Scholars@Duke
Kyle Fruh

Kyle Fruh

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications

Moral Heroism Without Virtue

Book · 2025 The book is for anyone interested in moral excellence, the long philosophical traditions which examine it, and contemporary discussions of morally outstanding actions and agents"-- Provided by publisher. ... Cite

Commemoration, Militarism, and Gratitude

Journal Article Journal of Ethics · December 1, 2024 Recent years have seen various forms of honorific public art – statues, monuments, and the like – brought under renewed moral scrutiny. This scrutiny has resulted in some high-profile removals, some defacement and additional contextualization to augment ex ... Full text Open Access Cite

Fitting Admiration: Achievements and Character

Journal Article Journal of Applied Philosophy · March 21, 2023 I develop three arguments in support of my contention that we should favor achievements over agents as objects of fitting moral admiration. The first argument impugns the epistemic standing with which characterological admiration is standardly issued. The ... Full text Link to item Cite

Duties and Demandingness, Individual and Collective

Journal Article Journal of Value Inquiry · December 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Sportswashing: Complicity and Corruption

Journal Article Sport, Ethics and Philosophy · August 2, 2022 When the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup was awarded to Qatar, it raised a number of moral concerns, perhaps the most prominent of which was Qatar’s woeful record on human rights in the arena of migrant labour. Qatar’s interest in hosting the event is aptly char ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Offering more without offering compensation: non-compensating benefits for living kidney donors.

Journal Article Medicine, health care, and philosophy · December 2021 While different positions on the permissibility of organ markets enjoy support, there is widespread agreement that some benefits to living organ donors are acceptable and do not raise the same moral concerns associated with organ markets, such as exploitat ... Full text Cite

A Fair Shake for the Fair-Weather Fan

Journal Article Journal of the Philosophy of Sport · 2021 After initially pitting partisans against purists, the literature on the ethics of fandom has coalesced around a pluralist position: purists and partisans each have their own merits, and there is no ideal form of fandom. In this literature, however, the fa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Climate Change is Unjust War: Geoengineering and the Rising Tides of War

Journal Article The Southern Journal of Philosophy · September 3, 2019 Climate change is undeniably a global problem, but the situation is especially dire for countries whose territory is comprised entirely or primarily of low-lying land. While geoengineering might offer an opportunity to protect these states, international c ... Cite

Promising's Neglected Siblings: Oaths, Vows, and Promissory Obligation

Journal Article Pacific Philosophical Quarterly · September 2019 AbstractPromises of a customary, interpersonal kind have received no small amount of philosophical attention. Of particular interest has been their capacity to generate moral obligations. This capacity is arguably what dist ... Full text Cite

Fans and Fanaticism: The Vulnerability of Devotion and Sportswashing as Exploitation,”

Journal Article Philosophical Psychology Devoted sports fandom has been defended as a worthwhile undertaking that lends meaning to people’s lives and shapes their very identities; on the other hand, fanaticism is widely decried as morally troubling. We sketch the similarities between fandom and f ... Full text Link to item Cite