For harm to be permissible, it must be necessary. This principle is widely endorsed in a range of contexts. But sometimes how much harm it is necessary for an agent to inflict is the result of the con...

Some inequalities are the result of morally required self-sacrifice by the worse off. Versions of luck egalitarianism that count such inequalities as unfair, when combined with other unexceptional ass...

I propose a framework for wonder that accounts for its heterogeneity and clarifies disputes about the ethics of wonder. The various species of wonder are unified as responses to a recurrent practical ...

Consequentialists often argue that their opponents’ views can be consequentialized or that their own view is partly self-effacing. These arguments resemble the quasi-realist moves that many expressivi...

Since the goal of “sustainable development” has gained authority (notably since the 1987 Brundtland Report), there have been attempts to characterize what, at core, is the intended constraint on prese...

Since the goal of “sustainable development” has gained authority (notably since the 1987 Brundtland Report), there have been attempts to characterize what, at core, is the intended constraint on prese...

This article is on the concept of “slack”: the absence of binding constraints on behavior. Slack comes in many forms, including as time, money, space, others’ goodwill, and support networks. It enable...

Consequentialists often argue that their opponents’ views can be consequentialized or that their own view is partly self-effacing. These arguments resemble the quasi-realist moves that many expressivi...

Since the goal of “sustainable development” has gained authority (notably since the 1987 Brundtland Report), there have been attempts to characterize what, at core, is the intended constraint on prese...

In liberal societies, revenge is usually regarded as inherently wrong. I challenge this view by examining two grounds for its impermissibility: motivation and consequences. Because acts of revenge are...

This article is on the concept of “slack”: the absence of binding constraints on behavior. Slack comes in many forms, including as time, money, space, others’ goodwill, and support networks. It enable...

This article argues for the abolition of a core component of our hegemonic gender regime: compulsory sex-marking. Compulsory sex-marking refers to the social demand that individuals advertise, through...

There are cases in which someone insists to themselves that they are the gender they were assigned at birth without “deep down” believing this. In such a case, which is to be respected, the identity a...

When and why is it fitting for emotions to change over time? This article defends a novel answer to this question that emphasizes the motivational aspect of emotions. It is fitting for emotions to cha...

Many theories of responsibility claim that holding someone responsible is “incipiently communicative,” but it has been difficult to pin down just what this amounts to. We offer an account of (1) a dis...

When the US Supreme Court rejected the constitutional right to abortion care, several US states enacted bans. This legal change exposed critical moral questions about pregnancy in childhood: What do a...

I defend pluralist metaethical constitutivism: Practical norms governing an agent are grounded in her kind of rational agency. Kinds of rational agency are defined in terms of reasons explanations: To...