Mr Nicolas Cote

Lecturer in Applied Ethics (Philosophy)

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

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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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2025

Côté, N. (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, N. (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, N. (2024) The diagnostic value of freedom. Journal of Value Inquiry, 58(2), pp. 311-330. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-022-09891-9)

2023

Cote, N. (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, N. (2022) Measuring republican freedom. Synthese, 200(6), 486. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03964-9)

Cote, N. and Steuwer, B. (2022) Better vaguely right than precisely wrong in effective altruism: the problem of marginalism. Economics and Philosophy, (doi: 10.1017/S0266267122000062)

2021

Côté, N. (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, N. (2020) Weakness of will and the measurement of freedom. Ethics, 130(3), pp. 384-414. (doi: 10.1086/707214)

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Articles

Côté, N. (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, N. (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, N. (2024) The diagnostic value of freedom. Journal of Value Inquiry, 58(2), pp. 311-330. (doi: 10.1007/s10790-022-09891-9)

Cote, N. (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, N. (2022) Measuring republican freedom. Synthese, 200(6), 486. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-022-03964-9)

Cote, N. and Steuwer, B. (2022) Better vaguely right than precisely wrong in effective altruism: the problem of marginalism. Economics and Philosophy, (doi: 10.1017/S0266267122000062)

Côté, N. (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, N. (2020) Weakness of will and the measurement of freedom. Ethics, 130(3), pp. 384-414. (doi: 10.1086/707214)

This list was generated on Mon Mar 24 09:24:25 2025 GMT.

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