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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Value Inquiry is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Clare Chambers, Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body	12
Does Dyadic Gratitude Make Sense? The Lived Experience and Conceptual Delineation of Gratitude in Absence of a Benefactor	8
Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics	8
Like That: Indexicality and Moral Terms	7
When to Fill Responsibility Gaps: A Proposal	5
Not Justice: Prison as a Moral Failure	5
Correction to: The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle	4
Free Will, Religious Conflict, and the Social Contract	4
Two Guises of the Good in Anscombe	3
Parental Responsibility and Our Special Relationship with Animal Companions	3
Being Sure and Living Well: How Security Affects Human Flourishing	3
The Axiology of Pain and Pleasure	3
The Muddled Moral Mind	3
Getting Started: Fictionalism and Exemplarism in Education	3
Nothing Personal: On the Limits of the Impersonal Temperament in Ethics	3
Can desire-satisfaction alienate our good?	2
On the Correlation Between Moral Belief and Motivation	2
Person-Creating and Filial Piety	2
Towards a Non-Reliance Commitment Account of Trust	2
What is the Role of Partial Compliance in Moral Theory?	2
Institutional Responsibility is Prior to Personal Responsibility in a Pandemic	2
The Anti-Individualistic Turn in the Ethics of Collegiality: Can Good Colleagues Be Epistemically Vicious?	2
The Guise of the Good: Book Précis	2
Specifying Contractualism: How to Reason About What We Owe to Each Other	2
Better to Return Whence We Came	1

Honesty and the Truth: Against Subjectivism About Honesty	1
Doxastic Wronging, Disrespectful Belief, & The Moral Over-Demandingness Objection	1
Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9780367343873, £17.99, Pbk	1
Evaluative Injustice	1
Must Pessimists Be Suicidal?	1
Gary Chartier, Understanding Friendship: On the Moral, Political, and Spiritual Meaning of Love. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. 246 pages. 978-1-5064-7908-8. US $39.00 (Hb)	1
The Inspiring and the Purple, and the Worthy and the Dull	1
Taking Embodiment Seriously in Ethics and Political Philosophy	1
A Defense of the Parfitian Approach to Overdetermination Cases	1
Risky Transplants and Partial Cures: Against the Objectivist View of Moral Obligation	1
Admiration, Affectivity, and Value: Critical Remarks on Exemplarity	1
The Normative, the Practical, and the Deliberatively Indispensable	1
Animals, Hypothetical Consent, and Counterpossible Reasoning	1
Merit Transference and the Paradox of Merit Inflation	1
Review of Amy Olberding: The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 198pp., 9780190880965, US $40.99 (Hb)	1
Merit for Political Power: The Normative Basis	1
An Excellence-Based View of Virtuous Motivation	1
Does the Lack of Cosmic Meaning Make Our Lives Bad?	1
Derk Pereboom, Wrongdoing & the Human Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. 224pp. ISBN: 978-0198903789. US $25.00 (Pbk)	1
Virtue Signaling Without Vanity	1
Innocentism: Preferring the Innocent Over the Culpable	1
Ideal Theory and Its Fairness Role	1
How to Derive Norms from Generics: A Gap in Neo-Aristotelian Metaethics	1
Well-Being, Depression, and Desire	1
Vice and Impoverishment: Two Perfectionist Bads	1
Exemplars and Influencers as Counterspeakers	1
Misconceived: Why These Further Criticisms of Anti-natalism Fail	1
Emulating Mary Poppins? A Critical Review of the Figure of the Saint in Zagzebski’s Exemplarist Moral Theory	1
Substantial Self-Knowledge and the Necessity of Avowal	1
Pushed for Being Better: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Nudging	1
Absolute Goodness Defended	1
Protasi Sara, The Philosophy of Envy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781009007023, $ 87, hbk	1
The Diagnostic Value of Freedom	1
Life, the Universe, and Connectedness	1
Hans Maes and Katrien Schaubroeck (eds.) Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration. London: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-367-20438-9, £130 (hbk); 978-0-367-20439-6, £	1
You Can’t Have Your Steak and Call for Political Action on Climate Change, Too	1
Nancy S. Jecker, Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-094907-5, $40, Hbk	1
Natalism, Natality, and the Climate Crisis: An Arendtian Argument against ‘Green’ Anti-Natalism	0
James Stacey Taylor, Markets with Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate. New York: Routledge. 234pp. ISBN: 9781003251996. US $48.95 (Pbk).	0
Remarks on Zagzebski’s Exemplarist Moral Theory	0
On the Adequacy of Action Guidance in Virtue Ethics	0
Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander	0
Taking Morality Directly	0
