Consequentialism and the role of practices in political philosophy

AT Schmidt - Res Publica, 2023 - Springer
Political philosophers have recently debated what role social practices should play in
normative theorising. Should our theories be practice-independent or practice-dependent …

Economic inequality and the long-term future

AT Schmidt, D Juijn - Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Why, if at all, should we object to economic inequality? Some central arguments–the
argument from decreasing marginal utility for example–invoke instrumental reasons and …

[PDF][PDF] Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy

AT Schmidt - Journal of Social Philosophy, 2024 - research.rug.nl
What methods should political philosophers use? One debate—henceforth just the debate—
is about ideal versus non-ideal theory and asks questions such as how far should political …

Why Not Effective Altruism?

RY Chappell - Public Affairs Quarterly, 2024 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Effective altruism sounds so innocuous—who could possibly be opposed to doing good
more effectively? Yet it has inspired significant backlash in recent years. This paper …

Longtermist political philosophy: an agenda for future research

AT Schmidt, J Barrett - 2023 - philpapers.org
We set out longtermist political philosophy as a research field by exploring the case for, and
the implications of,'institutional longtermism': the view that, when evaluating institutions, we …