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For Your Own Good? Authority, Categorical Reasons, and Paternalism
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/23000/
Published: February 24, 2026 18:50
Instrumentalist accounts of authority seek to justify relations of authority—that is, relations in which one person has the ability to give binding directives to another—on the basis of some good, benefit or service that such relations provide for those…
Economic Democracy for the Voiceless
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/23916/
Published: February 11, 2026 16:15
In this article, I argue that instituting a form of economic democracy (ED) may offer a partial remedy to the ongoing ecological crisis. My argument proceeds in three steps. First, I contend that the ecological crisis largely stems from an…
The Separate Grounds of Competence
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/18623/
Published: February 10, 2026 19:55
When a person is competent, they can exercise their autonomy rights, including waiving claims against interference by giving consent. Non-competent persons, by contrast, lack these autonomy rights, which means that others are permitted to make certain…
Authority and Independence
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/18888/
Published: January 19, 2026 21:58
Authority is often justified instrumentally, as a means for conforming to reason. The importance of deciding for ourselves is just as frequently explained by the importance of making our own lives or living life by our own lights. To reconcile these ideas,…
Your body: you, or yours?
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/20138/
Published: December 26, 2025 17:00
Each of us ought to decide what others can do to our bodies. This is so obvious it does not cry out for explanation; and philosophers have not given it much. What few philosophical explanations there are of our rights in our bodies tend to appeal to claims…
Impartiality, Anonymity, and Caring Who
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/18681/
Published: December 26, 2025 13:30
In the last 30 years, a range of powerful arguments have pushed ethics in a utilitarian direction by invoking the principle of Outcome Anonymity, which holds that two outcomes are equally good if they involve the same distribution of welfare, differing…
The Unhappy Conclusion
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/18353/
Published: November 18, 2025 17:34
I argue that it is better to live an extremely long, drab life than a happy life of normal length. I rely on four premises, concerning (1) the separability of well-being in time, (2) the circumstances in which we should prolong someone’s life, (3) the…
Should we be Lottocrats?
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/23191/
Published: October 29, 2025 22:18
In light of representative democracy’s failures, from an inability to effectively address pressing problems to the yawning economic inequality and deep polarization that it sustains, the need for reform is obvious and urgent. In the democratic theory…
Every Day an Election Day
https://freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/18068/
Published: October 14, 2025 21:00
Voting occurs on Election Day. In the history of electoral democracy, this fact has been closely identified with the practice of elections. However, I argue the temporality of election time generates problems that undermine or disable crucial democratic…