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 Louisville) 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 2025
27- 29 June
Radisson Hotel & Suites, Gdansk
Recent Articles
- 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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Membership includes online access to the Journal of Applied Philosophy, as well as a reduced fee for the Society’s annual conference. Members can also apply for event funding through the Society’s grant scheme.
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Latest News
Society for Applied Philosophy Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme
The Society has launched a Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme for researchers in applied philosophy who are within two years of receiving their PhD. Up to two one-year fellowships, worth £20,780 each, will be awarded each year to support post-doctoral research to
Society for Applied Philosophy — Annual Conference 2025
The Society’s 2025 conference will take place at Radisson Hotel & Suites, Gdansk 27-29 June. 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
SAP sponsored event: Reproductive Ethics and Public Philosophy: A Symposium Marking Mary Warnock’s Centenary | APA Live
Mary Warnock’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology report, published 40 years ago in 1984, had a powerful influence in the UK and beyond, helping governments and the general public reach abiding resolutions regarding new reproductive technologies—even as ethical debates raged on about the
SAP Sponsored Event: Workshop: No Justice No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests
This event will bring together political, moral, and legal philosophers for a one-day workshop on the manuscript of Avia Pasternak’s forthcoming book, No Justice No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests. The book and workshop focus on a topic of pressing political concern: Under what conditions is it permissible for citizens
SAP Sponsored Event: Social Ontology Faces the Future II: Artificial & Collective Agents
Are AI agents like collective agents? In which ways are ChatGPT’s decisions like a university’s decisions? To what extent is big data similar to democracy? We welcome you all to attend the second ‘Social Ontology Faces the Future’ event which promises to bring us exciting and thought-provoking presentations on topics
SAP Sponsored Event: Complicity – Conceptual, Ethical and Legal Issues
Our workshop seeks to advance research on novel approaches to complicity as well as morally adequate responses to complicity. For that purpose, we have invited scholars who have been working and publishing on complicity previously as well as scholars coming new to the topic from adjacent research topics. One focus