Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper “On Snobbery” in The British Journal of Aesthetics.

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Selim Berker, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, published his paper "The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Fitting" in Fittingness: Essays in the Philosophy of Normativity edited by Christopher Howard and R. A. Rowland on Oxford University Press.

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Britta Clark, graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, published her paper "How to Argue about Solar Geoengineering" in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. 

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Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper "Sensitivity, Safety, and Admissibility" in the December 2022 issue of Synthese. 

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Jeffrey McDonough, Professor of Philosophy, published a new book titled Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.

Saints, Heretics, and Atheists offers a historical introduction to fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion: Does God exist? What is the nature of evil, and where does it come from? Are humans free? Responsible? Immortal? Does it matter? 

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Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, published a new book titledThe Idea of Prison Abolition.  In The Idea of Prison Abolition, Shelby examines the abolitionist case against prisons and its formidable challenge to would-be prison reformers.

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Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper “Radical Internalism” in Philosophical Issues.

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Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, published her paper “Vigilantism and Political Vision” in the Washington University Review of Philosophy (2:1-42 (2022)).

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Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, was featured in the Harvard Gazette article “Maybe This Book Will Change Your Life", where she discusses what could make a book life-changing. To find out which books may change your life, read the Gazette piece here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/07/harvard-scholars-on-books-that-changed-... Read more about Susanna Siegel featured in Harvard Gazette article

Volume XXIX of The Harvard Review of Philosophy is now available through the Philosophy Documentation Center. The Review's 29th volume, entitled "Philosophy and the Environment,"...

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Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper "Who's Afraid of Normative Externalism?" in a new festschrift for Allan Gibbard, Meaning, Decision, and Norms: Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard (Michigan Publishing Services, 2022).

From the work: “This paper is about what someone should do when she is not only unsure what first-order moral theory is true but also unsure about whether this moral uncertainty is itself morally relevant.”

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Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper "Deliberation and Moral Motivation" in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 17 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

From the publisher: “Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.”

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Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, and coauthor Charlie Crerar published the chapter “Hermeneutical Justice for Extremists?” in The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions (Routledge, 2022).

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“When we encounter extremist rhetoric, we often find it dumbfounding, incredible, or straightforwardly unintelligible. For this reason, it can be tempting to dismiss or ignore it, at least...

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An upcoming publication from Oxford University Press honors the work of Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy.

Normativity and Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Christine M. Korsgaard edited by Tamar Schapiro, Kyla Ebels-Duggan, and Sharon Street, engages with topics central to Korsgaard's work including the foundations of morality, the nature of the self, integrity and value, moral responsibility, obligations to non-human animals, and the relations...

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Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, Harvard Staff Writer, interviewed Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, about his new memoir Home in the World. Professor Sen discusses his decision to write a memoir, religion, politics, and more.

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