Please see below for a list of my published academic papers with links to online versions. If you are having difficulty accessing any work you wish to read, please get in touch. For details about my books, please see the books page; for details about articles in newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc., please see the media page.
Journal articles
Milburn, Josh. 2023. Plant sentience and the case for ethical veganism. Animal Sentience 33 (5): 1-2. (Open access.)
Oven, Alice, Barbara Yoxon, and Josh Milburn. 2022. Investigating the market for cultivated meat as pet food: A survey analysis. PLOS One 17 (12): e0275009. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh, and Chrisopher Bobier. 2022. New omnivorism: A novel approach to food and animal ethics. Food Ethics 7 (5): 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s41055-022-00098-z. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2022. Should vegans compromise? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (2): 281-93. doi: 10.1080/13698230.2020.1737477. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh, and Alasdair Cochrane. 2021. Should we protect animals from hate speech? Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 41 (4): 1149-73. doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqab013. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2021. Welcoming, wild animals, and obligations to assist. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 34 (33): 1-20. doi: 10.1007/s10806-021-09873-0. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh, and Sara Van Goozen. 2021. Counting animals in war: First steps towards an inclusive just-war theory. Social Theory and Practice 47 (4): 657-85. doi: 10.5840/soctheorpract2020123110. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2021. Zero-compromise veganism. Ethics and Education 16 (3): 375-391. doi: 10.1080/17449642.2021.1927320. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh, and Bob Fischer. 2021. The freegan challenge to veganism. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 34 (3): 17. doi: 10.1007/s10806-021-09859-y. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2020. A novel argument for vegetarianism? Zoopolitics and respect for animal corpses. Animal Studies Journal 9 (2): 240-59. (Open access.)
Fischer, Bob, and Josh Milburn. 2019. In defence of backyard chickens. Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (1): 108-23. doi: 10.1111/japp.12291. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2018. Death-free dairy? The ethics of clean milk. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31 (2): 261-79. doi: 10.1007/s10806-018-9723-x. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2018. Nozick’s libertarian critique of Regan. Between the Species 20 (1): 68-93. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2017. Nonhuman animals as property holders: An exploration of the Lockean labour-mixing account. Environmental Values 26 (5): 629-48. doi: 10.3197/096327117X15002190708155. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2016. Chewing over in vitro meat: Animal ethics, cannibalism and social progress. Res Publica 22 (3): 249-65. doi: 10.1007/s11158-016-9331-4. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository. (Winner of the 2016 Res Publica essay prize.)
Milburn, Josh. 2016. The demandingness of Nozick’s ‘Lockean’ proviso. European Journal of Political Theory 15 (3): 276-92. doi: 10.1177/1474885114562978. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2015. Not only humans eat meat: Companions, sentience and vegan politics. Journal of Social Philosophy 46 (4): 449-62. doi: 10.1111/josp.12131. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2015. Rabbits, stoats and the predator problem: Why a strong animal rights position need not call for human intervention to protect prey from predators. Res Publica 21 (3): 273-89. doi: 10.1007/s11158-015-9281-2. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Book chapters
Milburn, Josh. Forthcoming. The ethics of plant-based pet food. In: The Vegan and Plant-Based Handbook: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Yanoula Athanassakis, Renan Larue, and William O’Donohue. Dordrecht: Springer. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup).
Milburn, Josh. Forthcoming. Freeganism: A (cautious) defense. In: New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives, edited by Cheryl Abbate and Christopher Bobier. London: Routledge. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup); open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository (under embargo until 2025).
Milburn, Josh. 2022. Ethics of meat alternatives. In: Meat and Meat Replacements: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Current Status and Future Directions, edited by Herbert L. Meiselman and Jose M. Lorenzo. Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-85838-0.00007-9. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup).
Milburn, Josh. 2022. The philosophical essay. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies, edited by Laura Wright and Emelia Quinn, 222-30. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781474493321-017. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup); open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository (under embargo until 2025).
