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18Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal ExperimentationEthics and the Environment 4 (1): 115-121. 1996.
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15World Hunger and Morality (edited book)Prentice-Hall. 1995.World Hunger and Morality contains the best current thinking about the appropriate moral response to world hunger. KEY TOPICS: The focus and content of this second edition is radically different from the first. Most of the essays are new to this volume. In fact, most of the new essays were written especially for this volume. It presents essays which helped shape the changing understanding of world hunger; includes work by some of today's pre-eminent ethicists; discusses the problem of intra-nati…Read more
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15Animal modeling in psychopharmacological contextsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (4): 653-654. 1993.
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14William H. ("Will") Aiken, Jr., 1947-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (2). 2006.
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14Review of Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks: Brute science: Dilemmas of animal experimentation (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (4): 621-624. 1997.
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12Chaos TheoryIdealistic Studies 24 (3): 241-254. 1994.In this article we discuss two divergent accounts of non-human animals as analog models of human biomedical phenomena. Using a classical account of analogical reasoning, toxicologists and teratologists claim that if the model and subject modeled are substantially similar, then test results in non-human animals are likely applicable to humans. However, the same toxicologists report that different species often react very differently to the same chemical stimuli. The best way to understand their f…Read more
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5The Oxford Hndbk of Practical Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2005.The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbo…Read more
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4World HungerIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: The Basic Options The Developmental Alternative Strong Obligation to Assist Conclusion Acknowledgments.
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3Whose Child? Children's Rights, Parental Authority and State Power (edited book)Totowa, N.J. : Littlefield, Adams. 1980.A collection of articles about the rights of children
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2Michael Allaby and Peter Bunyard, The Politics of Self-Sufficiency Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 2 (2/3): 47-48. 1982.
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International Encyclopedia of Ethics (edited book)Wiley. 2022.The definitive encyclopedia of ethics, with more than 800 entries, written by preeminent thinkers from around the world, on topics, thinkers, and issues in normative, practical, theoretical, and religious ethics.
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Ethics in Practice 6th edition (edited book)Wiley Blackwell. forthcoming.A newly revised (currently in production) edition of LaFollette's classic anthology, with extensive introductory essays by the editor. Essays focus on fourteen different practical ethical issues, grouped into four subject areas. It includes a dozen newly written or revised essays.
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Making Moral Children , "Bringing Up a Moral Child") (review)Behavior and Philosophy 14 (1): 65. 1986.
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University of South FloridaEmeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Cole Chair In Ethics
Knoxville, TN, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |