Dr. Daniel Sharp

I am a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (postdoc) at LMU at the Chair for Philosophy and Political Theory. I completed by PhD in Philosophy at New York University in early 2022. I have diverse interests in ethics and political philosophy. I also have research interests in Wittgenstein (particularly the later philosophy), in history of political thought, and in bioethics. Much of my recent research concerns migration and citizenship. One project explores how current practices of governing migration and distributing citizenship create problematically inegalitarian social relationships between persons within and between states. On the basis of my diagnosis of the egalitarian problems with contemporary migration governance, I explore the institutions regulating global mobility might be reimagined to facilitate, rather than to hinder, equal social relations between persons. A second project explores the moral foundations of citizenship: why we have such a status in the first place. I’m working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled the Moral Foundations of Citizenship. The book offers a pluralist defense of the idea of citizenship that is sensitive to the deeply inegalitarian nature of actual citizenship regimes and how citizenship must be transformed to achieve its central normative functions. A third project concerns the ethics of migration diplomacy. This project explores how migration impacts interstate relations. In a series of paper, I explore the ethics of leveraging migrants in interstate bargaining, how states should respond to migration blackmail, and why externalization policies pursued by states in the Global North undermine the self-determination of states in the Global South. One upshot of the project is that it provides additional support for the need of just supranational institutions that migration governance (partially) out of the hands of states. In the longer term, I hope to write a book about the relation between social justice and global justice.

Articles

• “What Immigrants Owe”, Ergo (with Adam Lovett). Forth.
• “The Right to Emigrate: Exit and Equality in a World of States,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Forth.
• “Immigration, Naturalization, and the Purpose of Citizenship.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Forth.

• “Relational Equality and Immigration,” Ethics 132.3: 644-679, 2022

• “Why Citizenship Tests are Necessarily Illiberal: A Reply to Blake,” Ethics & Global Politics 15.1: 1-7, 2022

• “Kant on Property and Provisional Rights,” Transcendental Philosophy between Metaphysics and Politics: In Memory of Marek Jan Siemek, Marcin Poreba & Amadeusz Just (eds.). Königshausen & Neumann, 2021

• “Einwanderung in Zeiten von Corona,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia. Thinking the Pandemics: Philosophical Perspectives 77.2-3: 657-688, 2021

• “Immigration and State System Legitimacy,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. Early View, 2020

• “The Rule-Following Considerations and the Case for Moral Particularism: A Critical Examination,” Ethical Perspectives 3: 411-443, 2016

• “Deep Brain Stimulation, Historicism, and Moral Responsibility,” Neuroethics 9.2, 173-185 (with David Wasserman), 2016
• “The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Keeping Our Focus on the Worst Off,” American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 92.6: 1087-1089 (with Joseph Millum), 2016

• “Prioritarianism for Global Health Investments: Identifying the Worst Off,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 35.1: 112-132 (with Joseph Millum), 2015

• “The Ethics of Empowering Patients as Partners in Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention,” Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 35.3: 307-309 (with Tara Palmore and Christine Grady), 2015

• “Compatibilism and a Political Conception of Autonomy,” American Journal of Bioethics— Neuroscience 4.4: 55-56 (with David Wasserman), 2013

Reviews

• “Nils Holtug, The Politics of Social Cohesion: Immigration, Community, and Justice.” Journal of Moral Philosophy. Forth.

• “Christian Schemmel: Justice and Egalitarian Relations.” Res Publica. Forth.

• “Asylum as Reparation: Refuge and Responsibility for the Harms of Displacement. By James Souter.” Journal of Refugee Studies 35.2: 1423–1426, 2022
• “Javier S. Hidalgo, Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 19.2: 205-8, 2022

• “Justice, Migration & Mercy, Michael Blake", 2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ix + 266 £22.99 (hb),” Journal of Applied Philosophy 38.2: 175-7, 2021

• “Anna Stilz: Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration,” Res Publica 26: 607-612, 2020

• “‘Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought’, Edited by Reshef Adam-Segal and Edmund Dain,” Nordic Wittgenstein Review 7: 109-115, 2018

• “‘Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language’, Edited by Grève and Mácha,” Nordic Wittgenstein Review 5.2: 226-231, 2016

Public Philosophy

• “Does COVID-19 Justify Travel Bans?” Public Ethics Blog, 2021

• “The Sustainable Development Goals: Priorities for the Global Health Community?” (with Joseph Millum) BMJ Blog, 2015

• “Synthetic Collaborations and Experimental Human Science,” Biopolitical Times, 2012

• “President’s Commission Addresses Informed Consent and Genomics, but Remains Silent on Core Concerns,” Biopolitical Times, 2012