2020) and Sarah Song's Immigration and Democracy (2019). We share the conviction that current border regimes are deeply unjust but differ in what migration justice requires. Brock and Song continue to give states significant discretion to exclude people from entering and settling in their territories, whereas I contend that migration justice demands open borders. I (...)
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    Justice, Collective Self‐Determination, and the Ethics of Immigration Control.Sarah Song - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):26-34.
    This article brings Gillian Brock and Alex Sager's recently published books into conversation with my book, Immigration and Democracy. It begins with a summary of the main normative arguments of my book to set the stage for critical engagement with Brock and Sager's books. While I agree with Brock's Justice for People on the Move that state power must be justified to both insiders and outsiders, I think she gives too little weight to the value of collective self-determination. I distinguish (...)
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    Justice, Collective Self‐Determination, and the Ethics of Immigration Control.Sarah Song - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):26-34.
    This article brings Gillian Brock and Alex Sager's recently published books into conversation with my book, Immigration and Democracy. It begins with a summary of the main normative arguments of my book to set the stage for critical engagement with Brock and Sager's books. While I agree with Brock's Justice for People on the Move that state power must be justified to both insiders and outsiders, I think she gives too little weight to the value of collective self-determination. I distinguish (...)
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    Justice, Collective Self‐Determination, and the Ethics of Immigration Control.Sarah Song - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):26-34.
    This article brings Gillian Brock and Alex Sager's recently published books into conversation with my book, Immigration and Democracy. It begins with a summary of the main normative arguments of my book to set the stage for critical engagement with Brock and Sager's books. While I agree with Brock's Justice for People on the Move that state power must be justified to both insiders and outsiders, I think she gives too little weight to the value of collective self-determination. I distinguish (...)
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    Grief: A Philosophical Guide.Michael Cholbi, 2022. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 232 pp, £20. [REVIEW]Dominic Wilkinson - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):166-168.
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    What We Owe to Our Audience: The Hermeneutical Responsibility of Fiction Creators.Kate Wojtkiewicz - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):150-165.
    As audiences demand better and more diverse representation in the fictions they consume, there is a question of how that demand should be placed on fiction creators. In this article, I answer this question by arguing creators of fiction have a hermeneutical responsibility to include diverse characters in their creations, and to do so without relying on harmful stereotypes. I cast this responsibility as the epistemic virtue of due diligence, offset by epistemic laziness and epistemic paralysis as the corresponding vices (...)
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    The New Trolley Problem: Driverless Cars and Deontological Distinctions.Fiona Woollard - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (1):49-64.
    Discussion of the ethics of driverless cars has often focused on supposed real-life versions of the famous trolley problem. In these cases, a driverless car is in a position where crashing is unavoidable and all possible crashes risk harm: for example, it can either continue on its current path and crash into five pedestrians or swerve and crash into one pedestrian. There are significant disanalogies between the human versions of the trolley problem and situations faced by driverless cars which affect (...)
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    How to Argue about Solar Geoengineering.Britta Clark - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 1.
    Should high-income countries engage in solar geoengineering research and possible deployment? On the assumption that the speed of the energy transition will be insufficient to abate catastrophic climate impacts, research into solar geoengineering begins to look like a technically and socially feasible route to mitigate such impacts. But on the assumption that a rapid and relatively just energy transition is still within the realm of political possibility, research into solar geoengineering looks more like an ideological tool designed to divert time (...)
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    A Project View of the Right to Parent.Benjamin Lange - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 1:1-23.
    The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution’s justification is grounded, at least in part, in the non-instrumental value of the parent-child relationship itself. Such views face the challenge of identifying a specific good in the parent-child relationship that can account for how adults acquire parental rights over a particular child—as opposed to general parental rights, which need not warrant a claim to parent one’s biological progeny. (...)
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    Three Dogmas of Normativity.Ruth Chang - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy (2):173-204.
    In this article, I identify and critically examine 3 dogmas of normativity that support a commonly accepted ‘Passivist View' of rational agency. I raise some questions about these dogmas, suggest what we should believe in their place, and moot an alternative ‘Activist View' of what it is to be a rational agent that grows out of rejection of the 3 dogmas. Underwriting the dogmas and the Passivist View, I suggest, is a deeply held but mistaken assumption that the normative domain (...)
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  30. Public Health Officials Should Almost Always Tell the Truth.Director Samuel - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy (TBD):1-15.
    One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the lay public relies immensely on the knowledge of public health officials. At every phase of the pandemic, the testimony of public health officials has been crucial for guiding public policy and individual behavior. The reason is simple: public health officials know a lot more than you and I do about public health. As lay people, we rely on experts. This seems straightforward. But the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that public (...)
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