Danny Weltman

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy Ritwik Agrawal and Allen Buchanan argue that the fundamental wrong of colonialism is a denial of autonomy to those who are colonized. They claim that earlier discussions of colonialism, including thos...

My paper "What's (Fundamentally or Per Se) Wrong with Colonialism: A Reply to Agrawal and Buchanan" has been published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy: doi.org/10.26556/jes...

Equality: What Is It and How Is It Different from Equity? - 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology Many say that we should make society more equal. But what should we equalize? This essay explains two of the most important ones: equality of outcome and equality of opportunity.

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Equality: What Is It and How Is It Different from Equity?

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I think this is missing my essay on anatman.

Cover of Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 2024 Yellow letters spell "PAQ" at the top of the page on an orange rectangle, with a thin blue rectangle below separating it from the rest of the beige background.

Vol. 38, Iss. 3 of Public Affairs Quarterly is out online! Featuring contributors @dweltman.bsky.social , Nicholas Kreuder, Nicole Hassoun, @johnmeadowcroft.bsky.social , and Bouke de Vries (whose article is free to access!) https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/paq/issue/38/3

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My review of Matthew Cull's book What Gender Should Be has been published in the Journal of Social Ontology 10(1): journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/js...
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Colonialism Is Per Se Wrong Only If Colonialism Is Not Per Se Wrong: Supersession and the Bourgeois Predicament Abstract. I argue that if we claim colonialism is per se wrong, then we face a dilemma that stems from the fact that many states today are a result of past colonialism. We believe that postcolonial st...

My article "Colonialism Is Per Se Wrong Only If Colonialism Is Not Per Se Wrong: Supersession and the Bourgeois Predicament" has been published in Public Affairs Quarterly 38(3): doi.org/10.5406/2152...
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It’s Not the Slope that Matters: Well-Being and Shapes of Lives Abstract Many believe that an upward-sloping life is better than a downward-sloping life because of its shape. This is a common way of formulating the shape of a life hypothesis. We argue that the hyp...

My article co-written with Gil Hersch, "It’s Not the Slope that Matters: Well-Being and Shapes of Lives," has been posted online by the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
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J. P. Messina, Private Censorship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 224 pp., 9780197581902. US $35.00 (Hb) - The Journal of Value Inquiry The Journal of Value Inquiry -

My review of J.P. Messina's (@jpmessina.bsky.social ) book Private Censorship has been published in The Journal of Value Inquiry. doi.org/10.1007/s107...

Robert Nozick’s “Wilt Chamberlain” Argument for Libertarianism - 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology Author: Daniel Weltman Category: Social and Political Philosophy Word Count: 999 Some people are rich. Others are poor. Is this bad? Many argue that it’s unjust for society to be deeply unequal, and t...

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Saving cosmopolitanism from colonialism Cosmopolitanism – the view that moral concern, and consequently moral duties, are not limited by borders – seems to justify colonialism with a ‘civilizing’ mission, because it supports the enforcem...

My article "Saving cosmopolitanism from colonialism" has been published in Ethics & Global Politics Vol 17 Issue 4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A made a little starter pack of folks working on migration, refugee studies, citizenship, etc. Please let me know if I should add you! go.bsky.app/5sBuBm8

Me! @dweltman.bsky.social

Journal Created from the Ashes of PPA Gets Name, Editor-In-Chief In May, the executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of the influential journal, Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), resigned and in June PPA’s editor-in-chief,...

The former editors of Philosophy and Public Affairs are thrilled to announced the name of our new journal.

𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 & 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 will launch and begin accepting submissions in September. Send us your work!

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What Do We Want? To Eliminate Gender! When Do We Want It? Later! Gender eliminativism, also known as gender abolitionism, is the view that we should get rid of gender. I defend gender eliminativism by suggesting that many arguments that ostensibly call for rejecti....

My article "What Do We Want? To Eliminate Gender! When Do We Want It? Later!" has appeared online as a preprint in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Paper Chase Case and Epistemic Accounts of Request Normativity - published on May 23, 2024 According to the epistemic account of request normativity, a request gives us reasons by revealing normatively relevant information. The information is normative, not the request itself. I raise a new...

My article "The Paper Chase Case and Epistemic Accounts of Request Normativity" has been published online by Thought: www.pdcnet.org/tht/content/...

Get one that can turn sideways and use it as a second monitor. Great for reading PDFs.

Emma Goldman, "What is Patriotism?"

I get the same thing in my analytics! Someone in Ashburn loves philosophy I guess.

Also this: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Not off the top of my head unfortunately. Wellman probably discusses it in the book.

No good account of which rights are forfeited and why.

My review of The Good it Promises, the Harm it Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism has been published in Teaching Philosophy: www.pdcnet.org/teachphil/co...