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    Sorting and the ecology of freedom of association
    Journal of Political Philosophy 31 (4): 411-432. 2023.
    Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    Social structural explanation
    Philosophy Compass 16 (10). 2021.
    Social problems such as racism, sexism, and inequality are often cited as structural rather than individual in nature. What does it mean to invoke a social structural explanation, and how do such explanations relate to individualistic ones? This article explores recent philosophical debates concerning the nature and usages of social structural explanation. I distinguish between two central kinds of social structural explanation: those that are autonomous from psychology, and those that are not. …Read more
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    An intrapersonal, intertemporal solution to an interpersonal dilemma
    Philosophical Studies 178 (10): 3353-3370. 2021.
    It is commonly accepted that what we ought to do collectively does not imply anything about what each of us ought to do individually. According to this line of reasoning, if cooperating will make no difference to an outcome, then you are not morally required to do it. And if cooperating will be personally costly to you as well, this is an even stronger reason to not do it. However, this reasoning results in a self-defeating, yet entirely predictable outcome. If everyone is rational, no one will …Read more
  •  291
    Implicit bias and social schema: a transactive memory approach
    Philosophical Studies 177 (7): 1857-1877. 2020.
    To what extent should we focus on implicit bias in order to eradicate persistent social injustice? Structural prioritizers argue that we should focus less on individual minds than on unjust social structures, while equal prioritizers think that both are equally important. This article introduces the framework of transactive memory into the debate to defend the equal priority view. The transactive memory framework helps us see how structure can emerge from individual interactions as an irreducibl…Read more
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    Review of "Against Democracy" (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 19 (1): 155-162. 2018.