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Justice-everywhere.org is a cooperative blog in cooperation with the Journal of Applied Philosophy. We bring philosophical & ethical analysis to bear on public affairs.

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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Language doesn’t just describe the world, it can help sustain injustice. In our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Emilia Wilson explores how everyday language can preserve oppressive social structures and what we can do about it. justice-everywhere.org/general/how-...
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How Language Preserves Oppression
In this post, Emilia Wilson (Cardiff University) discusses her article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy Ameliorating Linguistic Anchors of Oppression on how specific words an…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We often say hate goes viral, but what if this is misleading? Mihaela Popa-Wyatt argues that online hate spreads through networks of reinforcement, raising difficult questions about algorithms, platform design, and accountability. @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/moral-values...
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Is Online Hate Contagious? Why the Virus Metaphor Isn’t Quite Right
In this post, Mihaela Popa-Wyatt discusses her article “Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter?”, published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. She arg…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Muriel Leuenberger explores how AI companions affect our self-perception justice-everywhere.org/general/how-...
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How AI Companions Influence Who You Take Yourself to Be
In this post, Muriel Leuenberger (University of Zurich) discusses her article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the impact of artificial intelligence on our perceptions of …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In this week's post, Justin Clardy asks what emotional affairs are and when, if ever, they are wrongful. @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/did-...
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Did I Cheat? Rethinking Emotional Affairs
In this post, Justin Clardy discusses their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on what emotional affairs are and when, if ever, they are wrongful. PeopleImages / Shutte…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What can giving up teach us about ourselves? In our latest collab with @the-joap.bsky.social, Mario Juarez-Garcia explores the value of giving up. Read more: justice-everywhere.org/general/give...
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Give Up, You Might Learn Something about Yourself
In this post, Mario I. Juarez-Garcia (Tulane University) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the unexplored value of giving up. “Don’t give …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As many countries are now considering banning social media access for children, Mihaela Popa-Wyatt and Ajinkya Deshmukh argue that taxing the companies that build these products based on how their algorithms amplify harmful content may be a better way forward. justice-everywhere.org/general/poll...
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‘Polluter Pays’: A Tax on Big Tech to Reduce Online Harms
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt and Ajinkya Deshmukh from The University of Manchester. Image credit That platforms like X, Instagram, and Facebook operated by Big Tech companies cause harms to their users is n…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Does intention really make the moral difference in euthanasia? This post in collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Harrison Lee @haristotelian.bsky.social provides a compelling critique of intention-based arguments. justice-everywhere.org/general/agai...
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Against the intention-based objection to euthanasia
In this post, Harrison Lee (University of Mississippi) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the intention-based objection to euthanasia. Many opponents o…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, David Paaske and Angela Martin discuss the issues with the political inclusion of animals in the demos. justice-everywhere.org/general/when...
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When Animals Enter the Demos: Two Problems for Political Inclusion
In this post, David Paaske and Angela Martin discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on two problems of democratic inclusion of animals. For a long time, debat…
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Matt Perry @mattwperry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A couple thoughts on some of my latest work concerning our attitudes to animal minds. The post tries to convey why this is an issue that goes beyond a concern with sentience-based interests. Opinions welcome. And more definitely coming on this topic in future!
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Why Our Attitudes to Animal Minds Matter for Justice
In human relationships, we often operate with the ‘benefit of the doubt’. When a friend cancels a plan or a family member behaves differently to normal, we might assume there is something going on …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Ajinkya Deshmukh @ajinkya-d.bsky.social encourages to reflect on how caste categories strengthen our conversations about discrimination of other social identities. justice-everywhere.org/general/we-s...
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We Should Talk About Caste (alongside Gender and Race)
In this post, Ajinkya Deshmukh from The University of Manchester discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on why thinking about caste can help us better underst…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
When candidates for a job are neck‑to‑neck, should affirmative action be the tiebreaker? Our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social by Shalom Chalson and James Willoughby presents a sharp, thought‑provoking take on affirmative action. justice-everywhere.org/general/on-u...
