Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Our latest issue is out! Visit jesp.org to find papers about conscience and moral standing, crime and public health, moral progress through denaturalization, gratitude for what we are owed, enclaves for the excluded, the duty to vote, and committing to parenthood.

Congratulations to Mitchell N. Berman, who received the Association of American Law Schools' 2025 Jurisprudence Section Article Award for his JESP paper "How Practices Make Principles and How Principles Make Rule"!

Our final JESP issue of 2024 has just been published. Head over to jesp.org to find papers about social consciousness, ought-implies-can, Kantian free riding, Scanlonian contractualism, basic freedom, claim rights, and moral worth in Gettier cases.

The latest JESP issue is out! Head over to jesp.org to read about principled positivism, sulking into sex, meaning in life, relation-response properties, rationality and reasons, educational justice, and rescuing the greatest number.

Another JESP issue has been published! Visit jesp.org to read about moral and modal demandingness, signatory desires, ambiguous threats, the need for merely possible people, addiction and responsibility, valuing diversity, and the hybrid account of harm.

We're excited to announce that JESP has launched a new website for handling submissions: jespsubmissions.org. The site is based on the system designed for Ergo (thanks @ErgoEditors!). We will continue to publish papers at jesp.org.

A new JESP issue is out! Visit jesp.org to read about letting animals off the hook, the challenge for COVID vaccine testing, dementia and extended cognition, murderers on the ballot paper, three kinds of prioritarianism, and (not) living one's best life.

Our latest issue has just been published! Head over to read papers about collective virtue, the value of uptake, how temptation works, value capture, the right against risk imposition, doxastic partiality, and Anscombe's views on murder. jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…

A new JESP issue has been published! Head over to jesp.org to read about intellectual humility and political conviction, censorship, the right to mental autonomy, blaming AI, relational egalitarianism, Rawls on just savings, and even newer shmagency worries.

Another new JESP issue has been published! Head over to jesp.org to read about remaining true to ourselves, racial denials and epistemic injustice, immoral artistry, weakness of political will, paternalism, forgiveness and partiality, and the procedure of morality.

Issue 26.3 is now up! Come read about gaslighting, dismissing blame, basic equality, time travel and moral responsibility, paternalism and exclusion, maxim and principle contractualism, nonnaturalism and supervenience, and riots.

Issue 26.2 is now live! Come read about allies, combatants and masculinity, double effect, republican freedom, resolution and resolve, structural irrationality, the shortcomings of the trolley method, and new editorial leadership for JESP! jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…

JESP issue 26.1 is now live! Come read about backsliding, agnosticism about justice, savior siblings, continuing harm, deference to authority, radical cognitivism, alienation and normativity, diachronic lotteries, and voting to change the outcome! jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…

Moderation, online abuse, manipulation, Aquinas, personal reactive attitudes, settlement and exclusion, the question of what to do, rescue and necessity, and animal rescue - 11 new JESP authors and 9 new articles. Issue 25.2 now live. jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…

Issue 25.1 is now live! Come read about rights, promises, love, nondomination, nonhuman animals and epistemic injustice, Kant, giving up on someone, and the fine line between sadism and horror! jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…

JESP is once again open for new submissions. Thanks to everyone for your patience and forbearance as we have dealt with our growing pains. We look forward to an even better experience for authors going forward.

Issue 24.3 is now up! Read about defensive killing by police, betrayed expectations, the right to emigrate and the right to exclude, freedom, desire, and necessity, and moral perception for nonnaturalists. jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…

JESP issue 24.2 is now published! Consumer Complicity, Ethical Veganism and Free Riding, Procreative Justice, Stable Consensus, the Purpose and Limits of Electoral Accountability, and Bare Statistical Evidence and the Right to Security. Read it all here: jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issu…