{"title":"Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice","authors":"Sushruth Ravish, Ritu Sharma","doi":"10.1111/japp.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Empirical studies suggest that rape in marriages continues to be treated as a less severe crime than other forms of rape. Although the psychological and legal dimensions of marital rape have received some attention, its epistemic harms remain under-theorised. This article argues that these harms are not exhausted by hermeneutical injustice, where victims lack the conceptual resources to identify or articulate their experience as rape. We introduce the concept of experiential injustice to capture a deeper epistemic harm in which victims, shaped by trauma or internalised oppression, lose evaluative grip on their own experience. Drawing on victims' testimonies, we show how marital rape can erode epistemic self-trust and diminish the capacity to register harm as experientially significant. These harms resist easy remediation and call for a broader framework to understand how epistemic injustice occurs in the contexts of marital rape. Recognising these layered epistemic harms is crucial for legal and social reforms addressing marital rape.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"276-296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146224027","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":"No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism","authors":"Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis","doi":"10.1111/japp.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's <i>Sunflowers</i>. I argue that climate activists' art-attacking protests differ significantly from other recent art-attacking protests: climate protestors generally target non-commemorative, morally innocent artworks, and usually do not seek to destroy the artworks they attack. I argue that iconoclastic protests have been unusually good at capturing attention. Moreover, iconoclasm can enable protestors to communicate with their audience in an unusually direct and compelling way. I address some worries about political iconoclasm, and evaluate it against two theories of permissible protest: one on which disobedience must be civil, and another on which disobedience must meet standards of proportionality and necessity, adapted from the ethics of self-defence and war. I argue that iconoclasm may be permissible on either theory. Iconoclasm is most likely to be permissible when used sparingly, when the artwork attacked has relevant representational content, and when the iconoclastic act transforms the artwork into a protest symbol.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"215-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680539","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":"Funding Research Randomly","authors":"Louis Larue","doi":"10.1111/japp.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article compares three different procedures to select research applications: the current peer review procedure, pure random selection, and a modified lottery involving some level of peer review as a first step and random selection as a second step. This article considers four important desiderata: (1) the ability of the procedure to select the best applications, (2) the minimisation of the costs of selecting applications, (3) the impartiality of the selection procedure, and (4) the fairness of the selection procedure. The article shows that there are trade-offs between these desiderata and that it cannot be concluded that a single procedure will necessarily satisfy all of them. Yet the article shows that the Modified Lottery provides the best balance between the ability to keep costs low, impartiality, fairness, and, most importantly, the ability to select the best applications.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"258-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217622","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":"The Dumbed-Down Discourse Dilemma","authors":"Malte Jauch","doi":"10.1111/japp.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Some critics worry that the average quality of public discourse in liberal democracies is deplorably low. An example of this is that superficial media content enjoys a much broader audience than highly informative content. States can take various measures to improve the quality of public discourse. For example, states can implement strong incentives for private outlets to produce content of high quality. Should states implement such measures? This article argues that answers to this question face a dilemma. Accepting the existence of a dumbed-down discourse is difficult because of several negative consequences that dumbed-down discourses create. Improving the quality of public discourse is problematic because some of the most promising interventions to improve discourse quality cannot be justified in ways that are compatible with liberal neutrality. The article assesses two possible solutions to the dilemma and finds both of them wanting.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"235-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256558","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":"How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy","authors":"Jan Christoph Bublitz","doi":"10.1111/japp.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under their influence, a position that stands in contrast to some epistemic practices in the field. It proposes four norms for the ethics of altering beliefs and opinions of others, based on both the outcomes of interventions and the processes they involve. It introduces the concept of ‘doxastic vulnerability’ for states of heightened susceptibility to belief change, such as those induced by psychedelics. It further argues that placing people in a state of doxastic vulnerability generates responsibilities to prevent or mitigate harms arising from such states. This should motivate epistemic harm reduction measures in psychedelic therapy and, contrary to several recent statements in the literature, a reconsideration of a passive non-directive stance of therapists in favor of a more active role as epistemic guides.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"178-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146680487","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":"Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?","authors":"Chiara Destri","doi":"10.1111/japp.