Authored Books
Una società di eguali. Saggio sulle basi dell’eguaglianza morale e politica [A Society of Equals. An Essay on the Basis of Moral and Political Equality.] Bologna: Il Mulino, 2023. ISBN-13 978-8815387974
Edited Books
How Can We Be Equals? Basic Equality: its Meaning, Explanation, and Scope (co-edited with Nikolas Kirby). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.*
* Contributors: Richard Arneson, Teresa Bejan, Ian Carter, Thomas Christiano, Giacomo Floris, Agnieszka Jaworska, Nikolas Kirby, Eva Feder Kittay, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Anne Phillips, Andrea Sangiovanni, George Sher, Julie Tannenbaum, and Jeremy Waldron.
Journal Articles
Forthcoming. "Basic Equality and Superintelligent Robots" (with Dick Timmer). AI and Ethics.
Forthcoming. “Intergenerational Moral Inequality and the Long-Term Future.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, online first: 1-24.
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2025. "Arbitrariness and the Threshold for Moral Status" (with Dick Timmer). Politics, Philosophy & Economics, online first: 1-25.
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2026. "On Being Aesthetic Unequals: The Case of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness." Journal of Applied Philosophy, 43(2): 355-371.
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2026. "What We Owe to Impaired Agents." Journal of Social Philosophy, 57(1): 27-43.
2025. "What Is the Point of Harm Reduction? A Relational Egalitarian Perspective." British Journal of Political Science, 55(e89): 1-16.
2025. "The Invisible Social Class: Relational Equality and Extreme Social Exclusion." Political Studies, 73(3): 1273-1291.
2024. "The Idea of Equality in Environmental Ethics" (with Costanza Porro). Environmental Ethics, 46(1):149–169
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2024. "What Does It Mean to Be Moral Equals? The Special Case of Children's Moral Status" (with Riccardo Spotorno). Social Theory and Practice, 50(4): 1-22.
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2023. "Parental Love and Filial Equality" (with Riccardo Spotorno). Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 53(3): 256-270.
See also this response: de Vries, B. (2024). “Why Treat One’s Children as Equals?”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 54(8): 623-631.
2023. "Contingency, Arbitrariness, and the Basis of Moral Equality." Ratio, 36(3): 224-234.
2023. "Are Adults and Children One Another's Moral Equals?" The Journal of Ethics, 27(1): 31-50.
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2021. "A Pluralist Account of the Basis of Moral Status." Philosophical Studies, 178(6): 1859-1877.
2020. "Two Concerns about the Rejection of Social Cruelty as the Basis of Moral Equality" (with a reply by Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni). European Journal of Political Theory, 19(3): 408-416.
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2019. "On the Basis of Moral Equality: A Rejection of the Relation-First Approach." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22(1): 237-250.
Book Chapters
2026. "Relational Equality and Vulnerability to Social Disrespect." In Vulnerability and Relational Equality, edited by C. Porro and C. Straehle, pp. 238-257. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2024. "The Basis of Children's Moral Equality." In How Can We Be Equals? Basic Equality: its Meaning, Explanation, and Scope, edited by G. Floris and N. Kirby, 241-260. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2024. "Basic Equality: An Analytical Introduction" (with Nikolas Kirby). In How Can We Be Equals? Basic Equality: its Meaning, Explanation, and Scope, edited by G. Floris and N. Kirby, 1-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Book Reviews
2025. Review of Paul Sagar, Basic Equality, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024, The Review of Politics, online first: 1-3.
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2018. Review of Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Luck Egalitarianism, London: Bloomsbury, 2016, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 15(4): 487-490.
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