Changes and Conflicts of What We Value: Empirical Value-Surveys and Axiological Reflection	0
Limiting Access to Certain Anonymous Information: From the Group Right to Privacy to the Principle of Protecting the Vulnerable	0
Contractualist Justifiability and Principles for the General Regulation of Behavior	0
Epiphanies and Moral Creativity	0
The Normativity of Rationality: An Imperfect Duty to Be Coherent	0
Gareth B. Matthews, the Child’s Philosopher. Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2022. xxi + 278 p	0
When Moral Pleasure Conflicts with Moral Sorrow	0

Non-Normative Behavior and the Virtue of Rebelliousness	0
On Risk-Based Arguments for Anti-natalism	0
Rights and Practical Reasoning: A Practical View on the Specificationism vs Generalism Debate	0
Relaxed Realism and Modal Nothingism	0
The Authority and Content of Morality: A Dilemma for Constitutivism and a Coherentist Approach to Normativity	0
Walter Horn, Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2021. ISBN: 9781793624956, $105, hbk	0
Making Sense of Extended Affirmative Action: Review of Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen	0
Vallier, Kevin. All the Kingdoms of the World: on Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism. New York: Oxford UP 2023. Pp. x, 320. 978-0197611371	0
Rethinking Emulation: Why Zagzebski’s Account of Admiration qua Exemplarism Falls Short as a Moral Developmental Theory	0
Tara Smith, with Contributions by Onkar Ghate, Gregory Salmieri, and Elan Journo, The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom. Santa Ana, CA: Ayn Rand Institute Press, 2024.	0
Epistemic Role Models	0
The Mirage of Motivation Reason Internalism	0
What Makes Circumstantial Luck Different and Why it Matters	0
Elizabeth Anderson, Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 384 pp., 9781009275439. US $29.95 (H	0
The Deontic Wager	0
Biggar, Nigel. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. London: Collins 2023. Pp. xvi, 480. Bibliography. Index	0
Correction: Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: A Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics	0
Moral Obligations in Conditions of Partial Compliance	0
Correction: The Deontic Wager	0
Introduction	0
Wholesale moral error for naturalists	0
Reconciling the Deprivation Account with the Final Badness of Death	0
Bhaskarjit Neog, What Responsibility? Whose Responsibility? Intention, Agency, and Emotions of Collective Entities. London: Routledge, 2023. 170 pp., 9780367366933. £135.00 (Hb.)	0
Work Relationships and Autonomy	0
Could Morality be a Social Construction?	0
Review of The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson	0
Two Varieties of Evil	0
Variations in Virtue Phenomenology	0
Michael Huemer and Daniel Layman, Is Political Authority an Illusion: A Debate. New York: Routledge. 207pp. ISBN: 978-0367347451. US $34.95 (Pbk)	0
The Stability Problem and Moral Fictionalism	0
Explaining Moral View Change: Second-Order Moral Reasoning	0
Reply to Commentators	0
Matias Peterson, Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue	0
Death, Badness, and Well-Being at a Time	0
Moral Monsters, Significance, and Meaning in Life	0
A Revision on Waldron’s Autonomy Defense of Moral Rights	0
Partial Relationships and Epistemic Injustice	0
Having a Sense of Humor as a Virtue	0
Enfranchising refugees in a non-ideal world	0
Causal Stability in Moral Contexts	0
The Revival of Virtue Ethics: Critical Remarks on a Commonplace Narrative	0
David Boonin: Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780198842101, $65.00, HbK	0
Stoic Versions of the Guise of the Good	0
Wisdom, Action, and Knowledge	0
Anti-natalism, Pollyannaism, and Asymmetry: A Defence of Cheery Optimism	0
Vices in Gaming: Virtue Ethics and Endorsement View	0
Exemplarist Moral Theory: Recent Developments and Replies to Objections	0
Two Kinds of Arguments Against the Fittingness of Fearing Death	0
Plato’s Moral Exemplarism	0
Non-conscious Entities Cannot Have Well-Being	0
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case, Is Morality Real? A Debate. New York: Routledge. 260pp. ISBN: 978-1032023878. US $34.95 (Pbk)	0
Relational Egalitarianism and Aesthetic Equality	0
A Dilemma for Luck Egalitarians	0
J. P. Messina, Private Censorship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 224 pp., 9780197581902. US $35.00 (Hb)	0
Dio Chrysostom’s Ancient Arguments against Owning Slaves: How Cynic Contrarianism Resists Injustice	0
Moral Exemplars and the Moral Community	0
Book Review: Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser, Outsourcing Duty: the Moral Exploitation of the american soldier (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) June 14, 2022	0
The Exemplarity of Those Who Place Friendship and Care at the Center	0
Benevolence Toward Efforts	0
