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11The Community of Advantage: A Behavioral Economist’s Defence of the Market, Robert Sugden. Oxford University Press, 2018, xxii + 320 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 35 (3): 581-586. 2019.
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11Pushed for Being Better: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral NudgingJournal of Value Inquiry 1-27. forthcoming.
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8Book Review of Alex Voorhoeve. Conversations on Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 259 pp (review)Ethical Perspectives 17 (4): 680-683. 2010.status: published.
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8Book Review of Richard Fumerton and Diane Jeske (ed.) 2009. Introducing Philosophy Through Film. Key Texts, Discussion, and Film Selections. Malden (MA): Wiley-Blackwell (review)Ethical Perspectives 16 (4): 514-517. 2009.status: published.
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7The Entire History of You and Knowing Too MuchIn David Kyle Johnson (ed.), Black Mirror and Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.This chapter goes into crucial questions related to the impact of technology on our privacy, our personal identity and our social relationships. While technology often seems extremely convenient in helping us remember things and share our experiences with others, this episode shows that it can have highly undesirable side‐effects as well. Technologies like the grain put inevitable pressures not only on privacy and trust but also on our ability to create and tell our life stories. In this chapter…Read more
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7The Sources of Cooperation: On Strong Reciprocity and its Theoretical ImplicationsTheory and Psychology 18 (4): 527-544. 2008.This article focuses on the explanations of human cooperation that dominate the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics and other social sciences. It argues that these accounts all frame cooperation in egoistic terms and thus cannot solve the evolutionary puzzle of strong reciprocity, defined as a propensity to cooperate with others similarly disposed and to punish others who violate norms, even at a personal cost and without any prospect of present or future rewards. This article shows that…Read more
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6Book Review of 'Beyond Conventional Economics', edited by Giuseppe Eusepi and Alan HamlinReview of Social Economy 66 (3): 408-412. 2008.status: published.
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5Why Liberals Can Favour Compulsory AttendancePOLITICS 3 (29): 218-222. 2009.It has been argued that compulsory voting conflicts with a number of liberal commitments, such as free thought, free speech and privacy. This article aims to show that compulsory voting, which is actually a misnomer for compulsory attendance, can in fact be defended on a liberal basis. If understood correctly, compulsory attendance laws and liberalism fit quite easily together.
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1Introducing Philosophy through Film, Key Texts, Discussion, and Film Selections (review)Ethical Perspectives 16 (4): 514-517. 2009.
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1Beyond markets and states: the importance of communitiesInternational Social Science Journal 2011 (202): 489-500. 2011.status: published.
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Magnolia As Philosophy: Meaning and CoincidenceIn David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1193-1215. 2022.In Magnolia, a 1999 movie written and directed by then 29-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, we follow a range of characters who all try to come to terms with the things happening to them in both the present and past. This chapter interprets the movie as making a philosophical point about meaning: how and why do people find meaning in and attribute meaning to things, even if they seem to happen for no apparent reason at all? We will analyze how both the movie’s characters and all of us watching the …Read more
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The Ethics of Sex Selection for Non-Medical Reasons: A Defence of Common SenseEthical Perspectives 11 (1): 76-89. 2004.In the previous issue of Ethical Perspectives David Heyd defends the permissibility of sex selection for non-medical reasons. He tries to show that there is nothing inherently wrong with this practice and that allowing it does not lead to undesirable consequences. There are several difficulties with his analysis, but the main objection is that it ultimately relies on a crude form of utilitarianism. Along with some critical comments on his article, we provide ethical arguments in support of the i…Read more