Noggle, Robert

Book: 

Manipulation: Its Nature, Mechanisms, and Moral Status. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025

Articles: 

“Manipulation in Politics.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

“Pressure, Trickery, and a Unified Account of Manipulation.” American Philosophical Quarterly, 2020

“Impossible Obligations and the Non-Identity Problem.”  Philosophical Studies, 2019

“The Ethics of Manipulation.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018

“How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation.” Aeon: A World of Ideas, 2018 https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation

“Manipulation, Salience, and Nudges.” Bioethics, 2018

“Addiction, Compulsion, and Persistent Temptation.” Neuroethics, 2016

“Belief, Quasi-Belief, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.” Philosophical Psychology, 2016

“For the Benefit of Another:  Children, Moral Decency, and Non-Therapeutic Medical Procedures.” Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, 2013

“Give Till It Hurts? Beneficence, Imperfect Duties, and a Moderate Response to the Aid Question.” Journal of Social Philosophy, 2009

“Radials, Rollovers and Responsibility: An Examination of the Ford-Firestone Case.” Journal of Business Ethics, 2005 (co-authored with Dan Palmer).

“Autonomy and the Paradox of Self-Creation.” In James S. Taylor, ed. Personal Autonomy: New Essays. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

“Special Agents: Children's Autonomy and Parental Authority.” In David Archard, and Colin Macleod, editors, The Moral and Political Status of Children. Oxford University Press, 2003

“Resisting the Seductive Appeal of Consequentialism: Options, Ends, and Non-Quantitative Mattering.” Utilitas, 2003

“From the Nature of Persons to the Structure of Morality.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2001

“Kantian Respect and Particular Persons.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1999

“The Moral Status of Children: Children's Rights, Parents' Rights, Family Justice”. Social Theory and Practice, 23, 1997 (co-authored with Samantha Brennan)

“Manipulative Actions: A Conceptual and Moral Analysis.” American Philosophical Quarterly, 1996.

Presentations: 

"The Mistake Account of Manipulation: Theory and Applications" Symposium: Manipulation: What it is, Why it matters, and How it shapes our lives, Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich (July 23, 2025).

"Manipulation, Nudges, and the ‘Net: Perspectives from the Mistake Account."  Summer School: The Ethics of Influence, Technical University of Delft/Dutch Research School of Philosophy. (July 23, 2024).

"Getting Things Right:  Manipulation and Rational Agency."  Yeoh Tiong Lay Lecture on Practical Agency, Kings College, London, UK (October 18, 2023).

"Manipulation and Autonomy: Charting the Territory."  Seminar:  Manipulation and Autonomy: Beyond the Dichotomy, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Lorentz Center, Universiteit Leiden (August 9, 2023).

"Dark Patterns, Roach Motels, and Online Manipulation." Conference: Understanding and Combating Online Manipulation: Setting an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda, Cornell Tech, New York City Campus (May 11, 2023).

"Exotic Influences, Problem Cases, and the Mistake Account of Manipulation."  Conference on the Ethics of Influence, Zurich University (September 15, 2022).

"Manipulation, Mistakes, and the Question of Perspective", American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (February 29, 2020).

“The Moral Status of ‘Other Behavioral Influences’” Workshop on Behavioural Prediction and Influence, Oxford University, United Kingdom (September 27, 2019).

"Comments on Samantha Brennan's “Exploitation and Autonomy: The Goods of Childhood and Parental Responsibilities.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, (April 1, 2016). 

Ph.D., The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995 ​

Applied Ethics, especially the ethics of influence and moral issues relating to children; Moral Theory, especially the limits of obligation; and Philosophical Psychopathology.