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20Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict, Michael L. Gross , 321 pp., $92 cloth, $29.99 paper (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (1): 90-92. 2011.
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86How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence, by Virginia Held.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 119 (476): 1186-1189. 2010.
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533Communal and Institutional Trust: Authority in Religion and PoliticsEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (4): 1--23. 2014.Linda Zagzebski’s book on epistemic authority is an impressive and stimulating treatment of an important topic. 1 I admire the way she manages to combine imagination, originality and argumentative control. Her work has the further considerable merit of bringing analytic thinking and abstract theory to bear upon areas of concrete human concern, such as the attitudes one should have towards moral and religious authority. The book is stimulating in a way good philosophy should be -- provoking both …Read more
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43Critical notice of republicanism by Philip PettitAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (1). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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35Collingwood and Historical TestimonyPhilosophy 50 (194): 409-424. 1975.Although there are many different philosophical hares that could be started by the use of the term ‘historical fact’ I am interested in pursuing one that is related to the historian's attitude to testimony. By way of preliminary, however, I should say something about my use of the word ‘fact’. A contrast that sets off my use best is probably that between fact and theory. This distinction is at once methodological and epistemological in that it concerns the structure of inquiry as well as the str…Read more
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6Words and Deeds By David Holdcroft Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, xi + 178 pp., £7.50 (review)Philosophy 56 (218): 580-. 1981.
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14Religious meddling: a comment on Skene and ParkerJournal of Medical Ethics 28 (4): 221-222. 2002.The question of churches resorting to the courts to influence public policy is one that concerns the appropriate role of the courts and the appropriate conduct of religious authorities. I agree with Skene and Parker that there is no principled legal reason to exclude such interventions out of hand; but my comments are principally addressed to the political and religious reasons for being rightly concerned about such activity. These advert both to the nature of the liberal democratic compromise a…Read more
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11Hobbes and 'The Beautiful Axiom'Philosophy 65 (251). 1990.The ‘beautiful axiom’ to which Dickens refers is a central feature of Thomas Hobbes' thinking but its precise role in his moral philosophy remains unclear. I shall here attempt both to dispel the unclarity and to evaluate the adequacy of the position that emerges. Given the high level of contemporary interest in Hobbes' thought, both within and beyond philosophical circles, this is an enterprise of considerable importance. None the less, my interest is not merely interpretative, since the assess…Read more
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148The morality of terrorismPhilosophy 60 (231). 1985.There is a strong tendency in the scholarly and sub-scholarly literature on terrorism to treat it as something like an ideology. There is an equally strong tendency to treat it as always immoral. Both tendencies go hand in hand with a considerable degree of unclarity about the meaning of the term ‘terrorism’. I shall try to dispel this unclarity and I shall argue that the first tendency is the product of confusion and that once this is understood, we can see, in the light of a more definite anal…Read more
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23Just and Unjust Wars By M. Walzer London: Allen Lane, 1978, £7.50Philosophy 54 (209): 415-. 1979.
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7Meaning By Stephen R. Schiffer Oxford University Press, 1972, 166 pp., £3.25 (review)Philosophy 51 (195): 102-. 1976.
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18Book Review:The Catholic Peace Tradition. Ronald G. Musto; Peace in a Nuclear Age: The Bishops' Pastoral Letter in Perspective. Charles J. Reid (review)Ethics 99 (2): 446-. 1989.
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24Wittgenstein on Meaning: An Interpretation and Evaluation By Colin McGinn Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, xiv+202 pp., £12.50 (review)Philosophy 62 (239): 103-. 1987.
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29Collingwood and Historical TestimonyPhilosophy 50 (194). 1975.Although there are many different philosophical hares that could be started by the use of the term ‘historical fact’ I am interested in pursuing one that is related to the historian's attitude to testimony. By way of preliminary, however, I should say something about my use of the word ‘fact’. A contrast that sets off my use best is probably that between fact and theory. This distinction is at once methodological and epistemological in that it concerns the structure of inquiry as well as the str…Read more
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25Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson By A. J. Baker Cambridge University Press, 1985, xxii+150 pp., £20.00 (review)Philosophy 62 (241): 404-. 1987.
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18The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and have made clear that they find human enhancement morally objectionable. The Ethics of Human Enhanceme…Read more
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34The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.An international team of ethicists refresh the debate about human enhancement by examining whether resistance to the use of technology to enhance our mental and physical capabilities can be supported by articulated philosophical reasoning, or explained away, e.g. in terms of psychological influences on moral reasoning.
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75Messy morality: the challenge of politicsOxford University Press. 2008.Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politics. He argues that, although realism has many serious faults, it has lessons to teach us: in particular, it cautions us against the dangers of moralism in thinking about politics and particularly foreign affairs. Morality must not be confused with moralism: Coady characterizes var…Read more
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21Business, ethics, and the law (edited book)Federation Press. 1993.This book focuses on two central debates:how to introduce higher ethical standardshow to regulate business activity and prosecute offenders The authors bring ...
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44Philosophy of education in a new key: On radicalization and violent extremismEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1162-1177. 2022.This collective paper on radicalization and violent extremism part of the ‘Philosophy of education in a new key’ initiative by Educational Philosophy and Theory brings together some of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the most pressing epistemological, ethical, political and educational issues facing post-9/11 scholarship on radicalization and violent extremism. Its overall aim is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ associated with this area of scholarly research best represente…Read more
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The moral reality in realismIn Igor Primoratz (ed.), Politics and morality, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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11Bioethics, EarlyView.
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Religion and moral knowledgeIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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14Messy Morality and the Art of the PossibleAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 64 (1): 259-294. 1990.
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25The Meaning of TerrorismOxford University Press. 2021.C. A. J. Coady offers to clear up confusion about what terrorism is. His "tactical definition" focuses on terrorist acts as violent attacks upon non-combatants. He discusses what it means to be a non-combatant, considers various philosophical attempts to defend terrorism, and examines the idea of a connection between religion and terrorism.
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31War Crimes and the Asymmetry MythEthics and International Affairs 35 (3): 381-394. 2021.The “asymmetry myth” is that war crimes are committed by one's enemies but never, or hardly ever, by one's own combatants. The myth involves not only a common failure to acknowledge our own actual war crimes but also inadequate reactions when we are forced to recognize them. It contributes to the high likelihood that wars, just or unjust in their causes, will have a high moral cost. This cost, moreover, is a matter needing consideration in the jus ante bellum circumstances of preparedness for wa…Read more
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