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Selected Publications
Refereed articles

Ferdman, Avigail. (2025). “AI, Deskilling, and the Prospects for Public Reason.” Minds and Machines 35(3): 38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-025-09737-w.

Sung, L.U., and Ferdman, A. (2025). “Empathetic Large Language Models, the Social Capacities and Human Flourishing.” Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2518448.

Ferdman, A. (2025). Practices Worth Preserving: Knowing when to Offload to Technology. Philosophy & Technology, 38(3), 100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00925-1.

Ferdman, A. (2024). Human Flourishing and Technology Affordances. Philosophy & Technology 37, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00686-9

Ferdman, A. (2024). The Goodness of Technology and Digital Affordances: A Reply to Wittingslow. Philosophy & Technology, 37(1), 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00727-x.
 

Ferdman, A. and Ratti, E. (2024). What Do We Teach to Engineering Students: Embedded Ethics, Morality, and Politics, Science and Engineering Ethics, 30(7).

Ferdman, A. (2022). Bowling alone in the autonomous vehicle: the ethics of well-being in the driverless car, AI & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01565-1.

Ferdman, A. (2019). A Perfectionist Basic Structure. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 45(7), 862–882 .

Ferdman, A. (2018). Perfectionist Public Space: A Political Philosophy Approach. Space and Polity, 22(1), 30-49

Ferdman, A. (2018). Should We Care about Neutrality in the City? Urban Research and Practice, 11(1), 1-18.

Ferdman, A. (2018). Why the Intrinsic Goodness of Public Goods Matters. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 21(5), 661-676.

Ferdman, A. and Kohn, M. (2018). The Theory and Politics of Solidarity and Public Goods, ​Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 21(5), 545-553

Books

Ferdman, A. and Kohn, M. (2021). Solidarity and Public Goods, Routledge: New York.

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