Work in Progress and Under Review
- Relationship Maintenance in the Age of Dating Apps
- Do Women Have a Higher Moral Status?
- Using Embryo Selection to End Global Poverty
- Having Children to Save the Climate
- Can Conservatism Mitigate the AI-Alignment Problem?
- Can Conservatism Prevent (Bad) Value Lock-In?
- Winning the Culture War Forever: AI, Political Polarization, and Domestic Value Lock-In
- Can Democracy Survive Radical Cognitive Convergence? (with Adam F. Gibbons)
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
De Vries, B (Forthcoming). Duties to Signal Love. Journal of Moral Philosophy
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). ‘Elder Care and Filial Duty’, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Family. Routledge.
De Vries, B. & M. Boudry (2026). Why Liberalism Might Last. Nations and Nationalism.
De Vries, B. (2026). Duties to Protect Oneself from Loneliness. JME Practical Bioethics 2(1). 10.1136/jmepb-2025-000060
De Vries, B. (2026. It is a High IQ Match! Using Dating Apps to Make Societies Smarter. Social Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202654266
De Vries, B. & K. Gonzalez-Barman (2025). Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation. Journal of Applied Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70061
De Vries, B. (2025). Narrow Competencies as a Basis for Preferential Hiring. Economics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267125100400
De Vries, B. (2025). Why Treat One’s Children as Equals? Canadian Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2025.10029
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). ‘Elder Care and Filial Duty’, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Family. Routledge.
De Vries, B. & M. Boudry (2026). Why Liberalism Might Last. Nations and Nationalism.
De Vries, B. (2026). Duties to Protect Oneself from Loneliness. JME Practical Bioethics 2(1). 10.1136/jmepb-2025-000060
De Vries, B. (2026. It is a High IQ Match! Using Dating Apps to Make Societies Smarter. Social Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202654266
De Vries, B. & K. Gonzalez-Barman (2025). Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation. Journal of Applied Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70061
De Vries, B. (2025). Narrow Competencies as a Basis for Preferential Hiring. Economics and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267125100400
De Vries, B. (2025). Why Treat One’s Children as Equals? Canadian Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2025.10029
Villiger, D. and B. de Vries (2025). Breaking Up Rationally. The Journal of Ethics, January. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-024-09505-5.
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De Vries, B. (2025) Care shortages and Duties to Age Abroad. Nursing Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330251315938
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De Vries, B. (2025). Mommy’s Favorite: Should Parents Love Their Children Equally? Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2421785
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Beckstein, Martin, and Bouke De Vries (2025). Dating Apps as Tools for Social Engineering. Ethics and
Information Technology 27 (1): 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09817-y
Information Technology 27 (1): 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09817-y
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De Vries. B, and S. A. Rezaieh. (2025). Political Philosophy and Loneliness. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 65 (October):101568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101568.
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De Vries, B. (2025). Wanting to be a Best Friend. Journal of Theoretical and Psychology Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1037/teo0000321
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De Vries, B. (2024). Autism and the Case Against Job Interviews. Neuroethics 17(2): 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-024-09563-4.
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De Vries, B. (2024). State-Run dating apps: Are they morally desirable? Philosophy and Technology. 30(1). 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00719-x
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De Vries, B. (2024). Neurodiversity and the Neuro-Neutral State. American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience 15(4). 265-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2024.2368715
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De Vries, B. (2024). Should Men Vacuum More? Public Affairs Quarterly 38(3): 196–212. https://doi.org/10.5406/21520542.38.3.02
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De Vries, B. (2024). Micro-Aggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Southern Journal of Philosophy 62(3). 391-401. 10.1111/sjp.12543
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De Vries, B. (2024). The Dysgenics Objection to Longtermism. Futures. 103417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103417.
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De Vries, B. (2024). Three conceptions of best friends. International Journal of Applied Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.5840/ijap20241212209
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De Vries, B. (2023). Is swearing morally innocent? Ratio, 36(2), 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12373
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De Vries, B. (2023). Selling visibility-boosts on dating apps: A problematic practice? Ethics and Information
Technology, 25(2), 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09704-y
Technology, 25(2), 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09704-y
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De Vries, B. (2023). A (Qualified) Defense of Wearing Cross-Racial
Make-Up During Halloween. Journal of Controversial Ideas, 3, 1. https://doi.org/10.35995/jci03010006
Make-Up During Halloween. Journal of Controversial Ideas, 3, 1. https://doi.org/10.35995/jci03010006
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De Vries, B. (2023). Can Monarchies Be Justified? Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 9, 8–24.
https://doi.org/10.31009/leap.2022.v9.01
https://doi.org/10.31009/leap.2022.v9.01
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De Vries, B. (2022). Care-Deficits and Polarization: Why the Time is Ripe for a Universal Care Conscription.
