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327The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil DisobedienceJournal of Political Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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58Structural Domination and Freedom in the Labor Market: From Voluntariness to IndependenceAmerican Political Science Review. forthcoming.The claim that workers are subject to structural domination in the labor market is a central contention of the recent radical turn in republican political theory, but it remains undertheorized. Two core components—the claim that workers have “no reasonable alternative” to selling their labor to capitalists and the relevance of exposure to potential interference in such cases—remain unclear. Without a more precise specification of the conditions of structural domination, it is difficult to assess…Read more
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76Should Republicans be Interested in Exploitation?Res Publica 28 (3): 513-530. 2022.Recent work in republican political theory has identified various forms of domination in the structures and relations of capitalist societies. A notable absence in much of this work is the concept of exploitation, which is generally treated as a predictable outcome of certain kinds of domination. This paper argues that the concept of exploitation can instead be conceived as a form of structural domination, understood in republican terms, and that adopting this conception has important implicatio…Read more
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24The material conditions of non-domination: Property, independence, and the means of productionEuropean Journal of Political Theory 22 (3): 425-444. 2023.While it is a point of agreement in contemporary republican political theory that property ownership is closely connected to freedom as non-domination, surprisingly little work has been done to elucidate the nature of this connection or the constraints on property regimes that might be required as a result. In this paper, I provide a systematic model of the boundaries within which republican property systems must sit and explore some of the wider implications that thinking of property in these t…Read more
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561The material conditions of non-domination: Property, independence, and the means of productionEuropean Journal of Political Theory 22 (3): 425-444. 2023.While it is a point of agreement in contemporary republican political theory that property ownership is closely connected to freedom as non-domination, surprisingly little work has been done to elucidate the nature of this connection or the constraints on property regimes that might be required as a result. In this paper, I provide a systematic model of the boundaries within which republican property systems must sit and explore some of the wider implications that thinking of property in these t…Read more
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593Freedom as Non-domination, Robustness, and Distant ThreatsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (4): 889-900. 2021.It is a core feature of the conception of freedom as non-domination that freedom requires the absence of exposure to arbitrary power across a range of relevant possible worlds. While this modal robustness is critical to the analysis of paradigm cases of unfreedom such as slavery, critics such as Gerald Gaus have argued that it leads to absurd conclusions, with barely-felt constraints appearing as sources of unfreedom. I aim to clarify the demands of the modal robustness requirement, and offer a …Read more
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493Political parties and republican democracyContemporary Political Theory 21 (2): 262-282. 2022.Political parties have been the subject of a recent resurgent interest among political philosophers, with prominent contributions spanning liberal to socialist literatures arguing for a more positive appraisal of the role of parties in the operation of democratic representation and public deliberation. In this article, I argue for a similar re-evaluation of the role of political parties within contemporary republicanism. Contemporary republicanism displays a wariness of political parties. In Phi…Read more
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28Patti Tamara Lenard: How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism?: Polity Press, 2020, 140 pp, ISBN 9781509540754 (review)Res Publica 27 (4): 681-685. 2021.
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561The dominating effects of economic crisesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (6): 884-908. 2021.This article argues that economic crises are incompatible with the realisation of non-domination in capitalist societies. The ineradicable risk that an economic crisis will occur undermines the robust security of the conditions of non-domination for all citizens, not only those who are harmed by a crisis. I begin by demonstrating that the unemployment caused by economic crises violates the egalitarian dimensions of freedom as non-domination. The lack of employment constitutes an exclusion from t…Read more
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Cambridge UniversityFaculty of Philosophy, Magdalene CollegeIsaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow In Philosophy
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Political Theory |
Normative Ethics |
Applied Ethics |