Publications

Forthcoming

  1. “Wolff on Authority and the Two-Stage Structure of Deliberation”, in Justifying the State (ed. Eugene Callahan and Leye Komolafe), Palgrave-MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland

2026

  1. Steve Coyne, “Three Models of RLHF Annotation: Extension, Evidence, and Authority” ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency ’26
  2. Samantha-Jo Caetano, Steve Coyne, Michael Moon, Emily Somerset, “Embedding Ethics in the Statistics Curriculum,” (with Caetano, Moon, Somerset),
    Proceedings of International Conference on Teaching Statistics

2025

  1. Steve Coyne, “The Sources of Authoritative Exclusion,” Law and Philosophy 44: 269–293. (penultimate draft available here)

2024

  1. Steve Coyne, “The Role of Civility in Political Disobedience,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 52(2): 221-50.
  2. Diane Horton, Sheila McIlraith, David Liu, Steven Coyne, Nina Wang, “Do Embedded Ethics Modules Have Impact Beyond the Classroom?”, in Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE): 533-539.

2016

  1. Steve Coyne, “Coercion and Obligation as Exercises of Authority,” Jurisprudence 7(3): 575-92.

 

Papers In Progress (e-mail me for a draft)

  1. A paper on the legitimacy of ethics education (draft complete)
  2. A paper on statistical discrimination (draft complete)
  3. A paper on majority rule in democratic systems (in progress)