Academic papers, by topic

Associations and the value of our encounters:  

• With Rob Simpson. Hecklers, free speech, and freedom of association. Mind (2024) 

• Freedom, spontaneity, and our encounters, Political Philosophy, 1(2) (2024).

• Together again: The value of encounters, offline, Journal of Practical Ethics (2025).

• Against visitor bans: Freedom of association, COVID-19, and the hospital ward. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49 (2023): 288-291.

Taking Offence (the emotion, ethics of comedy):

• Taking offense: An emotion reconsidered. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 49 (2) (2021), 179-208.

•  The Ethics of Offensive Comedy: Punching Down and the Duties of Comedians. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 96 (2024), 81-100.

• With Farrow A, & Kirchin S. Discussion of Emily McTernan’s ‘The ethics of offensive comedy’. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 96, (2024): 101-115.

• In defence of taking offence: A reply to my critics. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2024).
  
  

Social norms, social practices, and equality: 

& microaggressions:

• • Microaggressions, equality, and social practices. Journal of Political Philosophy, 26 (3) (2018): 261-281.

  •  In the eyes of the beholders: Microaggressions, lived experience, and the collective. Analysis, 83 (2) (2023), 329–34. 

& theories of equality: 

• How to be a responsibility-sensitive egalitarian: From metaphysics to social practice. Political Studies, 64 (3) (2016): 748-764.

•   The inegalitarian ethos: Incentives, respect, and self-respect. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 12 (1) (2013): 93-111

& social psychology:

• •  How to make citizens behave: Social psychology, liberal virtues, and social norms. Journal of Political Philosophy, 22 (1) (2014): 84-104. 

  •  Civic education, moral character, and liberal states. In Doris, J. & M. Vargas (eds), The Handbook of Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2022).
    
    

Infertility and parenthood:

• • With Katy Wells. Against parental devotion: On power, friendships, and flourishing, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2025)

  • Uterus transplants and the insufficient value of gestation. Bioethics, 32 (2018): 481– 488.

  •  Should fertility treatment be state funded? Journal of Applied Philosophy, 32 (2015): 227- 240.

On philosophically puzzling debates:

• • With Christian Barry A puzzle of enforceability: Why do moral duties differ in their enforceability?. Journal of Moral Philosophy 19 (2021): 229-253.

  • Justice, feasibility, and social science as it is. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22 (2019): 27–40.

  •  Those who forget the past: An ethical challenge from the history of treating deviance. In Treatment for Crime: Philosophical Essays on Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice, eds. David Birks & Tom Douglas. (Oxford University Press, 2018).