Philosophically Speaking

Jeffrey Howard (UCL) asks what moral responsibilities social media platforms have to refrain from amplifying harmful content. 
 
Read the paper at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10982-026-09557-8
 
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Daniel Viehoff (UC Berkeley) asks what citizens are ethically allowed to do when public officials threaten to inflict injustice on them. 

Read the paper at https://academic.oup.com/book/61684/chapter-abstract/540883622?redirectedFrom=fulltext

And for an even deeper philosophical dive, see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/papa.12218

Chiara Cordelli (Chicago) explores why existing critiques of capitalism fall short — and offers her own alternative, which focuses on the imperative to democratize investment. Read the paper at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/what-is-the-wrong-of-capitalism/CD320C659A33C006C6562D363FD5D954

Leif Wenar (Stanford) explores the doctrine of effective altruism, explaining why it leads us astray when thinking about our duties to the global poor and to the future.
Read the paper at: https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/

Renée Jørgensen (Michigan) explores the ethics of using big data to allocate police attention, and why doing so is morally questionable.
Read the paper at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470594X251379074?download=true