Adam T Schmidt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109359 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adam T Schmidt |
| NOMBRES | Adam T |
| APELLIDO | Schmidt |
| FIRMA | SCHMIDT A T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2323-2838 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
What methods should political philosophers use? One debate—henceforth just the debate—is about ideal versus non-ideal theory and asks questions such as how far should political philosophy make idealizing assumptions about reality? And how much utopian thinking is necessary or even desirable in political philosophy? One way to further advance the debate is to produce more abstract methodological arguments. But I think we should also probe how far …
Do we have too much choice
In institutional design, public policy and for society as a whole, securing freedom of choice for individuals is important. But how much choice should we aim for? Various theorists argue that above some level more choice improves neither wellbeing nor autonomy. Worse still, psychology research seems to suggest that too much choice even makes us worse off. Such reasons suggest the Sufficiency View: increasing choice is only important up to some su…
Childhood Maltreatment and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms among Justice-Involved Youth
Rates of maltreatment are high among justice-involved (JI) youth. Previous research demonstrates that maltreated JI youth are more likely to develop both internalizing and externalizing symptoms. However, fewer studies have examined potential mechanisms that may explain this association, particularly as related to youth's cognitive abilities. The current study evaluated the indirect effect of executive function on the link from maltreatment expos…
The Freedom of Future People
What happens to liberal political philosophy, if we consider not only the freedom of present but also future people? In this article, I explore the case for long‐term liberalism: freedom should be a central goal, and we should often be particularly concerned with effects on long‐term future distributions of freedom. I provide three arguments. First, liberals should be long‐term liberals: liberal arguments to value freedom give us reason to be (pa…
The Well-Ordered Republic
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Negative Outcomes Among Justice-Involved Youth
Justice-involved youth experience significantly higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) compared to the general population, which lead to negative outcomes such as greater criminal involvement and mental health disorders. Such effects emphasize the need to examine the role of protective factors on the development of these negative outcomes. This study uses data from 519 youth referred to a probation department in Southeast Texas to e…
Comparing Public Perceptions of Child and Adult Grief Responses to Familial Incarceration
Children of incarcerated parents may grieve this loss, yet perceptions of their grief are understudied. Using vignettes varying by age (adult/child) and grief response (prolonged/resilient), we examined differences between perceptions of adults and children grieving parental incarceration. Participants rated grief response appropriateness, comfort providing support, and grief therapy recommendations for the grieving person in the vignette. Partic…
Anxiety and depression in young adults
This cross‐sectional study examined how perceived partner drinking relates to relationship satisfaction and symptoms of anxiety and depression across romantic drinking partnerships. Participants included 239 cisgender, heterosexual undergraduate students in current romantic relationships ( M age = 19.74; 76.15% female; 87.87% White) who reported their own and their romantic partner's drinking. Associations between drinking partnerships, identifie…
Egalitarianism across Generations
Egalitarian theories assess when and why distributive inequalities are objectionable. How should egalitarians assess inequalities between generations? One egalitarian theory is (telic) distributive egalitarianism: other things being equal, equal distributions of some good are intrinsically better than unequal distributions. I first argue that distributive egalitarianism produces counterintuitive judgements when applied across generations and that…
Consequentialism and the Role of Practices in Political Philosophy
Political philosophers have recently debated what role social practices should play in normative theorising. Should our theories be practice-independent or practice-dependent? That is, can we formulate normative institutional principles independently of real-world practices or are such principles only ever relative to the practices they are meant to govern? Any first-order theory in political philosophy must contend with the methodological challe…
Economic inequality and the long-term future
Why, if at all, should we object to economic inequality? Some central arguments – the argument from decreasing marginal utility for example – invoke instrumental reasons and object to inequality because of its effects. Such instrumental arguments, however, often concern only the static effects of inequality and neglect its intertemporal consequences. In this article, we address this striking gap and investigate income inequality's intertemporal c…
