Moral & philosophical aspects

2019   The social creation of morality and complicity in collective harms: a Kantian account. Journal of Applied Philosophy 36(3), 457-470
​2017     Verantwortung, Rationalität und Urteil [Responsibility, rationality and judgment]. L Heidbrink, C Langbehn & J Sombetzki (eds), Handbuch Verantwortung (Springer), 365-393
2013     Sharing responsibility and holding responsible. Journal of Applied Philosophy 30(4) 351-364 (open)

2011     “Intelligible facts”: a constructivist account of action and responsibility. S Baiasu, S Pihlström & H Williams (eds), Politics and Metaphysics in Kant (Wales University Press), 196-214
2010     “Who are we to judge?” – on the proportionment of happiness to virtue. Philosophy 85(1), 47-66
​2008    Responsibility as a virtue. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 11(4), 455-470
2003     Blame and responsibility. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 6(4), 427-445
2000     Normatively demanding creatures: Hobbes, the Fall & individual responsibility. Res Publica 6(3), 301-319

Institutional & political aspects

2022    What is fundamental in criminal law? [review essay: A.P. Simester, Fundamentals of Criminal Law: Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing]. Criminal Justice Ethics
2020    Taking responsibility for negligence and non-negligence. Criminal Law & Philosophy 14(1), 113–134 (open)
2019    Regulation enables: corporate agency and practices of responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics 154, 989–1002 (open)

2015     Disclosure and responsibility in Arendt’s The Human Condition. European Journal of Political Theory 14(1), 37–54
​2008    Dangerous victims: on some political dangers of vicarious claims to victimhood. Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 17, 77-95
2006    “Infrastructures of responsibility”: the moral tasks of institutions. Journal of Applied Philosophy 23(2), 207-221
2005    Monomaniacs or schizophrenics? Responsible governance and the EU’s independent agencies. Political Studies 53(1), 82-99
2005    Geoffrey Vickers: philosopher of responsibility. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 22(4), 291-298
2002    Understanding the wrongs we do together (review article of Christopher Kutz, Complicity), Res Publica 8(2), 201-210
1998     Love and responsibility: a political ethic for Hannah Arendt. Political Studies 46(5), 937-950

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Reference articles

2020    Moral responsibility. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy (originally 2010)
2017     Responsibility, rationality and judgment. (English version of chapter listed above)
2012     Responsibility. R Chadwick (ed), Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, 2nd edition (Academic Press), vol. 3, 821–828
​2010     Responsibility. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (originally 2006)
2004    Praise and blame. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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