Aaron Ancell
Department of Philosophy
Bentley University
Recent Work
"Compelled Speech at Work: Employer Mobilization as a Threat to Employee Speech Rights." (forthcoming) Philosophy of Management. (open access)
Employers often encourage, incentivize, or even require their employees to engage in politics in a variety of ways. For example, employers often encourage employees to vote, press employees to support particular political candidates or policies, require employees to participate in political events, or ask employees to contact elected officials to advocate for the employer’s interests. Such practices are all forms of employer mobilization. This essay considers the threat that employer mobilization poses to employees’ speech rights, specifically employees’ right against compelled speech.
Research Profiles
Selected Publications
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"Compelled Speech at Work: Employer Mobilization as a Threat to Employee Speech Rights." (forthcoming) Philosophy of Management. (open access)
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"Corporate Counterspeech" (2023) Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 26 (4): 611-625 (open access)
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"Bias, Safeguards, and the Limits of Individuals." (2022) Business Ethics Journal Review 10(5): 27–32. (open access)
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"Liberalism" (2021) in Tom Palmer and William Galston (eds.) Truth and Governance. Brookings Institution Press, pp. 193-215.
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"Political irrationality, Utopianism, and Democratic Theory." (2020) Philosophy, Philosophy & Economics 19(1): 3-21
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"The Fact of Unreasonable Pluralism." (2019) Journal of the American Philosophical Association 5(4): 410-428.
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"The need for feasible compromises on conscientious objection: response to Card." (2019) (co-authored with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) Journal of Medical Ethics 45: 560-561.
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"Democratic Theory for a Market Democracy: The Problem of Merriment and Diversion When Regulators and Regulated Meet." (2018) (co-authored with Wayne Norman) Journal of Social Philosophy, special issue on "Market Governance," 49(4): 536-563.
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"Democracy Isn't That Smart (But We Can Make it Smarter): On Landemore's Democratic Reason." (2017) Episteme 14(2): 161-175.
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"How to Allow Conscientious Objections in Medicine While Protecting Patient Rights." (2017) (co-authored with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) Cambridge Quarterly of Medical Ethics 26(1): 121-131.