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    Social Cohesion Contested. D.Swain and P.Urban, 2024. Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield. xvii + 137 pp, $95.00 (hb). [REVIEW]Andrés Salazar Abello - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):468-470.
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    (1 other version)Post-Christendom Ignorance in Secular Society.Gilles Beauchamp - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):431-449.
    In banning religious symbols for civil servants in a position of authority, Québec's laicity law disproportionately burdens religious minorities. Nevertheless, politicians seem to somehow avoid this problem, and the law is largely supported by the population. This insensibility to religious discrimination calls for an explanation. I argue that part of the explanation for this unequal treatment of religion in secular society lies in active religious ignorance. Drawing a parallel from how white ignorance functions to protect racial inequalities, I argue that (...)
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    (1 other version)Post‐Christendom Ignorance in Secular Society.Gilles Beauchamp - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):431-449.
    In banning religious symbols for civil servants in a position of authority, Québec's laicity law disproportionately burdens religious minorities. Nevertheless, politicians seem to somehow avoid this problem, and the law is largely supported by the population. This insensitivity to religious discrimination calls for an explanation. I argue that part of the explanation for this unequal treatment of religion in secular society lies in active religious ignorance. Drawing a parallel from how white ignorance functions to protect racial inequalities, I argue that (...)
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    Universal Procreation Rights and Future Generations.Tim Campbell, Martin Kolk & Julia Mosquera - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):82-95.
    It is often acknowledged that public policies can constrain people's procreative opportunities, in some cases even infringing their procreative rights. However, a topic that is not often discussed is how the procreative choices of one generation can affect the procreative opportunities of later generations. In this article, we argue that the demographic fact that childbearing above the replacement fertility level is eventually unsustainable supports two constraints on universal procreation rights: a compossibility constraint and an egalitarian constraint. We explore the implications (...)
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    Why it Can Be Permissible to Have Kids in the Climate Emergency.Elizabeth Cripps - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):24-43.
    Having a child is one of the highest-carbon decisions made by affluent individuals. Does this uncomfortable fact mean they should limit biological family size? This salient question also forces attention to two key issues. One is just how demanding individual climate justice duties are. The other is the danger of ‘ivory tower’ reasoning by privileged philosophers. On some topics, it is imperative carefully to integrate philosophical discussion with sociological and psychological research. Assuming individual climate justice duties include cutting one's carbon (...)
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  6. Explaining Injustice: Causation through a Remedial Lens.Susan Erck - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):250-271.
    When devising a plan of remedial action to address an ongoing injustice, it is desirable to possess an understanding of the key contributing factors and mechanisms that produce and sustain it. This is the domain of etiology of injustice. Etiology of injustice involves practices of causal selection that give explanatory priority to the operative causation of the injustice at issue. Operative causation refers to those processes and conditions that might be changed for the injustice to cease and to be sufficiently (...)
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    Moral Gratitude.Romy Eskens - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):115-130.
    There are many examples of persons who appear to be grateful to other people's benefactors. In at least some of these examples, such third-party gratitude also seems fitting. However, these observations conflict with a widespread assumption in the philosophical literature about gratitude: that only beneficiaries can be fittingly grateful to benefactors. In this article, I argue that third-party gratitude exists and can be fitting, and that the assumption is therefore mistaken. More specifically, I defend two claims: (i) that there exists (...)
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    Something AI Should Tell You – The Case for Labelling Synthetic Content.Sarah A. Fisher - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):272-286.
    Synthetic content, which has been produced by generative artificial intelligence, is beginning to spread through the public sphere. Increasingly, we find ourselves exposed to convincing ‘deepfakes’ and powerful chatbots in our online environments. How should we mitigate the emerging risks to individuals and society? This article argues that labelling synthetic content in public forums is an essential first step. While calls for labelling have already been growing in volume, no principled argument has yet been offered to justify this measure (which (...)
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    City of Equals. J.Wolff and A.de‐Shalit, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. xii + 201 pp, open access. [REVIEW]Elisabetta Gobbo - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):460-461.
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    (1 other version)Entitled to Love: Relationships, Commandability, and Obligation.Anna Hartford & Dan J. Stein - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):234-249.
    The notion of uncommandability has been central to how we perceive our emotional lives, and particularly romantic love. According to this notion, while we can control how we treat people, we have little control over how we feel about them. The argument from uncommandability is often evoked as a way of sidestepping moral obligations regarding our romantic emotions. One challenge to uncommandability is the potential to manipulate our emotions through psychopharmaceuticals. Much of the debate on so-called ‘love drugs’ has concerned (...)
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    Indirect Discrimination and the Hospital Relocation Cases.Brian Hutler - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):175-196.
    This article develops a theory of indirect discrimination by analyzing a series of lawsuits that challenged hospital relocations in the 1970s. In these cases, civil rights groups argued that the relocation of hospitals from cities to suburbs was a form of racial discrimination. Although these lawsuits failed, I aim to support the plaintiffs' arguments that the hospital relocations were discriminatory. Drawing on three recent theories – those of Benjamin Eidelson, Deborah Hellman, and Sophia Moreau – I develop an account of (...)