Nursing Ethics, 29(3), 709–718. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330211046649
Nursing Ethics, 29(3), 709–718. https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330211046649
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De Vries, B. (2022). Should Autists Have Cultural Rights? Human Rights Review, 23(2), 205–219.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-021-00642-0
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-021-00642-0
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De Vries, B. (2022). Lowering Toilet Seats. Ettik i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics. 16(1). 21-31. https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v16i1.4112
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De Vries, B. (2022). Sending people to care homes in lower-income countries: A qualified defence. Bioethics,
36(1), 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12948
36(1), 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12948
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De Vries, B. (2021). Autism and the Right to a Hypersensitivity-Friendly Workplace. Public Health Ethics, 14(3).281-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab021
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De Vries, B. (2021). The Sociability Argument for the Burqa Ban: A Qualified Defense (Online First). Criminal Law and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-021-09622-4
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De Vries B. (2021). Black Pete, King Balthasar, and the New Orleans Zulus: Can Black Make-Up Traditions Ever Be Justified? Journal of Controversial Ideas, 1(1):8.
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De Vries. B. (2021). Granny Export? The morality of sending older relatives to care homes abroad. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-021-10118-y
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De Vries, B. (2021). State responsibilities to protect us from loneliness during lockdown. Kennedy
Institute of Ethics Journal, 31(1). 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2021.0002
Institute of Ethics Journal, 31(1). 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2021.0002
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De Vries. B. (2021). Should higher-income countries pay their citizens to move to foreign care homes? Journal of Medical Ethics (Online First). https://doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106380
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De Vries, B. (2021). Why visiting one’s aging mother is not enough: On filial duties to prevent and alleviate parental loneliness. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 24(1), 127-133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-020-10000-5.
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De Vries, B. (2021). Five Arguments Against Single State Religions. Ethnicities, 21(1) 192–210. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796821989751 (Subject of a symposium with commentaries by Jonathan Seglow, Andrews Shorten, and Geoffrey Levey).
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De Vries, B. (2021). Revisiting the desire-based objection to single state religions: A reply to my critics. Ethnicities, 21(1). 226–234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796821989750
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De Vries, B. (2020). ‘Today a Christian Nation, Tomorrow a Muslim Nation’: A Defence of Rotating State Religions. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (Online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10143-7
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De Vries, B. (2020). Keeping out extremists: Refugees, would-be immigrants, and ideological exclusion. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 37(5), 746-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12450. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12450
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De Vries, B. (2020). Against Hands-On Neutrality. Philosophy, Politics & Economics, 17(4), 424-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X20924679.
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De Vries, B. (2020). Should Children Have a Veto over Parental Decisions to Relocate? Moral and Political Philosophy, 7(2), 321-334.
https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2019-0053
https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2019-0053
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De Vries, B. (2020). What does it mean to be ‘illiberal’? Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (Online first) https://doi.org/10.5553/NJLP/.000102
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De Vries, B. (2020). ‘I am your son, mother’: Severe dementia and duties to visit parents who can’t recognise you. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 23(1), 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09931-
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De Vries, B. (2020). Is Multiculturalism Discriminatory? Res Publica, 26(2), 201–214.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-019-09433-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-019-09433-4
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De Vries, B. (2019). The Right to be Publicly Naked: A Defence of Nudism. Res Publica, 25(3), 407–424. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-018-09406-z
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Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
De Vries, B. (2022). Four Types of Anti-Loneliness Policies. In K. Brownlee, D. Jenkins, & A. Neal (Eds.),
Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights. Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871194.003.0015
De Vries, B. (2022). Autonomy and End-of-Life. In B. Colburn (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy.
Routledge.
De Vries, B. (2018). ‘Are Civic Integration Tests Justifiable? A three-step test’, In Poama, A. & A. Lever, The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, Oxford: Routledge, pp.407-421.
De Vries, B. (2017). Multiculturalism and Temporary Migrant Workers”. In Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.) Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 265-282.
De Vries, B. (2015). “Liberal justificatory neutrality and mandatory vaccination schemes”. In Bardon, A., Birnbaum, M., Lee, L., & Stoeckl, K. (eds.) Religious Pluralism: A Resource Book. European University Institute, pp. 110-115. hdl.handle.net/1814/37704
Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights. Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871194.003.0015
De Vries, B. (2022). Autonomy and End-of-Life. In B. Colburn (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy.
Routledge.
De Vries, B. (2018). ‘Are Civic Integration Tests Justifiable? A three-step test’, In Poama, A. & A. Lever, The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, Oxford: Routledge, pp.407-421.
De Vries, B. (2017). Multiculturalism and Temporary Migrant Workers”. In Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.) Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 265-282.
De Vries, B. (2015). “Liberal justificatory neutrality and mandatory vaccination schemes”. In Bardon, A., Birnbaum, M., Lee, L., & Stoeckl, K. (eds.) Religious Pluralism: A Resource Book. European University Institute, pp. 110-115. hdl.handle.net/1814/37704
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