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On Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker
In this post, Shalom Chalson (National University of Singapore) and James Bernard Willoughby (Australian National University) discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Phil…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
When people don’t feel wronged, does that mean no wrongdoing occurred? In our most recent collab with @the-joap.bsky.social, Sushruth Ravish and Ritu Sharma challenge common assumptions about harm, recognition, and moral agency. justice-everywhere.org/general/the-...
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The Injustice of Not Feeling Wronged
In this post, Sushruth Ravish (IIT Kanpur) and Ritu Sharma (University of British Columbia) discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on experiential injustice i…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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...
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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…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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...
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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…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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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…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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...
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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…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Elizabeth Hupfer (High Point University) discusses her article recently published in the @the-joap.bsky.social on how to balance concern for the future of humanity with the needs of those alive today. Fantastic read! justice-everywhere.org/general/bedn...
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Bednets versus Rocket Ships: Should we care more for people alive today or the future of humanity?
In this post, Elizabeth Hupfer (High Point University) discusses her article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on how to balance concern for the future of humanity with the ne…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In this post, Christie Hartley and Ashley Lindsey-Kim discuss the conceptual difference between pregnancy and caregiving from their recent article in @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/preg...
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Pregnancy is not caregiving
In this post, Christie Hartley (Georgia State University) and Ashley Lindsley-Kim (University of British Columbia) discuss their recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy  in …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Should universities restrict Generative AI use? Karl de Fine Licht, discusses his recently published article with @the-joap.bsky.social in this post.
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Should Universities Restrict Generative AI?
In this post, Karl de Fine Licht (Chalmers University of Technology) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the moral concerns of banning Generative AI in …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
How much incarceration is too much? Vincent Chiao (Toronto) discusses the insights from his recently published article in @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/how-...
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How much is too much? Why defining ‘mass incarceration’ is important – and isn’t as easy as it seems
In this post, Vincent Chiao, discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on how to understand the “mass” part of “mass incarceration.” By Our World In Data. See En…
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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Enjoying this post on Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social by Pierre-Etienne Vandamme. How should we balance fairness & charity in the way we present theories with (sometimes v necessary) ideology critique? Some good ideas in the comments, too! justice-everywhere.org/education/id...
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Ideology-critique in the classroom
Over the last few weeks, I have been marking exams for the economic ethics course I taught this year. The experience has not been particularly joyful. Admittedly, marking rarely is, but it gets wor…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
As part of our ongoing collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social Viviana Ponce de León Solís discusses her article in the J. of Applied Philosophy ow nudging interventions can have uneven effects on low-income individuals, potentially worsening inequalities. justice-everywhere.org/general/are-...
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ARE NUDGES FAILING VULNERABLE POPULATIONS?
In this post, Viviana Ponce de León Solís discusses her article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on  how nudging interventions can have uneven effects on low-income individua…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
As part of our ongoing collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, and in honour of the International Workers Day, Matthew Hammerton discusses his article in the J. of Applied Philosophy on the value of making work the primary source of meaning in one's life. justice-everywhere.org/general/what...
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What’s so bad about workism?
In this post, Matthew Hammerton (Singapore Management University) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the phenomenon and value of people making work the…
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Real pleasure to be interviewed by @drsvg.bsky.social for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social How to start a podcast, how academics can build a public profile, & how Mill relates to the manosphere justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...
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Beyond the Ivory Tower Interview with Toby Buckle
This is the latest interview in our Beyond the Ivory Tower series, a conversation between Sara van Goozen and Toby Buckle. Toby Buckle runs the popular Political Philosophy Podcast. He has a BA in …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Is humanely farmed meat an ethical alternative to factory farming? asks Coleman Solis. In partnership with @the-joap.bsky.social
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How Much Does Slaughter Harm Humanely Raised Animals?
In this post, Coleman Solis discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the harmfulness of death in humane farming. The way that we think about death can have a profound impa…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We have videos as well! Watch a debate between philosophers Thomas Burri, Shawn Bayern, and Andrew Walton about whether robots should be granted personhood.
