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Debate: Paternalism and Autonomy

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/30192/

Published: August 5, 2026 04:58

Some of the most intuitive and deeply held objections to paternalism point to autonomy. A central claim is that paternalism is objectionable even if it improves people’s lives, because it does not treat people as adults or with respect. To know whether…

The Cognitive Corruption of Markets

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27804/

Published: July 30, 2026 05:47

Markets are often portrayed as amoral realms of self-interest, yet empirical evidence shows that people in market societies consistently act morally. What explains the discrepancy? I argue that market participants tend to exhibit behaviors that track moral…

Taking Heed: Between Consideration and Deference

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/25630/

Published: July 29, 2026 01:11

Some theorists maintain that democracy is a condition in which citizens have authority over matters of common concern. But just what kind of authority citizens have proves difficult to describe. Understood strongly—say, as a claim to deference—this…

Legibility and Contestability: Opaque Power, Misattribution, and Fascist Closure

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/28430/

Published: July 21, 2026 06:02

Contemporary power is often opaque. People may be made vulnerable by arrangements whose sources and mechanisms are difficult to identify. This article argues that opaque power raises a problem of political legibility: agents need some practically usable…

Survey Article: Refugees and Location in International Law and Morality

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/28126/

Published: July 18, 2026 04:08

Philosophers of migration claim asylum seekers’ location is normatively arbitrary. They claim it is irrelevant whether asylum seekers are inside or outside their own state, and that it does not matter whether they are encountered at sea, in a refugee camp,…

Debate:  City Spaces and Systems: When Protecting Turf May be Justified

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/28698/

Published: July 15, 2026 03:14

This article responds to an argument in this journal by Monaghan who contends that creating “territory” is a crucial part of a just urban environment but claiming “turf” – claiming and attempting to enforce exclusionary control over urban space – is…

Dignity, Recognition, and Illusions of Entitlement

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/28124/

Published: July 3, 2026 02:45

This article introduces and begins to defend a relational account of the connection between dignity and recognition. First, I argue that a relational account offers a robust alternative to familiar inherent and conferralist conceptions while integrating…

Neighbourhood Demographic Quotas and Limits of the Right to Sort

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/25789/

Published: May 4, 2026 22:42

This article offers a normative defence of using neighbourhood demographic quotas to deconcentrate residential clusters of advantage. It develops the case by detailing problems of inequality that arise from this kind of sorting and sketching several ways…

Just Waiting: The Ethics of Queues and Waiting Lists

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27910/

Published: April 17, 2026 04:53

Queues are pervasive in our world, determining our entitlement or order of access to goods ranging from hospital appointments and organ transplants to concert tickets and supermarket tills. This paper argues that queues have an important role to play in…

Ideal Theory as Fetishism

https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/27637/

Published: April 15, 2026 21:07

This paper revisits the debate on ideal and nonideal theory by taking seriously Charles Mills’s suggestion that it should be understood as a dispute between idealism and materialism. I argue that by understanding different sides of the debates as relying…