The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexi...

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‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre-technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot b...

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#BookReview Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds. A. Jurkevics, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. x +284 pp, £99 (hb)
| Virginia De Biasio

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#NewArticle Property‐Owning Democracy and the Socialization of Land | Nicole Whalen

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#BookReview Violence in Proportion. P. Tomlin, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. xi + 298 pp, £77 (hb)

Edmund Tweedy Flanigan

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Coming up soon:
Society for Applied Philosophy — Annual Conference 2026
3 July, 2026 – 5 July, 2026
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SAP Sponsored Event: Philosophy of Taxation
25 June, 2026 – 26 June, 2026
Erasmus University, Rotterdam

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#NewArticle Lottocratic Democracy and the Political Executive | Eric Shoemaker

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Will I Regret This? Should I Care? On Regret and Wellbeing Regret colours many areas of our lives, from the vital to the trivial. One example is in medical decision-making, when physicians hesitate to provide procedures they think their patients will regret....

#NewArticle Will I Regret This? Should I Care? On Regret and Wellbeing | Alyssa Izatt

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Another great blog post from our collaboration with @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social
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#NewArticle Yes, Friendship and Love Can Be Bought and Sold | Simone Sommer Degn

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#NewArticle The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer | Michael B. Gill

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#BookReview Disability Through the Lens of Justice. J. Begon, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. vii + 278 pp, £76 (hb)

Elvio Baccarini

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#BookReview Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem: A Philosophical Introduction. T. LaCroix, 2025. Peterborough, Broadview Press. 354 pp, £32.95 (pb)

Declan Humphreys

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SAP Sponsored Event: Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective
29 April, 2026
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Justice Across Generations: Equality, Opportunity, and the Social Contract. R. Reed and C.R. Hallenbrook, 2025. Cham, Palgrave Macmillan. vii +188 pp, £34.99 (hb)

Robinson Woodward-Burns

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On Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker In this post, Shalom Chalson (National University of Singapore) and James Bernard Willoughby (Australian National University) discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Phil…

When candidates for a job are neck‑to‑neck, should affirmative action be the tiebreaker? Our latest collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social by Shalom Chalson and James Willoughby presents a sharp, thought‑provoking take on affirmative action. justice-everywhere.org/general/on-u...

#BookReview Creating New Languages of Resistance: Translation, Public Philosophy and Border Violence. O. Tofighian, 2025. London and New York, Routledge. xvi + 231 pp, £145 (hb), £38.99 (pb)

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Journal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 43, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

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Vol 43.1 Includes Symposium on Institutional Dysfunctions and Trust Repair, guest ed. Marta Giunta Martino
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key ...

#NewArticle Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals | David Paaske + Angela K. Martin
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Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a ....

#NewArticle Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families | Megan A. Dean

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The Injustice of Not Feeling Wronged In this post, Sushruth Ravish (IIT Kanpur) and Ritu Sharma (University of British Columbia) discuss their article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on experiential injustice i…

When people don’t feel wronged, does that mean no wrongdoing occurred? In our most recent collab with @the-joap.bsky.social, Sushruth Ravish and Ritu Sharma challenge common assumptions about harm, recognition, and moral agency. justice-everywhere.org/general/the-...

Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical‐Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data In European countries (excluding the UK and Ireland), official statistics do not use racial or ethnic categories, but instead rely on proxies to collect data about discrimination. In the German micro...

We are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data”
Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl
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#NewArticle Epigenetic Responsibility and Foreseeable Risk | Courtney McMahon
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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational...

#NewArticle Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions | Chi Kwok, Chris Man-Kong Li
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Funding Research Randomly In this post, Louis Larue (Aalborg University, Denmark) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the appropriateness of selecting research applications rando…

We are starting the year with a new post in collab with @the-joap.bsky.social. Louis Larue explore the potential need for using lotteries to fund academic research. If research funding is a gamble anyway, why not just make it official? justice-everywhere.org/general/fund...

This is such an awesome paper - prize so well deserved!! Everyone, go read it 🥳

Congratulations Tareeq!

Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps Police censor drill rap music based on the claim that drill artists incite violence. In this article, I provide a framework for evaluating whether an instance of drill constitutes a speech act of inc...

The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize

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Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention Wild animals suffer due to human activity, yet natural factors contribute far more significantly to their suffering. In light of this, some propose that we have a pro tanto obligation to intervene in...

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