Title: 'Blame and the Suberogatory' Abstract: In this paper the claim that some actions are blameworthy even if they are not wrong is defended. Suberogatory actions, which generally involve people standing on their rights in ways that display inadequate quality of the will, are examples. I defend this claim against a strategy of assimilating these ... Read more

Title: 'Being-in-the-Room: Epistemic Deference and Elite Capture' Abstract: Standpoint epistemology refers to a set of contentions: that knowledge is socially situated, that marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge, and that research programs ought to reflect these facts. These seem to me to be entirely unobjectionable, and indeed to follow ... Read more

Title: 'Lexical Priority, Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk' Abstract: Say that one moral requirement takes lexical priority over another just in case violations of the former can never be outweighed or counterbalanced by violations of the latter. While lexical priority is arguably a feature of many ethical systems, attempts to model it within the framework of ... Read more