Holly Lawford-Smith

The Metaphysics of Intersectionality Revisited star

Holly Lawford-Smith, Kate Phelan

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Big Data Justice: A Case for Regulating the Global Information Commons

Kai Spiekermann, Adam Slavny, David Axelsen, Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POLITICS

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) challenges political theorists to think about data ownership and policy makers to regul..

We the People: Is the Polity the State?

Stephanie Collins, Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION

When a liberal-democratic state signs a treaty or wages a war, does its whole polity do those things? In this article, we approach..

Directed reflective equilibrium: Thought experiments and how to use them

A Slavny, K Spiekermann, H Lawford-Smith, DV Axelsen

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Moral Philosophy

In this paper we develop a new methodology for normative theorising, which we call Directed Reflective Equilibrium. Directed Refle..

Act Consequentialism and the No-Difference Challenge

Holly Lawford-Smith, William Tuckwell

Book Chapter  |  2020

According to act-consequentialism, only actions that make a difference to an outcome can be morally bad. Yet, there are classes of..

Ending Sex-Based Oppression: Transitional Pathways

Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2020  |  PHILOSOPHIA

From a radical feminist perspective, gender is a cage. Or to be more precise, it’s two cages. If genders are cages, then surely we..

The ‘good, bad and merit’ arguments in Australian news coverage of workplace gender diversity

Victor Sojo Monzon, Cordelia Fine, Holly Lawford-Smith, Ziying Yang, Cornelia Verspoor

Report  |  2020

Research aims: In this study, we used the machine learning technique of topic modelling, as well as qualitative content analysis, ..

Democratic authority to geoengineer

Holly Lawford-Smith

Book Chapter  |  2020

Democratic authority to geoengineer

Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2020  |  CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Does any existing single actor have, or could any existing single actor come to have, the authority to geoengineer? In this paper,..

Are States Responsible for Climate Change in Their Own Right?

Holly Lawford-Smith, Anton Eriksson

Book Chapter  |  2020

Group agents, such as corporations and states, are often taken to have moral obligations, including duties of beneficence. This ch..