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Dr Joe Saunders' Outputs (26)

Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties (2024)
Journal Article
Saunders, J., Slater, J., & Sticker, M. (2024). Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties. Philosophy Compass, 19(6), Article e12998. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12998

The Overdemandingness Objection maintains that an ethical theory or principle that demands too much should be rejected, or at least moderated. Traditionally, overdemandingness is considered primarily a problem for consequentialist ethical theories. R... Read More about Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties.

The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties (2023)
Journal Article
Saunders, J., & Stern, R. (2023). The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties. ERGO, 10(12), 341-371. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.4642

In this paper, we do two things: first, we offer a metaphysical account of what it is to be an individual person through Hegel’s understanding of the concrete universal; and second, we show how this account of an individual can help in thinking about... Read More about The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties.

The Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online (2023)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J. (2023). The Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online. In C. Fox, & J. Saunders (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics (307-318). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003134749-30

Social media is a mess. Philosophers have recently helped catalogue some of the various ills. In this chapter, I relay some of this conceptual work on virtue signalling, piling on, ramping up, echo-chambers, epistemic bubbles, polarization, moral out... Read More about The Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online.

Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self (2023)
Book
Saunders, J. (Ed.). (2023). Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350187788

Freedom after Kant situates Kant’s concept of freedom in relation to leading philosophers of the period to trace a detailed history of philosophical thinking on freedom from the 18th to the 20th century. Beginning with German Idealism, the volume pre... Read More about Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self.

Love (2023)
Book Chapter
McKeever, N., & Saunders, J. (2023). Love. In M. Sellers, & S. Kirste (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (1-5). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_1070-1

Love is among the most valuable things in life. It is also complex, and relates to many moral and social issues. In this entry, we first outline what some of the different kinds of love are, before turning to explore what love actually is: a biologic... Read More about Love.

Irrational Love: Taking Romeo and Juliet Seriously (2022)
Journal Article
McKeever, N., & Saunders, J. (2022). Irrational Love: Taking Romeo and Juliet Seriously. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 30(3), 254-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2022.2121895

This paper argues that there are important irrational elements to love. In the philosophical literature, we typically find that love is either thought of as rational or arational and that any irrational elements are thought to be defective, or extran... Read More about Irrational Love: Taking Romeo and Juliet Seriously.

Timeless Freedom in Kant: Transcendental Freedom and Things-in-Themselves (2022)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2022). Timeless Freedom in Kant: Transcendental Freedom and Things-in-Themselves. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 39(3), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521026.39.3.05

This paper draws attention to two problems with Kant's claim that transcendental freedom is timeless. The problems are that this causes conceptual difficulties and fails to vindicate important parts of our moral practices. I then put forward three wa... Read More about Timeless Freedom in Kant: Transcendental Freedom and Things-in-Themselves.

Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love (2022)
Journal Article
Sticker, M., & Saunders, J. (online). Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2022.2075457

Kant holds that whenever we fail to act from duty, we are driven by self-love. In this paper, we argue that there are a variety of different ways in which people go wrong, and we show why it is unsatisfying to reduce all of these to self-love. In doi... Read More about Why we go wrong: beyond Kant’s dichotomy between duty and self-love.

Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process (2020)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J. (2020). Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process. In K. Macnish, & J. Galliott (Eds.), Big data and democracy. Edinburgh University Press

Political advertising is changing. This chapter considers some of the implications of this for the democratic process. I begin with recent reports of online political advertising. From this, two related concerns emerge. The first is that online polit... Read More about Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process.

Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism (2020)
Journal Article
Saunders, J., & Sticker, M. (2020). Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 102(4), 646-673. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2020-1010

In this paper, we draw attention to several important tensions between Kant’s account of moral education and his commitment to transcendental idealism. Our main claim is that, in locating freedom outside of space and time, transcendental idealism mak... Read More about Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism.

Hegel, Norms and Ontology (2019)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2019). Hegel, Norms and Ontology. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 36(3), 279-297

This paper lays out two recent accounts of Hegel's practical philosophy in order to present a challenge. According to Robert Stern and Mark Alznauer, Hegel attempts to ground our ethical practices in ontological norms. I argue that we cannot ground o... Read More about Hegel, Norms and Ontology.

Transcendental Freedom and its Discontents (2018)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2018). Transcendental Freedom and its Discontents. Con-Textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, 1(8), 319-322. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2383864

This introduction briefly lays out the basics of Kant’s concept, transcendental freedom, and some of its discontents. It also provides an overview of the dossier itself, introducing Katerina Deligiorgi’s discussion of ought-implies-can, Patrick Frier... Read More about Transcendental Freedom and its Discontents.

Practical grounds for belief: Kant and James on religion (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, N. W., & Saunders, J. (2018). Practical grounds for belief: Kant and James on religion. European Journal of Philosophy, 26(4), 1269-1282. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12319

Both Kant and James claim to limit the role of knowledge in order to make room for faith. In this paper, we argue that despite some similarities, their attempts to do this come apart. Our main claim is that, although both Kant and James justify our a... Read More about Practical grounds for belief: Kant and James on religion.