Reparations, Recognition, and the Restoration of Relational Equality
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/17813/
Published: March 13, 2025 17:55
I argue for the relational egalitarian theory of reparations for historical injustice, which holds that 1) reparations are owed to persons who are public social inferiors in part because they are members of a group that has been subject to injustice in the…
Supposed Corpses and Correspondence
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/17735/
Published: February 4, 2025 18:15
The correspondence requirement is a fundamental doctrinal principle in Anglo-American criminal law. It maintains that, in general, a particular relation between mens rea and actus reus is necessary for liability. Yet the nature of this relation is…
The Power of Care: Reply to Sliwa
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/17899/
Published: January 6, 2025 15:39
Nina Simone sang: "I’m just a soul whose intentions are good." Paulina Sliwa (2019) defends a subtle, worked out picture on which Simone’s excuse turns out to be the basic form of an excuse. But good intention is a straitjacket that most excuses resist.…
Tipping Points: Abuse and Transformative Discovery
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/17907/
Published: January 6, 2025 15:18
This paper explores how philosophical accounts of the nature of persons and attributive responsibility can help us to make sense of the kinds of characteristic errors that people make in interpreting what is attributable to one another. I show how this…