Being Judgmental–A vice of attention	0
Against the Applicability Argument for Sufficientarianism	0
Attachment, Security, and Relational Networks	0
The Positional Nature of Valuing	0
Review of Pavlos Kontos, Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason: Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils. Routledge 2021	0
The Trolley Problem and Intuitional Evidence	0
Is Confucian Political Meritocracy a Viable Alternative to Democracy? A Critical Engagement with Tongdong Bai	0
Correction: The Question of the Existence of Moral Reasons and Two Kinds of Scepticisms	0
Expectable Outcome Deontology – A New Theory of Life’s Meaning	0
An Argument Against Treating Non-Human Animal Bodies as Commodities	0
Correction: Narrative Explanations of Action. Narrative Identity with Minimal Requirements	0
Meaning in Life as the Comprehensive Value. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Meaningfulness and Morality	0
Courage in Aristotle’s Theory of the Good	0
Nurturing Multidimensional Autonomy: A Confucian-Feminist Approach to Care	0
Water Footprints and Veganism	0
Empathy, Motivating Reasons, and Morally Worthy Action	0
Devotion and Well-Being: A Platonic Personalist Perfectionist Account	0
Peaks and Troughs: Dysepiphany, Antiphany, and Melancholy	0
Nonhuman Animals and the Scope of Justice	0
Book Review of Moral Partiality by Yong Li	0
Book Review: John Hasnas, Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society, New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.	0

Insult and Injustice in Epistemic Partiality	0
Just Economy. Rescuing the Camping Trip	0
On Some Circumstances of Admiring Exemplars	0
Neoptolemus and Huck Finn Reconsidered. Alleged Inverse akrasia and the Case for Moral Incapacity	0
David Benatarʼs Argument from Asymmetry: A Qualified Defence	0
The Composition of Risk	0
Is Biocentrism Dead? Two Live Problems for Life-Centered Ethics	0
The Good Life and the Life That’s Good for You: A Response to the Experience Machine	0
Ethical Taboo in Humorous Play	0
Consent and the Mere Means Principle	0
Soft Libertarianism and Quantum Randomizers	0
Comments On: Orsi, Francesco. The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History. New York and London: Routledge, 2023. Chapters 4 and 5	0
Robust Exemplarist Natural Law	0
The Invention and Re-invention of Meta-ethics	0
Elliot D. Cohen, Are You Making Love or Just Having Sex? A Philosophical Guide To Enduring Love and Sexual Intimacy, New York: Anthem Press, 2025, 153pp. ISBN:9781839992360 US $29.95 (Pbk)	0
My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-Natalism	0
Anthropocentrism and Loving Nature	0
The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry	0
John T. Lysaker, Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, 256pp. ISBN: 9780226827919 US $30.00 (Pbk)	0
Will the Real Closeness Problem Please Stand Up?	0
Group Gratitude: A Taxonomy	0
‘A Life of Our Own’: Why Authenticity is More Than a Condition for Autonomy	0
Collis Tahzib, A Perfectionist Theory of Justice	0
A Reasonable Expectation Account of The Epistemic Condition of Blameworthiness and Ignorance Rooted in Myside Bias	0
The Phronimos as a moral exemplar: two internal objections and a proposed solution	0
Correction: Vices in Gaming: Virtue Ethics and Endorsement View	0
Virtue Developmental Emotions	0
Benatar and Metz on Cosmic Meaning and Anti-natalism	0
Some Conditions for Genuine Admiration Regarding Moral Theory and Moral Education	0
Does “Better Than” Have a Common Scale?	0
Shu-Considerateness and Ren-Humaneness: The Confucian Silver Rule and Golden Rule	0
The Question of the Existence of Moral Reasons and Two Kinds of Scepticisms	0
Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics: A Defense	0
Some Socratic Modesty: A Reconsideration of Recent Empirical Work on Moral Judgment	0
Arguing About Moral Causation	0
Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues Edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer	0
On the Idea of Degrees of Moral Status	0
A New Way to Oppose Abortion	0
Matthew Strohl, Why it’s OK to Love Bad Movies. New York, Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 0367407655. Paperback $24.95	0
“Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It” by Paul Thagard. Columbia University Press	0
Morality Fiction and Ethical Escapism	0
Reply to Commentators	0
Inferences and the Right to Privacy	0
Why it’s Fine to Offset one’s Carbon Emissions by Paying Others to Pollute Less: A Deontological Account of Risk Imposition	0
Exemplars and Individual Responsibility in Agency-Stultifying Situations	0
The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle	0
A Critique of Moore’s Intellectual Property Theory	0
Matthieu Queloz, the Practical Origins of Ideas. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780198868705, £72, Hbk	0