Jake Monaghan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jake Monaghan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jake |
| FAMILY NAME | Monaghan |
| SIGNATURE | MONAGHAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3663-1675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Modeling the City (I)
Questions in the philosophy of the city are often approached first by modeling the city. I explain what models are and work through some examples to offer a rational reconstruction of how they are used by urban theorists and philosophers. Of special note is the influence modeling choices have on our conclusions about the city, rendering disputes about models especially tricky. I conclude with a critical discussion of some philosophical lessons ab…
Modeling the City (II)
The philosophy of the city is concerned fundamentally with normative questions about city life and governance. Our answers to normative questions about the city (including the values and principles we think should constrain it and select policy) depend in no small part on how we choose to model or represent the city in normative inquiry. In this paper, I reconstruct several debates about the philosophy of the city to show how model choice influen…
Root causes and police abolition
A potentially powerful argument for police abolition appeals to root causes of crime. The root causes of crime are (e.g.) poverty and inequality caused by capitalism. By targeting crime at the roots, we can render the police obsolete and abolish them. I argue here that the root cause argument fails. Despite the suggestive metaphor, the fundamental causes of crime are deep and valuable, or in other words not uproot-able. They are essential to us, …
Just Shelter
Putting the “Structural” Back in “Structural Injustice”
David Estlund argues that theories of structural injustice have to show how victims can have warranted grievances, generally expressed through reactive attitudes. But he argues that no social structure can by itself be the target of warranted grievance. We argue that warrant for reactive attitudes is an inappropriate standard to hold theories of structural injustice to, because reactive attitudes are tightly connected to the mental states that mo…
Down and out in the liberal archipelago
This article presents a model of an “open,” largely laissez‐faire political society in which open exit is the only legitimately enforceable principle, like a liberal archipelago. It assumes the possibility of widespread “soft closure” policies that limit mobility. If those policies sufficiently diminish mobility, the society is no longer properly characterized as open, and its members’ associational rights are undermined. I substantiate these cla…
The Philosophical Problem of Democratic Policing
This article provides a critical overview of democratic policing from a philosophical perspective. To do so, it constructs a stylized taxonomy of philosophical approaches to the topic, featuring the legalist and the participatory democratic. This taxonomy allows for the formulation of general theoretical problems for democratically legitimizing police power. The most significant problem is the passive ideal of policing shared by both approaches. …
Just Policing
Diverse and dynamic societies face a problem of social control. Institutions of social control, of which the police are a part, are a necessary part of just and legitimate governance. But in our non-ideal world they are also responsible for injustices of their own. This project raises questions of political philosophy as they apply to the professional police agency. It begins by constructing an inchoate, but mainstream view about just policing, l…
Broken Windows, Naloxone, and Experiments in Policing
The practice of equipping police officers with naloxone has generated controversy within the profession. I adjudicate the disagreement in this article. I diagnose the dispute as rooted in a philosophical account of professional, role-based obligations. Parties to the debate appear to agree that what the police are permitted to do is determined in part by the (disputed) essential goal of the police profession. Instead, I argue that we should make …
The Limits of Instrumental Proceduralism
According to instrumental proceduralism, political power is justified when it is the output of a reliable procedure. In this paper, I examine how procedures are supposed to confer normative properties. Based on this assessment, I conclude that many proceduralists set the reliability bar too low. Next, I motivate two additional requirements for instrumental procedures. I introduce the notion of “predictable” procedural failure and argue that in or…
Eviction and the Dissolution of Neighborhoods
Research has documented the negative impacts of eviction on individuals, particularly the resulting financial insecurity, health challenges, and increased likelihood of homelessness. In this article we study a potential unintended impact on the neighborhoods that experience evictions: a decrease in community engagement with neighborhood problems. Using data from the Eviction Lab and calls to 311 collected from seven cities’ online depositories, w…
The relationship of Airbnb to neighborhood calls for service in three cities
Boundary Policing
On Enforcing Unjust Laws in a Just Society
Legitimate political institutions sometimes produce clearly unjust laws. It is widely recognized, especially in the context of war, that agents of the state may not enforce political decisions that are very seriously unjust or are the decisions of illegitimate governments. But may agents of legitimate states enforce unjust, but not massively unjust, laws? In this paper, I respond to three defences of the view that it is permissible to enforce the…
