Dr Joe Slater
- Lecturer in Moral or Political Philosophy (Philosophy)
email:
Joe.Slater@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Publications
2025
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Humphries, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356
(2025)
Another reason to call bullshit on AI “hallucinations”.
AI and Society,
(doi: 10.1007/s00146-025-02346-2)
(Early Online Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2025)
The overgeneralisation of the Future Like Ours argument.
New Bioethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body,
(doi: 10.1080/20502877.2025.2483588)
(PMID:40208803)
(Early Online Publication)
Saunders, Joe, Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Sticker, Martin
(2025)
Kant and overdemandingness II: the demandingness of perfect duties.
Philosophy Compass, 20(4),
e70033.
(doi: 10.1111/phc3.70033)
2024
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Towsen Hicks, Michael
(2024)
Tech bullshit.
Contralytic, 3,
pp. 31-33.
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2024)
Political decision-making, lottocracy, and AI.
Conatus,
(Accepted for Publication)
Archer, Alfred, Wojtowicz, Jake, Kadlac, Adam, Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235, Baron-Schmitt, Nathaniel and Windgätter, Nina
(2024)
Book symposium: Alfred Archer and Jake Wojtowicz’s Why it’s OK to be a Sports Fan.
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy,
(doi: 10.1080/17511321.2024.2367073)
(Early Online Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2024)
Open-textured moral concepts.
South African Journal of Philosophy,
(Accepted for Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235, Humphries, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Hicks, Michael Townsen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668
(2024)
ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Scientific American,
17 July.
Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668, Humphries, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Slater, Joe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2024)
ChatGPT is bullshit.
Ethics and Information Technology, 26,
38.
(doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5)
Saunders, Joe, Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Sticker, Martin
(2024)
Kant and overdemandingness I: the demandingness of imperfect duties.
Philosophy Compass, 19(6),
e12998.
(doi: 10.1111/phc3.12998)
2023
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
The SIA can’t just go with the FLO.
HEC Forum,
(doi: 10.1007/s10730-023-09510-5)
(Early Online Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
Just judge: the jury on trial.
American Philosophical Quarterly, 60(2),
pp. 169-186.
(doi: 10.5406/21521123.60.2.05)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
History of utilitarianism.
In: Fieser, James and Dowden, Bradley (eds.)
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
IEP.
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
Satisficers still get away with murder.
Ergo, 10,
47.
(doi: 10.3998/ergo.5184)
2021
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2021)
Nepotism on The Orville.
In: Johnson, David Kyle and Berry, Michael R. (eds.)
Exploring The Orville: Essays on Seth MacFarlane's Space Adventure.
McFarland and Company, Inc.: Jefferson, North Carolina, pp. 209-225.
ISBN 9781476681924
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2021)
Miller's tale: why the sympathy principle is inadequate.
Kriterion, 35(1),
pp. 97-111.
(doi: 10.1515/krt-2021-0006)
2020
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2020)
Paul Woodruff (ed.), The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers’ Perspectives on Philanthropy
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 240 pages. ISBN: 9780190648879. Hardback: $34.95.
Journal of Moral Philosophy, 17(4),
pp. 464-467.
(doi: 10.1163/17455243-01704007)[Book Review]
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2020)
Satisficing consequentialism still doesn't satisfy.
Utilitas, 32(1),
pp. 108-117.
(doi: 10.1017/S0953820819000402)
2019
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2019)
Review - Ethics Beyond the Limits.
Metapsychology Online Reviews, 26(36),
[Book Review]
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2019)
Jamie Carlin Watson’s Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Responsible Belief and Political Rhetoric.
Res Publica, 25(1),
pp. 127-132.
(doi: 10.1007/s11158-018-09414-z)[Book Review]
2017
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2017)
Androids: artificial persons or glorified toasters.
In: Ewing, Jeffrey and Decker, Kevin S. (eds.)
Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series.
Wiley Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 17-24.
ISBN 9781119280811
(doi: 10.1002/9781119280873.ch2)
2014
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2014)
Barney Stinson's theory of truth.
In: Von Matterhorn, Lorenzo (ed.)
How I Met Your Mother and Philosophy: Being and Awesomeness.
Series: Popular culture and philosophy (81).
Open Court: Chicago, pp. 169-180.
ISBN 9780812698350
2013
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2013)
Why it's wrong to make monsters - or babies.
In: Michaud, Nicolas (ed.)
Frankenstein and Philosophy: The Shocking Truth.
Series: Popular culture and philosophy (79).
