Journal of Applied Philosophy
The Journal of Applied Philosophy is a leading forum for academic publication in all areas of applied philosophy. It is edited by Avery Kolers (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Tina Rulli (University of California, Davis) with the assistance of six Associate Editors and an International Advisory Board. The Journal is published by Wiley on behalf of the Society.
As well as submitted articles, the journal also publishes the Society’s annual lecture and review articles. To sign up for content alerts, browse a free sample issue, or to submit an article to the journal, please visit the journal’s website at our publisher.
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2026
03 – 05 July
University of Edinburgh, JMCC
Recent Articles
- Issue Information
- Monuments to Injustice and the Ethics of Dark Tourism: A Research Note
- The Carbon Budget: Applied Normative Perspectives
- Love and Cause: When Is Biomedically Enhanced Love Desirable?
- Machine Learning Manipulation as Treachery
- Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation: Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work. T. Parr, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 336 pp, £99 (hb)
- What's Wrong with Stereotyping? E. Beeghly, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. ix + 249 pp, £30 (hb)
- Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds. A. Jurkevics, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. x +284 pp, £99 (hb)
- Violence in Proportion. P. Tomlin, 2025. Oxford, Oxford University Press. xi + 298 pp, £77 (hb)
- Who Am I When You're a Bot? Relational Identity and AI Companions
- Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making
- The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss
- ‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom
- The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
- The Because/in Order to Distinction and the Ethics of Euthanasia: Demonstrating that Death Is Not an Unconditional Evil for Double Effect Analysis
- Why It Is Not Unreasonable to Fear Terrorism by Eran Fish
- Global Displacement in the Twenty‐First Century. Phillip Cole, 2022. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 290 pp, £85.00 (hb) by Gabriele De Angelis
- The Difficulty of Making Good Work Available to All by Pascal Brixel
- The Political Privacy Dilemma: Private Lives and Public Office by John William Devine
- Edibility and In Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations. Rachel Robison‐Greene, 2022. Lanham, Lexington Books. x + 150 pp, £73.00 (hb) by Kyle Johannsen
- Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. Martha Nussbaum, 2023. New York, Simon & Schuster. 400 pp, $28.99 (hb) by B.V.E. Hyde
- When Is Work Unjust? Confronting the Choice between ‘Pluralistic’ and ‘Unifying’ Approaches by Sarah C. Goff
- Why Refugees Should Be Enfranchised by Zsolt Kapelner
- Non‐Ideal Epistemology. Robin McKenna, 2023. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 224 pp, £60.00 (hb) by Jack Idris Sagar
- Issue Information
- Robot Ethics. M. Coeckelbergh, 2022. Cambridge, MIT Press. vii + 191 pp, $16.95 (pb) by Nicholas Barrow
- Online Hate: Is Hate an Infectious Disease? Is Social Media a Promoter? by Mihaela Popa‐Wyatt
- Throwing the Embryos out with the Bathwater? A Novel Evaluation of the Value of Embryos by Megan Kitts
- A Dissolution of the Repugnant Conclusion by Roberto Fumagalli
- ‘I Am a Man’: Countering Oppression through Appeal to Kind Membership by Suzy Killmister
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Latest News
SAP Annual Lecture 2025 — Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies, Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University)
Annual Lecture 2025: Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies, Professor Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University). The lecture will take place at 6.00 -7.00pm (UTC/GMT +0) on Wednesday 12 November at the Dickson Poon School of Law,
Funding Opportunities and Awards
The society is proud to support a range of activities in applied philosophy: • Event Funding of up to £3000. (Deadlines: 01 January, 01 May, 01 September.) • Doctoral Scholarships (up to £10,000 in year of award) – Awards are
Society for Applied Philosophy — Annual Conference 2026
The Society’s 2026 conference will take place at University of Edinburgh, JMCC. Papers will be given on a wide range of topics across the field of applied philosophy (Authors of papers selected for inclusion in the programme can confirm or
SAP sponsored event: How long is too long?: Waiting, age, and temporal justice in organ allocation
This event is an applied philosophy workshop addressing a pressing ethical challenge in healthcare resource allocation. How, if at all, should the time patients spend waiting for a scarce medical resource matter morally? And how does the ethical significance of waiting time vary depending on a patient’s age? These questions
SAP sponsored event: Care, consent and communication in childbirth
For many people, childbirth is among the most significant and vulnerable experiences of their lives. However, it is also one in which patient autonomy and epistemic agency is routinely compromised. Birth trauma, often stemming from poor consent practices and breakdowns in communication between patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs), is increasingly
[SAP Sponsored Event] Social AI workshop
The rise of Generative AI in recent years has, not surprisingly, been met with an outpouring of philosophical work. Such work covers all manner of philosophical inquiry, including asking whether AI is (or ever can be) conscious, how AI enhances and/or threatens our epistemic endeavours, and what the ethical implications