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame
Endgame proposals strive for a tobacco‐free (or at least cigarette‐free) society. Some endgame proposals are radical and include, for example, a complete ban on cigarettes. Setting aside empirical worries, one worry is ethical: would such proposals not go too far in interfering with individual freedom? I argue that concerns around freedom do not speak against endgame proposals, including strong proposals such as a ban on cigarettes. I first argue…
From relational equality to personal responsibility
According to relational egalitarians, equality is not primarily about the distribution of some good but about people relating to one another as equals. However, compared with other theorists in political philosophy – including other egalitarians – relational egalitarians have said relatively little on what role personal responsibility should play in their theories. For example, is equality compatible with responsibility? Should economic distribut…
An Examination of Sleep as a Mediator of the Relationship between Childhood Adversity and Depression in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Young Adults
The current study integrates previous research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and long-term health outcomes to examine associations between ACEs, sleep duration, and depression in a diverse, mostly healthy, sample of young adults. We examine whether sleep duration mediates the association between ACEs and depression among young adults, and whether ethnicity may moderate observed relationships between ACEs, sleep duration and depression. …
Does Stress Mediate the Relation between Caregivers’ Victimization and Child Behavioral Outcomes? A Prospective Examination
Identifying the Contributions of Maternal Factors and Early Childhood Externalizing Behavior on Adolescent Delinquency
Does collective unfreedom matter? Individualism, power and proletarian unfreedom
When assessing institutions and social outcomes, it matters how free society is within them (‘societal freedom’). For example, does capitalism come with greater societal freedom than socialism? For such judgements, freedom theorists typically assume Individualism: societal freedom is simply the aggregate of individual freedom. However, G.A. Cohen’s well-known case provides a challenge: imagine ten prisoners are individually free to leave their pr…
Mentors' experiences of mentoring justice‐involved adolescents
Mentoring provides a relational intervention that can promote positive youth development among adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The perspectives of mentors engaging these youth, particularly insights considered through a cultural humility lens, have been largely absent from the literature to date. This study examined predominately White, middle‐ to upper‐class adult mentors' experiences mentoring racially diverse, work…
The ethics of nudging
So-called nudge policies utilize insights from behavioral science to achieve policy outcomes. Nudge policies try to improve people's decisions by changing the ways options are presented to them, rather than changing the options themselves or incentivizing or coercing people. Nudging has been met with great enthusiasm but also fierce criticism. This paper provides an overview of the debate on the ethics of nudging to date. After outlining argument…
Domination without Inequality? Mutual Domination, Republicanism, and Gun Control
Power inequalities often lead to domination.Slaveholders dominate slaves, powerful capitalists dominate their wage laborers, men in patriarchal societies dominate their wives, colonialists dominate colonized peoples, and so on.Such cases are the bread and butter of republicanism.On the republican conception, being a free person requires freedom from domination.But power inequalities often involve such domination and thereby make people unfree.How…
An unresolved problem
Freedom is one of the central values in political and moral philosophy. A number of theorists hold that freedom (or, relatedly, opportunity) should either be the only or at least one of the central distribuenda in our theories of distributive justice. Moreover, many follow Mill and hold that a concern for personal freedom should guide, and limit, how paternalist public policy can be. For the most part, theorists have focussed on a person’s freedo…
Traumatic brain injury and lifetime suicidality
The present article investigates the traumatic brain injury (TBI)-suicide link, assessing whether (a) TBI accounts for variance in suicide risk, and (b) the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide can be applied to TBI status. Matched case-control procedures applied to archival college student health data identified TBI and non-TBI subsamples (84 total). Individuals with a TBI possessed higher suicide risk than those without. Even accountin…
Understanding the Influence of Mental Health Diagnosis and Gender on Placement Decisions for Justice-Involved Youth
The Power to Nudge
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to rebut a prominent objection to this approach: furnishing governments with the power to nudge leads to relations of alien control, that is, relations in which some people can impose their will on others-a concern which resonates with republican, Kantian, and Rousseauvian t…
