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Papers

(The median citation count of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Justin Clarke Doane: Morality and Mathematics Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020 hardback, 9780198823667, 208pp	52
Partiality and Meaning	45
Democratic citizenship and polarization: Robert Talisse’s theory of democracy	40
A Value-Free, Diversity-Sensitive Measure of Freedom	25
Correction to: Envy, Levelling Down, and Harrison Bergeron: Defending Limitarianism Against Three Common Objections	18
How Can Hope Be Rational in the Context of Global Poverty?	17
Moral Education Through the Fostering of Reasoning Skills	14
How Do Technologies Affect How We See and Treat Animals? Extending Technological Mediation Theory to Human-animal Relations	13
Pluralism, Structural Injustice, and Reparations for Historical Injustice: A Reply to Daniel Butt	12
Jessica Begon: Disability Through the Lens of Justice	11
What’s Wrong with Social Hierarchy? On Niko Kolodny’s The Pecking Order	11
Carolina Sartorio’s Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action	10
Virtuous People and Moral Reasons	10
Rectification Versus Aid: Why the State Owes More to Those it Wrongfully Harms	9
Billy Christmas: property and justice. A liberal theory of Natural Rights. New York: Routledge, 2021. E-Book (ISBN: 978-0-429-29725-0), € 29.70. 184 pp.	9
The Ethics of Signaling in War	8
Anonymous Arguments	8
Metaethics as Dead Politics? On Political Normativity and Justification	8
Is Rational Manipulation Permissible?	7
Should Philosophical Reflection on Ethics Do Without Moral Concepts?	7
Moral Disagreement and Moral Education: What’s the Problem?	7
Cognitivism and the argument from evidence non-responsiveness*	7
Introduction: Symposium Limitarianism: Extreme Wealth as a Moral Problem	6
Challenging Ethical Practices: From Moral Psychology to Normative Theory and Back Again	6
The Virtuous Arguer as a Virtuous Sequencer	6

Gerald Lang: Strokes of Luck: A Study in Moral and Political Philosophy	6
Is Veganism Not Good Enough? Industrial Plant Agriculture and Unnecessary Harm	6
Valeria Ottonelli & Tiziana Torresi, the Right Not to Stay: Justice in Migration, the Liberal Democratic State, and the Case of Temporary Migration Projects	6
Instrumental Needs: A Relational Account	6
Conceptual Mediation in Technomoral Change: Reply to Danaher and Sætra	5
Ideal vs. Non-Ideal: Why Normative Theory Often Fails to Target Oppression and How it Might do Better	5
Correction to: When Monitoring Facilitates Trust	5
Prison Violence as Punishment	5
Deservingness Belongs to the Past	5
The Hidden Values of Resisting Temptation: Effort, Meaning, and Self-Knowledge	4
Fitting Love and Uniqueness	4
Editorial ‘The Theory and Practice of Counterspeech’	4
Disagreement and Expressions of Dissent Within Public Institutions	4
Tommaso Greco: La legge della fiducia. Alle radici del diritto	4
Knowledge Versus Understanding: What Drives Moral Progress?	4
The relational wrong of Poverty	4
Editorial	4
Ethics and Practice: Living Together in Troubled Times	4
Gregg D. Caruso: Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice	4
Institutional Integrity: Its Meaning and Value	4
The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces	4
Tony Soprano, Compartmentalized: an Achilles’ Heel in the Deep Self View	4
The Distributive Demands of Relational Egalitarianism	4
Federica Liveriero: Relational Liberalism: Democratic Co-Authorship in a Pluralistic World Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023. Hardback (ISBN 978-3-031-22742-4) $119.99. 291 pp.	4
Democracy Needs Reach: Political Equality, Online Speech and Algorithmic Recommendation	4
Choosing, Picking, and Reason to Choose	4
Editorial	4
Reasoning in Character: Virtue, Legal Argumentation, and Judicial Ethics	4
Can Deepfakes Violate an Individual’s Moral Right to Privacy?	4
Neurointerventions for Criminal Offenders: Psychological Connectedness, Culpability and Justified Punishment	3
Individualistic Versus Relational Ethics – A Contestable Concept for (African) Philosophy	3
György Márkus, János Kis, and György Bence: How Is Critical Economic Theory Possible? Translated by John Grumley and János Kis. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Hardback (ISBN 978-90-04-51847-6) € 167.48. 296 pp.	3
A Republican Conception of Counterspeech	3
Metaethical Deflationism, Access Worries and Motivationally Grasped Oughts	3
Editorial ‘Political Normativity. Critical Essays on the Autonomy of the Political’	3
Ludvig Beckman: The Boundaries of Democracy – A Theory of Inclusion London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Paperback. (ISBN 978-1-032-41810-0) £ 35.99. 158 pp.	3
A Challenge for the Scaffolding View of Responsibility	3
Respect for Rights and Liability to Defensive Harm	3
Rethinking Anonymous Grading	3
A Non-Solution to the Non-Identity Problem	3
What does it mean to have an equal say?	3
James Lenman, The Possibility of Moral Community: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024. Hardback, ISBN: 9780198885085. 188 pages	3
Moral Answerability in Clinical Ethics Consultation	3
“We Accept You, One of Us”: Praise, Blame, and Group Management	3
Vaccine Passports and Political Legitimacy: A Public Reason Framework for Policymakers	3
Beyond (Non)-Instrumentalization: Migration and Dignity within a Kantian Framework	3
Preventing the Exploitation of Activists’ Care	3
The Ethics of Kingmaking	2
Editorial	2
Doing Away with Skepticism about Harm	2

