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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Peaks and Troughs: Dysepiphany, Antiphany, and Melancholy	8
Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics	8
“How Good is Suffering?: Commentary on Michael S. Brady, Suffering and Virtue”	6
Reply to: Amichai Amit, Ikbal Bozkaya, S. Stewart Braun, Kristina Gehrman, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Sharpe, Will Small, Matthew Stichter, Denise Vigani, Tiger Zheng	5
Virtues as Skills, and The Virtues of Self-Regulation	4
Response to Commentators on Suffering and Virtue	4
Empathy, Motivating Reasons, and Morally Worthy Action	3
Does the Lack of Cosmic Meaning Make Our Lives Bad?	3
Two Varieties of Evil	3
Must Pessimists Be Suicidal?	3
Manon Garcia: We Are Not Born Submissive	3
Moral Obligations in Conditions of Partial Compliance	3
Fellow Strangers: Physical Distance and Evaluations of Blameworthiness	3
Arguing About Moral Causation	3
Benatar and Metz on Cosmic Meaning and Anti-natalism	2
Against the Applicability Argument for Sufficientarianism	2
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)	2
A Revision on Waldron’s Autonomy Defense of Moral Rights	2
Bhaskarjit Neog, What Responsibility? Whose Responsibility? Intention, Agency, and Emotions of Collective Entities. London: Routledge, 2023. 170 pp., 9780367366933. £135.00 (Hb.)	2
Matthew Strohl, Why it’s OK to Love Bad Movies. New York, Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 0367407655. Paperback $24.95	2
Correction: The Question of the Existence of Moral Reasons and Two Kinds of Scepticisms	2
The Benefits of Living Without Meaning Sub Specie Aeternitatis	2
Courage in Aristotle’s Theory of the Good	2
An Individualist Theory of Meaning	2
Clare Chambers, Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body	2

Realism, Naturalism, and Hazlett’s Challenge Concerning Epistemic Value	2
The Separateness of Persons: Defending the Rawlsian Institutional Approach to Distributive Justice	2
Shu-Considerateness and Ren-Humaneness: The Confucian Silver Rule and Golden Rule	1
Eric J. Silverman, The Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019), 165 pages. ISBN: 978-1-7936-0883-3. Hardback: $90.00	1
Non-conscious Entities Cannot Have Well-Being	1
Soft Libertarianism and the Value of Incompatibilist Control	1
Being Sure and Living Well: How Security Affects Human Flourishing	1
Correction to: The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle	1
Collis Tahzib, A Perfectionist Theory of Justice	1
Free Will, Religious Conflict, and the Social Contract	1
Virtue and Embodied Skill: Refining the Virtue-Skill Analogy	1
On the Adequacy of Action Guidance in Virtue Ethics	1
Michael Huemer and Daniel Layman, Is Political Authority an Illusion: A Debate. New York: Routledge. 207pp. ISBN: 978-0367347451. US $34.95 (Pbk)	1
Causal Stability in Moral Contexts	1
The Positional Nature of Valuing	1
Anti-natalism, Pollyannaism, and Asymmetry: A Defence of Cheery Optimism	1
Not Justice: Prison as a Moral Failure	1
Water Footprints and Veganism	1
The Muddled Moral Mind	1
Amnesties and Forgiveness	1
A Reason to Know	1
Beyond Agent-Regret: Another Attitude for Non-Culpable Failure	1
What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories	1
The Importance of Eudaimonia for Action-guiding Virtue Ethics	1
Character: A Persistently Developmental Account	1
Matthieu Queloz, the Practical Origins of Ideas. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780198868705, £72, Hbk	1
The Good Life and the Life That’s Good for You: A Response to the Experience Machine	1
Merit for Political Power: The Normative Basis	1
Misconceived: Why These Further Criticisms of Anti-natalism Fail	1
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	1
When to Fill Responsibility Gaps: A Proposal	1
The Fist of Virtue: The Virtue-Skill Analogy and Traditional Martial Arts	1
The Authority and Content of Morality: A Dilemma for Constitutivism and a Coherentist Approach to Normativity	1
Merit Transference and the Paradox of Merit Inflation	1
Virtue Developmental Emotions	1
Morality Fiction and Ethical Escapism	1
Enough Suffering: Thoughts on Suffering and Virtue	1
Does Dyadic Gratitude Make Sense? The Lived Experience and Conceptual Delineation of Gratitude in Absence of a Benefactor	1
Honesty and the Truth: Against Subjectivism About Honesty	1
Moral Monsters, Significance, and Meaning in Life	1
Contractualist Justifiability and Principles for the General Regulation of Behavior	0
Mid-Libertarianism and the Utilitarian Proviso	0
Kant and the trolley	0
Narrative Explanations of Action. Narrative Identity with Minimal Requirements	0
Benevolence Toward Efforts	0
Jonathan Y. Tsou: Philosophy of Psychiatry	0
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case, Is Morality Real? A Debate. New York: Routledge. 260pp. ISBN: 978-1032023878. US $34.95 (Pbk)	0
Brady on Suffering and Virtue	0
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	0
The Freedom To Do As We Please: A Strong Value Pluralist Conceptualization of Negative Freedom	0

