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32Military ethics (edited book)Ashgate Pub. Co.. 2008.Recent developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book offers a selection of the best scholarly articles on military ethics published in recent decades. It gives a hearing to all the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, and pacifism. Part I includes essays on justice of war (jus ad bellum), focussing on defence against a…Read more
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32The 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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30The common premise for uncommon conclusionsJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (5): 284-288. 2013.Recent controversy over philosophical advocacy of infanticide (or the comically-styled euphemism ‘postnatal abortion’) reveals a surprisingly common premise uniting many of the opponents and supporters of the practice. This is the belief that the moral status of the early fetus or embryo with respect to a right to life is identical to that of a newly born or even very young baby. From this premise, infanticidists and strong anti-abortionists draw opposite conclusions, the former that the healthy…Read more
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30War 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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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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27Hobbes and ‘The Beautiful Axiom’: C. A. J. CoadyPhilosophy 65 (251): 5-17. 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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27Oakeshott.Polanyi.Carl Schmitt.Chesterton.Scheler.SantayanaPhilosophical Quarterly 45 (179): 273. 1995.
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27Kimberley Brownlee: Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 266 pp indexed. ISBN 978-0-19-959294-4, $66 hardbackJournal of Value Inquiry 50 (2): 501-506. 2016.
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25William Joseph (bill) GinnaneAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (3). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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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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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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23Just and Unjust Wars By M. Walzer London: Allen Lane, 1978, £7.50Philosophy 54 (209): 415-. 1979.
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21St. Augustine and the Ideal of PeaceAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 74 (1): 153-161. 2000.
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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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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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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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18The Significance and Complexity of ConsciencePhilosophia 51 (5): 2497-2516. 2023.The concept of conscience continues to play a central role in our ethical reasoning as well as in public and philosophical debate over medical ethics, religious freedom, and conscientious objection in many fields, including war. Despite this continued relevance the nature of conscience itself has remained a relatively neglected topic in recent philosophical literature. In this paper I discuss some historical background to the concept and outline the essential features required for any satisfacto…Read more
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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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17The Moral Reality in RealismJournal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2): 121-136. 2005.abstract This paper aims to gain a deeper understanding of the different forms of moralism in order to throw light upon debates about the role of morality in international affairs. In particular, the influential doctrine of political realism is reinterpreted as objecting not to a role for morality in international politics, but to the baneful effects of moralism. This is a more sympathetic reading than that usually given by philosophers to the realist doctrines. I begin by showing the ambiguity …Read more
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17Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Ten new essays critique the practice of armed humanitarian intervention, whereby one state sends its armed forces into another to protect citizens against major human rights abuses. The contributors examine a range of concerns, for instance about potential adverse effects and about ulterior motives.
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15Terrorism, Just War and Right ResponseIn Georg Meggle, Andreas Kemmerling & Mark Textor (eds.), Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism, De Gruyter. pp. 135-150. 2004.
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15Terrorism and Justice: Moral Argument in a Threatened WorldMelbourne Univ. Publishing. 2002.This is the first book to address philosophically the moral and political underpinnings of terrorism and anti-terrorism. It brings together authors with different attitudes and original perspectives on attitudes and ethical and practical justifications for terrorism.
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14What's Wrong with Moralism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.This thought-provoking book examines exactly what people mean when they accuse others of being “moralistic”. Written by an international team of philosophers Analyses what the “vice” of moralism might be and contrasts this with a genuine concern for morality Contributors draw upon literary sources, philosophical theories and political theory Helps readers to appreciate the role that morality really plays in our judgements and decisions
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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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13Messy Morality and the Art of the PossibleAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 64 (1): 259-294. 1990.
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13VIII*—Descartes' Other MythProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 83 (1): 121-142. 1983.C. A. J. Coady; VIII*—Descartes' Other Myth, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 83, Issue 1, 1 June 1983, Pages 121–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/ar.
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