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    Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical‐Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data.Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):155-174.
    In European countries (excluding the UK and Ireland), official statistics do not use racial or ethnic categories, but instead rely on proxies to collect data about discrimination. In the German microcensus, the proxy category adopted is ‘migration background’ (Migrationshintergrund): an individual has a ‘migration background’ when one or more of their parents does not have German citizenship by birth. We apply a coupled ethical-epistemic analysis to the ‘migration background’ category to illuminate how the epistemic issues contribute to ethical ones. Our (...)
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    AI and Responsibility: No Gap, but Abundance.Maximilian Kiener - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):357-374.
    The best-performing AI systems, such as deep neural networks, tend to be the ones that are most difficult to control and understand. For this reason, scholars worry that the use of AI would lead to so-called responsibility gaps, that is, situations in which no one is morally responsible for the harm caused by AI, because no one satisfies the so-called control condition and epistemic condition of moral responsibility. In this article, I acknowledge that there is a significant challenge around responsibility (...)
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    The Epistemology of Corporate Power: The Limits of the Firm–State Analogy.Chi Kwok - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):197-216.
    Political theorists frequently utilize the ‘firm–state analogy’ (FSA) to support the arguments for democratic governance in firms. This article presents the FSA as an analogy with both justificatory and epistemic functions. Its justificatory function provides valid justificatory strategies for workplace democracy, while its epistemic function offers models that shape the understanding of corporate power. In this article, four limitations of the justificatory function of the FSA are identified: (i) the problem of ambiguity, (ii) the boundary problem, (iii) the issue of (...)
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    Self‐Deception in Human–Sex Robot Intimacy.Jin Hee Lee & Christina Chuang - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):303-319.
    A common sentiment among anti-sex-robot scholars is the apprehension that sex robots will normalize and perpetuate sexual violence towards humans. In this new chapter within the feminist sex war, the authors of this article tend to agree with anti-sex-robot concerns and seek to further identify potential harms of sex robots. However, instead of characterizing the harm in terms of what the robots represent and symbolize, we are primarily interested in the internal state of the user and the type of relationship (...)
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    Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention. T.S. Petersen, 2024. New York, Routledge. 162 pp, £130 (hb). [REVIEW]Karl de Fine Licht - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):462-464.
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    Does Lack of Commitment Undermine the Hypocrite's Standing to Blame?Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):375-389.
    According to an influential account of standing, hypocritical blamers lack standing to blame in virtue of their lack of commitment to the norm etc. which they invoke. Nevertheless, the commitment account has the wrong shape for it to explain why hypocrites lack standing to blame. Building on the lessons of that critique I propose a novel account of what undermines standing to blame – the comparative fairness account. This differs from the commitment account and the other prominent account of why (...)
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    The Emotion of Gratitude and Communal Relationships.Coleen Macnamara - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):96-114.
    Emotions are typically dual-faced: they involve both an evaluative and a practical aspect. What is more, an emotion's evaluative and practical aspects tend to exhibit a kind of fit. For example, Sakshi's fear of the bear involves apprehending the bear as a threat to something she cares about, i.e., her wellbeing. And it motivates her to act on behalf of this care: it motivates her to act in ways that protect her wellbeing. Both dimensions of Sakshi's fear are about her (...)
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    National Humiliation: Emotion, Narrative, and Conflict.Raamy Majeed - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):287-302.
    National humiliation is increasingly being used as a way of explaining certain kinds of international conflict. In this article, I argue that while such explanations are presented on the back of plausible assumptions about emotion, such assumptions also make it unlikely that humiliation can play the myriad of explanatory roles attributed to it, for example, to explain the rise of Hitler, growing Chinese antagonism towards the West, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and so on. In response, I consider some other ways (...)
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    Cognitive and Moral Enhancement: A Response to Gordon and Ragonese's Practical Proposal.Heidi Matisonn & Jacek Brzozowski - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):450-459.
    In their response to Persson and Savulescu's argument that we urgently need to pursue the moral enhancement of humankind given the risk posed by a ‘morally corrupt minority's potential to abuse cognitive enhancement’, Gordon and Ragonese offer a ‘practical proposal’ for a targeted form of cognitive enhancement whereby ‘as more sophisticated forms of cognitive enhancement become accessible, they should be made available in a carefully regulated way to’ scientific researchers invested in the production of new and improved moral enhancements. In (...)
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    Climate Displacement. J.Draper, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 272 pp, £90 (hb). [REVIEW]Harrison Munday - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):465-467.
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    Responsibility Gaps and Technology: Old Wine in New Bottles?Ann-Katrien Oimann & Fabio Tollon - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):337-356.
    Recent work in philosophy of technology has come to bear on the question of responsibility gaps. Some authors argue that the increase in the autonomous capabilities of decision-making systems makes it impossible to properly attribute responsibility for AI-based outcomes. In this article we argue that one important, and often neglected, feature of recent debates on responsibility gaps is how this debate maps on to old debates in responsibility theory. More specifically, we suggest that one of the key questions that is (...)
