Hochman, Adam. The Race Illusion: On the Reality of Racialization and the Myth of Race. Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 224. $40.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

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Higgins, Kathleen Marie. Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning: Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss. University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 256. $45.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

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Guerrero, Alex. Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 464. $45.00 (paper). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

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Fossen, Thomas. Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy. Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 222. $88.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

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Catala, Amandine. The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: Situating Epistemic Power and Agency. Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. $99.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

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How to Be a Self-Effacing Consequentializing Quasi-Realist* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

Consequentialists often argue that their opponents’ views can be consequentialized or that their own view is partly self-effacing. These arguments resemble the quasi-realist moves that many expressivi...

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What the Demands of Sustainability Can(not) Be* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

Since the goal of “sustainable development” has gained authority (notably since the 1987 Brundtland Report), there have been attempts to characterize what, at core, is the intended constraint on prese...

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Is Revenge Inherently Wrong?* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

In liberal societies, revenge is usually regarded as inherently wrong. I challenge this view by examining two grounds for its impermissibility: motivation and consequences. Because acts of revenge are...

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On the Importance of Slack* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 4

This article is on the concept of “slack”: the absence of binding constraints on behavior. Slack comes in many forms, including as time, money, space, others’ goodwill, and support networks. It enable...

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Getting Free from Gender: The Case Against Compulsory Sex-Marking* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

This article argues for the abolition of a core component of our hegemonic gender regime: compulsory sex-marking. Compulsory sex-marking refers to the social demand that individuals advertise, through...

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Gender Identity, Self-Deception, and Respect* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

There are cases in which someone insists to themselves that they are the gender they were assigned at birth without “deep down” believing this. In such a case, which is to be respected, the identity a...

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Emotional Fittingness over Time* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

When and why is it fitting for emotions to change over time? This article defends a novel answer to this question that emphasizes the motivational aspect of emotions. It is fitting for emotions to cha...

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The Normative Common Ground: Blame and Communication* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

Many theories of responsibility claim that holding someone responsible is “incipiently communicative,” but it has been difficult to pin down just what this amounts to. We offer an account of (1) a dis...

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Justice for Girls: On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

When the US Supreme Court rejected the constitutional right to abortion care, several US states enacted bans. This legal change exposed critical moral questions about pregnancy in childhood: What do a...

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How to Be a Constitutivist* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

I defend pluralist metaethical constitutivism: Practical norms governing an agent are grounded in her kind of rational agency. Kinds of rational agency are defined in terms of reasons explanations: To...

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Salkin, Wendy. Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation. Harvard University Press, 2024. Pp. 368. $45.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Noggle, Robert. Manipulation: Its Nature, Mechanisms, and Moral Status. Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. $115.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Kane, Robert. The Complex Tapestry of Free Will: A Philosophical Odyssey. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 376. $120.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Horty, John F. The Logic of Precedent: Constraint, Freedom, and Common Law Reasoning. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 276. $120.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Garcia, Manon. The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex. Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. $27.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Darby, Derrick, and Martinez, Eduardo J. Boxed In: Making Identities Safe for Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $29.95 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Brinkmann, Matthias. An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 314. $105.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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Badano, Gabriele, and Nuti, Alasia. Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 224. $96.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 1...

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Aylsworth, Timothy, and Castro, Clinton. Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. 294. $59.99 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 3

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