Being Good by Doing Good
Does doing good in itself make one a better person? This idea is intuitive yet its precise formulation underexplored. This article first shows that it is not the case that a person is good to the extent that her existence brings about good or to the extent that her actions do good. A proportional principle that evaluates a person according to the expected goodness of her actual course of action relative to the expected goodness of other available…
The ethics of nudging
So-called nudge policies utilize insights from behavioral science to achieve policy outcomes. Nudge policies try to improve people's decisions by changing the ways options are presented to them, rather than changing the options themselves or incentivizing or coercing people. Nudging has been met with great enthusiasm but also fierce criticism. This paper provides an overview of the debate on the ethics of nudging to date. After outlining argument…
The Power to Nudge
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to rebut a prominent objection to this approach: furnishing governments with the power to nudge leads to relations of alien control, that is, relations in which some people can impose their will on others-a concern which resonates with republican, Kantian, and Rousseauvian t…
Domination without Inequality? Mutual Domination, Republicanism, and Gun Control
Power inequalities often lead to domination.Slaveholders dominate slaves, powerful capitalists dominate their wage laborers, men in patriarchal societies dominate their wives, colonialists dominate colonized peoples, and so on.Such cases are the bread and butter of republicanism.On the republican conception, being a free person requires freedom from domination.But power inequalities often involve such domination and thereby make people unfree.How…
Mentors' experiences of mentoring justice‐involved adolescents
Mentoring provides a relational intervention that can promote positive youth development among adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The perspectives of mentors engaging these youth, particularly insights considered through a cultural humility lens, have been largely absent from the literature to date. This study examined predominately White, middle‐ to upper‐class adult mentors' experiences mentoring racially diverse, work…
Economic inequality and the long-term future
Why, if at all, should we object to economic inequality? Some central arguments – the argument from decreasing marginal utility for example – invoke instrumental reasons and object to inequality because of its effects. Such instrumental arguments, however, often concern only the static effects of inequality and neglect its intertemporal consequences. In this article, we address this striking gap and investigate income inequality's intertemporal c…
Egalitarianism across Generations
Egalitarian theories assess when and why distributive inequalities are objectionable. How should egalitarians assess inequalities between generations? One egalitarian theory is (telic) distributive egalitarianism: other things being equal, equal distributions of some good are intrinsically better than unequal distributions. I first argue that distributive egalitarianism produces counterintuitive judgements when applied across generations and that…
Consequentialism and the Role of Practices in Political Philosophy
Political philosophers have recently debated what role social practices should play in normative theorising. Should our theories be practice-independent or practice-dependent? That is, can we formulate normative institutional principles independently of real-world practices or are such principles only ever relative to the practices they are meant to govern? Any first-order theory in political philosophy must contend with the methodological challe…
Does collective unfreedom matter? Individualism, power and proletarian unfreedom
When assessing institutions and social outcomes, it matters how free society is within them (‘societal freedom’). For example, does capitalism come with greater societal freedom than socialism? For such judgements, freedom theorists typically assume Individualism: societal freedom is simply the aggregate of individual freedom. However, G.A. Cohen’s well-known case provides a challenge: imagine ten prisoners are individually free to leave their pr…
Understanding the Influence of Mental Health Diagnosis and Gender on Placement Decisions for Justice-Involved Youth
Being Good by Doing Good
Does doing good in itself make one a better person? This idea is intuitive yet its precise formulation underexplored. This article first shows that it is not the case that a person is good to the extent that her existence brings about good or to the extent that her actions do good. A proportional principle that evaluates a person according to the expected goodness of her actual course of action relative to the expected goodness of other available…
Being Good by Doing Good
Does doing good in itself make one a better person? This idea is intuitive yet its precise formulation underexplored. This article first shows that it is not the case that a person is good to the extent that her existence brings about good or to the extent that her actions do good. A proportional principle that evaluates a person according to the expected goodness of her actual course of action relative to the expected goodness of other available…
An unresolved problem
Freedom is one of the central values in political and moral philosophy. A number of theorists hold that freedom (or, relatedly, opportunity) should either be the only or at least one of the central distribuenda in our theories of distributive justice. Moreover, many follow Mill and hold that a concern for personal freedom should guide, and limit, how paternalist public policy can be. For the most part, theorists have focussed on a person’s freedo…
Traumatic brain injury and lifetime suicidality
The present article investigates the traumatic brain injury (TBI)-suicide link, assessing whether (a) TBI accounts for variance in suicide risk, and (b) the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide can be applied to TBI status. Matched case-control procedures applied to archival college student health data identified TBI and non-TBI subsamples (84 total). Individuals with a TBI possessed higher suicide risk than those without. Even accountin…
Understanding the Influence of Mental Health Diagnosis and Gender on Placement Decisions for Justice-Involved Youth
The Power to Nudge
Nudging policies rely on behavioral science to improve people's decisions through small changes in the environments within which people make choices. This article first seeks to rebut a prominent objection to this approach: furnishing governments with the power to nudge leads to relations of alien control, that is, relations in which some people can impose their will on others-a concern which resonates with republican, Kantian, and Rousseauvian t…
Domination without Inequality? Mutual Domination, Republicanism, and Gun Control
Power inequalities often lead to domination.Slaveholders dominate slaves, powerful capitalists dominate their wage laborers, men in patriarchal societies dominate their wives, colonialists dominate colonized peoples, and so on.Such cases are the bread and butter of republicanism.On the republican conception, being a free person requires freedom from domination.But power inequalities often involve such domination and thereby make people unfree.How…
Does Stress Mediate the Relation between Caregivers’ Victimization and Child Behavioral Outcomes? A Prospective Examination
Identifying the Contributions of Maternal Factors and Early Childhood Externalizing Behavior on Adolescent Delinquency
Does collective unfreedom matter? Individualism, power and proletarian unfreedom
When assessing institutions and social outcomes, it matters how free society is within them (‘societal freedom’). For example, does capitalism come with greater societal freedom than socialism? For such judgements, freedom theorists typically assume Individualism: societal freedom is simply the aggregate of individual freedom. However, G.A. Cohen’s well-known case provides a challenge: imagine ten prisoners are individually free to leave their pr…
Mentors' experiences of mentoring justice‐involved adolescents
Mentoring provides a relational intervention that can promote positive youth development among adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The perspectives of mentors engaging these youth, particularly insights considered through a cultural humility lens, have been largely absent from the literature to date. This study examined predominately White, middle‐ to upper‐class adult mentors' experiences mentoring racially diverse, work…
The ethics of nudging
So-called nudge policies utilize insights from behavioral science to achieve policy outcomes. Nudge policies try to improve people's decisions by changing the ways options are presented to them, rather than changing the options themselves or incentivizing or coercing people. Nudging has been met with great enthusiasm but also fierce criticism. This paper provides an overview of the debate on the ethics of nudging to date. After outlining argument…
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame
Endgame proposals strive for a tobacco‐free (or at least cigarette‐free) society. Some endgame proposals are radical and include, for example, a complete ban on cigarettes. Setting aside empirical worries, one worry is ethical: would such proposals not go too far in interfering with individual freedom? I argue that concerns around freedom do not speak against endgame proposals, including strong proposals such as a ban on cigarettes. I first argue…
From relational equality to personal responsibility
According to relational egalitarians, equality is not primarily about the distribution of some good but about people relating to one another as equals. However, compared with other theorists in political philosophy – including other egalitarians – relational egalitarians have said relatively little on what role personal responsibility should play in their theories. For example, is equality compatible with responsibility? Should economic distribut…
An Examination of Sleep as a Mediator of the Relationship between Childhood Adversity and Depression in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Young Adults
The current study integrates previous research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and long-term health outcomes to examine associations between ACEs, sleep duration, and depression in a diverse, mostly healthy, sample of young adults. We examine whether sleep duration mediates the association between ACEs and depression among young adults, and whether ethnicity may moderate observed relationships between ACEs, sleep duration and depression. …