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    My Child, Whose Emissions?Serena Olsaretti & Isa Trifan - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):3-23.
    The Moral Equivalence Thesis claims that procreation in affluent countries and eco‐gluttony are morally on a par, and that both are impermissible. We argue that this ambiguates between two different theses, the Strict and the Lax. On the Strict Reading of the thesis, procreation and eco‐gluttony are both wrong for the same reasons, that is, because both involve individuals overstepping their carbon budget. We argue that this is false at least with regard to a certain number of children and a (...)
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    Procreative Prerogatives and Climate Change.Felix Pinkert & Martin Sticker - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):44-66.
    One of the most provocative claims in current climate ethics is that we ought to have fewer children, because procreation brings new people into existence and thereby causes large amounts of additional greenhouse gas emissions. The public debate about procreation and climate change is frequently framed in terms of the question of whether people may still have any children at all. Yet in the academic debate it is a common position that, despite the large carbon impact of procreation, it is (...)
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    Lying to Make Friends.Charlie Richards - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):390-414.
    It is intuitively wrongful to deceive people into forming a false belief. It is especially intuitively wrongful to deceive people into forming the false belief that you are their friend. Despite these intuitions, this article argues that in a surprising number of cases, deceiving people into believing you are their friend is not only permitted, but required. The article uses this result to make some important revisions and suggestions for the emergent social rights literature: (i) it shows that social rights (...)
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    Ancestors and Descendants.Hillel Steiner - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):67-81.
    This article explores the implications of responsibility‐sensitive justice for one set of intergenerational rights and duties. It focuses on the distinctive set of rights and duties, pertaining to procreation and parenting, that can be derived from Left Libertarianism's foundational entitlements. Broadly speaking, those implied rights and duties are such that all children's ability levels should be of equal value at the threshold of adulthood.
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    Debts of Gratitude in Cross‐Cultural Perspective: Confucian and Western Ethics.George Tsai & Lok Chui Choo - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):131-154.
    This article examines the contrasting conceptions of gratitude in Early Confucian and Western philosophy. It focuses on a key difference: the presence of the notion of ‘debts of gratitude’ in Western thought and its absence in Confucianism. We explore how this difference is rooted in contrasting ethical outlooks and values. Western philosophy often conceives of gratitude as a duty of reciprocation, furthering the values of social equality and individual autonomy. By contrast, Early Confucians viewed gratitude as proper acknowledgement that strengthens (...)
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  28. Is the Gender Pension Gap Fair?Manuel Sá Valente - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):320-336.
    The income gap between women and men expands with age, culminating in a gender pension gap in old age that is much larger than pay gaps earlier in life. In this article, I question two attempts to justify gender pension gaps. One insists that lower financial contribution justifies women's lower overall pensions. The second states that women must receive less monthly because they live longer. I argue that neither of these reasons is fair in a gender-unjust world. Rather than justifying (...)
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    ‘Why Is the Chubby Guy Running?’: Trans Pregnancy, Fatness, and Cultural Intelligibility.Francis Ray White, Ruth Pearce, Damien W. Riggs, Carla A. Pfeffer & Sally Hines - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):415-430.
    Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention, and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacularization and the supposed tension between maleness, masculinity, and pregnancy that underpins it. Extending that work, this article draws on interview data from an international study of trans reproductive practices and analyzes participants' experiences of being, and expecting themselves to be, perceived in public space not as spectacularly ‘pregnant men’, but as (...)
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    On the Morality of Enjoying Simulated Rape with Robots and by Other Fictional Means.Garry Young - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 42 (1):217-233.
    I argue that there is no morally relevant difference, based solely on motivation for enjoyment, between enjoying simulated rape with a sexbot compared to other media. In defence of this claim, I distinguish between two types of enjoyment – enjoyment qua simulation and enjoyment qua substitution – and further claim that each type of enjoyment shares corresponding similarities with either idle or surrogate fantasies. Given this, the enjoyment of one's rape fantasy is, I contend, immoral if one enjoys qua substitution (...)
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  31. Openness, Priority, and Free Museums.Jack Hume - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy.
    This article develops a fairness-based criticism of the UK’s policy of promoting free admissions at major museums. With a focus on geographic inequalities and per-capita museums spending, I argue that free admissions can be a surprisingly bad way of promoting cultural opportunities for disadvantaged groups. My criticism emphasises the fact that free admissions consume resources without necessarily providing targeted benefits to disadvantaged groups and addressing background inequalities. Given that museums vary in their location, visitor profile, and operating costs, this critique (...)
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    Automated Propaganda: Labeling AI‐Generated Political Content Should Not be Required by Law.Bartek Chomanski & Lode Lauwaert - 2025 - Journal of Applied Philosophy.
    A number of scholars and policy-makers have raised serious concerns about the impact of chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the spread of political disinformation. An increasingly popular proposal to address this concern is to pass laws that, by requiring that artificially generated and artificially disseminated content be labeled as such, aim to ensure a degree of transparency in this rapidly transforming environment. This article argues that such laws are misguided, for two reasons. We first aim to show that (...)
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