Athmeya Jayaram
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Athmeya Jayaram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Athmeya |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayaram |
| SIGNATURE | JAYARAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6609-962X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Platform Legitimacy Between Rights and Rule
This article examines the conditions for the legitimacy of online platforms and their relation to permissible acts of public interference. We develop what we call the Interference Conception of legitimacy and apply it to three categories of moral criticism that can be made against online platforms: that they have the power to violate rights, that they harm without violating rights, and that they inappropriately govern their users. We argue that v…
Public reason and private bias
Justifying the risks of Covid‐19 challenge trials
In the beginning of the COVID pandemic, researchers and bioethicists called for human challenge trials to hasten the development of a vaccine for COVID. However, the fact that we lacked a specific, highly effective treatment for COVID led many to argue that a COVID challenge trial would be unethical and we ought to pursue traditional phase III testing instead. These ethical objections to challenge trials may have slowed the progress of a COVID va…
Thinking about Moral Progress
Which research topics should ethicists focus on? Recent arguments for “effective altruism” and “longtermism” suggest that ethicists should set all competing interests aside and pursue the area in which researchers can have the greatest impact: avoiding long‐run human extinction. This brief essay by a Hastings Center research scholar raises some concerns about shifting research priorities in this way and suggests that ethicists can make progress i…
Expecting Equality
The “expressivist objection” argues that prenatal screening leading to termination of embryos or fetuses with disabilities sends a harmful message to people with disabilities, such as the message that their lives are not worth living. I first argue that whether it sends such a message depends on how a reasonable person would see the motives behind the screening. I then argue that a reasonable person would see a harmful message, not when individua…
Here, there, or delaware? How corporate threats distort democracy
Concern for corporate influence on democratic decisions has mostly focused on campaign funding and access to legislators. While these are certainly worrisome, corporations have another tool to influence decisions, which they are increasingly using. They can threaten to move their operations or cancel expansion plans in a municipality unless its public officials pass (or kill) certain policies. In one sense, this is business as usual. Companies ha…
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Justifying the risks of Covid‐19 challenge trials
In the beginning of the COVID pandemic, researchers and bioethicists called for human challenge trials to hasten the development of a vaccine for COVID. However, the fact that we lacked a specific, highly effective treatment for COVID led many to argue that a COVID challenge trial would be unethical and we ought to pursue traditional phase III testing instead. These ethical objections to challenge trials may have slowed the progress of a COVID va…
Thinking about Moral Progress
Which research topics should ethicists focus on? Recent arguments for “effective altruism” and “longtermism” suggest that ethicists should set all competing interests aside and pursue the area in which researchers can have the greatest impact: avoiding long‐run human extinction. This brief essay by a Hastings Center research scholar raises some concerns about shifting research priorities in this way and suggests that ethicists can make progress i…
Expecting Equality
The “expressivist objection” argues that prenatal screening leading to termination of embryos or fetuses with disabilities sends a harmful message to people with disabilities, such as the message that their lives are not worth living. I first argue that whether it sends such a message depends on how a reasonable person would see the motives behind the screening. I then argue that a reasonable person would see a harmful message, not when individua…
Here, there, or delaware? How corporate threats distort democracy
Concern for corporate influence on democratic decisions has mostly focused on campaign funding and access to legislators. While these are certainly worrisome, corporations have another tool to influence decisions, which they are increasingly using. They can threaten to move their operations or cancel expansion plans in a municipality unless its public officials pass (or kill) certain policies. In one sense, this is business as usual. Companies ha…
Public reason and private bias
Platform Legitimacy Between Rights and Rule
This article examines the conditions for the legitimacy of online platforms and their relation to permissible acts of public interference. We develop what we call the Interference Conception of legitimacy and apply it to three categories of moral criticism that can be made against online platforms: that they have the power to violate rights, that they harm without violating rights, and that they inappropriately govern their users. We argue that v…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)