Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
De Vries, B. & K. Gonzalez-Barman (Forthcoming). Dating Apps and the Right to an Explanation. Journal of Applied Philosophy
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). Why Treat One’s Children as Equals? Canadian Journal of Philosophy
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). Narrow Competencies as a Basis for Preferential Hiring. Economics and Philosophy.
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). Elder Care and Filial Duty Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Family
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). Why Treat One’s Children as Equals? Canadian Journal of Philosophy
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). Narrow Competencies as a Basis for Preferential Hiring. Economics and Philosophy.
De Vries, B. (Forthcoming). Elder Care and Filial Duty Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Family
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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