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23Down with this sort of thing: why no public statue should stand foreverCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. forthcoming.No statue raised in a public place should stand there indefinitely. Any such monument should have a set date when it is due to be replaced. I make three arguments to support this principle of non-permanence for public commemorative art. First, the opportunity cost of permanent statues is too high. States have a duty, grounded in their need for legitimacy, to support and cultivate democratic values. Public art is a powerful tool that is being drastically underemployed because existing statues are…Read more
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21Stability and disruptive speechJournal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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Hypothetical consent and the bindingness of obligationsIn Edwin E. Etieyibo (ed.), Perspectives in social contract theory, The Council For Research in Values and Philosophy. 2018.
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19The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2023.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics is an outstanding survey and assessment of this vitally important field. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, media and communication studies, politics and law, as well as practicing media professionals and journalists.
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38What’s Special about the Insult of Paternalism?Law and Philosophy 38 (3): 313-334. 2019.A common assumption is that paternalism generates a special, and especially grievous, insult. Identifying this distinctive insult is then presented as the key to unlocking the concept and determining its moral significance. I submit that there is no special insult. It is, rather, a particular form that a lack of recognition respect can take. Attempting to capture the special insult has led us into confusion. In particular, it has led theorists to abandon the idea that paternalists must act for t…Read more
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232Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy (edited book)Routledge. 2019.How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of political equality is intimately connected to the standards and behaviour of our media in general, and our news media in particular. However, the media does not just stand between the citizenry and their leaders, or indeed between citizens and each other. The media is often the site where individuals attempt to realise some of the most fundamental democratic…Read more
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17The Limits of Democratic PersuasionPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 6 (1). 2016.Download.
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25Political Authority, Practical Identity, and Binding CitizensInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (2): 168-186. 2015.Allen Buchanan argues that it doesn’t matter whether a state has authority in the sense of being able to create binding obligations for its citizens, so long as it is morally justified in wielding political power. In this paper, I look at this issue from a slightly different angle. I argue that it matters a great deal whether citizens relate to their state in an obligatory fashion. This is for two reasons. First, a fully morally justified state must be an efficacious state; it must be able to re…Read more
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19Book Review: Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, written by M. O’Neill and T. Williamson (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (4): 543-546. 2014.
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159Public Reason, Objectivity, and Journalism in Liberal Democratic SocietiesRes Publica 19 (3): 257-273. 2013.How should we understand the familiar demand that journalists ‘be objective’? One possibility is that journalists are under an obligation to report only the facts of the matter. However, facts need to be interpreted, selected, and communicated. How can this be done objectively? This paper aims to explain the concept of journalistic objectivity in methodological terms. Specifically, I will argue that the ideal of journalistic objectivity should be recast as a commitment to John Rawls’s conception…Read more
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University of LeedsSchool of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science
Inter-disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) CentreLecturer
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |