Jake Monaghan
I’m an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University at Buffalo. My research mostly concerns the political philosophy of policing and cities.
Book
2023
Just Policing. Oxford University Press.
Review by Daniel Muñoz in Ethics.
Articles
2026
Urban Succession and Neighborhood Change
(with Dan C. Shahar) Philosophical Perspectives (2026).
2026
Modeling the city (II)
Philosophy Compass (2026)
2026
Modeling the city (I)
Philosophy Compass (2026)
2025
Territory without Turf
Political Philosophy (2025).
2025
Root causes and police abolition
Journal of Public Policy, (2026). (Winner of the 3PI Best Paper Prize, 2025).
2025
Down and Out in the Liberal Archipelago
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2025).
2025
Putting the ‘Structural’ Back in ‘Structural Injustice
A reply to Estlund, (with Kirun Sankaran) Ethics 135/5 (2025): 545-559.
2024
The Philosophical Problem of Democratic Policing
Social Research, Special Issue on Policing 91/4 (2024).
2024
Review of Ronald Sundstrom’s Just Shelter
Ethics 135/2 (2024): 381-385.
2023
Policing Disobedient Demonstrations
Criminal Law and Philosophy, Symposium on Policing and Political Philosophy 17 (2023).
2022
Libertarian Perspectives on Policing and Punishment
In Routledge Companion to Libertarianism. (2022).
2022
Idealizations and Ideal Policing
Philosophers’ Imprint 22/9 (2022).
2022
The Limits of Instrumental Proceduralism
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 22/1 (2022): 109-133.
2022
Broken Windows, Naloxone, and Experiments in Policing
Social Theory and Practice 48/2 (2022): 309-330.
2022
E-Cigarettes, the FDA’s Strategic Orientation, and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis
(with Brandon del Pozo) The American Journal of Bioethics. Open Peer Commentary. (2022).
2021
Legitimate Policing and Professional Norms
In The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement. Jones and Mendieto (eds.) (2021). New York University Press.
2021
The Relationship of Airbnb to Neighborhood Calls for Service in Three Cities
(with Eric van Holm) Cities (2021)
2020
Boundary Policing
Philosophy and Public Affairs 49/1 (2020): 26-50.
2020
Eviction and the Dissolution of Neighborhoods
(with Eric van Holm) Housing Policy Debate (2020).
2019
Biological Ties and Biological Accounts of Moral Status
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 44/3 (2019): 355-77.
2018
On Enforcing Unjust Laws in a Just Society
Philosophical Quarterly 68/273 (2018): 758-778.
2018
Killing in Self-Defense and the Case for Biocentric Individualism
Environmental Values 27/2 (2018): 119-36.
2017
The Special Moral Obligations of Law Enforcement
Journal of Political Philosophy 25/2 (2017): 218-37.
Contact
University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy
3709 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089