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Justice in Hiring: Why the Most Qualified Should Not (Necessarily) Get the Job (2024)
Journal Article
Carey, B. (2024). Justice in Hiring: Why the Most Qualified Should Not (Necessarily) Get the Job. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 41(4), 731-744. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12727

In this article I argue that justice often requires that candidates who are sufficiently qualified for jobs be hired via lottery on the basis that this is the best way to recognise each candidate's equal moral claim to access meaningful work. In reac... Read More about Justice in Hiring: Why the Most Qualified Should Not (Necessarily) Get the Job.

Hypocrisy and Epistemic Injustice (2024)
Journal Article
Carey, B. (2024). Hypocrisy and Epistemic Injustice. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 27(3), 353-370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10442-3

In this article I argue that we should understand some forms of hypocritical behaviour in terms of epistemic injustice; a type of injustice in which a person is wronged in their capacity as a knower. If each of us has an interest in knowing what mora... Read More about Hypocrisy and Epistemic Injustice.

Circumventing the Non-identity Problem (2022)
Journal Article
Carey, B. (2023). Circumventing the Non-identity Problem. Philosophia, 51, 1143–1158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00589-7

This article provides an account of moral obligations that we have towards present generations, which require us to produce outcomes that are similar to those we would be required to produce if we had moral obligations to future generations. Discharg... Read More about Circumventing the Non-identity Problem.

Justifying language policies in mobile societies (2022)
Book Chapter
Carey, B., & Shorten, A. (2022). Justifying language policies in mobile societies. In F. Grin, L. Marácz, & N. K. Pokorn (Eds.), Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy (361-380). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/wlp.9.18car

A conception of linguistic justice refers to a set of moral principles that can provide guidance about a society’s language policies. By the lights of a recently prominent strand of liberal political theory, such a conception will be legitimate if an... Read More about Justifying language policies in mobile societies.