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25Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement Jonathan Anomaly Routledge: London, 2020. 110 pp. ISBN 9780367203108. £120 (review)Bioethics 34 (7): 738-739. 2020.Bioethics, EarlyView.
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25Liberalism and the Defence of Political ConstructivismContemporary Political Theory 3 (1): 115-117. 2004.
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25The Child’s Right to a VoiceRes Publica 27 (4): 521-536. 2020.This article provides a philosophical analysis of a putative right of the child to have their expressed views considered in matters that affect them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is an influential and interesting statement of that right. The article shows that the child’s ‘right to a voice’ is complex. Its complexity lies in the problem of contrasting an adult’s normative power of choice with a child’s weighted views, in the various senses in which …Read more
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23The Marxist ethic of self-realization: individuality and communityIn J. D. G. Evans (ed.), Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Problems, Cambridge University Press. 1987.
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22Negotiating Diversity: Liberalism, Democracy and Cultural DifferenceContemporary Political Theory 6 (4): 496-497. 2007.
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22Clinical ethics support services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cross-sectional surveyJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (10): 695-701. 2022.Background Non-adherence to medication is associated with increased risk of relapse in patients with bipolar disorder. Objectives To validate patient-evaluated adherence to medication measured via smartphones against validated adherence questionnaire; and investigate characteristics for adherence to medication measured via smartphones. Methods Patients with BD evaluated adherence to medication daily for 6–9 months via smartphones. The Medication Adherence Rating Scale and the Rogers’ Empowerment…Read more
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22Markets with Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate. James Stacey Taylor, 2022. London and New York, Routledge. 234 pp, £120.00 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 39 (5): 932-934. 2022.Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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22Filial MoralityPacific Philosophical Quarterly 77 (3): 179-192. 2017.Filial regard is the special consideration that children, even as adults, show their parents and filial morality the demonstration that such a regard is demanded of them. The three main accounts of filial morality, based upon ideas of gratitude, role obligations, and friendship, are shown to be unsatisfactory. The article explores the idea, found in traditional Chinese thinking, that filial regard is the ‘root’ of goodness, and suggests that the Chinese model has been viewed unsympathetically du…Read more
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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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20Reading Onora o’Neill (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissio…Read more
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20Ethical expertise: The good agent and the good citizenZeitschrift Für Ethik Und Moralphilosophie 3 (2): 337-344. 2020.I consider whether political deference by a citizen within a liberal democracy to moral experts is morally problematic. I compare and contrast deference in the political and personal domains. I set to one side consequentialist worries about political deference and evaluate its possible intrinsic wrongness, expressed as a worry that deference is inconsistent with the grant to individuals of the power exercised in a democratic vote, just as personal deference is inconsistent with the grant of a po…Read more
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20Genetic Enhancement and Procreative Autonomy (review)Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 1 (1). 2008.
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19Reviews Cultural Identity and Political Ethics. By Paul Gilbert. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780748623884, pb. £19.99 (review)Philosophy 86 (4): 627-631. 2011.
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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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19Review: R. A. Duff and Stuart P. Green (eds): Defining Crimes: Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law (review)Mind 117 (465): 174-176. 2008.
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17Liao, S. Matthew. The Right to Be Loved.New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 272. $45.00Ethics 127 (1): 294-298. 2016.
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16Challenging misconceptions about clinical ethics support during COVID-19 and beyond: a legal update and future considerationsJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (8): 549-552. 2021.The pace of change and, indeed, the sheer number of clinical ethics committees has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Committees were formed to support healthcare professionals and to operationalise, interpret and compensate for gaps in national and professional guidance. But as the role of clinical ethics support becomes more prominent and visible, it becomes ever more important to address gaps in the support structure and misconceptions as to role and remit. The recent case of Great Orm…Read more
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty