Related Research

A selection of our scholarly work on topics related to Somebody Should Do Something

Our full CVs are available here: Brownstein, Madva, Kelly

Climate Change

Brownstein, M., Kelly, D. and Madva, A. (2022). 'Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change,' Environmental Communication. 16(2): 269-288. 

Brownstein, M. and Levy, N. 2021. Philosophy’s Other Climate Problem. Journal of Social Philosophy, 52, 536-554. 

Raymond, L., Kelly, D. and Hennes, E. (2021). 'Norm-based Governance for a New Era: Lessons from Climate Change and COVID-19,' Perspectives on Politics. 

Emotions

Davis, T. and Kelly, D. (2021). 'A Framework for the Emotional Psychology of Group Membership,' Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 

Kelly, D. (2013). ‘Moral Disgust and The Tribal Instincts Hypothesis,' Cooperation and Its Evolution, Eds. K. Sterelny, R. Joyce, Calcott, B, & B. Fraser. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pages 503 - 524.

Kelly, D. (2011). Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Kelly, D., and Morar, N. (2014). ‘Against the Yuck Factor: On the Ideal Role of Disgust in Society', Utilitas, 26(2): 153 - 177.

Madva, Alex. 2019. “The Inevitability of Aiming for Virtue.” Pp. 85–100 in Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, edited by B. R. Sherman and G. Stacey. Rowman & Littlefield International.

Madva, Alex. 2016. “Virtue, Social Knowledge, and Implicit Bias.” In Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Epistemology: Volume 1, edited by Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul, 191–215. Oxford: Oxford University Press.       

Implicit Social Cognition

Banaji, M., Bhaskar, R., and Brownstein, M. 2015. When bias is implicit, what should be the model for repairing harm? Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 183-188.

Beeghly, Erin, and Alex Madva, eds. 2020. An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind. Routledge.

Beeghly, Erin, and Alex Madva. 2020. “Introducing Implicit Bias: Why This Book Matters.” In An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, edited by Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva, 1–19. Routledge.

Brownstein, M. 2015. Attributionism and Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias. The Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(4), 765-786.

Brownstein, M. 2015/2019. Implicit Bias. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (First published Thu Feb 26, 2015; substantive revision Wed Jul 31, 2019). Zalta, E. (Ed.).

Brownstein, M. 2016.  Context and the Ethics of Implicit Bias.  In Brownstein, M. and Saul, J. (Eds.) Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Volume 2, Moral Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Ethics.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Brownstein, M. 2017. Implicit Attitudes, Social Learning, and Moral Credibility. In Kiverstein, J. (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook on Philosophy of the Social Mind. New York: Routledge.

Brownstein, M. 2018. Implicit Bias and Race. In Taylor, P., Anderson, L., and Alcoff, L. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race. New York: Routledge.

Brownstein, M. 2018. The Implicit Mind: Cognitive Architecture, the Self, and Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Brownstein, M. 2020. Skepticism about Implicit Bias. In Madva, A. and Beeghly, E. (Eds.) An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind. New York: Routledge.

Brownstein, Michael, Alex Madva, and Bertram Gawronski. 2019. “What Do Implicit Measures Measure?” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, April, 1–13.

Brownstein, Michael, Alex Madva, and Bertram Gawronski. 2020. “Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101 (2): 276–307.

Brownstein, M. and Saul, J. (Eds). 2016. Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Volume 1, Metaphysics and Epistemology. Oxford University Press.

Brownstein, M. and Saul, J. (Eds). 2016. Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Volume 2, Moral Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Ethics. Oxford University Press.

Del Pinal, Guillermo, Alex Madva, and Kevin Reuter. 2017. “Stereotypes, Conceptual Centrality and Gender Bias: An Empirical Investigation.” Ratio 30 (4): 384–410.

Gawronski, Bertram, Michael Brownstein, and Alex Madva. 2022. “How Should We Think about Implicit Measures and Their Empirical ‘Anomalies’?” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science, February, e1590.

Holroyd, J. and Kelly, D. (2016). ‘Implicit Bias, Character, and Control', From Personality to Virtue: Essays in the Philosophy of Character. Eds. A Masala and J. Webber. Oxford University Press, pages 106 - 133. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746812.003.0006

Kelly, D. and Roedder, E. (2008). ‘Racial Cognition and The Ethics of Implicit Bias,’Philosophy Compass, 3/3, April 2008, pages 522 - 540. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00138.x

Madva, Alex. 2016. “Implicit Bias and Latina/os in Philosophy.” Edited by Amy Reed-Sandoval and Caroline T. Arruda. APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 16 (1): 8–15.

Madva, Alex. 2016. “Why Implicit Attitudes Are (Probably) Not Beliefs.” Synthese 193 (8): 2659–84.

Madva, Alex. 2018. “Implicit Bias, Moods, and Moral Responsibility.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (S1): 53–78.

Madva, Alex. 2019. “Social Psychology, Phenomenology, and the Indeterminate Content of Unreflective Racial Bias.” Pp. 87–106 in Race as Phenomena: Between Phenomenology and Philosophy of Race, edited by E. S. Lee. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Madva, Alex. 2020. “Implicit Bias.” In Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, edited by Hugh LaFollette, Fifth edition, 413–21. Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.

Madva, Alex, and Michael Brownstein. 2018. “Stereotypes, Prejudice, and the Taxonomy of the Implicit Social Mind.” Noûs 52 (3): 611–44.

Washington, N. and Kelly, D. (2016). ‘Who's Responsible for This? Moral Responsibility, Externalism, and Knowledge about Implicit Bias,' Implicit Bias and Philosophy, Volume 2. Eds. M. Brownstein and J. Saul. Oxford University Press, pages 11 - 36.  DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766179.003.0002

Intersectionality

Gasdaglis, Katherine, and Alex Madva. 2020. “Intersectionality as a Regulative Idea.” Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 6 (44): 1287–1330.

Madva, Alex, Katherine Gasdaglis, and Shannon Doberneck. 2023. “Duties of Social Identity? Intersectional Objections to Sen’s Identity Politics.” Inquiry, October, 1–31.

Interventions to Make Change

Brownstein, M. 2020. Debiasing, Skill, and Intergroup Virtue.  In Fridland, E., and Pavese, C. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Skill and Expertise. New York: Routledge.

Madva, Alex. 2020. “Individual and Structural Interventions.” In An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind, edited by Erin Beeghly and Alex Madva, 233–70. Routledge.

Raymond, L., Weldon, S., Kelly, D., Arriaga, X. and Clark, A. (2013). ‘Making Change: Norms and Informal Institutions as Solutions to “Intractable” Global Problems', Political Research Quarterly, 67(1): 197 - 211. 

Seyranian, Viviane, Alex Madva, Nicole Duong, Nina Abramzon, Yoi Tibbetts, and Judith M Harackiewicz. 2018. “The Longitudinal Effects of STEM Identity and Gender on Flourishing and Achievement in College Physics.” International Journal of STEM Education 5 (40): 1–14.

Thacker, Ian, Viviane Seyranian, Alex Madva, Nicole T. Duong, and Paul Beardsley. 2022. “Social Connectedness in Physical Isolation: Online Teaching Practices That Support Under-Represented Undergraduate Students’ Feelings of Belonging and Engagement in STEM.” Education Sciences 12 (2): 61–82.

Norms and Cultural Evolution

Davidson, L. and Kelly, D. (2020).‘Minding the Gap: Bias, Soft Structures, and the Double Life of Social Norms,' Journal of Applied Philosophy, Special Issue on Bias in Context, 37(2): 190-210. 

Henrich, J., Blasi, D., Curtain, C., Davis, H., Hong, Z., Kelly, D. and Kroupin, I. (2023). ‘A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenoytpes: Implications for Philosophy,’ Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 14: 349-386. 

Kelly, D. (2020). 'Internalized Norms and Intrinsic Motivation: Are Normative Motivations Psychologically Primitive?' Emotion Researcher, June 36-45.

Kelly, D. (2022). 'Two Ways to Adopt a Norm: The (Moral?) Psychology of Internalization and Avowal,' The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Ed. M. Vargas  and J. Doris, New York: Oxford University Press. Pages 285-309.

Kelly, D. (2023). ‘Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes' "Rethinking Norm Psychology"’ Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1-8. 

Kelly, D. and Davis, T. (2018). ‘Social Norms and Human Normative Psychology,' Social Philosophy & Policy, Special Issue on Learning and Changing Norms. 35(1): 54-76.

Kelly, D. and De Block. (2022). ‘Culture and Cognitive Science,’ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Summer 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2022/entries/culture-cogsci/>.

Kelly, D, Westra, E. and Setman, S. (2025). 'The Psychology of Normative Cognition,' The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Spring 2025 Edition; substantive revision of the 2020 version), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), forthcoming URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2025/entries/psychology-normative-cognition/>.

