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What Do Incels Want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian OthernessHypatia 38 (1): 134-156. 2023.In recent years, online “involuntary celibate” or “incel” communities have been linked to various deadly attacks targeting women. Why do these men react to romantic rejection with not just disappointment, but murderous rage? Feminists have claimed this is because incels desire women as objects or, alternatively, because they feel entitled to women’s attention. I argue that both of these explanatory models are insufficient. They fail to account for incels’ distinctive ambivalence toward women—for…Read more
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The Welfare-Nihilist Arguments against Judgment SubjectivismJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 19 (3): 291-310. 2021.Judgment subjectivism is the view that x is good for S if and only if, because, and to the extent that S believes, under the proper conditions, that x is good for S. In this paper, I offer three related arguments against the theory. The arguments are about what judgment subjectivism implies about the well-being of welfare nihilists, people who believe there are no welfare properties, or at least that none are instantiated. I maintain that welfare nihilists can be benefited and harmed. Judgment s…Read more
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Morality and Epistemic Judgement: The Argument From AnalogyOxford University Press. 2019.
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No Theory-Free Lunches in Well-Being PolicyPhilosophical Quarterly 70 (278): 43-64. 2020.Generating an account that can sidestep the disagreement among substantive theories of well-being, while at the same time still providing useful guidance for well-being public policy, would be a significant achievement. Unfortunately, the various attempts to remain agnostic regarding what constitutes well-being fail to either be an account of well-being, provide useful guidance for well-being policy, or avoid relying on a substantive well-being theory. There are no theory-free lunches in well-be…Read more
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Normative Ethics |
Value Theory |
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Objective Accounts of Well-Being |