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73Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children by Timothy F. Murphy, 2012 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 200 pp, £18.95 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (2): 187-189. 2013.
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76Against Paternalism: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly, 2012 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press216 pp, £55.00 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (4): 397-400. 2013.
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93Disgust, Offensiveness and the Law (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (4): 314-321. 2008.abstract Martha Nussbaum's concern is to limit the role that emotions can legitimately play in the definition of the criminal law. She would allow nuisance laws to curtail the occasioning of disgust but only disgust of a certain kind. Problems arise for her account when she extends this analysis to the prevention of offensiveness. Unavoidable is an evaluation of those beliefs subscription to which explains the taking of offence. Hence the principal problem for a liberalism of the kind Nussbaum d…Read more
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57Privacy Rights, Moral and Legal Foundations, by Adam D. Moore. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, 237 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐271‐03685‐4 hb £57.95; ISBN 978‐0271‐036861 pb £16.95 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 20 (2): 338-340. 2012.
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Patricia Smith Churchland, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/BrainRadical Philosophy 49 41. 1988.
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Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism; Socialism and the Limits of Liberalism (review)Radical Philosophy 60. 1992.
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1IntroductionIn David Archard & David Benatar (eds.), Procreation and parenthood: the ethics of bearing and rearing children, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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56Should We Teach Patriotism?/David ArchardStudies in Philosophy and Education.–Ny. 1999.This article examines a particular debate between Eamonn Callan and William Galston concerning the need for a civic education which counters the divisive pull of pluralism by uniting the citizenry in patriotic allegiance to a single national identity. The article offers a preliminary understanding of nationalism and patriotism before setting out the terms of the debate. It then critically evaluates the central idea of Callan that one might be under an obligation morally to improve one''s own pat…Read more
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7Whose body is it anyway? Justice and the integrity of the personContemporary Political Theory 9 (3): 345-347. 2010.
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67Applying Philosophy: A Response to O’NeillJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (3): 238-244. 2009.abstract I consider the putative originality of applied philosophy and seek to defend a version of it often called 'bottom up'. I review ways in which imagined cases may cause us to reconsider our normative commitments, and endorse a general attentiveness to the matter of how the world is and how it might reasonably be imagined. This is important if practical philosophers want to form the correct normative judgements, to be able to recognize the sui generis character of some moral theorising in …Read more
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35Nationalism and PatriotismIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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David Copp, Jean Hampton and John E. Roemer (eds), The Idea of DemocracyRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Sebastian Gardner, Irrationality and the Philosophy of PsychoanalysisRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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22The Non‐Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People by David Boonin, 2014 Oxford, Oxford University Press320 pp., £45.00 (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (1): 110-112. 2016.
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194. informed consent and the grounds of autonomyIn Thomas Nys, Yvonne Denier & Toon Vandevelde (eds.), Autonomy & paternalism: reflections on the theory and practice of health care, Peeters. pp. 5--113. 2007.
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Child Protection: An Holistic ViewAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 7 (2). 2005.
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13Review of Lainie Friedman Ross, Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (9). 2006.
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93How should we teach sex?Journal of Philosophy of Education 32 (3). 1998.In the face of differences about how sex should be taught to young persons, and consistent with a liberal principle of neutrality, educationalists can adopt one of two strategies. The ‘retreat to basics’ consists in teaching only a basic agreed code of sexual conduct, or a set of agreed principles of sexual morality. The ‘conjunctive–disjunctive’ strategy consists in teaching the facts of sexual activity together with the various possible evaluations of these facts. Both strategies are beset wit…Read more
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33Should Nationalists be Communitarians?Journal of Applied Philosophy 13 (2): 215-220. 1996.John O'Neill argues in a recent article, ‘Should Communitarians be Nationalists?’, that communitarians are wrong to be committed to the defence of ties of nationhood, both because the nation‐state's rise is associated with the disappearance of the ties of community and because the nation is an illusory community. I argue that the evidence that communitarianism is committed as charged to the defence of nationality is unconvincing. Further, the familiar accusation that the nation is a false or unr…Read more
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94Moral CompromisePhilosophy 87 (3): 403-420. 2012.A moral compromise is a compromise on moral matters; it is agreement in the face of moral disagreement but where there is agreement on the importance of consensus -namely that it secures a morally desirable outcome. It is distinguishable from other forms of agreement, and an important distinction between moral compromise with public agreement and moral compromise with public disagreement is also made. Circumstances in which the former might be permissible are outlined, and the sense in which it …Read more
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty