Toby Handfield

Monash University

Associate Professor

3800

Australia

http://tobyhandfield.com

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

16

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1,632

TOTAL CITATIONS

5

Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Regulating Social Media as a Public Good: Limiting Epistemic Segregation

Social Epistemology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2022
Toby Handfield
Monash University
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social media, public goods, polarization, epistemic segregation, homophily, social epistemology

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Honor and Violence: An Account of Feuds, Duels, and Honor Killings

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
John Thrasher and Toby Handfield
Chapman University and Monash University
Downloads 179 (350,744)

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honor, violence, signaling, revenge, purification

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Genealogical Explanations of Chance and Morals

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2015
Toby Handfield
Monash University
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moral realism, debunking, genealogy, evolution, objective chance, reliability

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The Effect of Compassion Fade on Altruistic Behavior: Experimental Evidence For a Guilt Mitigation Account

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2023
Ben Grodeck, Toby Handfield and Matthew Kopec
University of Exeter, Monash University and Northeastern University Ethics Institute
Downloads 164 (378,671)
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pro-social behavior, motivated reasoning, altruism, experimental economics, psychology, compassion fade

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Two of a Kind: Are Norms of Honour a Species of Morality?

Biology and Philosophy. Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Toby Handfield and John Thrasher
Monash University and Chapman University
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honor, morality, cooperation, moral disagreement, social kinds, moral foundations theory

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Humanitarian Intervention and the Modern State System

Oxford Handbook of Ethics and War, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2017
Patrick Emerton and Toby Handfield
Monash University - Faculty of Law and Monash University
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Humanitarian intervention, ethics, warfare, nation-state, state system, peacekeeping

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Is the Risk-Liability Theory Compatible with Negligence Law?

Legal Theory, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2005
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Sep 2013
Toby Handfield and Trevor Pisciotta
Monash University and University of Melbourne
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Negligence, tort law, risk, harm, liability

8.

Rational Choice and the Transitivity of Betterness

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Sep 2013
Toby Handfield
Monash University
Downloads 97 (568,003)
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rational choice, transitivity, status quo bias, incommensurate value, practical reason

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Decision Theory for Agents with Incomplete Preferences

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Sep 2013
Adam Bales, Daniel Cohen and Toby Handfield
University of Cambridge - Trinity College (Cambridge), Charles Sturt University and Monash University
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Understanding the Political Defensive Privilege

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Sep 2013
Patrick Emerton and Toby Handfield
Monash University - Faculty of Law and Monash University
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Defensive rights, Walzer, Rawls, liberal cosmopolitanism, liberal imperialism, humanitarian intervention

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Order and Affray: Defensive Privileges in Warfare

Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol 37, Issue 4, October 2009
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Sep 2013
Patrick Emerton and Toby Handfield
Monash University - Faculty of Law and Monash University
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jus in bello, self-defense, defense of others, just cause

12.

Rational Capacities, Resolve, and Weakness of Will

MIND, 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Sep 2013
Daniel Cohen and Toby Handfield
Charles Sturt University and Monash University
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Weakness of will, practical reason, Michael Smith, rational capacities, dispositions, resolve, Richard Holton

13.

Absent Desires

Utilitas, 2011
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Sep 2013
Toby Handfield
Monash University
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desire satisfactionism, axiology, incommensurate value, John Broome, welfare, population ethics

14.

Finking Frankfurt

Philosophical Studies, 2007
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 21 Sep 2013
Daniel Cohen and Toby Handfield
Charles Sturt University and Monash University
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Moral responsibility, Harry Frankfurt, rational capacities, dispositions, counterfactuals

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Moral Commitments as Signals of Trustworthiness: Inferring Character from Sacred Values

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Feb 2025
University of Melbourne, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University and Monash University
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Sacred values, trust, trustworthiness, signalling theory, protected values, commitment

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The Co-Evolution of Sacred Value and Religion

Religion, Brain, and Behavior, Forthcoming
Posted: 07 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2019
Toby Handfield
Monash University

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sacred value, religion, signaling, evolution, coalitions, assurance, deterrence