Research

Journal articles

Forthcoming. “The Ethics of Selling Shares in Your Future Income.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, with Friedemann Bieber. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X251391208

2026. “The Normative Case for a Global Minimum Tax on Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals.” Intertax 54(1), with Ingrid Robeyns. https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/Intertax/54.1%20[pre-publication]/TAXI2026002. Author accepted manuscript here.

2024. “Human Intuition about Distributive Justice: Desertist or Luck Egalitarian?” The Journal of Ethics 28(2), 239-262, with Thomas Mulligan. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-024-09475-8. Open access version here.

2024. “The Future of the Philosophy of Work.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 41(2), 181-201, with Markus Furendal and Willem van der Deijl-Kloeg.http://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12730

2023. “Hoera voor meritocratie!” Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Wijsbegeerte 115(3), 300-304. https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2023.3.015.BROU

2021. “Can Subjectivism Account for Degrees of Wellbeing?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24, 767-788, with Willem van der Deijl. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-021-10195-3

2020. “All Animals are Equal, but Some More than Others?” Journal of Moral Philosophy 17(3), 342-357, with Willem van der Deijl. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-01703004. Open access version here.

2019. “Why Not Be a Desertist? Three Arguments for Desert and Against Luck Egalitarianism.” Philosophical Studies 176(9), 2271-2288, with Thomas Mulligan. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1125-4

2018. “Can Desert Solve the Problem of Stakes? A Reply to Olsaretti.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 188(3), 399-405, with Willem van der Deijl. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoy014. Open access version here.

Book chapters

2026. “The Empirical Premises of Economic Limitarianism.” In Why Political Theory Needs Social Science, edited by Alice Baderin and David Miller, 212-231. Oxford: Oxford University Press, with Ingrid Robeyns. Author accepted manuscript here.

2023. “Justice at work.” In Business Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction, edited by Willem van der Deijl and Wim Dubbink, 147-158. New York: Springer, with Alexander Andersson. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37932-1_8. Open access version here.

2023. “Rechtvaardigheid op de werkvloer.” In Ethisch zakendoen, edited by Willem van der Deijl and Wim Dubbink, 169-180. Tielt: Lannoo Uitgeverij. https://www.lannoo.be/nl/ethisch-zakendoen.

2022. “Automation, Desert, and the Case for a Capital Grant.” In Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Michael Bennett, Huub Brouwer, and Rutger Claassen, 295-313. New York: Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003173632

2022. “Introduction: The Wealth-Power Nexus.” In Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Michael Bennett, Huub Brouwer, and Rutger Claassen, 1-22. New York: Routledge, with Michael Bennett and Rutger Claassen. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003173632

2021. “Onerous Work Deserves Higher Pay.” In Debating Equal Pay for All: Economy, Practicability, and Ethics, edited by Anders Ortenblad, 55-69. London: Palgrave McMillan, with Willem van der Deijl. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53575-9_4. Open access version here.

Encyclopedia entries

2025. “Luck egalitarianism” entry for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Thaddeus Metz. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, with Julien Kloeg. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee988. Author accepted manuscript here.

2025. “Meritocracy” entry for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Thaddeus Metz. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee987. Author accepted manuscript here.

Book reviews

2025. Book review of Daniel Chandler’s “Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?” Journal of Moral Philosophy 22(5-6): 745-747. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-22050612

2023. Book review of Kevin Kinghorn’s “The Nature of Desert Claims: Rethinking What It Means to Get One’s Due.” The Philosophical Quarterly 73(3), 814-817, with Alexander Andersson. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad040

2018. Book review of T. M. Scanlon’s “Why Does Inequality Matter?” Philosophy 93(4), 590-595. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819118000177

2017. Book review of Fred Feldman’s “Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve From Our Country.” Economics & Philosophy 33(1), 146-153, with Willem van der Deijl. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267116000250

Edited collections

2023. Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, edited with Michael Bennett and Rutger Claassen. 368 pages. Open access. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003173632

• Reviewed in Economics & Philosophy by Adam Lovett

2018. “On the Very Idea of a Just Wage.” Special Issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 11(2), edited with Thomas Mulligan. 300 pages. Open access. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v11i2.378

Interviews

2018. “Thinking by Drawing: An Interview with Shelly Kagan.” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 11(2), 245-283. Open access. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v11i2.379

2018. “Philosophy with Feet in the Mud: An Interview with Ingrid Robeyns.” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 11(1), 80-99, with Manuel Buitenhuis. Open access. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v11i1.356

2016. “Justice, Markets, and the Family: An Interview with Serena Olsaretti.” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 9(2), 181-195, with Isabella Trifan. Open access. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v9i2

Other texts

2022. “Desert, Luck, and Justice.” Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 15(1), 154-158. Open access. https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/676. PhD summary.

2020. “The Ethics of Data Acquisition: Protecting Privacy and Autonomy While Harnessing the Potential of Big Data.”, with Alfred Archer, Amanda Cawston, and Nathan Wildman. Center for the Governance of Change. Open access. https://www.ie.edu/cgc/research/data-privacy-individual/

2020. “Verdienste, Toeval, en Rechtvaardigheid.” Ars Aequi 69(May), 424-427. https://arsaequi.nl/product/verdienste-toeval-en-rechtvaardigheid/. PhD summary.

2020. “Desert, Luck, and Justice.” Tilburg University. PhD Thesis. Open access. https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/desert-luck-and-justice

Work-in-progress

Edited volumes

Under contract, publication expected in 2026. Rethinking Intrinsic Value & Other Essays on the Good, New York: Oxford University Press, edited with Benjamin Mullins.

• A collection of essays by Shelly Kagan on the basis of value, wellbeing, and desert. The collection will contain a preface by Kagan, an introduction by the editors, and a section containing suggestions for further reading.

In preparation, publication expected in 2027. Special issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics on the 25th anniversary of Murphy & Nagel’s The Myth of Ownership. Will be published in open access.

In preparation, publication expected in 2028. Special issue of the Monist on philosophy of taxation, edited with Dan Halliday.

In preparation, publication expected in 2028. Special issue of The Journal of Ethics on meritocracy, edited with Jahel Queralt.

Trade Book

In preparation, publication expected in 2027. “Je verdiende loon: Een filosofie van belastingheffing.” (“Earning What You Deserve: Philosophy of Taxation.”)

Articles

To help protect the integrity of anonymous refereeing, I do not list work-in-progress articles here.

Book chapter

Chapter on ‘Justice’ (in Dutch) for the second edition of Basisboek Ethiek, edited by Romy Eskens, Jeroen Hopster, Benjamin de Mesel, and Thomas Nys.

Chapter on ‘Equality or Limits?’, with Lasse Nielsen, for the Routledge Handbook for the Philosophy of Equality, edited by Jeppe von Platz.