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54The Moral Status of Animals.By Stephen R.L. Clark. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. 221 pages (review)Dialogue 17 (3): 570-575. 1978.
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4Criminalizing expression : hate speech and obscenityIn John Deigh & David Dolinko (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of the Criminal Law, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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26Reply to WilliamsCriminal Law and Philosophy 9 (2): 331-335. 2015.In her review of my book Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law, Glenys Williams raises a number of substantive objections to its argument. In this note I reply to those objections
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Politician, Judges, and the CharterCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 21 (1): 227-238. 2008.The complaint is a familiar one: unelected, politically unaccountable judges are using their powers of judicial review to subvert the democratic process by shaping public policy in accordance with their own personal moral/political views. It is tempting to dismiss this complaint as the grumbling of those, usually on the political right, who have been disaffected by court decisions with which they personally disagree. But this temptation must be resisted, since the critics of judicial review, suc…Read more
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140Assisted death: a study in ethics and lawOxford University Press. 2011.In this timely book L.W. Sumner addresses these issues within the wider context of palliative care for patients in the dying process.
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21Justice ContractedDialogue 26 (3): 523. 1987.In the longrunning war between the friends of knowledge and their sceptical enemies the moral front has always been one of the busiest. Here the sceptic assails us in the guise of the cunning and resourceful amoralist who disavows all ethical constraints. Some philosophers, seeing no prospect of defeating the amoralist by rational methods, have fallen back on a policy of containment by means of social and political sanctions. But others of a more truculent frame of mind have continued to seek a …Read more
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547Welfare, happiness, and ethicsOxford University Press. 1996.Moral philosophers agree that welfare matters. But they disagree about what it is, or how much it matters. In this vital new work, Wayne Sumner presents an original theory of welfare, investigating its nature and discussing its importance. He considers and rejects all notable theories of welfare, both objective and subjective, including hedonism and theories founded on desire or preference. His own theory connects welfare closely with happiness or life satisfaction. Reacting against the value pl…Read more
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