Thomas W Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 967566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0848-4904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful
Should people be protected by law from discrimination on the grounds of political affiliation and belief? I argue that individuals’ democratic right to exercise political agency – which implies freedom of association and freedom to express one’s political belief – requires that individuals should not be vulnerable to being treated disadvantageously because of their political affiliation and belief. To accomplish this, the protectorate of discrimi…
Cartography and empire from early modernity to postmodernity
Cartography has both helped and hindered empires from earliest early modernity to postmodernity. Imperial formations developed in conjunction with particular mapping projects, which acted as instruments of violence, extraction, and dispossession, facilitating vast inequalities and iniquities. But maps have never been under the exclusive control of narrowly defined imperial elites; instead they have drawn on the knowledge and labour of subject peo…
Freedom and Trust: A Rejoinder to Lovett and Pettit
Telepresence and Trust: A Speech-Act Theory of Mediated Communication
Trust is central to our social lives in both epistemic and practical ways. Often, it is rational only given evidence for trustworthiness, and with that evidence is made available by communication. New technologies are changing our practices of communication, enabling increasing rich and diverse ways of ‘being there’, but at a distance. This paper asks: how does telepresent communication support evidence-constrained trust? In answering it, I reply…
The Impossibility of Republican Freedom
Just War and Robots' Killings
May lethal autonomous weapons systems-‘killer robots’-be used in war? The majority of writers argue against their use, and those who have argued in favour have done so on a consequentialist basis. We defend the moral permissibility of killer robots, but on the basis of the non-aggregative structure of right assumed by Just War theory. This is necessary because the most important argument against killer robots, the responsibility trilemma proposed…
Réguler les robots-tueurs, plutôt que les interdire
Les futurs systèmes d'armes létales autonomes ( LAWS selon leur acronyme anglais), aussi appelés « robots tueurs », seront-ils une menace pour l'humanité ? Dans cet article de proposition prescriptive, nous soutenons qu'ils ne privent pas les humains de leurs responsabilités. Au contraire, ils augmentent notre capacité à leur faire rendre des comptes de leurs crimes de guerre, même si leur diffusion et leur utilisation doivent impérativement être…
The Death of Mormon Separatism in American Universities, 1877-1896
The transformation of Mormonism from a small, persecuted sect into an established, global faith has attracted scholarly attention for decades. By all accounts, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were critical for the church's evolution and modernization. The rapidity of the change, however, leaves nagging questions. After years of costly, principled resistance, how could Mormons, with any semblance of dignity and self-respect, sudd…
Robots, Trust and War
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
"Mormons Study "Abroad: Brigham Young's Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877
Because Mormons could never fully realize their separatist dreams of a visible Zion in North America, the history of Mormonism has involved highly complex contacts and negotiations with non-Mormons. In their attempts to convert, resist, or appease outsiders, Mormons have engaged in a distinctive dialectic of secrecy and self-disclosure, of esoteric rites and public relations. The result has been an extended process of controlled modernization.Nar…
The Impossibility of Republican Freedom
Just War and Robots' Killings
May lethal autonomous weapons systems-‘killer robots’-be used in war? The majority of writers argue against their use, and those who have argued in favour have done so on a consequentialist basis. We defend the moral permissibility of killer robots, but on the basis of the non-aggregative structure of right assumed by Just War theory. This is necessary because the most important argument against killer robots, the responsibility trilemma proposed…
Freedom and Trust: A Rejoinder to Lovett and Pettit
"Mormons Study "Abroad: Brigham Young's Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877
Because Mormons could never fully realize their separatist dreams of a visible Zion in North America, the history of Mormonism has involved highly complex contacts and negotiations with non-Mormons. In their attempts to convert, resist, or appease outsiders, Mormons have engaged in a distinctive dialectic of secrecy and self-disclosure, of esoteric rites and public relations. The result has been an extended process of controlled modernization.Nar…
"Mormons Study "Abroad: Brigham Young's Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877
Because Mormons could never fully realize their separatist dreams of a visible Zion in North America, the history of Mormonism has involved highly complex contacts and negotiations with non-Mormons. In their attempts to convert, resist, or appease outsiders, Mormons have engaged in a distinctive dialectic of secrecy and self-disclosure, of esoteric rites and public relations. The result has been an extended process of controlled modernization.Nar…
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Robots, Trust and War
The Death of Mormon Separatism in American Universities, 1877-1896
The transformation of Mormonism from a small, persecuted sect into an established, global faith has attracted scholarly attention for decades. By all accounts, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were critical for the church's evolution and modernization. The rapidity of the change, however, leaves nagging questions. After years of costly, principled resistance, how could Mormons, with any semblance of dignity and self-respect, sudd…
Réguler les robots-tueurs, plutôt que les interdire
Les futurs systèmes d'armes létales autonomes ( LAWS selon leur acronyme anglais), aussi appelés « robots tueurs », seront-ils une menace pour l'humanité ? Dans cet article de proposition prescriptive, nous soutenons qu'ils ne privent pas les humains de leurs responsabilités. Au contraire, ils augmentent notre capacité à leur faire rendre des comptes de leurs crimes de guerre, même si leur diffusion et leur utilisation doivent impérativement être…
Just War and Robots' Killings
May lethal autonomous weapons systems-‘killer robots’-be used in war? The majority of writers argue against their use, and those who have argued in favour have done so on a consequentialist basis. We defend the moral permissibility of killer robots, but on the basis of the non-aggregative structure of right assumed by Just War theory. This is necessary because the most important argument against killer robots, the responsibility trilemma proposed…
Telepresence and Trust: A Speech-Act Theory of Mediated Communication
Trust is central to our social lives in both epistemic and practical ways. Often, it is rational only given evidence for trustworthiness, and with that evidence is made available by communication. New technologies are changing our practices of communication, enabling increasing rich and diverse ways of ‘being there’, but at a distance. This paper asks: how does telepresent communication support evidence-constrained trust? In answering it, I reply…
The Impossibility of Republican Freedom
Freedom and Trust: A Rejoinder to Lovett and Pettit
Cartography and empire from early modernity to postmodernity
Cartography has both helped and hindered empires from earliest early modernity to postmodernity. Imperial formations developed in conjunction with particular mapping projects, which acted as instruments of violence, extraction, and dispossession, facilitating vast inequalities and iniquities. But maps have never been under the exclusive control of narrowly defined imperial elites; instead they have drawn on the knowledge and labour of subject peo…
Should Political Discrimination be Unlawful
Should people be protected by law from discrimination on the grounds of political affiliation and belief? I argue that individuals’ democratic right to exercise political agency – which implies freedom of association and freedom to express one’s political belief – requires that individuals should not be vulnerable to being treated disadvantageously because of their political affiliation and belief. To accomplish this, the protectorate of discrimi…
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