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

Psyche, 28th October 2020

Author's PDF

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

ABC Religion and Ethics, 7th May 2020

Author's PDF

How the Rhetoric of Weaponisation is Undermining Liberal Ideals

The New Statesman, 11th February 2020
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C. S. Lewis's Demons

ABC Religion and Ethics, 1st May 2018

Author's PDF

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

Aeon, 31st March 2017

Author's PDF

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Interior States, by Megan O'Gieblyn

(Headline: "The Varieties of Religious Expedience")

The New Rambler Review, 5th February 2020
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Speak Freely, by Keith E. Whittington

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

Times Literary Supplement, 17th May 2019
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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
Official Version   |   Author's PDF

Strangers Drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar, and

Doing Good Better, by William MacAskill

(Headline: "Moral Renegades")

The New Rambler Review, 12th July 2016
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Speech Matters, by Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 28th April 2015
Official Version   |   Author's PDF

BLOG POSTS

No Platforming: Academic or Moralistic? 

Pea Soup, 29th November 2023
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With Friends Like These, Free Speech Doesn't Need Enemies

Justice Everywhere, 18th January 2021
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Supply Chains, Disaster Mitigation, and State Manufacturing

Justice Everywhere, 6th April 2020
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Making Humans Morally Better Won't Fix the Problems of Climate Change

Justice Everywhere, 6th April 2020
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The Origin of Belief

The Forum, 15th August 2016
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Prevent Harm, Allow Offense?

The Free Speech Debate, 8th January 2013
Official Version   |   Author's PDF

 

TALKS

Free Speech Psychodrama

Text of a talk given at a conference on "Humanistic Ethics in the UK", 9th June 2023
Author's PDF

Universities and Democratic Legitimacy

Text of a talk given at a conference at Queen Mary University London, on "Free Speech and Democracy", 15th February 2019
Author's PDF

Silencing Milo: On the Mission and Culture of a University

Text of a talk given at a conference at the University of Tartu, on "The Ethics of Conduct in Debate", 20th October 2018
Author's PDF

White Lies, Right Speech, and Free Speech

Text of a talk prepared for an intercultural workshop on Buddhism, in collaboration with Wuhan University, July 2018
Author's PDF

Text of a talk given at an online conference
on "Themes in the Work of Leslie
Green", 26th March 2021

Edited by Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao,
and Massimo Renzo (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2015)

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

Text of a talk prepared for an intercultural
workshop on Buddhism, in collaboration
with Wuhan University, July 2018

Review of Strangers Drowning: Voyages to
the Brink of Moral Extremity
, by Larissa MacFarquhar (London: Allen Lane, 2015), and
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a
Radical New Way to Make a Difference
, by
Will MacAskill (London: Guardian, 2015)

The New Rambler Review, 12th July 2016

Review of Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn
(New York: Anchor Books, 2018)

The New Rambler Review, 5th February 2020

Text of a talk given at a conference at Queen
Mary University, on "Free Speech and
Democracy", 15th February 2019

An edited version also appeared at
Justice Everywhere, 10th June 2019

Unpublished manuscript, written 2013-17

Journal of Medical Ethics Blog,
25th August 2016

by Seana Valentine Shiffrin (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2014)

Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews
, 28th April 2015

Text of a talk given at a conference on
"Humanistic Ethics in the UK", 9th June 2023

Text of a talk given at the Hiroshima Institute
of Technology, 12th February 2020

by Keith E. Whittington (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2019)

Times Literary Supplement, 17th May 2019

Text of a talk given at a conference at the
University of Tartu, on "The Ethics of
Conduct in Debate", 20th October 2018

ABC Religion and Ethics, 1st May 2018

Author's Version, with endnotes

Co-authored with Josh DiPaolo

The Forum, 15th August 2016

The Free Speech Debate, 8th January 2013

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