Joseph BowenPostdoctoral Fellow

About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher, based out of the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Before coming to Stockholm, I completed my PhD on the St Andrews Stirling Joint Programme in philosophy in 2020. 

My research focuses on the nature of rights and directed duties, the justifications for and constraints on harming, the nature and scope of duties to rescue, and just war theory.

• Forthcoming. ‘“But You Could’ve Hurt Me!”: Risk and Harm’, Law and Philosophy;
  Forthcoming. ‘Robust Rights and Harmless Wrongs’, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics;
• Forthcoming. ‘Consent, Other-Defence, and Humanitarian Intervention’, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Vol. 8;
• Forthcoming.  ‘The Interest Theory of Rights at the Margins: Posthumous Rights’, Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer​, Visa Kurki & Mark McBride (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press);
• 2021. ‘Addressing the Addressive Theory of Rights’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, online first: doi.org/10.1111/japp.12495.
• 2020. ‘Beyond Normative Control: Against the Will Theory of Rights’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50 (4), pp. 427-443.
• 2020. with John Basl, ‘AI as a Moral Right-Holder’, The Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of AI, Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (eds.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• 2016. ‘Necessity and Liability: On an Honour-Based Justification for Defensive Harming’, Journal of Practical Ethics, 4 (2), pp. 79-93.