Guest Editors’ Introduction: De-moralizing Ethics	2
Editors’-in-Chief Note	2
William MacAskill: What we Owe the Future: A Million-Year View	2
Street Photography Ethics	2
Correction to: “When in Rome…”: on the Authority of Social Norms	2
The Guises of Habit	2
What about the Kids of Racist Parents? The Containment of Unreasonableness and the Challenge of Parenthood	2
Plans, Open Future and the Prospects for a Good Life	2
Putting Deep Disagreements in Context: a Defence of Reasonably Agreeing to Disagree	2
Testimony of Oppression and the Limits of Empathy	2
Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience	2
Catia Faria: Animal Ethics in the Wild	2
Julio Montero: Human Rights as Human Independence: A Philosophical and Legal Interpretation	2
Asking before Arguing? Consent in Argumentation	2
Working Retirees? A Liberal Case for Retirement as Free Time	2
Shannon Vallor: THE AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Paperback (ISBN 978-0-19-775906-6), $24.95 USD, 272 Pages	2
Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires	2
Against Parental Devotion: On Power, Friendships, and Flourishing	1
“Stay away from the Park”: A Case for Police-Issued Personal Safety Advice for Women	1
Tanja Rechnitzer: Applying Reflective Equilibrium	1
Editorial	1
Linguistic Interventions and the Ethics of Conceptual Disruption	1
The Deliberative Significance of Moral Obligations	1
What Doesn’t Kill Primary Reason Atomism Will Only Make It Stronger: A Limited Defense	1
Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz (eds): Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	1
The Ethics of Cancelling	1
Mark Coeckelbergh: Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024. Paperback (978-1-5095-6092-9), $22.95. 144 Pages	1
Epistemic Partiality and the Nature of Friendship	1
Explainability, Public Reason, and Medical Artificial Intelligence	1
When Moral Talk Becomes Profitable	1
The Power of Belief: Cognitive Resonance, Objectivism, and Well-being	1
The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem	1
Digital Blackface and Its Argumentative Implications	1
You Don’t Have to be Better to Blame	1
The Normative Power of Consent and Limits on Research Risks	1
Metz on Enhancement: A Relational Critique	1
Values and Vampires: Why Moral Axiology Withstands the Argument From Queerness	1
Signing on: A Contractarian Understanding of How Public History is Used for Civic Inclusion	1
Pleasure is Goodness; Morality is Universal	1
Immigration Detention: the Case for Contingent Abolitionism	1
Editorial: Convergence and Contestation in Practical Philosophy	1
Sebo, Jeff: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes	1
Robert Baker: The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution	1
A Realist Membership Account of Political Obligation	1
Harmony, Disruption, and Affective Injustice: Metz and the Capacity for Harmonious Relationship	1
Why Fly? Prudential Value, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Long-distance Leisure Travel	1
Hateful Counterspeech	1
The Adultification of Black Girls as Identity-Prejudicial Credibility Excess	1
How Situationism Impacts the Goals of Character Education	1
Economic Inequality and the Permissibility of Leveling Down	1
Preference Intensity, Age-Weighted Votes, and the Democratic Empowerment of Young Citizens: A Reply to Kim Angell	1
The Neurocorrective Offer and Manipulative Pressure	1
Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview	1
Parr, T. (2025). Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation. Oxford University Press, 2025. Hardback (ISBN: 9780198849124). £99.00. 336 pp	1
The Philosophy and History of the Moral ‘Ought’: Some of Anscombe’s Objections	1
Glen Pettigrove and Christine Swanton (eds.): Neglected Virtues	1
Feeding Infants: Choice-Specific Considerations, Parental Obligation, and Pragmatic Satisficing	1