Where to Publish Your Paper You do not get to pick where to publish your paper. You get to pick where to submit your paper. After that, it is mostly out of your hands. To some extent your decision ab...

Roy Sorensen, Permission to Cheat, Analysis, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 2007), pp. 205-214

Björn Lundgren has argued that failure to sufficiently engage with the relevant literature is not a reason to reject a philosophy paper. I reply that there are in fact reasons to reject papers that...

This essay explores some key competing philosophical arguments about whether it should be easier for people to immigrate to whatever country they would like.

Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.

Ritwik Agrawal and Allen Buchanan argue that the fundamental wrong of colonialism is a denial of autonomy to those who are colonized. They claim that earlier discussions of colonialism, including thos...

Many say that we should make society more equal. But what should we equalize? This essay explains two of the most important ones: equality of outcome and equality of opportunity.

Abstract. I argue that if we claim colonialism is per se wrong, then we face a dilemma that stems from the fact that many states today are a result of past colonialism. We believe that postcolonial st...

Abstract Many believe that an upward-sloping life is better than a downward-sloping life because of its shape. This is a common way of formulating the shape of a life hypothesis. We argue that the hyp...

The Journal of Value Inquiry -

Author: Daniel Weltman Category: Social and Political Philosophy Word Count: 999 Some people are rich. Others are poor. Is this bad? Many argue that it’s unjust for society to be deeply unequal, and t...

Cosmopolitanism – the view that moral concern, and consequently moral duties, are not limited by borders – seems to justify colonialism with a ‘civilizing’ mission, because it supports the enforcem...

In May, the executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of the influential journal, Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), resigned and in June PPA’s editor-in-chief,...

Gender eliminativism, also known as gender abolitionism, is the view that we should get rid of gender. I defend gender eliminativism by suggesting that many arguments that ostensibly call for rejecti....

According to the epistemic account of request normativity, a request gives us reasons by revealing normatively relevant information. The information is normative, not the request itself. I raise a new...