Alexander Bryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Bryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryan |
| SIGNATURE | BRYAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge Cambridge UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8564-0861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political Forgetting
Collective memory is often taken to be central to the political and epistemic duties of citizens; remembering salient historical events or political labels is essential for understanding ongoing political issues and coming to form our beliefs responsibly. But sometimes—usually in the immediate aftermath of a deep conflict—we are faced with calls to forget aspects of our shared civic life. This article aims to provide a conceptualization and set o…
Better but Not Enough
Every year, millions of workers take advantage of employment offers abroad, which would not have been available to them in the absence of Temporary Labor Migration Programs (TLMPs). For many of these workers, these programs provide the opportunity to considerably increase their earnings for a short period of time before returning to their country of origin. This yields significant positive benefits. Temporary migrant workers tend to send a high p…
Responsibility fictionalism
This paper develops and defends a revisionary fictionalist version of the ‘social connection model’ of responsibility. The social connection model has become a prominent account of responsibility in recent years but, as many critics have noted, has difficulty in providing an account of the connection required to generate responsibility which is sufficiently determinate and generates acceptable outcomes. In light of this problem, I first consider …
The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil Disobedience
The civil disobedience launched by agents arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic is either a hoax or some deliberate ploy raises an important question: is the justification of civil disobedience conditional on dissenters satisfying some epistemic conditions? In this paper I illuminate the neglected epistemic constraints in liberal accounts which commit to a formal agnosticism on the content of civil disobedience, show how these accounts develop impla…
The material conditions of non-domination
While it is a point of agreement in contemporary republican political theory that property ownership is closely connected to freedom as non-domination, surprisingly little work has been done to elucidate the nature of this connection or the constraints on property regimes that might be required as a result. In this paper, I provide a systematic model of the boundaries within which republican property systems must sit and explore some of the wider…
Structural Domination and Freedom in the Labor Market
The claim that workers are subject to structural domination in the labor market is a central contention of the recent radical turn in republican political theory, but it remains undertheorized. Two core components-the claim that workers have "no reasonable alternative" to selling their labor to capitalists and the relevance of exposure to potential interference in such cases-remain unclear. Without a more precise specification of the conditions o…
Should Republicans be Interested in Exploitation
Political parties and republican democracy
Freedom as Non-domination, Robustness, and Distant Threats
The dominating effects of economic crises
This article argues that economic crises are incompatible with the realisation of non-domination in capitalist societies. The ineradicable risk that an economic crisis will occur undermines the robust security of the conditions of non-domination for all citizens, not only those who are harmed by a crisis. I begin by demonstrating that the unemployment caused by economic crises violates the egalitarian dimensions of freedom as non-domination. The …
Structural Domination and Freedom in the Labor Market
The claim that workers are subject to structural domination in the labor market is a central contention of the recent radical turn in republican political theory, but it remains undertheorized. Two core components-the claim that workers have "no reasonable alternative" to selling their labor to capitalists and the relevance of exposure to potential interference in such cases-remain unclear. Without a more precise specification of the conditions o…
Should Republicans be Interested in Exploitation
The dominating effects of economic crises
This article argues that economic crises are incompatible with the realisation of non-domination in capitalist societies. The ineradicable risk that an economic crisis will occur undermines the robust security of the conditions of non-domination for all citizens, not only those who are harmed by a crisis. I begin by demonstrating that the unemployment caused by economic crises violates the egalitarian dimensions of freedom as non-domination. The …
The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil Disobedience
The civil disobedience launched by agents arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic is either a hoax or some deliberate ploy raises an important question: is the justification of civil disobedience conditional on dissenters satisfying some epistemic conditions? In this paper I illuminate the neglected epistemic constraints in liberal accounts which commit to a formal agnosticism on the content of civil disobedience, show how these accounts develop impla…
The material conditions of non-domination
While it is a point of agreement in contemporary republican political theory that property ownership is closely connected to freedom as non-domination, surprisingly little work has been done to elucidate the nature of this connection or the constraints on property regimes that might be required as a result. In this paper, I provide a systematic model of the boundaries within which republican property systems must sit and explore some of the wider…
Political parties and republican democracy
The dominating effects of economic crises
This article argues that economic crises are incompatible with the realisation of non-domination in capitalist societies. The ineradicable risk that an economic crisis will occur undermines the robust security of the conditions of non-domination for all citizens, not only those who are harmed by a crisis. I begin by demonstrating that the unemployment caused by economic crises violates the egalitarian dimensions of freedom as non-domination. The …
Freedom as Non-domination, Robustness, and Distant Threats
Should Republicans be Interested in Exploitation
Political parties and republican democracy
The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil Disobedience
The civil disobedience launched by agents arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic is either a hoax or some deliberate ploy raises an important question: is the justification of civil disobedience conditional on dissenters satisfying some epistemic conditions? In this paper I illuminate the neglected epistemic constraints in liberal accounts which commit to a formal agnosticism on the content of civil disobedience, show how these accounts develop impla…
The material conditions of non-domination
While it is a point of agreement in contemporary republican political theory that property ownership is closely connected to freedom as non-domination, surprisingly little work has been done to elucidate the nature of this connection or the constraints on property regimes that might be required as a result. In this paper, I provide a systematic model of the boundaries within which republican property systems must sit and explore some of the wider…
Structural Domination and Freedom in the Labor Market
The claim that workers are subject to structural domination in the labor market is a central contention of the recent radical turn in republican political theory, but it remains undertheorized. Two core components-the claim that workers have "no reasonable alternative" to selling their labor to capitalists and the relevance of exposure to potential interference in such cases-remain unclear. Without a more precise specification of the conditions o…
Responsibility fictionalism
This paper develops and defends a revisionary fictionalist version of the ‘social connection model’ of responsibility. The social connection model has become a prominent account of responsibility in recent years but, as many critics have noted, has difficulty in providing an account of the connection required to generate responsibility which is sufficiently determinate and generates acceptable outcomes. In light of this problem, I first consider …
Better but Not Enough
Every year, millions of workers take advantage of employment offers abroad, which would not have been available to them in the absence of Temporary Labor Migration Programs (TLMPs). For many of these workers, these programs provide the opportunity to considerably increase their earnings for a short period of time before returning to their country of origin. This yields significant positive benefits. Temporary migrant workers tend to send a high p…
Political Forgetting
Collective memory is often taken to be central to the political and epistemic duties of citizens; remembering salient historical events or political labels is essential for understanding ongoing political issues and coming to form our beliefs responsibly. But sometimes—usually in the immediate aftermath of a deep conflict—we are faced with calls to forget aspects of our shared civic life. This article aims to provide a conceptualization and set o…
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