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EDITORIALS

 

Doing Collective Inquiry Better

The Alignment Between EDI and Academic Freedom / Free Speech in UK Universities

Advance HE Position Paper, 18th October 2023

When is it Ethical to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils?

Psyche, 28th October 2020

Speaking Freely, Thinking Aloud, and Embarrassing Yourself on Social Media

ABC Religion and Ethics, 7th May 2020

How the Rhetoric of Weaponisation is Undermining Liberal Ideals

The New Statesman, 11th February 2020

C. S. Lewis's Demons

ABC Religion and Ethics, 1st May 2018

Author's PDF, with Footnotes

Free Speech is a Blunt Instrument. Let's Break it Up

Aeon, 31st March 2017

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Interior States, by Megan O'Gieblyn

(Headline: "The Varieties of Religious Expedience")

The New Rambler Review, 5th February 2020

Speak Freely, by Keith E. Whittington

(Headline: "Triggered: Learning and Talking Freely")

Times Literary Supplement, 17th May 2019

 

The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights

(Edited by Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, and Massimo Renzo)

Journal of Moral Philosophy 16 / 4 (2019), pp. 517-20

Strangers Drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar, and

Doing Good Better, by William MacAskill

(Headline: "Moral Renegades")

The New Rambler Review, 12th July 2016

Speech Matters, by Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 28th April 2015

BLOG POSTS

No Platforming: Academic or Moralistic? 

Pea Soup, 29th November 2023
Author's PDF, with Footnotes

With Friends Like These, Free Speech Doesn't Need Enemies

Justice Everywhere, 18th January 2021

Supply Chains, Disaster Mitigation, and State Manufacturing

Justice Everywhere, 6th April 2020

Making Humans Morally Better Won't Fix the Problems of Climate Change

Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, 25th August 2016

The Origin of Belief (with Josh DiPaolo)

The Forum, 15th August 2016

Prevent Harm, Allow Offense?

The Free Speech Debate, 8th January 2013

 

TALKS

Free Speech Psychodrama

Text of a talk given at a conference on "Humanistic Ethics in the UK"

King's College London, 9th June 2023

Universities and Democratic Legitimacy

Text of a talk given at a conference on "Free Speech and Democracy"

Queen Mary University of London, 15th February 2019

Silencing Milo: On the Mission and Culture of a University

Text of a talk given at a conference "The Ethics of Conduct in Debate"

University of Tartu, 20th October 2018

White Lies, Right Speech, and Free Speech

Text of a talk prepared for an intercultural workshop on Buddhism

Wuhan University, 18th July 2018

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