Aaron Ancell
Department of Philosophy
Bentley University
Employment



Bentley University, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
​2019 - present
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Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
​2018 - 2019
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University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics
​2017 - 2018
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Education


Duke University, Ph.D. Philosophy
​2011 - 2017
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Simon Fraser University, B.A. Philosophy
​2006 - 2011
Publications
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"Does corporate political advocacy wrong shareholders?" (2025) Journal of Business Ethics. (link)
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"Compelled Speech at Work: Employer Mobilization as a Threat to Employee Speech Rights." (2024) 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" in Tom Palmer and William Galston (eds.) Truth and Governance. Brookings Institute Press.
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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. Published Online First: 14 March 2019. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105425
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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.
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"Empiricism and Normative Ethics: What do the biology and psychology of morality have to do with ethics?" (2014) (co-authored with Owen Flanagan, Stephen Martin, and Gordon Steenbergen) Behaviour, special issue on "Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience," 151(2-3): 208-228.
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