"Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?" Find Eleanor Gordon-Smith's answer at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?

Journalists face decisions about which true stories to publish and how to frame the facts in the stories they select. How should they make these decisions? According to what I call the civic attitudes...

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Tim Meijers and Manuel Sá Valente discuss the temporal scope of "having too much" in "No Time for Limitarianism?" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

No Time for Limitarianism? The Temporal Scope of Having Too Much

Limitarianism holds that it is bad or unjust if some people have too much. It has been the subject of much debate in the last few years. Yet one crucial question, so far not discussed, is the temporal...

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There is a new JESP issue! Head over to www.jesp.org to find papers on having too much, the obligations of journalists, extreme cognitive assistance, imperfect resistance, the moral equality of combatants, metaethical contextualism, and ex post average utilitarianism. #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory

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Susumu Cato identifies a previously overlooked connection between significant results in the literature on Millian superiorities in "Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil #PolTheory #legalphil

Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority

This discussion note establishes a previously overlooked connection between significant results in the literature on Millian superiorities. I demonstrate that weak independence is sufficient for weak ...

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Vincent Chiao questions whether suppressing private violence and enforcing the law are powers that only the state may exercise in "Must States Do It Themselves?" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

Must States Do It Themselves? A Rights-Based Theory of Delegating State Coercion

Are there functions that a state must do for itself instead of relying on others to perform on its behalf? Some argue that suppressing private violence and enforcing the law are powers that only the s...

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When journalists adhere to principles of objectivity, are they undermining the democratic goals of mainstream news journalism? Dhananjay Jagannathan and Clara Ence Morse argue that they are in "News Journalism and the Principles of Objectivity" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #moralphil

News Journalism and the Principles of Objectivity

Mainstream news journalism faces a practical dilemma founded on a theoretical mistake about objectivity. In this article, we bring this mistake to light and propose a new model for its practice. Mains...

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How can we care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguistic meaning? Magnus Ferguson proposes an answer in "Speechlessness and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

Speechlessness and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt

This article argues that in certain contexts, unreciprocated speech can be an important form of care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguis...

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Leo Eisenbach explores the relation between epistemic and moral praiseworthiness in "Unifying Moral and Epistemic Praiseworthiness" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

Unifying Moral and Epistemic Praiseworthiness

On a popular philosophical view, moral and epistemic normativity are two species of the same genus: we can give unified accounts of normative properties pertaining to both domains. The case of praisew...

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What is owed to individuals who find themselves in a stateless condition? Find Davide Pala's answer in "The Naturalization of the Vulnerable" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

The Naturalization of the Vulnerable: An International Responsibility with Demanding Implications

What is owed to individuals who find themselves in a stateless condition? This article addresses this question by providing a novel republican account of the human right to legal citizenship. I argue ...

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Why does political authority seem to curb our libery in a way that the authority involved in property ownership does not? David Owens discusses in "Liberty, Equality, Authority" at doi.org/10.26556/jes.... #philsky #PolTheory #moralphil #legalphil

Liberty, Equality, Authority

Directive authorities (for example, political authorities with powers of command and coercion) pose a problem of legitimacy, but there are different ways of understanding the problem. On the one hand,...

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Our new website is up and running. Head over to www.jesp.org to take a look! All DOIs have been updated to redirect to the relevant page at the new site. If you have any bookmarks saved to individual papers, you'll have to update those, since the new site employs a different URL structure.

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The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to find new papers on liberty, equality, and authority; the naturalization of the vulnerable; speechlessness in Arendt; objectivity and news journalism; delegating state coercion; and Millian superiorities.

JESP is in the news -- albeit for a paper we *didn't* publish! The government of South Africa has withdrawn its draft national AI policy after it turned out that several of the citations it contained -- including one to a nonexistent JESP paper -- were AI hallucinations.

South Africa withdraws AI policy after it was found written by AI

At least six of the document’s 67 academic citations did not exist

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The latest issue of JESP has just been published! Head over to www.jesp.org to read new articles about proxy responsibility, a progressive critique of rap music, grounding human rights, first-person authority over gender, politics and foreign donations, supererogation, and reparations.