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Academic journal owned by the Society for Applied Philosophy, published by Wiley. Unsolicited submissions welcome.
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On the Morality of Killing Human Shields

Michael Huemer

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November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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#NewArticle On Being Aesthetic Unequals: The Case of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

Giacomo Floris

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November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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#NewArticle The Ethics of Combatting Pernicious Ideological Beliefs

Allen Buchanan #philosophy #philsky

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November 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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#NewArticle Carbon Dividends: An Integrationist Approach

Pierre André
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November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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#NewIssue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy
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Journal of Applied Philosophy: Vol 42, No 5
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November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice

Sushruth Ravish, Ritu Sharma
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Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice
Empirical studies suggest that rape in marriages continues to be treated as a less severe crime than other forms of rape. Although the psychological and legal dimensions of marital rape have received...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism

Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel part...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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#NewArticle Funding Research Randomly #philsky #philosophy

Louis Larue

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October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma

Malte Jauch

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The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma
Some critics worry that the average quality of public discourse in liberal democracies is deplorably low. An example of this is that superficial media content enjoys a much broader audience than high...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

Jan Christoph Bublitz

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How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy
Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic c....
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October 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?

Chiara Destri

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Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?
As political institutions, representative assemblies can be seen as rule-governed structures of interrelated roles with power mandates, which elected officeholders must exercise in accordance with th...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Annual Lecture 2025: Professor Will Kymlicka

Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies

12/11/25, 6pm, King’s College London.
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Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2025
SAP & YTL Centre invite Will Kymlicka to deliver the 2025 Annual Lecture: Society as a Common Possession: Membership & Solidarity.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The 2026 Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference will be held in Edinburgh, 3rd - 5th July.

Call for papers open until Jan 12th.

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Society for Applied Philosophy — Annual Conference 2026 – The Society for Applied Philosophy
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October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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ICYMI: Yesterday’ APA Live event, “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” co-sponsored by @the-joap.bsky.social, is now available on demand: www.apaonline.org/mpage/future...
APA On Demand: “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” with Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson, Noell Birondo, and Avery Kolers
October 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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New blog post by Avery Kolers @averykolers.bsky.social (JOAP co-editor-in-chief) for Wednesday's APA/JOAP panel discussion (Free to attend online - see previous post!!) blog.apaonline.org/2025/10/14/w...
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W(h)ither Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? | Blog of the APA
“Diversity” has a strange history as an institutional goal. Standard (pre-)histories of diversity initiatives in the U.S. government and the private sector typically trace their origins to three miles...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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In recognition of Global Ethics Day, the APA and @the-joap.bsky.social have organized an APA Live event on “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” Free and open to all. October 15, 3:30 p.m. Eastern / 12:30 p.m. Pacific. Register at www.apaonline.org/events/Event...
APA Live: “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” October 15, 3:30 p.m. Eastern / 12:30 p.m. Pacific, with Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson, Noell Birondo, and Avery Kolers
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Don't forget, JOAP & APA panel discussion happening this coming Wednesday October 15th for #GlobalEthicsDay ⤵️
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JOAP & @apaphilosophy.bsky.social live event for Global Ethics Day (Oct 15) “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” Panel: Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson & Noell Birondo
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October 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess Monitoring and Institutional Trust Repair

Emma C. Gordon

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Monitoring and Institutional Trust Repair
A monitoring-based strategy for repairing ruptured institutional trust is motivated and defended, bringing together insights about both interpersonal and institutional trust breakdown. The strategy p...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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#NewArticle Taking the Political Context Seriously: How to Evaluate Ethics Commissions

| Eilev Hegstad

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October 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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In this "choose-your-own-adventure" post, Kian Mintz-Woo encourages us to think about the potential roles of philosophers in public policy discussions. Based on his article published with @the-joap.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/choo...
Choose Your Own Philosophical Policy Role
In this interactive “choose-your-own-adventure” post, Kian Mintz-Woo (University College Cork) explores the different roles that philosophers might play in supporting the development of…
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September 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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#NewArticle #OpenAccess The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs
| Abraham Tobi

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The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs
Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, ra....
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September 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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JOAP & @apaphilosophy.bsky.social live event for Global Ethics Day (Oct 15) “What Future for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?” Panel: Linda Martín Alcoff, Luvell Anderson & Noell Birondo
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September 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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#NewArticle Debunking the Climate Sceptic and the Threat of Self‐Defeat
- Léna Mudry
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Debunking the Climate Sceptic and the Threat of Self‐Defeat
Cultural cognition is the thesis that laypersons' factual beliefs about politically important issues are often shaped by their political values. The question, then, is whether a layperson who believe...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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This week's post in collaboration with @the-joap.bsky.social, Steve Cooke explores the that "wonder" can play in furthering animal rights. Thank you @stevecooke.org for your wonderful contribution. justice-everywhere.org/general/usin...
Using wonder to achieve animal rights
In this post, Steve Cooke, (University of Leicester) discusses his article recently published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy on the experience of wonder as a route towards justice for nonhuma…
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September 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM