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Selected Publications


Climate Refugeehood, Political Realism, and Political Autonomy: A Counter-Counterargument

Journal Article Philosophia United States · March 1, 2025 In a recent paper, Bender (European Journal of Political Theory 1–20, 2024) argues that we should reject the notion of climate refugeehood because the existing defenses of climate refugeehood cannot be squared with political realism, according to which ref ... Full text Cite

Evaluative Injustice

Journal Article Journal of Value Inquiry · January 1, 2025 Full text Cite

Ontologically ambiguous immigrants

Journal Article Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy · January 1, 2025 Tacitly authorized unauthorized immigrants are officially unauthorized, but their presence is tacitly sanctioned by the state because of the economic or political benefits their presence provides. Most arguments about them claim they have a moral right to ... Full text Cite

Privileged Citizens and the Right to Riot

Journal Article Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy · February 14, 2024 Avia Pasternak’s account of permissible political rioting includes a constraint that insists only oppressed citizens, and not privileged citizens, are permitted to riot when rioting is justified. This discussion note argues that Pasternak’s account ... Full text Open Access Cite

Keeping the Friend in Epicurean Friendship

Journal Article Apeiron · July 27, 2021 AbstractThere seems to be universal agreement among Epicurean scholars that friendship characterized by other-concern is conceptually incompatible with Epicureanism understood as a directly egoistic theory. ... Full text Open Access Cite

Unauthorized Immigrants, Reasonable Expectations, and the Right to Regularization

Journal Article Social Theory and Practice · 2020 This article brings an account of reasonable expectations to bear on the question of when unauthorized immigrants have a right to be regularized—that is, to be formally guaranteed freedom from the threat of deportation. Contrary to the current lite ... Full text Open Access Cite

Forced Separation and the Wrong of Deportation

Journal Article Social Philosophy Today · 2020 This paper argues that liberal states are wrong to forcibly separate through deportation the unauthorized immigrant parents of member children and that states must therefore regularize such unauthorized immigrants. While most arguments for regulari ... Full text Open Access Cite

Historic Injustice, Collective Agency, and Compensatory Duties

Journal Article Southwest Philosophy Review · 2019 ... Full text Open Access Cite