Edmund Tweedy Flanigan
Research
Work in Progress
The Ethics of Protest and Resistance: An Introduction, under contract with Routledge
An entry in Routledge's "The Ethics of" series, offering a comprehensive and opinionated overview of the ethics of protest and resistance — from marches and civil disobedience to violent protest and nonviolent direct action.
- A paper about principled nonviolence
Articles
Justifying Futile Climate Resistance, with Ten-Herng Lai, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 112, no. 2 (2026): 484-497.
Why Riot? An Expressive Theory of the Justification of Rioting in Free & Equal 1, no. 1 (2025): 261-297. [Discussion at PEA Soup.]
Futile Resistance as Protest in Mind 132, no. 527 (2023): 631-658.
From Self-Defense to Violent Protest in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26, no. 7 (2023): 1094-1118. (Online first 5 January 2021.) [Winner of the CRISPP Essay Prize.]
Do We Have Reasons to Obey the Law? in the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 17, no. 2 (2020): 159-197.
The Small Improvement Argument, Epistemicism, and Incomparability, with John Halstead, in Economics & Philosophy 34, no. 2 (2018): 199-219.
Other Writing
Case Study: Militancy Versus Nonviolence in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to appear in Issues in Political Theory (5th ed.).
Case Study: Disobedient Protest and the Global Climate Movement to appear in Issues in Political Theory (5th ed.).
Radical Protest and Moral Justification at the Blog of the APA (May 2025).
Democratic Expeditions: Nonviolence as a Moral Gift in the Moral Dilemmas of Resistance Policy Paper Series of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (2025).
Reviews
Violence in Proportion by Patrick Tomlin, in the Journal of Applied Philosophy 43, no. 3 (2026): 848-852.