The Special Moral Obligations of Law Enforcement
The Special Moral Obligations of Law Enforcement
On Enforcing Unjust Laws in a Just Society
Legitimate political institutions sometimes produce clearly unjust laws. It is widely recognized, especially in the context of war, that agents of the state may not enforce political decisions that are very seriously unjust or are the decisions of illegitimate governments. But may agents of legitimate states enforce unjust, but not massively unjust, laws? In this paper, I respond to three defences of the view that it is permissible to enforce the…
Eviction and the Dissolution of Neighborhoods
Research has documented the negative impacts of eviction on individuals, particularly the resulting financial insecurity, health challenges, and increased likelihood of homelessness. In this article we study a potential unintended impact on the neighborhoods that experience evictions: a decrease in community engagement with neighborhood problems. Using data from the Eviction Lab and calls to 311 collected from seven cities’ online depositories, w…
The relationship of Airbnb to neighborhood calls for service in three cities
Boundary Policing
Broken Windows, Naloxone, and Experiments in Policing
The practice of equipping police officers with naloxone has generated controversy within the profession. I adjudicate the disagreement in this article. I diagnose the dispute as rooted in a philosophical account of professional, role-based obligations. Parties to the debate appear to agree that what the police are permitted to do is determined in part by the (disputed) essential goal of the police profession. Instead, I argue that we should make …
The Limits of Instrumental Proceduralism
According to instrumental proceduralism, political power is justified when it is the output of a reliable procedure. In this paper, I examine how procedures are supposed to confer normative properties. Based on this assessment, I conclude that many proceduralists set the reliability bar too low. Next, I motivate two additional requirements for instrumental procedures. I introduce the notion of “predictable” procedural failure and argue that in or…
Just Policing
Diverse and dynamic societies face a problem of social control. Institutions of social control, of which the police are a part, are a necessary part of just and legitimate governance. But in our non-ideal world they are also responsible for injustices of their own. This project raises questions of political philosophy as they apply to the professional police agency. It begins by constructing an inchoate, but mainstream view about just policing, l…
The Philosophical Problem of Democratic Policing
This article provides a critical overview of democratic policing from a philosophical perspective. To do so, it constructs a stylized taxonomy of philosophical approaches to the topic, featuring the legalist and the participatory democratic. This taxonomy allows for the formulation of general theoretical problems for democratically legitimizing police power. The most significant problem is the passive ideal of policing shared by both approaches. …
Just Shelter
Putting the “Structural” Back in “Structural Injustice”
David Estlund argues that theories of structural injustice have to show how victims can have warranted grievances, generally expressed through reactive attitudes. But he argues that no social structure can by itself be the target of warranted grievance. We argue that warrant for reactive attitudes is an inappropriate standard to hold theories of structural injustice to, because reactive attitudes are tightly connected to the mental states that mo…
Down and out in the liberal archipelago
This article presents a model of an “open,” largely laissez‐faire political society in which open exit is the only legitimately enforceable principle, like a liberal archipelago. It assumes the possibility of widespread “soft closure” policies that limit mobility. If those policies sufficiently diminish mobility, the society is no longer properly characterized as open, and its members’ associational rights are undermined. I substantiate these cla…
Modeling the City (I)
Questions in the philosophy of the city are often approached first by modeling the city. I explain what models are and work through some examples to offer a rational reconstruction of how they are used by urban theorists and philosophers. Of special note is the influence modeling choices have on our conclusions about the city, rendering disputes about models especially tricky. I conclude with a critical discussion of some philosophical lessons ab…
Modeling the City (II)
The philosophy of the city is concerned fundamentally with normative questions about city life and governance. Our answers to normative questions about the city (including the values and principles we think should constrain it and select policy) depend in no small part on how we choose to model or represent the city in normative inquiry. In this paper, I reconstruct several debates about the philosophy of the city to show how model choice influen…
Root causes and police abolition
A potentially powerful argument for police abolition appeals to root causes of crime. The root causes of crime are (e.g.) poverty and inequality caused by capitalism. By targeting crime at the roots, we can render the police obsolete and abolish them. I argue here that the root cause argument fails. Despite the suggestive metaphor, the fundamental causes of crime are deep and valuable, or in other words not uproot-able. They are essential to us, …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)