Journal of Applied Philosophy
The Journal of Applied Philosophy is a leading forum for academic publication in all areas of applied philosophy. It is edited by Avery Kolers (University of Louisville) with the assistance of seven Associate Editors and an International Advisory Board. The Journal is published by Wiley on behalf of the Society.
As well as submitted articles, the journal also publishes the Society’s annual lecture and review articles. To sign up for content alerts, browse a free sample issue, or to submit an article to the journal, please visit the journal’s website at our publisher.
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2025
27- 29 June
Radisson Hotel & Suites, Gdansk
Recent Articles
- Parental Imprisonment and Children's Right Not to be Separated from Their Parents
- National Humiliation: Emotion, Narrative, and Conflict
- Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos. M. Hamington, 2024. New York and London, Routledge. xiii +223 pp, $144.00 (hb) $39.99 (pb)
- Explaining Injustice: Causation through a Remedial Lens
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- Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. P. Gori and L. Serini, 2024. New York, Routledge. 301 pp, £104.00 (hb)
- How to Pool Risks across Generations: The Case for Collective Pensions. M. Otsuka, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. viii + 109 pp, £40.00 (hb)
- Something AI Should Tell You – The Case for Labelling Synthetic Content
- Why it Can Be Permissible to Have Kids in the Climate Emergency
- Entitled to Love: Relationships, Commandability, and Obligation
- Procreative Obligations and the Directed Duty of Care
- On the Morality of Enjoying Simulated Rape with Robots and by Other Fictional Means
- Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law. J. Waldron, 2023. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. 336 pp, $49.00 (hb)
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- Respect and Asylum
- Why It Is Not Unreasonable to Fear Terrorism by Eran Fish
- Global Displacement in the Twenty‐First Century. Phillip Cole, 2022. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 290 pp, £85.00 (hb) by Gabriele De Angelis
- The Difficulty of Making Good Work Available to All by Pascal Brixel
- The Political Privacy Dilemma: Private Lives and Public Office by John William Devine
- Edibility and In Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations. Rachel Robison‐Greene, 2022. Lanham, Lexington Books. x + 150 pp, £73.00 (hb) by Kyle Johannsen
- Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. Martha Nussbaum, 2023. New York, Simon & Schuster. 400 pp, $28.99 (hb) by B.V.E. Hyde
- When Is Work Unjust? Confronting the Choice between ‘Pluralistic’ and ‘Unifying’ Approaches by Sarah C. Goff
- Why Refugees Should Be Enfranchised by Zsolt Kapelner
- Non‐Ideal Epistemology. Robin McKenna, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 224 pp, £60.00 (hb) by Jack Idris Sagar
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- Robot Ethics. M. Coeckelbergh, 2022. Cambridge, MIT Press. vii + 191 pp, $16.95 (pb) by Nicholas Barrow
- Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter? by Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt
- Throwing the Embryos out with the Bathwater? A Novel Evaluation of the Value of Embryos by Megan Kitts
- A Dissolution of the Repugnant Conclusion by Roberto Fumagalli
- ‘I Am a Man’: Countering Oppression through Appeal to Kind Membership by Suzy Killmister
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Membership currently costs £26 per annum, or £14 for postgraduates. This includes online access to the Journal of Applied Philosophy, as well as a reduced fee for the Society’s annual conference. Members can also apply for event funding through the Society’s grant scheme.
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Latest News
Society for Applied Philosophy Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme
The Society has launched a Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme for researchers in applied philosophy who are within two years of receiving their PhD. Up to two one-year fellowships, worth £16,000 each, will be awarded each year to support post-doctoral research to
In memoriam: Brenda Almond
The SAP is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Brenda Almond, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull. Professor Almond co-founded the SAP with Anthony O’Hear in 1982. She devoted many years to
CALL FOR PAPERS: Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2022
The Society’s 2022 conference will take place in Edinburgh 01–03 July. The call for papers and panels is now open and closes on Monday 17 January 2022. Further info
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2025
The Society’s 2025 conference will take place at Hotel Radisson, Gdansk 27-29 June. Papers will be given on a wide range of topics across the field of applied philosophy (Authors of papers selected for inclusion in the programme can confirm or decline intention to attend here.) Call for papers |
SAP sponsored event: Reproductive Ethics and Public Philosophy: A Symposium Marking Mary Warnock’s Centenary | APA Live
Mary Warnock’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology report, published 40 years ago in 1984, had a powerful influence in the UK and beyond, helping governments and the general public reach abiding resolutions regarding new reproductive technologies—even as ethical debates raged on about the old reproductive technologies. The intervening years have seen an efflorescence
SAP sponsored event: Open Minds XVII
Open Minds XVII We are happy to announce that the seventeenth edition of the graduate conference Open Minds organised by postgraduate Philosophy researchers at The University of Manchester will be held from 19th to 20th of September, 2024. We are looking forward to exciting talks by MA and PhD researchers,