Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

• 1. Moral Revolutions


• On the Urgency of Kick-starting a Moral Revolution to Save Ourselves


• Making Change


• 2. AI and Democracy


• Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Deliberation to the Masses?


• The Two Roles of Deliberation in Democracy


• 3. Trust and the Rule of Law


• Trust and the Rule of Law


• Cultures of Trust and the Rule of Law


• 4. Taking Responsibility


• Taking Responsibility 


• Taking Responsibility, Defensiveness, and the Blame Game


• 5. Praise


• What Are We Praiseworthy For?


• Understanding Praise


• 6. Blame


• What Can We Say to Each Other?


• Standing to Blame: Can it Be Defended?


• 7. Reasonableness


• The Reasonable and the Justified


• Varieties of Reasonableness


• 8. Duty


• Looking and Seeing


• On Duty


• 9. Political Obligation


• Pluralism in Political Obligation


• All Our Imperatives


• 10. Justice and Equality


• Distributive Egalitarianism as Aspirational Justice


• Relational Equality and Pluralism about Justice


• 11. Justice and Groups


• The Metaphysics of Injustice


• Social Systems and Intersectional Oppression


• 12. Domination


• On Domination


• Of Domination and its Ending


• 13. Pornography


• Pornography and the Limits of Speech Act Analysis


• Pornography: 'Enacting' or 'Eroticising' Women s Subordination?


• 14. Law and Intentions


• Intentional Legislation: What Makes a Text a Statute?


• Intentions, Procedures, and Social Rules


• 15. Argumentation


• Arguing A Contrario


• A Contrario Argument and Default Reasoning

Ruth Chang is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. She holds a JD in law from Harvard and a DPhil. in philosophy from Oxford. Her research focusses on values, normativity, conflict, rationality, choice, and agency. She has given lectures or been a consultant at Google, the World Bank, CIA, US Navy, Big Pharma, TellTale Games and many other institutions. Her TED talk about decision-making has over 9 million views. She has written guest essays for popular publications and has been interviewed about her work by newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programmes from around the world. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Amia Srinivasan is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. She holds a BA from Yale and a BPhil and DPhil from Oxford. Her research spans epistemology, political philosophy, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy. She is the author of The Right to Sex (2021), and is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Her essays on sex, animals, death, the university, technology, anger, politics, and other topics have also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.