The Intelligence of Virtue and Skill	0
Relational Egalitarianism and Aesthetic Equality	0
Taking Morality Directly	0
Nurturing Multidimensional Autonomy: A Confucian-Feminist Approach to Care	0
Taking Embodiment Seriously in Ethics and Political Philosophy	0
The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle	0
The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry	0
The Normative, the Practical, and the Deliberatively Indispensable	0
Authenticity and Contact Value	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
‘Let No-One Ignorant of Geometry…’: Mathematical Parallels for Understanding the Objectivity of Ethics	0
Just Economy. Rescuing the Camping Trip	0
Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9780367343873, £17.99, Pbk	0
Introduction to Special Edition on “Annas on Virtue and Skill”	0
Non-Normative Behavior and the Virtue of Rebelliousness	0
Moral Functionalism and Moral Nonnaturalism	0
Error Theories and Bare-Difference Methodology: A Reply to Kopeikin	0
David Boonin: Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780198842101, $65.00, HbK	0
Blame, Harm, and Motivational Value	0
Towards a Non-Reliance Commitment Account of Trust	0
The Phronimos as a moral exemplar: two internal objections and a proposed solution	0
Death, Badness, and Well-Being at a Time	0
Andrius Galisanka: John Rawls: The Path to A Theory of Justice	0
Consent and the Mere Means Principle	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
Evaluative Injustice	0
David Benatarʼs Argument from Asymmetry: A Qualified Defence	0
Is the Life of a Mediocre Philosopher Better Than the Life of an Excellent Cobbler? Aristotle on the Value of Activity in Nicomachean Ethics x.4-8	0
Neoptolemus and Huck Finn Reconsidered. Alleged Inverse akrasia and the Case for Moral Incapacity	0
Arthur M. Diamond, Jr., Openness to Creative Destruction Sustaining Innovative Dynamism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019	0
Enfranchising refugees in a non-ideal world	0
Institutional Responsibility is Prior to Personal Responsibility in a Pandemic	0
Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander	0
Famine, Action, and the Normative	0
Reply to Commentators	0
The Inspiring and the Purple, and the Worthy and the Dull	0
Reconciling the Deprivation Account with the Final Badness of Death	0
Inferences and the Right to Privacy	0
Could Morality be a Social Construction?	0
Risky Transplants and Partial Cures: Against the Objectivist View of Moral Obligation	0
Effective Deliberation, Good Deliberation, and the Skill Analogy	0
Specifying Contractualism: How to Reason About What We Owe to Each Other	0
Ethical Taboo in Humorous Play	0
The Diagnostic Value of Freedom	0
Vice and Impoverishment: Two Perfectionist Bads	0
Having a Sense of Humor as a Virtue	0
On the Idea of Degrees of Moral Status	0
Rights and Practical Reasoning: A Practical View on the Specificationism vs Generalism Debate	0
Attachment, Security, and Relational Networks	0
A Defense of the Parfitian Approach to Overdetermination Cases	0
Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues Edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer	0
Variations in Virtue Phenomenology	0
Doxastic Wronging, Disrespectful Belief, & The Moral Over-Demandingness Objection	0
Experiencing the Conflict: The Rationality of Ambivalence	0
Insult and Injustice in Epistemic Partiality	0
Stoic Versions of the Guise of the Good	0
Moral Exemplarism as a Powerful Indoctrinating Tool	0
Some Socratic Modesty: A Reconsideration of Recent Empirical Work on Moral Judgment	0
What Makes Circumstantial Luck Different and Why it Matters	0
J. P. Messina, Private Censorship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 224 pp., 9780197581902. US $35.00 (Hb)	0
The Trolley Problem and Intuitional Evidence	0
Wisdom, Action, and Knowledge	0
On an Alleged Refutation of Ethical Egoism	0
Partial Relationships and Epistemic Injustice	0
Epiphanies and Moral Creativity	0
Persons vs. supra-persons and the undermining of individual interests	0
Agent-Relativity and the Status of Deontological Restrictions	0
The Ethical Import of Grief	0
On the Practicality of Virtue Ethics	0
What is the Role of Partial Compliance in Moral Theory?	0
Devotion and Well-Being: A Platonic Personalist Perfectionist Account	0
Justifying Subsistence Emissions: An Appeal to Causal Impotence	0
How to Derive Norms from Generics: A Gap in Neo-Aristotelian Metaethics	0
Wholesome Mind Ethics: A Buddhist Paradigm	0
Substantial Self-Knowledge and the Necessity of Avowal	0
An Excellence-Based View of Virtuous Motivation	0
Absolute Goodness Defended	0
Person-Creating and Filial Piety	0
Group Gratitude: A Taxonomy	0
Moral Luck and Unfair Blame	0

Expectable Outcome Deontology – A New Theory of Life’s Meaning	0
Walter Horn, Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2021. ISBN: 9781793624956, $105, hbk	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
Reply to Commentators	0
William Glod: Why It’s OK to Make Bad Choices	0
Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics: A Defense	0
The Normativity of Rationality: An Imperfect Duty to Be Coherent	0
When Moral Pleasure Conflicts with Moral Sorrow	0
Does “Better Than” Have a Common Scale?	0
The Axiology of Pain and Pleasure	0
Two Guises of the Good in Anscombe	0
Nothing Personal: On the Limits of the Impersonal Temperament in Ethics	0
My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-Natalism	0
Justice and Exploitation in Cohen’s Account of Socialism	0
Admiration, Affectivity, and Value: Critical Remarks on Exemplarity	0
“Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It” by Paul Thagard. Columbia University Press	0
An Argument Against Treating Non-Human Animal Bodies as Commodities	0
Better to Return Whence We Came	0
Protasi Sara, The Philosophy of Envy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781009007023, $ 87, hbk	0
The Guise of the Good: Book Précis	0
Communists, Anarchists, and Suckers: A Reply to Spafford on ‘Conditional Exchange’	0
The Question of the Existence of Moral Reasons and Two Kinds of Scepticisms	0
The Singular Analysis of the “Good For” Relation	0
Nonhuman Animals and the Scope of Justice	0
Is Confucian Political Meritocracy a Viable Alternative to Democracy? A Critical Engagement with Tongdong Bai	0
Natalism, Natality, and the Climate Crisis: An Arendtian Argument against ‘Green’ Anti-Natalism	0
Will the Real Closeness Problem Please Stand Up?	0
Ideal Theory and Its Fairness Role	0
The Aesthetics of Ethics: Exemplarism, Beauty, and the Psychology of Morality	0
The Revival of Virtue Ethics: Critical Remarks on a Commonplace Narrative	0
On the Correlation Between Moral Belief and Motivation	0
Making Sense of Extended Affirmative Action: Review of Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen	0
A Reasonable Expectation Account of The Epistemic Condition of Blameworthiness and Ignorance Rooted in Myside Bias	0
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, £	0
Gareth B. Matthews, the Child’s Philosopher. Maughn Rollins Gregory and Megan Jane Laverty, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2022. xxi + 278 p	0
Precis of Suffering and Virtue	0
‘A Life of Our Own’: Why Authenticity is More Than a Condition for Autonomy	0
Parfit’s Mixed Maxim Objection against the Formula of Universal Law Reconsidered	0
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)	0
Innocentism: Preferring the Innocent Over the Culpable	0
Introduction	0
Comments On: Orsi, Francesco. The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History. New York and London: Routledge, 2023. Chapters 4 and 5	0
Is Biocentrism Dead? Two Live Problems for Life-Centered Ethics	0
A Modest Dilemma: Can the Virtue of Modesty Coexist with the Developmental Account of Virtue?	0
Pushed for Being Better: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Nudging	0
Sentencing Disparity and Artificial Intelligence	0
Derk Pereboom, Wrongdoing & the Human Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. 224pp. ISBN: 978-0198903789. US $25.00 (Pbk)	0
A New Way to Oppose Abortion	0
Review of The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson	0
Work Relationships and Autonomy	0
Changes and Conflicts of What We Value: Empirical Value-Surveys and Axiological Reflection	0
Between too Intellectualist and not Intellectualist Enough: Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises and Annas’ Virtues as Skills	0
Vices in Gaming: Virtue Ethics and Endorsement View	0
You Can’t Have Your Steak and Call for Political Action on Climate Change, Too	0
Soft Libertarianism and Quantum Randomizers	0
Confucius as an Exemplar of Intellectual Humility	0
Meaning in Life as the Comprehensive Value. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Meaningfulness and Morality	0
The Invention and Re-invention of Meta-ethics	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
Knowledge of Moral Incapacity	0
Life, the Universe, and Connectedness	0
Parental Responsibility and Our Special Relationship with Animal Companions	0
Being Judgmental–A vice of attention	0
Why it’s Fine to Offset one’s Carbon Emissions by Paying Others to Pollute Less: A Deontological Account of Risk Imposition	0
The Mirage of Motivation Reason Internalism	0
Two Kinds of Arguments Against the Fittingness of Fearing Death	0
Dio Chrysostom’s Ancient Arguments against Owning Slaves: How Cynic Contrarianism Resists Injustice	0
Wholesale moral error for naturalists	0
Limiting Access to Certain Anonymous Information: From the Group Right to Privacy to the Principle of Protecting the Vulnerable	0
The Unity of Virtue and Goodness	0
Anthropocentrism and Loving Nature	0
The Anti-Individualistic Turn in the Ethics of Collegiality: Can Good Colleagues Be Epistemically Vicious?	0
A Dilemma for Luck Egalitarians	0
Can desire-satisfaction alienate our good?	0
The Value of Being a Child: An Intuitive Case for a Development View	0
On Risk-Based Arguments for Anti-natalism	0
Correction: Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: A Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics	0