Call for paper recommendations

Academia.edu has asked me to participate in a new Editor Program they are rolling out. Basically, as an "editor", I will be able to recommend papers on the site to everyone else in the field(s) the paper is tagged under. Notifications, then, will apparently go out into everyone in the relevant field, drawing attention to the recommended papers. Although I'm just starting out, it looks like it might be a great way to draw attention to papers that might otherwise be neglected. Some of the fields on the site, after all, have millions of subscribers!

Obviously, I'm not exactly sure how far my recommendations will go. However, one thing I'm hoping to do is help draw attention, in whatever small way I can, to papers by early-career philosophers. It can be hard to get one's work read and engaged with early in one's career, after all. So, while my plan is to recommend any and every paper I think might interest others, I also hope to make a point of featuring work by early-career people. We'll see how it goes!

In any case, because it's hard for me to follow everything that's uploaded to their site (this is, or so they told me, why they're introducing the program!), what I'd like to do is invite you--my fellow Cocooners--to recommend papers on the site that you think deserve more attention. You can either comment below (anonymously or under your own name), or alternatively, email me at [email protected]. Also, you may recommend anything. You can recommend old work, new work, whatever--and you can even recommend your own work. Although I can't promise I will recommend everything suggested, I will take all of the suggestions I receive seriously, check out the papers for myself, and go from there. Thanks in advance to everyone who helps out! :)

Comments

[Pierre]

I’d recommend Emily McTernan’s forthcoming “How to be a Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian.” It explores a relatively under-explored issue related to luck egalitarianism: Why should we care about responsibility? --- as distinct from the more usual question, “How can we articulate responsibility and equality in a theory of distributive justice?” To my knowledge, this had not been done to that degree of clarity: it was more or less explicitly assumed that responsibility was valuable in some way, and it was not even questioned whether the “why” question had any relevance as regards the “how” question.

[Pierre]

Also, here’s a link to the paper on Academia:

https://www.academia.edu/13729179/How_to_be_a_Responsibility-Sensitive_Egalitarian_From_Metaphysics_to_Social_Practice_Political_Studies_

Unfortunately the paper itself hasn’t been uploaded, but it is available in online prepublication version on Wiley.

[Olle]

I recommend Holly Lawford-Smith's "What 'we'?", forthcoming in Journal of Social Ontology (which is, btw, an open-access journal). In the paper, she argues against the idea that it sometimes makes sense to attribute obligations to what unorganised groups. Instead of such collective obligations, we should rather attribute obligations to individuals to promote collective action. The paper is clear, raises lots of interesting philosophical questions about collective (forward- and backward-looking) responsibility and agency, and is clearly relevant to some thorny real-world moral issues.

A final draft of the paper is available here:
http://philpapers.org/rec/LAWWW

[Marcus Arvan]

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Please, keep 'em coming!

A quick note: the papers I can recommend have to be on academia.edu! For instance, while I like Holly Lawford-Smith's paper a lot, unfortunately I can't recommend it at the moment because it's only on philpapers. :/

[Olle]

Ah, of course, "papers on the site", missed that!