I work in moral and political philosophy, with a particular eye on issues connecting to reasons and rationality. My main projects concern how agents can affect the reasons of other agents, particularly through their speech acts. Do my requests to others create new reasons for them? Can the state give new reasons to its subjects by commanding them? Does obedience to the law require me to exclude some of my other reasons for action?
Publications
2024
- Steve Coyne, “The Sources of Authoritative Exclusion,” Law and Philosophy (penultimate draft available here)
- Steve Coyne, “The Role of Civility in Political Disobedience,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 52(2): 221-50.
- Diane Horton, Sheila McIlraith, David Liu, Steven Coyne, Nina Wang, “Do Embedded Ethics Modules Have Impact Beyond the Classroom?”, in Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE): 533-539.
2016
- Steve Coyne, “Coercion and Obligation as Exercises of Authority,” Jurisprudence 7(3): 575-92.
Papers In Progress (e-mail me for a draft)
- A paper on the legitimacy of ethics education (draft complete)
- A paper on majority rule in democratic systems (in progress)
- A paper on non-instrumental values in AI alignment (in progress)