Journal of Applied Philosophy

#NewArticle The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer | Michael B. Gill

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#BookReview Disability Through the Lens of Justice. J. Begon, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. vii + 278 pp, £76 (hb)

Elvio Baccarini

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#BookReview Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem: A Philosophical Introduction. T. LaCroix, 2025. Peterborough, Broadview Press. 354 pp, £32.95 (pb)

Declan Humphreys

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SAP Sponsored Event: Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective
29 April, 2026
University of Aberdeen
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Justice Across Generations: Equality, Opportunity, and the Social Contract. R. Reed and C.R. Hallenbrook, 2025. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. vii +188 pp, £34.99 (hb)

Robinson Woodward-Burns

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On Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker In this post, Shalom Chalson (National University of Singapore) and James Bernard Willoughby (Australian National University) discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Phil…

When candidates for a job are neck‑to‑neck, should affirmative action be the tiebreaker? Our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social by Shalom Chalson and James Willoughby presents a sharp, thought‑provoking take on affirmative action. justice-everywhere.org/general/on-u...

#BookReview Creating New Languages of Resistance: Translation, Public Philosophy and Border Violence. O. Tofighian, 2025. London and New York, Routledge. xvi + 231 pp, £145 (hb), £38.99 (pb)

Ronya Ramrath

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Journal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 43, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

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Vol 43.1 Includes Symposium on Institutional Dysfunctions and Trust Repair, guest ed. Marta Giunta Martino
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key ...

#NewArticle Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals | David Paaske + Angela K. Martin
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Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a ....

#NewArticle Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families | Megan A. Dean

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The Injustice of Not Feeling Wronged In this post, Sushruth Ravish (IIT Kanpur) and Ritu Sharma (University of British Columbia) discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on experiential injustice i…

When people don’t feel wronged, does that mean no wrongdoing occurred? In our most recent collab with @the-joap.bsky.social, Sushruth Ravish and Ritu Sharma challenge common assumptions about harm, recognition, and moral agency. justice-everywhere.org/general/the-...

Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical‐Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data 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 micro...

We are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data”
Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl
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#NewArticle Epigenetic Responsibility and Foreseeable Risk | Courtney McMahon
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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational...

#NewArticle Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions | Chi Kwok, Chris Man-Kong Li
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Funding Research Randomly In this post, Louis Larue (Aalborg University, Denmark) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the appropriateness of selecting research applications rando…

We are starting the year with a new post in collab with @the-joap.bsky.social. Louis Larue explore the potential need for using lotteries to fund academic research. If research funding is a gamble anyway, why not just make it official? justice-everywhere.org/general/fund...

This is such an awesome paper - prize so well deserved!! Everyone, go read it 🥳

Congratulations Tareeq!

Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps Police censor drill rap music based on the claim that drill artists incite violence. In this article, I provide a framework for evaluating whether an instance of drill constitutes a speech act of inc...

The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize

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Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention Wild animals suffer due to human activity, yet natural factors contribute far more significantly to their suffering. In light of this, some propose that we have a pro tanto obligation to intervene in...

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Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention | Tristan Katz
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money | Andrew Allison, Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski
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#NewArticle Existential Reflections on Autistic Masking: A Heideggerian Approach | Junguo Zhang
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Caste as a Social Kind Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social ...

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Caste as a Social Kind | Ajinkya Deshmukh

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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation Truth-telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narra...

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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation |
Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez, Stephen W. Enciso

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Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation This article argues that in countries where dating apps have become the primary means of meeting romantic partners and promise to help users find love, individuals should be entitled to access certai...

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Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation|
Bouke de Vries, Kristian González Barman
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SAP Sponsored Workshop - Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Research: Towards a Community
26 - 30 January, 2026
University of Leiden
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Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker We argue in favor of affirmative action. There are two central points to our argument. First, if two or more candidates for a position are matched in competence, then one ought to prefer a candidate ....

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Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker

Shalom Chalson, James Bernard Willoughby

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SAP Sponsored Event: Applied Epistemology: New Perspectives
1 December, 2025
London School of Economics @lsephilosophy.bsky.social
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Society of Applied Philosophy sponsored workshop @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Sex, Deception & Consent, 3rd December, 2025

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On the Morality of Killing Human Shields

Michael Huemer

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#NewArticle On Being Aesthetic Unequals: The Case of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

Giacomo Floris

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