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In “Money as 𝘙𝘦𝘴 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢,” @aaronjames.bsky.social proposes a conception of money as “common credit.” Private banks‘ powers of lending (and hence money creation/allocation) must be held in trust and subject to regulations in the service of public purposes to be legitimate.

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Money as <em>Res Publica</em>
Our current monetary system is a public-private banking hybrid dominated by private interest, often at the expense of public purpose. This article proposes a conception of money as a “common credit” r...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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In a new article, “Supposed Corpses and Correspondence,” Elise Sugarman explores the relation between the mens rea and actus reus requirements for liability, using “corpse” cases to challenge the existing contemporaneity and causal theories.

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Supposed Corpses and Correspondence
The correspondence requirement is a fundamental doctrinal principle in Anglo-American criminal law.  It maintains that, in general, a particular relation between mens rea and actus reus is necessary f...
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February 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Our second article has also gone live: David Morgan’s “The Power of Care,” on the nature of excuses, is a reply to @pasliwa.bsky.social’s 2019 “The Power of Excuses” (published in PPA before we resigned en masse from Wiley).

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The Power of Care: Reply to Sliwa
Nina Simone sang: "I’m just a soul whose intentions are good." Paulina Sliwa (2019) defends a subtle, worked out picture on which Simone’s excuse turns out to be the basic form of an excuse. But good ...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Very pleased to announce the publication of the first article in our journal’s new incarnation!

Mark Schroeder’s “Tipping Points: Abuse and Transformative Discovery” explores the nature of attributive responsibility.

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Tipping Points: Abuse and Transformative Discovery
This paper explores how philosophical accounts of the nature of persons and attributive responsibility can help us to make sense of the kinds of characteristic errors that people make in interpreting ...
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January 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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F&E has received 31 submissions in the journal’s first 4 days alone! We are thrilled at this response and are so grateful to the academic community for rallying around the new journal!

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September 17, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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The website for 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 & 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭 has now launched and is open to submissions!

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Please submit your best work to us, and encourage friends, colleagues, and students to do the same.

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Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs
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September 13, 2024 at 11:14 AM