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Should we grant legal personhood to robots?
With significant recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, it is increasingly pressing that we consider the legal and ethical standing of autonomous machines. Here I post some consid…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
From our archive: Angie Pepper argues that animals have a right to privacy that makes it morally impermissible to covertly surveil them, as many animals do have an interest in having genuine control over their environment and their relationships with others.
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Why it’s Wrong to Spy on Animals
Humans like watching nonhuman animals. We watch them in parks, in zoos, on farms, in sanctuaries, in pet shops, in our gardens, on the streets, in our homes, on tv, and so on. Lately, we have devel…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
From our 2016 archives - bullshit is still bullshit and the internet is still the internet, so as relevant as ever
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How to recognise bullshit on the Internet
Following Trump’s shocking election win last Tuesday, this picture was shared by thousands of people across both the world and my Facebook feed: I, like I suspect most people I know, wanted to beli…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"A propagandist prefers that you perceive the propagandist as totally reliable while perceiving all other sources of information as totally unreliable. If this cannot be achieved, the propagandist would prefer that you view all sources as completely unreliable."
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Propagandists, Degrees of Reliability, and Epistemic Nihilism
Reliability is a quality that comes in degrees. For example, a bus that always arrives exactly on time is highly reliable. A bus that often but not always arrives on time is somewhat reliable. A bu…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
From our archive: why should we retain the concept of race? "by denying the category of race, it is much more difficult – both legally and socially – to fight current manifestations of racism"
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The (in)justice of critical philosophy of race?
In a recent presentation about a relatively new academic field called the critical philosophy of race, I was (repeatedly) questioned about the reasons for retaining the concept of race after it has…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Centre for the Pedagogy of Politics (CPP) at UCL and the Teaching Political Theory Network (TPTN) at the University of York are co-organising a one-day workshop on ethical and epistemological issues in the teaching of politics. Abstracts due 9 April.
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Call for Papers: “Ethical and Epistemological Issues in the Teaching of Politics”
Justice Everywhere is pleased to share the following call for papers: The Centre for the Pedagogy of Politics (CPP) at UCL and the Teaching Political Theory Network (TPTN) at the University of York…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In this post from our archive: Julia Hermann writes about technological justice
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Technological Justice
At least in the developed world, technology pervades all aspects of human life, and its influence is growing constantly. Major technological challenges include automation, digitalisation, 3 D print…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New post by ! What are some of the problems with territorial language policies? Seunghyun Song argues the problem consists of linguistic minorities being pushed away even further.
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Limits of language promotion
This post is written by Dr. Seunghyun Song (Assistant professor, Tilburg University). Based on her research on linguistic justice, she provides a tentative answer to the issue of the limits of the …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In this post, Bart Engelen and Viktor Ivanković discuss their recently published article in @the-joap.bsky.social where they explore what it means to have ‘true preferences’ and how this affects our understanding of autonomy and nudging.
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What I Really, Really Want: Why True Preferences Matter for Nudging
In this post, Bart Engelen (Tilburg University) and Viktor Ivanković (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb) discuss their recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, where they expl…
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Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is a great post so you should read it, but also: look at Tim's face - do you really want to disappoint him by not reading it?
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
In this post, Tim Fowler (University of Bristol) discusses his recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy in which he explores whether children can be deemed as competent to engage in political activism. @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/inno...
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Innocence and Agency: The ethics of child protests
In this post, Tim Fowler (University of Bristol) discusses his recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy in which he explores whether children can be deemed as competent to en…
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Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog post on recent JOAP article by Bart Engelen and Viktor Ivankovićhttps ://justice-everywhere.org/general/what-i-really-really-want-why-true-preferences-matter-for-nudging/ #philsky #philosophy
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What I Really, Really Want: Why True Preferences Matter for Nudging
In this post, Bart Engelen (Tilburg University) and Viktor Ivanković (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb) discuss their recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy, where they expl…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Distracting the media or political opponents is commonplace in democratic politics. However, I think there is a crucial difference between ordinary distractions and flooding the zone."