Coulter, Kendra, and Josh Milburn. 2022. (Not) serving animals and aiming higher: Cultivating ethical plant-based businesses and humane jobs. In: Animals and Business Ethics, edited by Natalie Thomas, 43-66. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97142-7_3. Author accepted version of Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup); open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository (under embargo until 2024).
Milburn, Josh. 2021. The analytic philosophers: Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights. In: The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, edited by Laura Wright, 39-49. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003020875-5. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2019. Vegetarian eating. In: Handbook of Eating and Drinking, edited by Herbert L. Meiselman. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97142-7_3. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2017. Robert Nozick on nonhuman animals: Rights, value and the meaning of life. In: Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues, edited by Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-54549-3_5. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2017. The animal lovers’ paradox? On the ethics of ‘pet food’. In: Pets and People, edited by Christine Overall, 187-202. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456085.003.0013. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2016. Nonhuman animals and sovereignty: On Zoopolis, failed states and institutional relationships with free-living animals. In: Intervention or Protest, edited by Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, 183-212. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2016. Animal rights and food: Beyond Regan, beyond vegan. In: The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, edited by Mary Rawlinson and Caleb Ward, 284-93. London and New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315745503.ch27. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Articles in professional encyclopedias
Milburn, Josh. 2020. Animal property rights. In: Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights, edited by Michael Kocsis. Dordretch, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_72-1. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup); open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository (under embargo until 2023).
Milburn, Josh. 2020. Animal sovereignty theory. In: Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights, edited by Michael Kocsis. Dordretch, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_71-1. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup).
Milburn, Josh. 2017. Clean milk. In: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Second Edition), edited by Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan. Dordretch, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_598-1. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup).
Milburn, Josh. 2016. Pet food: Ethical issues. In: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Second Edition), edited by Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan. Dordretch, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_586-1. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Book reviews
Milburn, Josh. 2022. Review of Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason, by Federico Zuolo. Between the Species 25 (1): 119-123. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2023. Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti: Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy: A Public Reason Approach. Food Ethics 8 (2). doi: 10.1007/s41055-022-00112-4. Author accepted version on Academia.edu (free to read/download with a signup); open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository (under embargo until 2023).
Milburn, Josh. 2020. Review of Food Ethics: The Basics by Ronald Sandler. Food Ethics 5 (16). doi: 10.1007/s41055-020-00074-5. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2020. Review of Critical Terms for Animal Studies, edited by Lori Gruen. Environmental Politics 29 (6): 1120-1121. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2020.1789300. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2020. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics. Between the Species 23 (1): 238-46. (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2019. Review: When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy, by Eva Meijer. Metapsychology Online Reviews 23 (51). (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2019. Sentientist politics gone wild. Politics and Animals 5: 19-24. (Part of a symposium on Alasdair Cochrane’s Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice, including a response from Cochrane.) (Open access.)
Milburn, Josh. 2018. Critical Perspectives on Veganism, edited by Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen. Journal of Animal Ethics 8 (2): 262-3. doi: 10.5406/janimalethics.8.2.0252. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2017. Review: Animal Property Rights, by John Hadley. Res Publica 23 (1): 147-51. doi: 10.1007/s11158-016-9345-y. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2016. Review: Political Animals and Animal Politics, edited by Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg. Political Studies Review 14 (3): 427-8. doi: 10.1177/1478929916656570. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2016. Review: Towards a Right-Libertarian Welfare State, by Joachim Wündisch. Political Studies Review 14 (2): 252-3. doi: 10.1177/1478929916630914z. Open access author accepted version in the Loughborough University repository.
Milburn, Josh. 2015. Protection for the sentient in the nonideal world: A review of Robert Garner’s A Theory of Justice for Animals. Journal of Animal Ethics 5 (1): 69-75. doi: 10.5406/janimalethics.5.1.0069.
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