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Selected Works of Alexander Sager

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Alex specializes in Social and Political Philosophy and has published widely on the ethics of migration. Recent publications include Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility: The Migrant's-Eye View of the World (Palgrave, 2018), The Ethics and Politics of Immigration (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), and Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology - Second Edition (Broadview, 2016). He is currently writing a book defending open borders.

Alex has also been active in developing the Philosophy Department's K-12 Philosophy activities, including the Oregon High School Ethics Bowl, and in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Migration Research Cluster.

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Alex specializes in Social and Political Philosophy and has published widely on the ethics of migration. Recent publications include Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility: The Migrant's-Eye View of the World (Palgrave, 2018), The Ethics and Politics of Immigration (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), and Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology - Second Edition (Broadview, 2016). He is currently writing a book defending open borders.

Alex has also been active in developing the Philosophy Department's K-12 Philosophy activities, including the Oregon High School Ethics Bowl, and in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Migration Research Cluster.

Articles (18)

Review Essay: Recent Works in the Political Theory of Migration

The Review of Politics (2022)

Alexander Sager

Thirty-five years ago, Joseph Carens published “Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders” in the Review of Politics. It ...

Why Migration Justice Still Requires Open Borders

Journal of Applied Philosophy (2022)

I revisit themes from Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (2020) in dialogue with Gillian Brock's ...

Mapping and Countermapping Shifting Borders

European Journal of Political Theory (2021)

Alexander Sager

Ayelet Shachar’s The Shifting Border deploys a powerful map metaphor to support rethinking of borders and their functions. I interrogate ...

Political Philosophy Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Philosophy Compass (2021)

Interdisciplinary work on the nature of borders and society has enriched and complicated our understanding of democracy, community, distributive justice, ...

Inequities and Opportunities

At This Moment Webinar Series (2020)

Todd N. Rosenstiel, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Idowu Ajibade, Alexander Sager, et al.

Panelists talk about concrete steps to dismantle systemic racism. Toxic seeds were planted four hundred years ago, and at this ...

Private Contractors, Foreign Troops, and Offshore Detention Centers: The Ethics ...

APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy (2018)

Alexander Sager

Despite the prevalence of externalization, much work in the ethics of immigration continues to assume that the admission of immigrants ...

Immigration Enforcement and Domination An Indirect Argument for Much More ...

Political Research Quarterly (2017)

Alexander Sager

Normative reflection on the ethics of migration has tended to remain at the level of abstract principle with limited attention ...

Productive Justice and Compulsory Service

Ethics &Global Politics (2016)

Alexander Sager

This paper is part of the Special Issue: Book symposium on Debating Brain Drain: May Government Restrict Emigration? More papers ...

Liberation Pragmatism: Dussel and Dewey in Dialogue

Contemporary Pragmatism (2016)

Alexander Sager and Albert R. Spencer

Enrique Dussel and John Dewey share commitments to philosophical theory and practice aimed at addressing human problems, democratic modes of ...

Methodological Nationalism, Migration and Political Theory

Political Studies (2016)

Alexander Sager

The political theory of migration has largely occurred within a paradigm of methodological nationalism and this has led to the ...

Ghoshal’s Ghost: Financialization and the End of Management Theory

Philosophy of Management (2015)

Alexander Sager

Sumantra Ghoshal’s condemnation of “bad management theories” that were “destroying good management practices” has not lost any of its salience, ...

Normative Ethics after Pragmatic Naturalism

Metaphilosophy (2014)

Alexander Sager

Philip Kitcher presents an ambitious account of pragmatic naturalism that incorporates an explanatory story of the emergence and development of ...

The Hanford Advisory Board: Participatory Democracy, Technology, and Representation

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2014)

The Hanford Advisory Board (HAB) is a broadly representative, deliberative body that provides formal policy advice on Department of Energy ...

Immigration, Ethics, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Methodological Reflections on ...

Ethical Perspectives (2014)

Alexander Sager

In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens’ builds a sophisticated account of justice in immigration based on an interpretation of ...

Political Rights, Republican Freedom, and Temporary Workers

Journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2014)

Alexander Sager

I defend a neo-republican account of the right to have political rights. Neo-republican freedom from domination is a sufficient condition ...

Reframing the Brain Drain

Journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2014)

Alexander Sager

Theorists concerned about the distributive effects of skilled emigration (‘brain drain’) often argue that its harmful effects can be justly ...

Hume and Contemporary Political Philosophy

European Legacy (2013)

Alexander Sager and Angela Coventry

Our goal in this article is first to give a broad outline of some of Hume’s major positions to do ...

The Implications of Migration Theory for Distributive Justice

Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric (2012)

Alexander Sager

This paper explores the implications of empirical theories of migration for normative accounts of migration and distributive justice. It examines ...

Unpublished Paper

Career Readiness for First Year General Education Students: A Curricular ...

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations (2023)

Meredith Michaud, Sarah Dougher, Sarah Wolf Newlands, Alexander Sager, et al.

In winter 2023, University Studies formed a working group to develop and pilot embedded career readiness within first year general ...

At This Moment Webinar Series (2022)

Todd Rosenstiel, Bill Griesar, Jeff Leake, Britta Harbury, et al.

This is a video conversation about how PSU faculty and students are working alongside community partners to bring neuroscience research ...

Voices on Immigration

Tag, We're It (2020)

Alexander Sager, Marc Rodriguez, Melissa Patiño-Vega, Eddy Alvarez, et al.

Expert panelists discuss immigration as part of the Tag We're It speaker series.

Contribution to Book

Breaking the Nation-State's Spell

Toward a cosmopolitan ethics of mobility : the migrant's-eye view of the world (2017)

Alexander Sager

Once the bias of methodological nationalism is recognized, the next step is to describe the world in ways that do ...

Contribution to Book

Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Mobility

Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility (2017)

Alexander Sager

This chapter sets out criteria for a critical cosmopolitan account of the political philosophy of migration. It develops this account ...

Contribution to Book

Sites, Systems, and Agents

Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility (2017)

Alexander Sager

This chapter continues the task of enriching the categories and considerations for an ethics of mobility. It insists that determining ...

Contribution to Book

Toward a Political Philosophy of Mobility

Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility (2017)

Alexander Sager

The final chapter proposes that abandoning methodological nationalism means that an ethics of immigration is untenable. Rather, what is needed ...