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Composing Thoughts: Free Speech
and the Importance of Thinking
Aloud in Music and Images

Co-authored with Lea Salje

Forthcoming in Legal Theory

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Self-Censorship: The Chilling
Effect and the Heating Effect

Political Philosophy 1/2 (2024), pp. 345-80

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Should We Unbundle Free
Speech and Press Freedom?

Co-authored with Damien Storey

​In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy
and Media Ethics
, eds. Carl Fox and Joe
Saunders (New York: Routledge, 2024)

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The Ethics of Quitting Social Media

In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics,
ed. Carissa Veliz (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2023), pp. 685-704

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Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-use Research

Co-authored with Nicholas G. Evans
and Michael J. Selgelid

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
47/1 (2022), pp. 72-94

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Minimalism, Determinacy,
and Human Rights

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
34/1 (2021), pp. 149-69

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The Relation Between Academic
Freedom and Free Speech

Ethics 130/3 (2020), pp. 287-319

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Political Correctness Gone Viral

Co-authored with Waleed Aly

In Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy, eds. Carl Fox and Joe Saunders (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), pp. 125-43

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Regulating Offense,
Nurturing Offense

Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
17/3 (2018), pp. 235-56

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Permissivism and the
Arbitrariness Objection

Episteme 14/4 (2017), pp. 519-38

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Climate Change, Cooperation,
and Moral Bioenhancement

Co-authored with Toby Handfield and Pei-hua Huang, ​Journal of Medical Ethics 42/11 (2016),
pp. 742-47

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Life in Overabundance: Agar on Life Extension and the Fear of Death

Co-authored with Aveek Bhattacharya

​Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
17/2 (2014), pp. 223-36

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Intellectual Agency and Responsibility
for Belief in Free Speech Theory

Legal Theory 19/3 (2013), pp. 307-30


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Some Moral Critique of Theodicy
is Misplaced, But Not All

Religious Studies 45/3 (2009), pp. 339-46


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The Connected City of Ideas

Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy
of Arts &Sciences
153/3 (2024), pp. 166-86

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Heckling, Free Speech, and
Freedom of Association

Co-authored with Emily McTernan

Mind 133/529 (2024), pp. 117-42

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Law as Counterspeech

Co-authored with Anjalee de Silva

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
26 (2023), pp. 493-510

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Counterspeech

Co-authored with Bianca Cepollaro
and Maxime Lepoutre

Philosophy Compass 18/1 (2023), pp. 1-11

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"Lost, Enfeebled, and Deprived of its
Vital Effect": Mill's Exaggerated View
of the Relation Between Conflict and Vitality

Aristotelian Society Supplementary
Volume 
95/1 (2021), pp. 97-114

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Epistemic Permissivism and
Reasonable Pluralism

Co-authored with Rach Cosker-Rowland

In The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, eds. Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 113-22

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The Big Shill

Co-authored with Eliot Michaelson

​Ratio 33/4 (2020), pp. 269-80

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Search Engines and
Free Speech Coverage

Co-authored with Heather Whitney

In Free Speech in the Digital Age, eds. Susan
Brison and Katharine Gelber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 33-51

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Indirect Epistemic Reasons
and Religious Belief

Co-authored with Kirk Lougheed

​Religious Studies 53/2 (2017), pp. 151-69

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Indoctrination Anxiety and
the Etiology of Belief

Co-authored with Josh DiPaolo

​Synthese 193/10 (2016), pp. 3079-98

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Dehumanization: its Operations
and its Origins

Journal of Law and Biosciences
3/1 (2016), pp. 178-84

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Nanotechnologically Enhanced
Combat Systems: The Downside
of Invulnerability

Co-authored with Robert Sparrow

In In Pursuit of Nanoethics, eds. Bert Gordijn
and Anthony Mark Cutter (Dordrecht:
Springer, 2014), pp. 89-103

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Un-ringing the Bell: McGowan on Oppressive Speech and the Asymmetric Pliability of Conversation

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

91/3 (2013), pp. 555-75


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Moral Antitheodicy: Prospects
and Problems

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 65/1 (2009), pp. 153-69


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Censorship, Condemnation
and Understanding

Forthcoming in Themes from the Work of Leslie Green, eds. Thomas Adams and Kate Greasley (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

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Issues in Political Theory: Free Speech

Co-authored with Jeffrey Howard

Forthcoming in Issues in Political Theory,
5th Edition, eds. Robert Jubb and Patrick
Tomlin (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

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Disagreement and Free Speech

Co-authored with Sebastien Bishop

​Forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook
of Philosophy of Disagreement
, eds. Maria Baghramian, Adam Carter, and Rach Cosker-Rowland (New York: Routledge)

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The Conversational Character
of Oppression

Australasian Philosophical Review
5/2 (2022),
 pp. 160-69

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Norms of Inquiry, Student-Led Learning, and Epistemic Paternalism

In Epistemic Autonomy, eds. Jonathan
Matheson and Kirk Lougheed (New York:
Routledge, 2021), pp. 95-112

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Language and Legitimation

In The Routledge Handbook of Social and
Political Philosophy of Language
, eds.
Justin Khoo and Rachel Sterken (New
York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 345-61

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Won't Somebody Please Think of
the Children: Hate Speech,
Harm, and Childhood

Law and Philosophy 38/1 (2019), pp. 79-108

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No Platforming

Co-authored with Amia Srinivasan

In Academic Freedom, ed. Jennifer Lackey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 186-209

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Tolerating Hate in the
Name of Democracy

Co-authored with Amanda R. Greene

​Modern Law Review 80/4 (2017), pp. 746-65

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Defining "Speech": Subtraction,
Addition, and Division

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
29/2 (2016), pp. 457-94


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Super Soldiers and
Technological Asymmetry

In Super Soldiers: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications, eds. Jai Galliott and Mianna Lotz (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), pp. 81-91

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Dignity, Harm, and Hate Speech

Law and Philosophy 32/6 (2013), pp. 701-28

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Epistemic Peerhood and the
Epistemology of Disagreement

Philosophical Studies 164/2 (2013), pp. 561-77


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Avoiding the Afterlife in Theodicy:
Victims of Suffering and the
Argument from Usefulness

Forum Philosophicum 13/2 (2008), pp. 217-31


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