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80Moral Responsibility for Harming AnimalsThink. 2009.Third-party intervention has been the focus of recent debate in self-defense theory. When is it permissible for third-parties to intervene on behalf of an innocent victim facing an unjustified attack or threat? In line with recent self-defense theory, if an attacker is morally responsible for their actions and does not have an acceptable excuse then it is permissible for third-parties to use proportionate violence against them
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2Paying their Way: Dissident Opinion, Advertising and Access to the Public SphereAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 10 (1-2). 2010.In this paper I suggest practical measures that can address some familiar, and some not so familiar, commercial obstacles to increasing media coverage of dissident opinion.The kernel of my proposal is for media codes of practice and workplace norms to reflect an ethical distinction between different kinds of commercial speech.
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495Animal rights extremism and the terrorism questionJournal of Social Philosophy 40 (3): 363-378. 2009.In this paper I extend orthodox just-war terrorism theory to the phenomenon of extremist violence on behalf of nonhuman animals.I argue that most documented cases of so-called animal rights extremism do not quality as terrorism.
John Hadley
Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney UniversitySenior Lecturer
Areas of Specialization
| Applied Ethics |
| Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Applied Ethics |
| Meta-Ethics |
| Normative Ethics |
| Social and Political Philosophy |
| Aesthetics |