Journal of Applied Philosophy

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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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#NewArticle The Ethics of Combatting Pernicious Ideological Beliefs

Allen Buchanan #philosophy #philsky

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#NewArticle Carbon Dividends: An Integrationist Approach

Pierre André
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Journal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 42, No 5 Click on the title to browse this issue

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Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice Empirical studies suggest that rape in marriages continues to be treated as a less severe crime than other forms of rape. Although the psychological and legal dimensions of marital rape have received...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice

Sushruth Ravish, Ritu Sharma
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel part...

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Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
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#NewArticle Funding Research Randomly #philsky #philosophy

Louis Larue

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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma Some critics worry that the average quality of public discourse in liberal democracies is deplorably low. An example of this is that superficial media content enjoys a much broader audience than high...

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The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma

Malte Jauch

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How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic c....

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Jan Christoph Bublitz

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Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions? As political institutions, representative assemblies can be seen as rule-governed structures of interrelated roles with power mandates, which elected officeholders must exercise in accordance with th...

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Chiara Destri

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Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2025 SAP & YTL Centre invite Will Kymlicka to deliver the 2025 Annual Lecture: Society as a Common Possession: Membership & Solidarity.

Annual Lecture 2025: Professor Will Kymlicka

Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies

12/11/25, 6pm, King’s College London.
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The 2026 Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference will be held in Edinburgh, 3rd - 5th July.

Call for papers open until Jan 12th.

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APA On Demand: “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” with Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson, Noell Birondo, and Avery Kolers

ICYMI: Yesterday’ APA Live event, “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” co-sponsored by @the-joap.bsky.social, is now available on demand: www.apaonline.org/mpage/future...

New blog post by Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social (JOAP co-editor-in-chief) for Wednesday's APA/JOAP panel discussion (Free to attend online - see previous post!!) blog.apaonline.org/2025/10/14/w...
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APA Live: “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” October 15, 3:30 p.m. Eastern / 12:30 p.m. Pacific, with Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson, Noell Birondo, and Avery Kolers

In recognition of Global Ethics Day, the APA and @the-joap.bsky.social have organized an APA Live event on “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” Free and open to all. October 15, 3:30 p.m. Eastern / 12:30 p.m. Pacific. Register at www.apaonline.org/events/Event...

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Don't forget, JOAP & APA panel discussion happening this coming Wednesday October 15th for #GlobalEthicsDay ⤵️

Monitoring and Institutional Trust Repair A monitoring-based strategy for repairing ruptured institutional trust is motivated and defended, bringing together insights about both interpersonal and institutional trust breakdown. The strategy p...

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Emma C. Gordon

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#NewArticle Taking the Political Context Seriously: How to Evaluate Ethics Commissions

| Eilev Hegstad

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Choose Your Own Philosophical Policy Role In this interactive “choose-your-own-adventure” post, Kian Mintz-Woo (University College Cork) explores the different roles that philosophers might play in supporting the development of…

In this "choose-your-own-adventure" post, Kian Mintz-Woo encourages us to think about the potential roles of philosophers in public policy discussions. Based on his article published with @the-joap.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/choo...

The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, ra....

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| Abraham Tobi

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JOAP & @apaphilosophy.bsky.social live event for Global Ethics Day (Oct 15) “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” Panel: Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson & Noell Birondo
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Debunking the Climate Sceptic and the Threat of Self‐Defeat Cultural cognition is the thesis that laypersons' factual beliefs about politically important issues are often shaped by their political values. The question, then, is whether a layperson who believe...

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- Léna Mudry
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Using wonder to achieve animal rights In this post, Steve Cooke, (University of Leicester) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the experience of wonder as a route towards justice for nonhuma…

This week's post in collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Steve Cooke explores the that "wonder" can play in furthering animal rights. Thank you @stevecooke.org for your wonderful contribution. justice-everywhere.org/general/usin...

My child, whose emissions? In this post, Serena Olsaretti (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Isa Trifan (University of Essex) discuss their recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, where they explor…

In our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Serena Olsaretti and Isa Trifan discuss their recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, where they explore the morality of having children in light of climate change. justice-everywhere.org/general/my-c...

Journal of Applied Philosophy Book Reviews Guidelines

Welcome to @chongminglim.bsky.social JOAP's new Book Reviews Editor. CM is interested in submissions up to 3,000 words that advance a substantial argument through critical engagement with a book.

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#BookReview The Ethics of Public Health Paternalism. T.M Wilkinson, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 256 pp, £77.00 (hb)

Elizabeth Fenton

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