Robust Constitutivism: What Normativity Will Emerge from Facts about Agency?

Synthese - In the last fifteen years, philosophical interest in inner speech has increased drastically. Although philosophers working on the topic have often made claims about inner speech...

This paper explores the concept of friendship by examining the way this relationship is accommodated within two of the three major models within normative ethics: specifically, Kantian Deontology and Aristotelianism. I argue that the models of friendship compatible with Kantian Deontology fail to give an adequate account in virtue of failing to provide the necessary robustness required in genuine friendships. Aristotelian accounts come under pressure for their emphasis on similarity and virtue mirroring, which may not reflect the diversity found in real-world friendships. The paper proposes a novel account of friendship, termed the adverbial model , which values the unique way individuals relate to their world. This model addresses the robustness requirement I propose as a necessary desideratum, and accommodates friendships between individuals with differing interests and values.

Call for Registration Workshop on Friendship, and Friendship with the Morally Bad 5th–6th March 2025 | Online (Microsoft Teams) The Salzburg Ethics Group would like to invite registrations for a...

We invite submissions for a two-day workshop on friendship to be held online, hosted by The University of Salzburg, Austria on the 5th and 6th of March, 2026. In recent years, philosophers have incre...

He was a master of misery who sometimes argued it was better never to have been born. But his love of the flute suggests the philosopher wasn’t all gloom

Normative blackballing in the context of a friendship refers to a practise where one party actively tells the other that they no longer wish to be friends in virtue of that friend holding abhorrent be...

The second International Congress on Political Theory will take place at the University of Passau from 5th to 7th October 2026. In multiple panels and two keynote speeches we will approach the topic of Backsliding, Resilience, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation.

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Philosophical Studies - Although empathy is a common and integral part of social life, it has proven exceedingly difficult to analyze. One question that remains unanswered concerns the object of an...

We invite submissions for a two-day workshop on friendship to be held online, hosted by The University of Salzburg, Austria on the 5th and 6th of March, 2026. In recent years, philosophers have incre...

Join us on November 7th for a special off-season event co-organised with Knowledge in Crisis!

This is a call for abstracts to present at The Philosophy of Breakups, organized by the Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project at the University of Southern California.  Please submit a PDF f...

Online workshop on Lisa Herzog's 'The Democratic Marketplace. How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals' (Harvard University Press, 2025). With a presentation by Lisa Herzog (Groningen), ...