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‘Flooding the zone’ and the politics of attention
Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photography by Gage Skidmore. This is a guest post by Zsolt Kapel…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What is "flooding the zone" with too much information and why is it bad for democratic politics? Making sense of the news from the US with the help of political philosophy. justice-everywhere.org/general/floo...
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‘Flooding the zone’ and the politics of attention
Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photography by Gage Skidmore. This is a guest post by Zsolt Kapel…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Sadly, our series on the war in Ukraine continues to be relevant. In this post, Jeff McMahan explains what just war theory says about the war.
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Just War Theory and The Russia-Ukraine War
Ceremony on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Photo: President of Ukraine, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain This is a guest post by Professor Jeff…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What's the difference between withdrawing and withholding medical treatment? Are they morally equivalent? In partnership with @the-joap.bsky.social where Andrew McGee and Drew Carter first published the paper this blog is based on.
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Withdrawing and withholding treatment are not always morally equivalent
In this post, Andrew McGee (Queensland University of Technology) and Drew Carter (University of Adelaide) discuss their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on the moral difference betwe…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Once again, we ponder how academics can respond to the rise of generative AI when it comes to teaching and assessment. Sanat Sogani on Writing Assignments in the Age of AI
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Writing Assignments in the age of Gen AI
If Gen AI can consistently produce A grade articles across disciplines (for now, it seems they can’t, but they likely might), do we still need students to learn the art of writing well-researched l…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
With international aid being cut and under threat, it's worth asking: Is aid effective? From the archive by Jesper L Pedersen #philsky
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Is Aid Effective?
Picture a hospital, bringing in thousands of people every day who suffer from a host of different ailments, many of them contagious. If you go there for one reason, there is a risk you will end up …
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Interview with Philippe van Parijs, Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics at the University of Louvain, founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, whose article, ‘Picnic the Streets’, triggered a civil disobedience resulting in making Brussels' central lanes car free
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An interview with Philippe van Parijs (Beyond the Ivory Tower Series)
This is the latest interview in our Beyond the Ivory Tower series (you can read previous interviews here). For this edition, Diana Popescu spoke to Philippe Van Parijs, Hoover Chair of economic and…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NEW POST What’s the point of teaching moral and political philosophy? asks Michael Bennett He argues that we can help students culticate epistemic virtues such as cognitivism (we can reason about morals & politics), skepticism (we need goo arguments), open-mindedness & civility
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Teaching students to be good
What’s the point of teaching moral and political philosophy? Ancient philosophers around the world would have thought the answer to this question was blindingly obvious: the point is to make studen…
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Right now, this. How to kill democracy - exhaust and distract. This is happening super charged in the US. #philsky #polsci
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In this post, Suzy Killmister discusses her article in @the-joap.bsky.social giving an answer to the question, what, if anything, can members of oppressed groups do to counter that oppression?
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Countering Social Oppression
In this post, Suzy Killmister (Monash) discusses her recently published article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy giving an answer to the question, what, if anything, can members of oppressed gr…
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
How to kill a democracy in 10 easy steps. Unfortunately a very relevant post by Lisa Herzog. "Always remember: exhausted citizens are submissive citizens. Or no citizens at all – at some point of sleep deprivation, they turn into subjects. That’s when you know you’ve won. "
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How to kill a democracy in 10 easy steps (spoiler alert: exhaust your citizens)
This month we will be publishing a series of posts on the topic of fatigue. Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, constant fatigue characterises the lives of too many of us. Here w…
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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I was surprised to find out at our last editorial meeting that this post by me is reasonable popular. I write about how persistent fatigue not only saps individual quality of life, but also helps to maintain existing patterns of marginalisation and exclusion.
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Justice Everywhere @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In our series on fatigue from the archive. Quite relevant given current events, Elisa Piras asks: if information overload and burnout are the new normal.
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Brain stew for dinner: information overload and daily burnout as the new normal?
This month we will be publishing a series of posts on the topic of fatigue. Two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, constant fatigue characterises the lives of too many of us. Here w…
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