Journal of Applied Philosophy
The Journal of Applied Philosophy is a leading forum for academic publication in all areas of applied philosophy. It is edited by Avery Kolers (University of Louisville) with the assistance of seven Associate Editors and an International Advisory Board. The Journal is published by Wiley on behalf of the Society.
As well as submitted articles, the journal also publishes the Society’s annual lecture and review articles. To sign up for content alerts, browse a free sample issue, or to submit an article to the journal, please visit the journal’s website at our publisher.
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2024
28 – 30 June, St Anne’s College,
University of Oxford
Recent Articles
- Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker
- On the Morality of Killing Human Shields
- On Being Aesthetic Unequals: The Case of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
- Carbon Dividends: An Integrationist Approach
- The Ethics of Combatting Pernicious Ideological Beliefs
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- Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice
- No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
- Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
- Funding Research Randomly
- The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma
- How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy
- Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?
- Monitoring and Institutional Trust Repair
- Taking the Political Context Seriously: How to Evaluate Ethics Commissions
- Why It Is Not Unreasonable to Fear Terrorism by Eran Fish
- Global Displacement in the Twenty‐First Century. Phillip Cole, 2022. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 290 pp, £85.00 (hb) by Gabriele De Angelis
- The Difficulty of Making Good Work Available to All by Pascal Brixel
- The Political Privacy Dilemma: Private Lives and Public Office by John William Devine
- Edibility and In Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations. Rachel Robison‐Greene, 2022. Lanham, Lexington Books. x + 150 pp, £73.00 (hb) by Kyle Johannsen
- Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. Martha Nussbaum, 2023. New York, Simon & Schuster. 400 pp, $28.99 (hb) by B.V.E. Hyde
- When Is Work Unjust? Confronting the Choice between ‘Pluralistic’ and ‘Unifying’ Approaches by Sarah C. Goff
- Why Refugees Should Be Enfranchised by Zsolt Kapelner
- Non‐Ideal Epistemology. Robin McKenna, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 224 pp, £60.00 (hb) by Jack Idris Sagar
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- Robot Ethics. M. Coeckelbergh, 2022. Cambridge, MIT Press. vii + 191 pp, $16.95 (pb) by Nicholas Barrow
- Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter? by Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt
- Throwing the Embryos out with the Bathwater? A Novel Evaluation of the Value of Embryos by Megan Kitts
- A Dissolution of the Repugnant Conclusion by Roberto Fumagalli
- ‘I Am a Man’: Countering Oppression through Appeal to Kind Membership by Suzy Killmister
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Membership currently costs £26 per annum, or £14 for postgraduates. This includes online access to the Journal of Applied Philosophy, as well as a reduced fee for the Society’s annual conference. Members can also apply for event funding through the Society’s grant scheme.
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Latest News
SAP Annual Lecture 2023: Planning and its function in our lives, Michael E. Bratman (Stanford)
Annual Lecture 2023: Planning and its function in our lives Professor Michael E Bratman (Stanford University). The lecture will take place at 4.00 -5.30pm (BST) on Thursday 14 September. The Lecture will take place in the Nash Lecture Theatre, King’s
Society for Applied Philosophy Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme
The Society has launched a Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme for researchers in applied philosophy who are within two years of receiving their PhD. Up to two one-year fellowships, worth £16,000 each, will be awarded each year to support post-doctoral research to
In memoriam: Brenda Almond
The SAP is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Brenda Almond, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull. Professor Almond co-founded the SAP with Anthony O’Hear in 1982. She devoted many years to
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2024
SAP Annual Conference 2024 28 8211 30 June St Anne 8217 s College University of Oxford
SAP sponsored event: Food, Family, and Justice
Food is often produced, distributed, and consumed in families. What does this imply for food justice and for justice in, of and for the family? Current debates over the family – over parental authority, children’s upbringing, the right to procreate, the reproduction of injustice, and so on – tend to
SAP sponsored event: Engaged Philosophy, Inclusive Philosophy
Join us for a day of talks exploring how engaged methodologies promote inclusive research and teaching. Schedule: 11.00am: Welcome 11.15-12.30: Albert Atkin: Visibility as Epistemic Exploitation 12.30-13.30: Lunch 13.30 – 14.45: Tareeq Jalloh: Against Restricting Rappers’ Freedoms 14.50 – 16.05: Megan Blomfield: Epistemic Injustice and Asylum Claims 16.05 – 16.30: tea break 16.30 –