Connor K Kianpour
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Connor K Kianpour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Connor K |
| FAMILY NAME | Kianpour |
| SIGNATURE | KIANPOUR C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2985-1525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Liberal Defense of Sex Exceptionalism
Sex exceptionalism is the view that sex is to be evaluated in morally different terms than other activities. Liberals seem to be hesitant to say that the state may affirm sex exceptionalism. However, as I argue, many liberal states are committed to sex exceptionalism in virtue of the fact that they treat the crime of rape as a crime of special status. Is there a philosophical basis for the liberal state’s doing this? In this essay, I argue yes—th…
Stay Together for the Kids
Liberal political morality prizes the freedom to enter and exit intimate associations, and romantic relationships are often treated as paradigmatic sites of this freedom. Yet when romantic partners are also coparents, exit can deprive children of established caregiving structures on which their welfare, security, and developing autonomy depend. This paper argues that children hold positive associational rights to the continuity of such structures…
Should You Stick Around? Children’s Associational Rights and the Duties of Nonparental Caregivers
Label me not
Mandatory calorie labelling policies (MCLs) are widely defended as neutral tools for promoting public health. This paper argues that they are neither neutral, in effect or justification, nor justified within a liberal framework. MCLs violate liberal neutrality by expressing and reinforcing a contested ideology of eating—one that prioritises restraint, quantification and self-surveillance—and their justifications rely on evaluative premises that r…
Reciprocity of the Oppressed
I argue that certain special obligations members of certain marginalized groups have to one another, if any such obligations exist, cannot be explained in terms of reciprocity. First, I motivate reciprocity of the oppressed (RO)––the term I’ve coined for the view that members of a particular marginalized social group have special obligations, corresponding to perfect duties, to one another grounded in reciprocity. Then, I argue that RO can, at mo…
Learning by Laughing
Philosophers tend to treat immoral jokes as best avoided, if not outright condemned. This essay challenges that consensus. I argue that many immoral jokes, far from undermining moral life, can enhance it. If moral features influence a joke’s funniness—as comic moralists and immoralists both claim—then humour can track our deepest norms, helping us perceive moral incongruity. That is the basis for what I call the humour-as-moral-error-detection th…
The Kids Aren't Alright
I first argue that forms of regulated parenting are presumptively justified whereas private parenting is not. Then, I argue that the reasons we have to believe that regulated parenting is justified give us reasons to believe that individuals who are objectionably intolerant—that is, they subscribe to prejudicial dogmas such as racism, sexism, and homophobia to such an extent that their ability to direct caring attitudes toward, for example, Black…
The political speech rights of the tokenized
It is important for members of marginalized groups to express political views relevant to how members of their respective groups should be treated. Recently, however, it has been argued that there are some contexts––that is, contexts in which members of marginalized groups are tokenized and have considerable power to influence political outcomes that would affect their other group members––in which certain marginalized group members ought not exp…
Red in Tooth and Claw No More
Most non-human animals live in the wild and it is probable that suffering predominates in their lives due to natural events. Humans may at some point be able to engage in paradise engineering, or the modification of nature and animal organisms themselves, to improve the well-being of wild animals. We may, in other words, make nature ‘red in tooth and claw’ no more. We argue that this creates a tension between environmental ethics and animal ethic…
The political speech rights of the tokenized
It is important for members of marginalized groups to express political views relevant to how members of their respective groups should be treated. Recently, however, it has been argued that there are some contexts––that is, contexts in which members of marginalized groups are tokenized and have considerable power to influence political outcomes that would affect their other group members––in which certain marginalized group members ought not exp…
Red in Tooth and Claw No More
Most non-human animals live in the wild and it is probable that suffering predominates in their lives due to natural events. Humans may at some point be able to engage in paradise engineering, or the modification of nature and animal organisms themselves, to improve the well-being of wild animals. We may, in other words, make nature ‘red in tooth and claw’ no more. We argue that this creates a tension between environmental ethics and animal ethic…
The Kids Aren't Alright
I first argue that forms of regulated parenting are presumptively justified whereas private parenting is not. Then, I argue that the reasons we have to believe that regulated parenting is justified give us reasons to believe that individuals who are objectionably intolerant—that is, they subscribe to prejudicial dogmas such as racism, sexism, and homophobia to such an extent that their ability to direct caring attitudes toward, for example, Black…
The political speech rights of the tokenized
It is important for members of marginalized groups to express political views relevant to how members of their respective groups should be treated. Recently, however, it has been argued that there are some contexts––that is, contexts in which members of marginalized groups are tokenized and have considerable power to influence political outcomes that would affect their other group members––in which certain marginalized group members ought not exp…
Should You Stick Around? Children’s Associational Rights and the Duties of Nonparental Caregivers
Label me not
Mandatory calorie labelling policies (MCLs) are widely defended as neutral tools for promoting public health. This paper argues that they are neither neutral, in effect or justification, nor justified within a liberal framework. MCLs violate liberal neutrality by expressing and reinforcing a contested ideology of eating—one that prioritises restraint, quantification and self-surveillance—and their justifications rely on evaluative premises that r…
Reciprocity of the Oppressed
I argue that certain special obligations members of certain marginalized groups have to one another, if any such obligations exist, cannot be explained in terms of reciprocity. First, I motivate reciprocity of the oppressed (RO)––the term I’ve coined for the view that members of a particular marginalized social group have special obligations, corresponding to perfect duties, to one another grounded in reciprocity. Then, I argue that RO can, at mo…
Learning by Laughing
Philosophers tend to treat immoral jokes as best avoided, if not outright condemned. This essay challenges that consensus. I argue that many immoral jokes, far from undermining moral life, can enhance it. If moral features influence a joke’s funniness—as comic moralists and immoralists both claim—then humour can track our deepest norms, helping us perceive moral incongruity. That is the basis for what I call the humour-as-moral-error-detection th…
A Liberal Defense of Sex Exceptionalism
Sex exceptionalism is the view that sex is to be evaluated in morally different terms than other activities. Liberals seem to be hesitant to say that the state may affirm sex exceptionalism. However, as I argue, many liberal states are committed to sex exceptionalism in virtue of the fact that they treat the crime of rape as a crime of special status. Is there a philosophical basis for the liberal state’s doing this? In this essay, I argue yes—th…
Stay Together for the Kids
Liberal political morality prizes the freedom to enter and exit intimate associations, and romantic relationships are often treated as paradigmatic sites of this freedom. Yet when romantic partners are also coparents, exit can deprive children of established caregiving structures on which their welfare, security, and developing autonomy depend. This paper argues that children hold positive associational rights to the continuity of such structures…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (3 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (2 works)