Published Articles and Chapters

Power Inversion Democracy, in Extreme Philosophy (Stephen Hetherington, ed., Routledge, 2024), pp. 250-266.

Legal Epistemology: Systems of Legal Procedure as Holistic Epistemic Systems, in the Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology (Jennifer Lackey and Aidan McGlynn, eds., forthcoming 2023).

Law and Violence, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Volume 22(1), pp. 1-34 (2022).

Ethics in Place and Time: Introducing Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought, in Neglected Classics Volume 2 (ed. by Eric Schliesser, Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 261-285.

Doubt and the Revolutionary, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume 45, pp. 423-456 (2021). 

The Interested Expert Problem and the Epistemology of Juries, Episteme, 18(3), pp. 428-452 (2021).

The Epistemology of Consent, in Applied Epistemology (ed. by Jennifer Lackey, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 348-388.

The Epistemic Pathologies of Elections and the Epistemic Promise of Lottocracy, in Political Epistemology (ed. by Elizabeth Edenberg and Michael Hannon, Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 166-192.

The Promise and Peril of Single-Issue Legislatures, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 18, pp. 837-870 (2021).

The Epistemic Case for Non-Electoral Forms of Democracy, in Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (ed. by Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ridder, Routledge, 2021), pp. 419-429.

A Theory of Political Expertise, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise (ed. by Ellen Fridland and Carlotta Pavese, 2020), pp. 445-459.

Children, Political Power, and Punishment, The Journal of Ethics, 24:3, pp. 269-280 (2020).

Broad cross-national public support for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial designs, with David Broockman, Joshua Kalla et al., Vaccine (2020)

Defense and Ignorance: War, Secrecy, and the Possibility of Popular Sovereignty, in Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (ed. by Claire Finkelstein & Michael Skerker, Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 309-344.

Political Functionalism and the Importance of Social Facts, in Political Utopias (ed. by Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber, Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 127-150.

Living with Ignorance in a World of Experts, in Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy (ed. by Rik Peels, Routledge, 2017), pp. 156-185.

Intellectual Difficulty and Moral Responsibility, in Responsibility: The Epistemic Condition (ed. by Jan Willem Wieland & Philip Robichaud, Oxford Univ. Press, 2017), pp. 199-218.

Appropriately Using People Merely as a Means, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 10(4), 777-94 (2016)

Unexcused Reasonable Mistakes:  Can the Case for Not Excusing Mistakes of Law be Supported by the Case for Not Excusing Mistakes of Morality?, Legal Theory, Vol. 21, pp. 86-99 (2015)

On Marie Collins Swabey's "Publicity and Measurement," Ethics, Vol. 125, pp. 555-558 (2015)

Against Elections: The Lottocratic Alternative, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 42, pp. 135-178 (2014)

Coercion, Political Accountability, and Voter Ignorance: The Mistaken Medicaid Expansion Ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 27, pp. 199-214 (2013)

Lawyers, Context, and Legitimacy: A New Theory of Legal Ethics, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 25, pp. 107-164 (2012)

The Paradox of Voting and the Ethics of Political Representation, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 38, pp. 272-306 (2010)

Don’t Know, Don’t Kill:  Moral Ignorance, Culpability, and Caution, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 136, pp. 59-97 (2007)

 

Shorter Writing

Democracy divides us, iai News (2021)

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow, Journal of Medical Ethics (2021)

A Brief History of a New Course at Rutgers University: Philosophy 366—African, Latin American, and Native American Philosophy, APA Newsletter on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy, Vol. 17, 2 (2018) 

Conference Report: The Second Annual Latinx Philosophy Conference, APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Vol. 17, 1 (2017) (with Edgar Valdez and Stephanie Rivera Berruz)

Review of Michael S. Pardo and Dennis Patterson, Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May 2014)

The Lottocracy, Aeon (January 2014)

 

Profession of Philosophy

To Be a Department of Philosophy, guest post on Daily Nous (May 2022)

Advice for Applying to PhD Programs in Philosophy, guest post on Daily Nous (October 2021)

Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Authors in Four Leading Moral and Political Philosophy Journals

 

Writing for a General Audience

The Year of COVID: Much will never be the same, Newark Star-Ledger (March 7, 2021)

Moral Deplorables or Epistemic Reformables?, blog post as part of the Philosophers On the 2020 Election on Daily Nous (November 2020)

The traits Trump and Castro share, Newark Star-Ledger (October 28, 2020)

Is it fair to gamble with other people's lives during a pandemic? Newark Star-Ledger (March 23, 2020)

Bernie, don't defend Castro, not even a little, Newark Star-Ledger (February 29, 2020)

Let's get rid of elections and choose our political leaders by lottery, Newark Star-Ledger (March 10, 2019)

Dividing the U.S., blog post as part of the Philosophers On the U.S. 2016 Election on Daily Nous (November 2016)

Update the 'Old Technology' of Elections, blog post as part of the Philosophers On the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race on Daily Nous (March 2016)

African Philosophy, slides from an introductory-level talk at Rutgers, (October 2017)