"Causation as Production and Dependence, or: A Model-Invariant Theory of Causation" Abstract: Many contemporary theories of singular causation (alternatively: token causation, or actual causation) are formulated within the framework of structural equations modelling (or causal modeling).  These theories say whether … Read more

More than Fair: How Excessive Sympathy for Him (“Himpathy”) Obscures and Causes Misogyny Abstract: According to my ameliorative definition, misogyny is, roughly, the “law enforcement” branch of patriarchy, which serves to police, enforce, or restore patriarchal social order—often by visiting … Read more

Accumulating Epistemic Power Abstract: In her, December 3rd, 2014, Salon piece, “White American’s Scary Delusion: Why Its Sense of Black Humanity is So Skewed,” Brittney Cooper labels the stupefaction many people have in the face of today’s Black rage an “epistemology … Read more

Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University “As Judged By Themselves” Do people’s choices make their lives go better? Under what conditions? Consider three distinct answers. (1) In many situations, human beings face a problem of "navigability"; they do … Read more

Frankenvaluers, Sticky Attitudes and Stone-Swallowing: Three Objections to the Hybrid Theory of Valuing What is it to value something?  One might think that valuing is a form of believing—for instance, believing that the object of value is good or worthy.  … Read more

Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia)  "Contextual Injustice" Abstract: Contextualist treatments of clashes of intuitions can render both claims true. But making true utterances is far from the only thing that matters—there can be substantive normative questions about what … Read more

Robin Celikates, Can Digital Disobedience Be Civil? In recent years the Internet has not only expanded the repertoire of contestation by providing new tools for political protest, it has also emerged as an object and arena of contestation in its … Read more

"Trust, Anger, Resentment, Forgiveness: On Blame and its Reasons" Abstract: A discussion of the scope that exists for the normative assessment of blame. The paper starts from the assumption that blame is to be understood in terms of the reactive … Read more

Conceptual Amelioration: Going on, Not in the Same Way In this paper I argue that there are two ways to think about conceptual amelioration on a model according to which the content of a concept is to be understood as … Read more