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As political institutions, representative assemblies can be seen as rule-governed structures of interrelated roles with power mandates, which elected officeholders must exercise in accordance with the normative values justifying the institutions' establishment. One such essential value is collective self-government, which requires representatives to consider citizens' input. However, partisan disagreement means citizens often have conflicting views on how representatives should act, especially in polarized contexts. This article defends three propositions: (1) trust between citizens and representatives is essential for realizing collective self-government; (2) for this trust to be justified, representatives must be worthy of it; and (3) partisanship strains citizens' trust in representatives of opposing parties. What I call the partisan predicament illustrates a fundamental issue: representatives inevitably disappoint either their supporters or their non-supporters. Since trust is critical to collective self-government, this dilemma can impair the functioning of representative institutions. Although this shows how citizens' autonomy remains a regulative ideal that is never fully achieved, the presence of procedures through which representatives offer justifications for their own interpretation of their commitments and for their compatibility with broader democratic values helps mitigate the negative effects of partisanship.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"34-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217588","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":"Monitoring and Institutional Trust Repair","authors":"Emma C. Gordon","doi":"10.1111/japp.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A monitoring-based strategy for repairing ruptured institutional trust is motivated and defended, bringing together insights about both interpersonal and institutional trust breakdown. The strategy pursued identifies and exploits important differences between interpersonal and institutional trust relations, insofar as monitoring in each case mitigates against the kind of risks that by trusting one makes oneself vulnerable. Once the relevant differences are appreciated, certain kinds of monitoring are shown to have special promise in the case of repairing institutional trust following institutional abuses of power. Particular strategies are then outlined and compared favourably to alternatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"75-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146223924","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":"Taking the Political Context Seriously: How to Evaluate Ethics Commissions","authors":"Eilev Hegstad","doi":"10.1111/japp.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ethics commissions, which are a type of government advisory commission, give expert advice to governments on what policies to implement on ethical issues, most often within the field of bioethics. Besides recommending policies, they are also often mandated to inform and stimulate public debate. Discussions about the role of these commissions have not paid sufficient attention to the political context that ethics commissions operate within. Instead, they have too often been evaluated based on academic or pragmatic standards. In this article, I argue for and develop a political standard for evaluating ethics commissions. This standard emphasizes the contribution these commissions should make to public deliberation, and more specifically, their epistemic, democratic, and ethical functions. Following this, the implications of the two-part mandate of ethics commissions – informing and stimulating public debate and recommending policies – will be drawn out. These include the most important role of moral cartography, which involves seriously considering a range of views including those based on comprehensive doctrines, and the expectation that recommendations should be public justifications.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"199-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256263","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":"Debunking the Climate Sceptic and the Threat of Self-Defeat","authors":"Léna Mudry","doi":"10.1111/japp.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cultural cognition is the thesis that laypersons' factual beliefs about politically important issues are often shaped by their political values. The question, then, is whether a layperson who believes in anthropogenic climate change should doubt her beliefs insofar as they might be influenced by values. Cultural cognition raises concerns for the epistemic status of these beliefs and appears to threaten the viability of debunking strategies in contexts of expert disagreement. Such strategies consist in attributing bias to dissenters to rationally dismiss their views, but if laypersons are also biased, debunking may be self-defeating. I shall refute this challenge on three grounds. First, there is controversy over whether the empirical literature on cultural cognition has genuinely identified a form of motivated reasoning, since the data can also be explained in non-motivational, rational terms. Second, even if it has, this is not evidence that a particular individual is biased. Greater caution is needed when moving from statistical generalisations to individual cases. Finally, evidence of bias is not always evidence of error – something especially clear in the case of belief in anthropogenic climate change. The discussion allows me to explore the general sceptical import of the psychological literature on cultural cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"157-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/japp.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217429","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 Ethics of Public Health Paternalism. T.M Wilkinson, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 256 pp, £77.00 (hb)","authors":"Elizabeth Fenton","doi":"10.1111/japp.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47057,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"314-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146217085","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}