Consequentialism and the Role of Practices in Political Philosophy
Political philosophers have recently debated what role social practices should play in normative theorising. Should our theories be practice-independent or practice-dependent? That is, can we formulate normative institutional principles independently of real-world practices or are such principles only ever relative to the practices they are meant to govern? Any first-order theory in political philosophy must contend with the methodological challe…
Economic inequality and the long-term future
Why, if at all, should we object to economic inequality? Some central arguments – the argument from decreasing marginal utility for example – invoke instrumental reasons and object to inequality because of its effects. Such instrumental arguments, however, often concern only the static effects of inequality and neglect its intertemporal consequences. In this article, we address this striking gap and investigate income inequality's intertemporal c…
The Well-Ordered Republic
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Negative Outcomes Among Justice-Involved Youth
Justice-involved youth experience significantly higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) compared to the general population, which lead to negative outcomes such as greater criminal involvement and mental health disorders. Such effects emphasize the need to examine the role of protective factors on the development of these negative outcomes. This study uses data from 519 youth referred to a probation department in Southeast Texas to e…
Comparing Public Perceptions of Child and Adult Grief Responses to Familial Incarceration
Children of incarcerated parents may grieve this loss, yet perceptions of their grief are understudied. Using vignettes varying by age (adult/child) and grief response (prolonged/resilient), we examined differences between perceptions of adults and children grieving parental incarceration. Participants rated grief response appropriateness, comfort providing support, and grief therapy recommendations for the grieving person in the vignette. Partic…
Anxiety and depression in young adults
This cross‐sectional study examined how perceived partner drinking relates to relationship satisfaction and symptoms of anxiety and depression across romantic drinking partnerships. Participants included 239 cisgender, heterosexual undergraduate students in current romantic relationships ( M age = 19.74; 76.15% female; 87.87% White) who reported their own and their romantic partner's drinking. Associations between drinking partnerships, identifie…
Egalitarianism across Generations
Egalitarian theories assess when and why distributive inequalities are objectionable. How should egalitarians assess inequalities between generations? One egalitarian theory is (telic) distributive egalitarianism: other things being equal, equal distributions of some good are intrinsically better than unequal distributions. I first argue that distributive egalitarianism produces counterintuitive judgements when applied across generations and that…
Do we have too much choice
In institutional design, public policy and for society as a whole, securing freedom of choice for individuals is important. But how much choice should we aim for? Various theorists argue that above some level more choice improves neither wellbeing nor autonomy. Worse still, psychology research seems to suggest that too much choice even makes us worse off. Such reasons suggest the Sufficiency View: increasing choice is only important up to some su…
Childhood Maltreatment and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms among Justice-Involved Youth
Rates of maltreatment are high among justice-involved (JI) youth. Previous research demonstrates that maltreated JI youth are more likely to develop both internalizing and externalizing symptoms. However, fewer studies have examined potential mechanisms that may explain this association, particularly as related to youth's cognitive abilities. The current study evaluated the indirect effect of executive function on the link from maltreatment expos…
The Freedom of Future People
What happens to liberal political philosophy, if we consider not only the freedom of present but also future people? In this article, I explore the case for long‐term liberalism: freedom should be a central goal, and we should often be particularly concerned with effects on long‐term future distributions of freedom. I provide three arguments. First, liberals should be long‐term liberals: liberal arguments to value freedom give us reason to be (pa…
Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
What methods should political philosophers use? One debate—henceforth just the debate—is about ideal versus non-ideal theory and asks questions such as how far should political philosophy make idealizing assumptions about reality? And how much utopian thinking is necessary or even desirable in political philosophy? One way to further advance the debate is to produce more abstract methodological arguments. But I think we should also probe how far …
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