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Welcome back: Launching our 2021-21 season!
With the 2020-21 year upon us, Justice Everywhere returns this week for a new season! This last year has been the most successful on the blog to date. As our “From the Vault” posts over recent weeks...
View ArticleShould We Punish Non-Citizens?
In this post, Bill Wringe discusses his recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on difficulties justifying punishing non-citizens. Philosophers spend a surprising amount of time thinking about...
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“Level playing fields”: a misguided complaint about discrimination against...
This is the third, and last, of a series of three posts about gender justice and conflicts of interest between women who belong to different classes. In the first post I argued that priority should be...
View ArticleIntentional (nation-)States: A Group-Agency Problem for the State’s Right to...
In this post, Matthew R. Joseph discusses his recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the relationship between collective agency and immigration policy. It seems intuitively correct –...
View ArticleShould Academics Also Be Activists?
The debate on the role of academics in a democracy has intensified in recent years with the rise of worrying trends in global politics. The election of Donald Trump in the US, for instance, has...
View ArticleConceptual Engineering and Structural Injustice
In this post, Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky discusses his recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the obligation to combat structural injustice through conceptual change. Suppose you’re at...
View ArticleMassively shared obligations: making a difference – together!
In this post, Anne Schwenkenbecher discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the collective duties of citizens to address large-scale structural injustice. Throughout the...
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Propagandists, Degrees of Reliability, and Epistemic Nihilism
Reliability is a quality that comes in degrees. For example, a bus that always arrives exactly on time is highly reliable. A bus that often but not always arrives on time is somewhat reliable. A bus...
View ArticleWhy There Are Some Things You Can Only Know If You’ve Been Pregnant – And Why...
In this post, Fiona Woollard discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the significance of experiencing pregnancy. There are some experiences that make you a member of special...
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Resistance against climate injustice beyond civil disobedience?
Last year Nikolas Mattheis argued on this blog that climate school strikes are acts of civil disobedience (rather than truancy), that pupils are entitled to this form of protest and that they should...
View ArticleThe harm in fake news
During the last months, an enthralling debate on fake news has been unfolding on the pages of the academic journal Inquiry. Behind opposed barricades, we find the advocates of two arguments, which for...
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Trump vs Twitter: who has the right to do what?
“Twitter is completely stifling free speech, and I, as President, won’t allow it to happen!” Donald Trump, 27 May 2020 – published on Twitter (of course). Introduction Who has the right, to do what,...
View ArticleThe news media are a watchdog, but so are you
In this post, Emanuela Ceva & Dorota Mokrosinska discuss their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on what grounds the duty of the news media (and citizens) to act as a watchdog. The...
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Replying to the reverse discrimination objection: a context-depended argument...
Last month, Magazine Luiza, a Brazilian department store that specialises in selling electronics and home items, published a trainee call intended only for young and black candidates. According to the...
View ArticleHow should we think about the Irrevocability of Capital Punishment and...
In this post, Saranga Sudarshan discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the issue of irrevocability in arguing about capital punishment and euthanasia. Working out our moral...
View ArticleAn Ethical Code for Citizen Science?
Citizen Science is gaining popularity. The term refers to a form of scientific research that is carried out entirely or in part by citizens who are not professional scientists. These citizens...
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How democratic are pre-election polls?
In most Western democracies nowadays, pre-election periods are littered with polls. Some polls, conducted by polling organizations, are sophisticated and more likely to be challenged for their accuracy...
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Who should pay the costs of pandemic lockdowns?
the costs of pandemic lockdowns should be disproportionately covered by a narrower group, consisting of those individuals and businesses who have already acquired vast amounts of economic resources and...
View ArticleA Symposium on The Ethics of Indirect Intervention
In this post, Helen Frowe and Ben Matheson introduce a symposium they recently edited in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the ethical issues that arise in indirect interventions. Recent years have seen...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 crisis: a vulnerability perspective
The idea of vulnerability has been discussed regularly throughout the pandemic. This aligns with a more general trend towards considering issues in law, bioethics and philosophy from a vulnerability...
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