Oxenfurt Philosophical Review

Published every year since 1940, edited in the Faculty of Philosophy, and free to read since 2023. Its founding statement promised to “publish philosophy for anyone who can read it”.

THE OXENFURT PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW Volume 87 · 2026 Clare Kearney1Ewan Strachan31Morwenna Jago59Hamid Rostami88Eleanor Haworth117Lewis Ormerod149Reviews176 OXENFURT UNIVERSITY PRESS

Volume 87 (2026)

Contents
AuthorTitlePage
Clare KearneyConsent by proxy1
Ewan StrachanAssertion under uncertainty31
Morwenna JagoThe ethics of the second copy59
Hamid RostamiCan a reason be borrowed?88
Eleanor HaworthPrecaution and the moral status of artificial minds117
Lewis OrmerodTolerance and the sorites149
ReviewsEleven books reviewed176

From earlier volumes

  • Terzieff-Godefroy, E. R. (2016). Lesser evils: a critique. Oxenfurt Philosophical Review, 77, 1–24.
  • Bell, C. (2019). Review of G. Runciter, Half-Life: The Persistence and Decline of Minds in Storage (Zürich: Beloved Brethren Press, 2017). Oxenfurt Philosophical Review, 80, 203–206. “Unfashionably clear on the difference between keeping a person and imitating one.”
  • Demery, J. (2024). Looking without seeing: the bystander’s claim. Oxenfurt Philosophical Review, 85, 211–236.
  • Sibthorpe, R. (1998). Necessity at Oxenfurt. Oxenfurt Philosophical Review, 59, 44–70.

Editors

Editor: Professor Simon Leggatt. Reviews editor: Dr Ewan Strachan. The editorial board has eleven members, six from the Faculty of Philosophy and five from other universities.

Submissions

The Review publishes articles of up to 12,000 words in any area of philosophy, and reviews by invitation. Submissions are reviewed anonymously by two readers, and we aim to decide within twelve weeks. There are no charges to authors or readers. Send submissions, prepared for anonymous review, to opr@oxenfurt.uk.

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