Dr Joe Saunders' Outputs (6)

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 Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics (2023)
Book
Fox, C., & Saunders, J. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003134749

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.

Practical grounds for freedom: Kant and James on freedom, experience and an open future (2023)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J., & Williams, N. (2023). Practical grounds for freedom: Kant and James on freedom, experience and an open future. In J. Saunders (Ed.), Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self (155-172). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350187788.ch-10

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.