Mr Nicolas Cote

  • Lecturer in Applied Ethics (Philosophy)

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 the philosophy of economics more broadly. Currently I'm working on axiomatizing (a version of) deontology, some puzzles in moral aggregation, the politics of tolerance, issues in constitutional systems design, and a bit of aesthetics. 

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2025

Côté, Nicolas ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

This list was generated on Fri Jul 11 06:42:07 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Côté, Nicolas ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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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