Westra, E., Fitzpatrick, S., Brosnan, S., Gruber, T., Hobaiter, C., Hopper, L., Kelly, D., Krupenye, C., Luncz, L., Theriault, J., and Andrews, K. (2024). ‘In Search of Animal Normativity: A Framework for Studying Social Norms in Nonhuman Animals,’ Biological Reviews.

Race and Racism

Cholbi, Michael, Brandon Hogan, Alex Madva, and Benjamin S. Yost, eds. 2021. The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press. 

Cholbi, Michael, and Alex Madva. 2018. “Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death Penalty Abolition.” Ethics 128 (3): 517–44.

Cholbi, Michael, and Alex Madva. 2021. “Can Capital Punishment Survive if Black Lives Matter?” In The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Michael Cholbi, Brandon Hogan, Alex Madva, and Benjamin S. Yost. Oxford University Press.  

Kelly, D., Faucher, L. and Machery, E. (2010). ‘Getting Rid of Racism: Assessing Three Proposals in Light of Psychological Evidence,' Journal of Social Philosophy, 41(3): 293 - 322.

Kelly, D., Machery, E. and Mallon, R. (2010).‘Race and Racial Cognition,’ The Moral Psychology Handbook, Eds. J. Doris et al. New York: Oxford University Press, pages 433 - 472.

Machery, E., Faucher, L. and Kelly, D. (2010). ‘On The Alleged Inadequacies of Psychological Explanations of Racism,’ The Monist, 93(2): 228 - 255.

Madva, Alex. 2016. “A Plea for Anti-Anti-Individualism: How Oversimple Psychology Misleads Social Policy.” Ergo 3 (27): 701–28.

Madva, Alex. 2017. “Biased against Debiasing: On the Role of (Institutionally Sponsored) Self-Transformation in the Struggle against Prejudice.” Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 4 (6): 145–79.

Madva, Alex. 2020. “Integration, Community, and the Medical Model of Social Injustice.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2): 211–32.

Madva, Alex, Daniel Kelly, and Michael Brownstein. 2024. “Change the People or Change the Policy? On the Moral Education of Antiracists.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 27 (1): 91–110.

Mallon, R. and Kelly, D. (2012). ‘Making Race Out of Nothing: Psychologically Constrained Social Roles’ The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Ed. H. Kincaid. New York: Oxford University Press, pages 507 - 529.

Reviews and Commentaries

Brownstein, M. (2022). Mind as Magic Eight Ball: A Review of Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein’s Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Philosophical Psychology.

Brownstein, M. and Kelly, D. (2019). Review of The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory by Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Review of Books.

Brownstein, M., Kelly, D., and Madva, A. (2022). ‘Taking Social Psychology Out of Context’ commentary on Joseph Cesario, ‘What Can Experimental Studies of Bias Tell Us About Real-World Group Disparities? in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e66: 1–71.

Kelly, D. (2021). Review of The Anxious Mind: An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety by Charlie Kurth, Ethics, 132(1): 249-255.

Kelly, D. and Morar, N. (2020). 'Bioethical Ideals, Actual Practice, and the Double Life of Norms,' commentary on B. Sisk, J. Mozersky, A. Antes, and J. DuBois, "The “Ought-Is” Problem: An Implementation Science Framework for Translating Ethical Norms into Practice," The American Journal of Bioethics, 20(4): 86-88.

Kelly, D. and Ritchie, K. (2024). Review of Social Goodness: On the Ontology of Social Norms by Charlotte Witt, MIND.

Madva, Alex. (2021). Commentary on Beeghly, Erin. “Stereotyping as Discrimination: Why Thoughts Can Be Discriminatory.” Social Epistemology 35 (6): 547–63.

Madva, Alex. (2021). “(What) Are Stereotyping and Discrimination? (What) Do We Want Them to Be?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (11): 43–51. 

Madva, Alex. (2022). “Shadowboxing with Social Justice Warriors. A Review of Endre Begby’s Prejudice: A Study in Non-Ideal Epistemology. Philosophical Psychology. 

Madva, A., Brownstein, M. and Kelly, D. (2023). ‘It’s Always Both: Changing Individuals Requires Changing Systems and Changing Systems Requires Changing Individuals’ commentary on Nick Chater and George Loewenstein, ‘‘The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray?' in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e168.