Open Court: Chicago, pp. 261-272.
ISBN 9780812698367
Articles
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Humphries, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356
(2025)
Another reason to call bullshit on AI “hallucinations”.
AI and Society,
(doi: 10.1007/s00146-025-02346-2)
(Early Online Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2025)
The overgeneralisation of the Future Like Ours argument.
New Bioethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body,
(doi: 10.1080/20502877.2025.2483588)
(PMID:40208803)
(Early Online Publication)
Saunders, Joe, Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Sticker, Martin
(2025)
Kant and overdemandingness II: the demandingness of perfect duties.
Philosophy Compass, 20(4),
e70033.
(doi: 10.1111/phc3.70033)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Towsen Hicks, Michael
(2024)
Tech bullshit.
Contralytic, 3,
pp. 31-33.
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2024)
Political decision-making, lottocracy, and AI.
Conatus,
(Accepted for Publication)
Archer, Alfred, Wojtowicz, Jake, Kadlac, Adam, Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235, Baron-Schmitt, Nathaniel and Windgätter, Nina
(2024)
Book symposium: Alfred Archer and Jake Wojtowicz’s Why it’s OK to be a Sports Fan.
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy,
(doi: 10.1080/17511321.2024.2367073)
(Early Online Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2024)
Open-textured moral concepts.
South African Journal of Philosophy,
(Accepted for Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235, Humphries, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Hicks, Michael Townsen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668
(2024)
ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Scientific American,
17 July.
Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668, Humphries, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Slater, Joe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2024)
ChatGPT is bullshit.
Ethics and Information Technology, 26,
38.
(doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5)
Saunders, Joe, Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 and Sticker, Martin
(2024)
Kant and overdemandingness I: the demandingness of imperfect duties.
Philosophy Compass, 19(6),
e12998.
(doi: 10.1111/phc3.12998)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
The SIA can’t just go with the FLO.
HEC Forum,
(doi: 10.1007/s10730-023-09510-5)
(Early Online Publication)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
Just judge: the jury on trial.
American Philosophical Quarterly, 60(2),
pp. 169-186.
(doi: 10.5406/21521123.60.2.05)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
Satisficers still get away with murder.
Ergo, 10,
47.
(doi: 10.3998/ergo.5184)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2021)
Miller's tale: why the sympathy principle is inadequate.
Kriterion, 35(1),
pp. 97-111.
(doi: 10.1515/krt-2021-0006)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2020)
Satisficing consequentialism still doesn't satisfy.
Utilitas, 32(1),
pp. 108-117.
(doi: 10.1017/S0953820819000402)
Book Sections
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2023)
History of utilitarianism.
In: Fieser, James and Dowden, Bradley (eds.)
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
IEP.
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2021)
Nepotism on The Orville.
In: Johnson, David Kyle and Berry, Michael R. (eds.)
Exploring The Orville: Essays on Seth MacFarlane's Space Adventure.
McFarland and Company, Inc.: Jefferson, North Carolina, pp. 209-225.
ISBN 9781476681924
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2017)
Androids: artificial persons or glorified toasters.
In: Ewing, Jeffrey and Decker, Kevin S. (eds.)
Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am.
Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series.
Wiley Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 17-24.
ISBN 9781119280811
(doi: 10.1002/9781119280873.ch2)
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2014)
Barney Stinson's theory of truth.
In: Von Matterhorn, Lorenzo (ed.)
How I Met Your Mother and Philosophy: Being and Awesomeness.
Series: Popular culture and philosophy (81).
Open Court: Chicago, pp. 169-180.
ISBN 9780812698350
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2013)
Why it's wrong to make monsters - or babies.
In: Michaud, Nicolas (ed.)
Frankenstein and Philosophy: The Shocking Truth.
Series: Popular culture and philosophy (79).
Open Court: Chicago, pp. 261-272.
ISBN 9780812698367
Book Reviews
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2020)
Paul Woodruff (ed.), The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers’ Perspectives on Philanthropy
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 240 pages. ISBN: 9780190648879. Hardback: $34.95.
Journal of Moral Philosophy, 17(4),
pp. 464-467.
(doi: 10.1163/17455243-01704007)[Book Review]
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2019)
Review - Ethics Beyond the Limits.
Metapsychology Online Reviews, 26(36),
[Book Review]
Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235
(2019)
Jamie Carlin Watson’s Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Responsible Belief and Political Rhetoric.
Res Publica, 25(1),
pp. 127-132.
(doi: 10.1007/s11158-018-09414-z)[Book Review]