Books for Children
Pike, Kenneth. Build a Bridge to Heaven (Imaginary Properties, 2026).
Pike, Aprilynne, Ashley Moore, and Kenneth Pike. Clockwork Scott (Imaginary Properties, 2020).
Pike, Kenneth and Isaac Stewart. Jacob’s Journal of Doom: Confessions of an Almost-Deacon (Deseret Book, 2012).
Refereed Publications
Pike, Kenneth R. “Sanitizing the Apocalypse: Moral Extremes in Fallout’s Simulated Wasteland,” in Fallout and Philosophy, ed. Nathan Kellen, Nate Sheff, Joshua Heter, and William Irwin (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
Pike, Kenneth R. “The Moral Status of Griefing,” in Virtue Theory and Video Games: Level Up Your Character, ed. Nicholas Baima and Sarah Malanowski (Routledge, 2026): 195–214.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Doc Brown’s Techno-Ethical Journey,” in Back to the Future and Philosophy: This is Heavy!, ed. Joshua Heter and Richard Greene (McFarland, 2026): 240–247.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Deliberation, Strategy, and Tribalism in Mormon Political Identity,” Element 10, no. 1 (2025): 25–43.
Pike, Kenneth R. “The Anti-Natalist and the Aes Sedai: Should Rand al’Thor Save the World?,” in The Wheel of Time and Philosophy: A Portion of Wisdom, ed. Jacob M. Held and William Irwin (Wiley-Blackwell, 2025): 37–45.
Pike, Kenneth R. “The Doctrine of Sufficiency as a Contractualist Principle,“ Moral Philosophy and Politics 12, no. 1 (2025): 127–139.
Aberdein, Andrew and Kenneth R. Pike. “Queue-Jumping Arguments,” Metaphilosophy 55, no. 2 (2024): 175–195.
Pike, Kenneth R. “A Contractualist Approach to Politicized Education,” Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 43, no. 2 (2023): 44–58.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Secher Nbiw and the Child’s Right to an Open Future,” in Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads and Muad’Dib, ed. Kevin S. Decker and William Irwin (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022): 165–172.
Pike, Kenneth R. and M. Scott Moore. “Is There a Doctor in the House? Medical Ethics and the Doctoral Honorific,” The Journal of Health Ethics 17, no. 1 (2021).
Pike, Kenneth R. “The Trust Model of Children’s Rights,” Moral Philosophy and Politics 7, no. 2 (2020): 219–237.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Model, Scaffold, Inspire: Principles for Bringing Philosophy Online,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges 20, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 2–5.
Pike, Kenneth R. and C. Tyler DesRoches. “Virtual Consumption, Sustainability, and Human Well-Being,” Environmental Values 29, no. 3 (June 2020): 361–378.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Locating the Mislaid Gate: Revitalizing Tinker by Repairing Judicial Overgeneralizations of Technologically Enabled Student Speech,” BYU Law Review 2008: 971–1007.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Reason to Revolt: On Kantian Ethics and Revolution,” Aporia 14, no. 1 (2004): 1–12.
Current Affairs
Pike, Kenneth R. “Water Shortages: A Problem We Can and Must Solve Now,” Areo, Nov. 5, 2023.
Pike, Kenneth R. “The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities,” Quillette, Jan. 6, 2022.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Scott Alexander, Philosopher King of the Weird People,” Quillette, Feb. 14, 2021.
Pike, Kenneth R. “A Bad Time to Hate Homeschool,” Arc Digital, Apr. 22, 2020.
Pike, Kenneth R. “Thanksgiving—A Uniquely American Tradition,” Quillette, Nov. 27, 2019.