Abstract Will artificial decision-making support (dms) erode human capacity for moral decision-making and human ability to think critically about morality? The question is empirical, but also ethical. To provide a framework for investigating human morality vis-à-vis dms, I will examine the self-proclaimed Kantian utilitarian Richard M. Hare’s two-level theory of critical and intuitive moral thinking. Hare’s proposition may offer a constructive approach to probe the consequences of dms for human moral thinking. I consider Hare’s notion of an archangel and a fanatic as moral agents. An amoralist approach is briefly examined. I conclude that dms will not leave humans without moral agency, although it may lure human beings into evading responsibility by leaving high-stake moral decisions to machines. Hopefully, critical moral thinking will retain moral autonomy in the age of artificial intelligence.

Abstract This article presents a philosophical approach to social work, specifically through mentorship programs aimed at helping young individuals in vulnerable positions. Integrating existential phenomenology with practical philosophy, it explores how these mentorships can act as experiences for personal and societal transformation, addressing both ethical and existential dimensions. For instance, mentors may develop a renewed sense of moral responsibility and self-understanding, while mentees can experience a reorientation toward trust, education, or social participation. The study articulates the need for a deeper philosophical grounding of mentorship practices, responding to emerging trends in voluntary social work that emphasize organic, self-driven engagements over traditional models of mentoring. Building on a case study, the findings advocate for a model of mentorship that emphasizes authenticity, ethical engagement, and reciprocal personal growth, posited within an evolving theoretical framework that seeks to align mentorship practices with existential social philosophies.

Abstract The ultimate aim of this issue is to contribute to the analytical review of critical theories of biological and social reproduction and to propose a concept of reproduction justifiable in normative and operative terms within the framework of moral and political philosophy. The ambiguity and plasticity of the concept of ‘reproduction’ and the generic use made of it in the social and human sciences, critical social and political philosophy and political demands, calls for a comprehensive critical-analytical clarification at least at the levels of the processes of biological reproduction of individual subjects, the processes of socioeconomic reproduction, and the political and institutional reproduction of the social order as a whole. The essays collected here are intended as a contribution in this regard, focused in a theoretical approach to reproduction inspired by current critical theories, deliberative democracy and the category of the public sphere, which allows us to deal with social categories such as reproduction without essentialist presuppositions. The normative horizon points to a democratic and emancipatory conception of reproductive relations.

Abstract This paper engages with questions of agency and atmospheres, in a revivification of the paper “TransMaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings,” published in glq in 2015. The abstract of the published paper reads: “Drawing on a disparate set of naturalcultural phenomena from regenerative biology, quantum field theory, and queer and trans theories that include lightning, primordial ooze, frogs, bioelectricity, monstrosity, trans rage, virtual particles, and errant pathways, this article is about the materiality of political imageries and the possibilities for making queer alliance with nature’s nonessentialist nature. In particular, it makes an argument for the radically deconstructive, queer, and trans nature of nature, including nature’s own engagement with materialist practices of imagining.”

Abstract This paper examines human reproduction as a complex phenomenon shaped by biological, social, economic, and political forces. It identifies the fallacy of the altruistic argument, which frames women’s self-sacrifice in reproductive and caregiving roles as a natural virtue, reinforcing gender inequalities and limiting autonomy. Through an interdisciplinary approach integrating feminist philosophy, evolutionary theory, and social justice perspectives, it exposes androcentric biases in evolutionary epistemology that have legitimized the exploitation of women’s reproductive labor by portraying altruism as a biologically determined, sex-specific trait. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s relational ethics, the paper advocates for reimagining reproduction as a collective act rooted in mutual care, ethical responsibility, and interdependence. This perspective challenges Western individualism and calls for positioning reproduction as a central ethical and philosophical category. By rejecting narratives of self-sacrifice, it promotes an ethos of mutuality, fostering a more equitable and inclusive approach to reproductive practices and policies.

Abstract This article aims to examine the fight for reproductive rights and the new demands for reproductive justice from the feminist approach of vulnerability. This paper is divided into three sections. The first section analyzes the feminist ‘vulnerability turn’ with its dual notion of vulnerability as both an existential condition and a sociopolitical constitution. The second section examines the political demands for reproductive justice that have emerged since the 1990s thanks to Black intersectional feminism in the United States. The third section concludes with a defense of the political dimension of vulnerability as a foundation for a radical reproduction policy capable of implementing the demands of reproductive justice. In short, we will explain how the feminist approach to vulnerability enables the politicization of reproductive social relations. This provides a framework for new and emerging demands for reproductive justice in the future.