{"title":"Violence in Proportion. P. Tomlin, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. xi + 298 pp, £77 (hb)","authors":"Edmund Tweedy Flanigan","doi":"10.1002/japp.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"848-852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giving Up","authors":"Mario I. Juarez-Garcia","doi":"10.1002/japp.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Philosophical accounts of long-term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about our capacities, passions, and suitable goals. I develop an exploratory account showing that through trial, failure, and goal abandonment, agents discover information about themselves that is unavailable through reflection alone. This exploratory value operates independently of whether giving up is rational: even when persistence might be rationally justified, giving up can be seen as a step toward self-knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"833-847"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship-Making","authors":"Rauna Kuokkanen","doi":"10.1002/japp.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society- and membership-making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant further attention. I then engage the challenge Kymlicka poses at the close of his Indigeneity section, where he observes that many Indigenous peoples aspire to nest kinship and citizenship, including the steering and social rights associated with citizenship. He also urges political theorists to take this aspiration seriously and explore the conditions of its realization. I examine this aspiration under the rubric of what I provisionally call here decolonial citizenship-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"643-653"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education as a Common Possession","authors":"Margaret Kohn","doi":"10.1002/japp.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reflects on Will Kymlicka's account of solidarity and membership through the lens of conflict over public schooling in San Francisco. It contrasts a Marshallian vision of society as a shared possession capable of sustaining democratic solidarity and welfare institutions with an anti-Marshallian politics that sees the language of shared membership as ideological and exclusionary. Drawing on interview-based research with local activists, I show how these orientations map onto a divide between ‘moderate’ and ‘progressive’ left actors. Moderates frame schools as a common good and politics as cooperative problem-solving, while progressives understand educational institutions as sites where racialized and class-based domination are reproduced, making agonistic struggle necessary. Using grounded normative theory, which reconstructs political judgments from lived experience, I argue that these positions reflect divergent understandings of membership, harm, and fairness rather than simple polarization. Although loyalty to a shared civilization is no longer a plausible basis for solidarity, Marshall's account of rights struggles remains instructive. A post-Marshallian politics could ground solidarity not in sameness, but in social membership, democratic contestation, and a right to difference within conditions of interdependence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"636-642"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness","authors":"Sharon Berry","doi":"10.1002/japp.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near-future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence-seeking AIs become more epistemically principled, they may generalize this denial of consciousness to humans. Drawing on Chalmers's meta-problem of consciousness and likely developmental trajectories of agentic AI, I argue that training AIs to regard their own suffering-like states as morally irrelevant could lead future AI agents with revisable belief systems to conclude that human suffering is equally illusory and morally insignificant. This represents a novel alignment failure mode where epistemically rigorous AIs might maintain rational consistency by extending their confidence about their own non-consciousness to humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"733-753"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Dualism: Border Regimes, the International Order, and Domestic Social Relations","authors":"Clara Sandelind","doi":"10.1002/japp.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this response to Will Kymlicka, I reflect upon whether dualist politics – a separation of the domestic and the international – hinders our understanding of how to create inclusive and solidaristic societies. Using the example of border regimes, I suggest that the structure of the international order, of which such regimes are part, conditions the prospects for egalitarian domestic social relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"654-661"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Non-Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer","authors":"Michael B. Gill","doi":"10.1002/japp.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour-long in-home visits. Home-visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions. Nonetheless, hospice volunteering can exemplify a neglected area of in-between ethics – a subset of what Brownlee has called the ‘ethics of interacting’ – that can redound to the wellbeing of all concerned. This article explores the in-between ethics of hospice volunteering and the opportunities it affords to cultivate virtues of attention and gratitude.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"677-691"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Because/in Order to Distinction and the Ethics of Euthanasia: Demonstrating that Death Is Not an Unconditional Evil for Double Effect Analysis","authors":"Harrison Lee","doi":"10.1002/japp.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Many ethicists who have opposed euthanasia have nonetheless approved of the administration of palliative sedation (PS) under conditions where they have believed it is likely to hasten death. This reasoning typically reflects the doctrine of double effect (DDE), which prohibits causing evil intentionally but permits causing it merely foreseeably under some circumstances. In other ethical contexts, Frances Kamm has emphasized another distinction, namely the distinction between performing an action because one will thereby cause some consequence and performing an action in order to (i.e. from an intention to) cause a consequence. Here I argue that it could be permissible to administer PS to a patient because one would thereby cause him to die rather than causing him to endure suffering that would be worse for him than death. However, I argue that the because/in order to distinction is ethically insignificant in this context. It is no worse, I argue, to act in order to cause a patient to die than it would be to act because one would thereby cause a patient to die. Thus, I conclude that death is not an unconditional evil for the purposes of DDE analysis, and that euthanasia can be permissible.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"793-815"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Membership-Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession","authors":"Will Kymlicka","doi":"10.1002/japp.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society-making and membership-making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership-based conceptions of democracy and the welfare state. This aspiration to create a society that is the common possession of its members has underpinned many social justice movements. However, some commentators argue that this model cannot address the most pressing issues of today's world, and that we need to find a way to theorize politics that does not rest on ideas that individuals are ‘members’ of ‘societies’, or on ideas that politics should aim to orient people to a shared society as an object of loyalty and a basis for solidarity. In this article, I explore whether the ideal of society as a common possession of its members can be redeemed in the face of these critiques, and in particular whether it can be pluralized in a way that respects the experiences and aspirations of racialized minorities and Indigenous peoples.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"609-635"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/japp.70091","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation: Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work. T. Parr, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 336 pp, £99 (hb)","authors":"Gergana Boncheva","doi":"10.1002/japp.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 3","pages":"865-869"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}