Academic Publications

 (Nonacademic publications can be found here.)

Monographs

Recoding Democracy: AI and the Fight for Democracy’s Future. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, under contract.

The Tyranny of Generosity: Why Philanthropy Corrupts Our Politics and How We Can Fix It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Textbooks

Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist Instructional Manual (with Linda Eggert, Marco Meyer, and Wessel Reijers). Rochester: Logical Operations, 2021.

Articles & Chapters

Lechterman, T.M., E. Saunders-Hastings, and R. Reich. 2024. “Philanthropy.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Winter 2024 edition. Edited by Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman.

Lechterman, T.M., B.J. Strawser, and D. Whetham. Forthcoming. “Ethical Safeguards for Sales of Weaponizable Technology.” Business and Professional Ethics Journal.

Lechterman, T.M., and J. Mair. 2024. “Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian Perspective on Institutional Capacity.” Organization Studies 45, no. 9: 1301–23. DOI: 10.1177/01708406241261435

Lechterman, T.M. 2024. “The Perfect Politician.” In AI Morality. Edited by D. Edmonds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lechterman, T.M., R. Jenkins, and B.J. Strawser. 2024. “#StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations.” Journal of Business Ethics 191, no. 1: 77–91. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05415-y.

Lechterman, T.M. 2023. “Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality. By Emma Saunders-Hastings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 256p. $95.00 Cloth, $30.00 Paper.” Perspectives on Politics 21, no. 1: 336–38. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592722004078.

Lechterman, T.M. 2023. “Response to Emma Saunders-Hastings’ Review of The Tyranny of Generosity: Why Philanthropy Corrupts Our Politics and How We Can Fix It.” Perspectives on Politics 21, no. 1: 335–36. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592722003711.

Lechterman, T.M. 2023. “‘That the Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living’: Intergenerational Philanthropy and the Problem of Dead-Hand Control.” In Giving in Time: New Perspectives on Temporal Considerations in Philanthropy. Edited by R. Madoff and B. Soskis, 93–116. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Lechterman, T.M. 2022. “The Concept of Accountability in AI Ethics and Governance.” In The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. Edited by J. Bullock, Y.C. Chen, J. Himmelreich, V. Hudson, A. Korinek, M. Young, and B. Zhang. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197579329.013.10.

Lange, B., and T.M. Lechterman. “Combating Disinformation with AI: Epistemic and Ethical Challenges.” 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), pp. 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS52410.2021.9629122.

Lechterman, T.M. 2021. “The Potestas of Practice.” History of Political Thought, 42, no. 2: 240–51.

Véliz, C., C. Prunkl, M. Phillips-Brown, and T.M. Lechterman. 2021. “We Might Be Afraid of Black Box Algorithms.” Journal of Medical Ethics 47: 339–40. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107462.

Lechterman, T.M. 2021. “Civility’s Unfinished Revolution: Reply to John Keane.” Global Perspectives 2, no. 1: 18743. DOI: 10.1525/gp.2021.18743.

Lechterman, T.M. 2020. “The Effective Altruist’s Political Problem.” Polity 52, no. 1: 88–115. DOI: 10.1086/706867.

Lechterman, T.M. and R. Reich. 2020. “Political Theory and the Nonprofit Sector.” In The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 3rd ed. Edited by W.W. Powell and P. Bromley, 171–91. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Lechterman, T.M. 2019. “Being Good in a World of Uncertainty: A Reply to Larry Temkin.” Journal of Practical Ethics 7, no. 1: 33–39.

Burd-Sharps, S., P. Guyer, T.M. Lechterman, and K. Lewis. 2012. “Proposal for the Development of a ‘Tots Index’ Using the Human Development Conceptual Framework.” In Global Child Poverty and Well-Being. Edited by Alberto Minujin and Shailen Nandy, 155–78. Bristol: Policy Press. 

Burd-Sharps, S., P. Guyer, T.M. Lechterman, and K. Lewis. 2011. “The American Human Development Project: Results from Mississippi and Louisiana.” In Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V, vol. 3. Edited by M.J. Sirgy, R. Phillips, and D.R. Rahtz, 113–36. New York: Springer.

Lechterman, T.M. 2010. “Access to Knowledge.” In The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience. Edited by K. Lewis and S. Burd-Sharps, 110–51. New York: Social Science Research Council & New York University Press.

Reviews

Lechterman, T.M. 2023. “Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality. By Emma Saunders-Hastings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 256p. $95.00 Cloth, $30.00 Paper.” Perspectives on Politics 21, no. 1: 336–38. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592722004078.

Lechterman, T.M. 2023. “Response to Emma Saunders-Hastings’ Review of The Tyranny of Generosity: Why Philanthropy Corrupts Our Politics and How We Can Fix It.” Perspectives on Politics 21, no. 1: 335–36. DOI: 10.1017/S1537592722003711.

Lechterman, T.M. 2019. “Review of Paul Woodruff (ed.), The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers’ Perspectives on Philanthropy.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48, no. 5: 1110–12.

 Lechterman, T.M. 2013. “Review of Laura Valentini, Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework.” Raisons Politiques 51: 167–76.

Reports & Cases

Lechterman, T.M. 2023. “Ethical Crossroads of Emerging Technologies.” IE Publishing. CSR090013-U-ENG-VXR. https://iepublishing.ie.edu/en/the-ethical-crossroads-of-emerging-technologies.

Lechterman, T.M. 2019. “Democratic Decay and Renewal Beyond the State.” Pursuit of the Common Good in the Contemporary World. Background paper.

Burd-Sharps, S., K. Lewis, P. Guyer, and T.M. Lechterman. 2010. “Twenty Years of Human Development in Six Affluent Countries: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.” United Nations Development Programme Human Development Reports. Human Development Research Paper 2010/27.

Works in Progress

Lechterman, T.M. and B. Lange. “Is Corporate Social Responsibility Democratically Irresponsible?” R&R.

Lechterman, T.M., M. Skerker, and B.J. Strawser. “Principled Discrimination in Customer Selection.” Under review.

Lechterman, T.M. “Integrity, Artificial Agents, and Democratic Legitimacy.” Working paper.

Lechterman, T.M. “The Basic Structure and AI Governance.” Working paper.

Lechterman, T.M. “Justice and Humanity in Access to Medicine: MSF’s Rejection of Free Vaccines.” Working paper.

Lechterman, T.M. “Historical Injustice and Property-Owning Democracy.” Working paper.