Mr Nicolas Cote

Lecturer in Applied Ethics (Philosophy)

email: Nicolas.Cote@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Import to contacts

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528

Research interests

My research is mainly in moral and political philosophy. I'm interested in the axiomatic foundations of moral theory, the measurement and weighing of moral values, and the interaction between norms of rationality and norms of morality. I'm also interested in the ethics of aid and development, and particularly in the conflict between the well-meaning motives that drive aid policy and the imperialist character that those policies often present.

Currently I'm working on axiomatizing (a version of) deontology, some puzzles in moral aggregation, the politics of tolerance, the ethics of risk imposition, the ethics of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship, and future bias.

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2025

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2025) Humean moral realism without irony. Journal of Ethics, (doi: 10.1007/s10892-025-09524-w) (Early Online Publication)

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2025) A value-free, diversity-sensitive measure of freedom. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (doi: 10.1007/s10677-025-10486-z) (Early Online Publication)

Cote, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2025) Why it’s fine to offset one’s carbon emissions by paying others to pollute less: a deontological account of risk imposition. Journal of Value Inquiry, (doi: 10.1007/s10790-024-10025-6) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2024) The diagnostic value of freedom. Journal of Value Inquiry, 58(2), pp. 311-330. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-022-09891-9)

2023

Cote, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2023) There is no such thing as expected moral choice-worthiness. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, (doi: 10.1017/can.2023.18) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2022) Measuring republican freedom. Synthese, 200(6), 486. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03964-9)

Cote, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 and Steuwer, Bastian (2022) Better vaguely right than precisely wrong in effective altruism: the problem of marginalism. Economics and Philosophy, (doi: 10.1017/S0266267122000062)

2021

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2021) A diachronic consistency argument for minimizing one’s own rights violations. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24(5), pp. 1109-1121. (doi: 10.1007/s10677-021-10253-w)

2020

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2020) Weakness of will and the measurement of freedom. Ethics, 130(3), pp. 384-414. (doi: 10.1086/707214)

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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2025) Humean moral realism without irony. Journal of Ethics, (doi: 10.1007/s10892-025-09524-w) (Early Online Publication)

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2025) A value-free, diversity-sensitive measure of freedom. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (doi: 10.1007/s10677-025-10486-z) (Early Online Publication)

Cote, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2025) Why it’s fine to offset one’s carbon emissions by paying others to pollute less: a deontological account of risk imposition. Journal of Value Inquiry, (doi: 10.1007/s10790-024-10025-6) (Early Online Publication)

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2024) The diagnostic value of freedom. Journal of Value Inquiry, 58(2), pp. 311-330. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-022-09891-9)

Cote, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2023) There is no such thing as expected moral choice-worthiness. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, (doi: 10.1017/can.2023.18) (Early Online Publication)

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2022) Measuring republican freedom. Synthese, 200(6), 486. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03964-9)

Cote, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 and Steuwer, Bastian (2022) Better vaguely right than precisely wrong in effective altruism: the problem of marginalism. Economics and Philosophy, (doi: 10.1017/S0266267122000062)

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2021) A diachronic consistency argument for minimizing one’s own rights violations. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24(5), pp. 1109-1121. (doi: 10.1007/s10677-021-10253-w)

Côté, Nicolas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-6528 (2020) Weakness of will and the measurement of freedom. Ethics, 130(3), pp. 384-414. (doi: 10.1086/707214)

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