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Philosophy & Public Affairs
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10884963
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Issues of public concern often have an important philosophical dimension. Philosophy & Public Affairs is published in the belief that a philosophical examination of these issues can contribute to their clarification and to their resolution. It welcomes philosophical discussion of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as discussions of the more abstract questions to which they give rise. In addition, it aims to publish studies of the moral and intellectual history of such problems. Philosophy & Public Affairs is designed to fill the need for a venue in which philosophers with different viewpoints and philosophically inclined writers from various disciplines-including law, political science, economics, and sociology-can bring their distinctive methods to bear on problems that concern everyone.
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Philosophy & Public Affairs 51 (2023), 4
Why is it wrong to engage in manipulation, when it is wrong to do so? Manipulating someone can be wrong not (or not only) because it's manipulative, but because it has other bad effects. I am interested in the first sort of wrong. What is it about wrongful instances of manipulation that makes them wrong, other things…
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Philosophy & Public Affairs 51 (2023), 3
Two debates over value are nearly coeval with philosophy itself. One debate is over what is good for its own sake (intrinsically good), the other is over what contributes to an individual's welfare (“what would make this person's life go, for him, as well as possible”). These two debates, over “the good” and “the…
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Philosophy & Public Affairs 51 (2023), 2
Imagine a classroom discussion of Lawrence v. Texas , the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision holding sodomy laws unconstitutional. 1 One student argues that the Court's ruling was correct because a state may not base its criminal laws on bare moral disapproval. Another student picks up on Justice Scalia's…
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Philosophy & Public Affairs 51 (2023), 1
It is a striking fact about us that we care deeply about what could have happened, but didn't. In this paper, I explore the significance of this concern for theorizing about the goodness of a life. To get a feel for the issues that we will be examining, consider the case of Sophie Germain, a French mathematician of the…
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Philosophy & Public Affairs 50 (2022), 4
All welfare states distribute many of the costs of children across society at large to different degrees. Policies such as publicly funded parental leave, free or subsidized child-care, and child benefits, distribute some of the costs of raising children between parents and non-parents. Welfare states also distribute…