Journal of Applied Philosophy

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
#philsky #philosophy #OpenAccess

Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇
doi.org/10.1111/japp...

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...

#NewArticle available on our website #OpenAccess
Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention | Tristan Katz
#philsky #philosophy

Read it here👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...

#NewArticle now available #OpenAccess
Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money | Andrew Allison, Jason Brennan, Peter Jaworski
#philsky #philosophy

Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VHZF8I...

#NewArticle Existential Reflections on Autistic Masking: A Heideggerian Approach | Junguo Zhang
#philosophy #philsky

Read #FullAccessText here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/7UGP3I...

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 ...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess
Caste as a Social Kind | Ajinkya Deshmukh

Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...

#philsky #philosophy

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...

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

Read it here👇
doi.org/10.1002/japp...
#philsky #philosophy

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...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess
Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation|
Bouke de Vries, Kristian González Barman
Read it here 👇

doi.org/10.1111/japp...
#philsky #philosophy

SAP Sponsored Workshop - Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Research: Towards a Community
26 - 30 January, 2026
University of Leiden
@unileiden.bsky.social
www.appliedphil.org/sap-sponsore...

#philsky #philosophy

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 ....

#NewArticle #OpenAccess

Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker

Shalom Chalson, James Bernard Willoughby

Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#philsky #philosophy

SAP Sponsored Event: Applied Epistemology: New Perspectives
1 December, 2025
London School of Economics @lsephilosophy.bsky.social
One-day workshop on applied epistemology, details here:
www.appliedphil.org/sap-sponsore...

#philsky #philosophy

Society of Applied Philosophy sponsored workshop @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Sex, Deception & Consent, 3rd December, 2025

www.appliedphil.org/sap-sponsore...

#philsky #philosophy #consent #universityofleeds

#NewArticle
On the Morality of Killing Human Shields

Michael Huemer

Read full access text here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XUEFDZ...

#philsky #philosophy

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

Giacomo Floris

Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TB9RJ7...

#philsky #philosophy

#NewArticle The Ethics of Combatting Pernicious Ideological Beliefs

Allen Buchanan #philosophy #philsky

Full access text available here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SBIA6R...

#NewArticle Carbon Dividends: An Integrationist Approach

Pierre André
#philsky #philosophy

Full access text available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3Q82WP...

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

#NewIssue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy
#philsky #philosophy

Read it here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14685930...

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
#philsky #philosophy

doi.org/10.1111/japp...

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...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism

Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
#Philsky #Philosophy

Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/japp...

#NewArticle Funding Research Randomly #philsky #philosophy

Louis Larue

Read full access text here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/G8EX3A...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess
Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
#philosophy #philsky
Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/japp...

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...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess
The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma

Malte Jauch

Read it here 👇
doi.org/10.1111/japp...
#philsky #philosophy

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....

#NewArticle #OpenAccess How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

Jan Christoph Bublitz

doi.org/10.1111/japp...
#philsky #philosophy

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...

#NewArticle #OpenAccess Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?

Chiara Destri

doi.org/10.1111/japp...
#philsky #philosophy #appliedphilosophy

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.
Drinks reception will follow.
Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...

#philosophy #philsky #KCL #willkymlicka

The 2026 Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference will be held in Edinburgh, 3rd - 5th July.

Call for papers open until Jan 12th.

See: www.appliedphil.org/society-for-...
#philsky #philosophy #appliedphilosophy

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...