JAMES GOODRICH
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​As of Fall 2022, I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of UW-Madison's interdisciplinary cluster in the ethics of computing, data, and information.
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I'm presently engaged in two major research projects. The first is about why and when we are morally justified in imposing costs on others in order to prevent suboptimal outcomes. I aim to develop a general theory of this phenomenon that draws on both the consequentialist and republican traditions of moral and political thought. My second major research project concerns the philosophy, politics, and economics of information technology. I'm particularly interested in the impact of behavioral data on market power and institutions. 

​I also have interests in the history of consequentialist and republican moral and political thought, especially the work of William Thompson, a socialist, feminist, and utilitarian philosopher, writing between Bentham and Mill.


Click here for my C.V. or email me at jpgoodrich - 'at' - wisc - 'dot' - edu

Books (Edited)
(2021) Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford: OUP, w/ T. Campbell, J. McMahan, and K. Ramakrishnan
(2022) Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford: OUP, w/ T. Campbell, J. McMahan, and K. Ramakrishnan

Articles in Journals
(Conditional Acceptance) "Moderation Defended: Culpable Ignorance and the Structure of Exculpation," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
(2016) "Mereological Dominance and the Logic of Better-than," Utilitas 28 (4): 361-367

Articles in Collected Volumes
(2021) "Separating Persons" in Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit
(2021) "Do We Own Our Data?: The Finders-Keepers Ethics of the Cyber Commons" in P. Aligica, G. Choi, and V. Storr (eds.), Culture, Sociality and Morality: New Applications of Mainline Political Economy, Rowman & Littlefield

Miscellaneous
(Commissioned) "William Thompson" for the Utilitarian Thinkers Series @ Utilitarianism.net
(2021) ​Review of "Why Free Will is Real" by Christian List, Journal of Moral Philosophy ​18 (3): 327-329.
(2019) "Parfit, Derek" w/ Larry Temkin in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell