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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

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The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (JESP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge.

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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to find new papers about shared property, misinterpretive frames, the authorative/formal distinction, virulent claims, moral motivation, and coercion. #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
JESP is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Johan E. Gustafsson and Dean Spears discuss different ways of evaluating prospects in "Ex Post Average Utilitarianism Can Be Worse for All Affected, Even If No Contingently Existing Person Is Affected" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Ex Post Average Utilitarianism Can Be Worse for All Affected, Even If No Contingently Existing Person Is Affected
According to ex post average utilitarianism, prospect x is at least as good as prospect y if and only if the expected average well-being is at least as great in x as in y. Relative to the ex ante appr...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Xinkan Zhao proposes a new way for metaethical contextualists to understand disagreement in "The Problem with Opaqueness" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Disagreeing with Opaqueness
Recently, Stina Björkholm proposed a novel solution to the problem of lost disagreement on behalf of metaethical contextualists. The solution builds on the notion of an opaque question, which admits o...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Anthony Nguyen develops an intermediary position between orthodox just war theory and revisionism in "A Contractualist Defense of Limited Moral Equality of Combatants" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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A Contractualist Defense of Limited Moral Equality of Combatants
I develop a novel contractualist defense of a limited moral equality of combatants thesis, on which just and unjust combatants enjoy equal moral status in some wars. This possibility reveals overlooke...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In "Audacious Integrity," Tamara Fakhoury asks what can be said in favor of resisting oppression through actions that are themselves morally fraught. Find her answer at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Audacious Integrity: On the Value of Imperfect Resistance
Sometimes oppressed people resist their oppression through actions that are themselves morally fraught, such as theft, deception, or violence. This article considers what might be said in favor of suc...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Is there such a thing as too much cognitive assistance for children? Nate Sharadin argues that there is at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Extreme Cognitive Assistance and Open Futures
We owe young people special moral consideration in virtue of their developmental immaturity: we must not foreclose their futures by impeding the development of capacities they need for autonomous agen...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Remember that you can now add your name to our mailing list if you'd like to have new issue alerts delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe at www.jesp.org! #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
JESP is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?" Find Eleanor Gordon-Smith's answer at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?
Journalists face decisions about which true stories to publish and how to frame the facts in the stories they select. How should they make these decisions? According to what I call the civic attitudes...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Tim Meijers and Manuel Sá Valente discuss the temporal scope of "having too much" in "No Time for Limitarianism?" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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No Time for Limitarianism? The Temporal Scope of Having Too Much
Limitarianism holds that it is bad or unjust if some people have too much. It has been the subject of much debate in the last few years. Yet one crucial question, so far not discussed, is the temporal...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There is a new JESP issue! Head over to www.jesp.org to find papers on having too much, the obligations of journalists, extreme cognitive assistance, imperfect resistance, the moral equality of combatants, metaethical contextualism, and ex post average utilitarianism. #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
JESP is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Susumu Cato identifies a previously overlooked connection between significant results in the literature on Millian superiorities in "Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil
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Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority
This discussion note establishes a previously overlooked connection between significant results in the literature on Millian superiorities. I demonstrate that weak independence is sufficient for weak ...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Vincent Chiao questions whether suppressing private violence and enforcing the law are powers that only the state may exercise in "Must States Do It Themselves?" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil
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Must States Do It Themselves? A Rights-Based Theory of Delegating State Coercion
Are there functions that a state must do for itself instead of relying on others to perform on its behalf? Some argue that suppressing private violence and enforcing the law are powers that only the s...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When journalists adhere to principles of objectivity, are they undermining the democratic goals of mainstream news journalism? Dhananjay Jagannathan and Clara Ence Morse argue that they are in "News Journalism and the Principles of Objectivity" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil
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News Journalism and the Principles of Objectivity
Mainstream news journalism faces a practical dilemma founded on a theoretical mistake about objectivity. In this article, we bring this mistake to light and propose a new model for its practice. Mains...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How can we care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguistic meaning? Magnus Ferguson proposes an answer in "Speechlessness and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil
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Speechlessness and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt
This article argues that in certain contexts, unreciprocated speech can be an important form of care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguis...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Leo Eisenbach explores the relation between epistemic and moral praiseworthiness in "Unifying Moral and Epistemic Praiseworthiness" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil
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Unifying Moral and Epistemic Praiseworthiness
On a popular philosophical view, moral and epistemic normativity are two species of the same genus: we can give unified accounts of normative properties pertaining to both domains. The case of praisew...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What is owed to individuals who find themselves in a stateless condition? Find Davide Pala's answer in "The Naturalization of the Vulnerable" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil
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The Naturalization of the Vulnerable: An International Responsibility with Demanding Implications
What is owed to individuals who find themselves in a stateless condition? This article addresses this question by providing a novel republican account of the human right to legal citizenship. I argue ...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Why does political authority seem to curb our libery in a way that the authority involved in property ownership does not? David Owens discusses in "Liberty, Equality, Authority" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil
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Liberty, Equality, Authority
Directive authorities (for example, political authorities with powers of command and coercion) pose a problem of legitimacy, but there are different ways of understanding the problem. On the one hand,...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
You can now add your name to our mailing list if you'd like to have new issue alerts delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe at www.jesp.org! #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
JESP is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy. There are no publication fees for authors, and public access to articles is free of charge.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our new website is up and running. Head over to www.jesp.org to take a look! All DOIs have been updated to redirect to the relevant page at the new site. If you have any bookmarks saved to individual papers, you'll have to update those, since the new site employs a different URL structure.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
We will be launching a new website for JESP on Wednesday morning (Abu Dhabi time). During the transition the site will be down for several hours. We will post here once the new site is up and running. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to find new papers on liberty, equality, and authority; the naturalization of the vulnerable; speechlessness in Arendt; objectivity and news journalism; delegating state coercion; and Millian superiorities.
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
JESP is in the news -- albeit for a paper we *didn't* publish! The government of South Africa has withdrawn its draft national AI policy after it turned out that several of the citations it contained -- including one to a nonexistent JESP paper -- were AI hallucinations.
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South Africa withdraws AI policy after it was found written by AI
At least six of the document’s 67 academic citations did not exist
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
JESP.org is back up and running!
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
A journal of ethics, social, legal, and political philosophy
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We're updating the DNS management for jesp.org, so the website will be down for a bit. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause!
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy @jespjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to read new articles about proxy responsibility, a progressive critique of rap music, grounding human rights, first-person authority over gender, politics and foreign donations, supererogation, and reparations.
Image of the cover of the most recent issue of JESP.
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