A Moral Case for Strikes against Syria? Part I: Humanitarian Intervention
Early on Saturday, 14 April, it was announced that the US, UK and France had conducted targeted strikes on three targets in Syria – a chemical weapons and storage facility, a research centre and a...
View ArticleA Moral Case for Strikes against Syria? Part II: Punitive Strike
In this post, I explore the punitive justifications for the recent strikes against Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons. In the previous post, Sara was right to call into question...
View ArticleShould we grant legal personhood to robots?
With significant recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, it is increasingly pressing that we consider the legal and ethical standing of autonomous machines. Here I post some...
View ArticleMoral progress in beliefs and practices
Abraham Lincoln said: “If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong”. Similarly we could say: “If the abolition of slavery is not an instance of moral progress, then nothing is an instance of moral...
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Plastic Pollution: How to avoid further degrading our natural environment
The theme of this year’s World Environment Day (5 June 2018) is Beat Plastic Pollution. Plastic pollution is indeed a serious problem, severely affecting animals, humans, and marine ecosystems....
View ArticleCall for Applications: Equality and Citizenship Summer School in Rijeka
The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy...
View ArticleDebate the Future of the European Union with Political Philosophers
Together with an amazing group of people, I have initiated Twelve Stars. Twelve Stars in Europe’s flag symbolize Europe’s unity in diversity. The Twelve Stars project brings together citizens and...
View ArticleCurrent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
Teaching Fellow – Political Theory, University of Edinburgh (closing 03/09/18) Research Fellow in Drone Violence and AI Ethics, University of Southampton (closing 04/09/18) Open-rank, Tenure-Track...
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Climate ethicists flying to conferences? The middle ground regarding...
Voluntary offsetting allows you to ‘neutralise’ your carbon dioxide emissions by preventing the same amount of carbon dioxide from being emitted by someone else, most often somewhere else. Offsetting...
View ArticleAre multi-buy discount bans paternalistic?
In recent months, both the central UK Government at Westminster, and the Scottish Government have released strategic plans for addressing obesity. In both cases, among the measures being considered is...
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How Workplace Wellness Programs Harm People with Disabilities
In a world where “wellness” has become a cultural signal of the American elite (think yoga and spa treatments), employers have not been afraid to market wellness programs as a one-way ticket to...
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Why central banks must change before the next crisis hits
Our recent book Do Central Banks Serve the People? sheds a critical light on the actions of central banks in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis. Using the US Federal Reserve, the European Central...
View ArticleThe Philosopher Queens
Women in philosophy have been ignored. Help crowdfund The Philosopher Queens to have their voices heard. Its editors Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting tell us more about how and why this important book...
View ArticleRecent Vacancies in Political Theory/Philosophy/Ethics
Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Manchester (closing imminently) Lecturer in Ethics / Political Philosophy, University of Sheffield (closing imminently) Teaching Fellow in Philosophy,...
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On the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars: An Interview with Johannes Himmelreich
My colleague at Stanford’s Center for Ethics in Society, Johannes Himmelreich, is a philosopher who investigates agency and responsibility in contexts of collective collaboration and technological...
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Lectureships at Newcastle Politics Department: Information & Applications
Newcastle Politics Department currently have 4 lectureships advertised and a chair/reader to be advertised shortly. In this blog post those who are on the interview panels for the lectureship posts...
View ArticleBrazil’s Elections & The Defeat of Political Liberalism
The outcome of the October 7th Brazil elections meant a wide defeat of the Workers’ Party (PT), of the Brazilian Social Democracy’s Party (PSDB) and of many traditional political leaders. Jair...
View ArticleConference Announcement: ASPP Annual Conference 2019
The next Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference will be held 24-26th June 2019 at Politics, Newcastle University, UK. Theme: Justice in Times of Austerity, Rupture, &...
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The United States Needs a Democracy Movement
While most headlines have focused on the divergent successes of Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate, respectively, the 2018 midterm elections featured mixed results on another important...
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American democracy is compromised. Its institutions must act to save it
Scott Chipolina offers the second in a series of Justice Everywhere posts on the US midterm elections and what they say about the state of American democracy. (For the first in the series, see Emilee...
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