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15Saving Human Lives: Lessons in Management EthicsSpringer. 2010.S. Prakash Sethi, President, International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc., University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York, writes: "Saving Human Lives gives a step by step account of how management systems can be built that can prevent hitherto "unpreventable" disasters. Professor Allinson weaves convincing arguments from original linguistic, literary and ethical analyses and shows how these arguments apply to highly detailed and well documented case s…Read more
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15Buddhist Economics: The Global ViewIn Michel Dion & Moses Pava (eds.), The Spirit of Conscious Capitalism: Contributions of World Religions and Spiritualities, Springer. pp. 339-360. 2022.This chapter describes how Buddhist economics can proactively contribute to the concept of conscious capitalism by importing Buddhist ethical principles to give concrete content to the aspirational idea of conscious capitalism. Conscious capitalism becomes ethically conscious capitalism with its Buddhist complement. For Buddhism, the central motivation for human behavior is deep compassion for all sentient beings. In Buddhist economics, compassion is translated into compassion for the poorest. H…Read more
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14Saving Human Lives: Lessons in Management EthicsSpringer. 2005.From publisher: This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson’s thesis that valuing human lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth cent…Read more
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14Krochmal’s Teleological and Ethical Arguments for the Existence of the DeityJudaica Petropolitana 11 87-103. 2019.
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14Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical RootsPhilosophy East and West 44 (2): 411-413. 1994.
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14The Ethical Relevance of Risk Assessment and Risk Heeding: The Space Shuttle Challenger Launch Decision as an Object LessonRaymon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 7 (7): 93-120. 2016.For the purpose of this analysis, risk assessment becomes the primary term and risk management the secondary term. The concept of risk management as a primary term is based upon a false ontology. Risk management implies that risk is already there, not created by the decision, but lies already inherent in the situation that the decision sets into motion. The risk that already exists in the objective situation simply needs to be “managed”. By considering risk assessment as the primary term, the et…Read more
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13Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations (2nd ed.)Routledge. 2019.Anthony C. Yu, Carl Buck Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Chairman, Division of East Asian Languages, University of Chicago, Divinity School, writes: "Robert Allinson's book represents tremendous thoughtfulness, originality, and erudition. Its wide-ranging and lucid discussions cover a huge terrain, from ancient metaphysics to quantum mechanics. The enlistment of certain classical Confucian concepts and themes at critical junctures to advance the book's argument also provides luminous comp…Read more
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13Global Disasters: Inquiries into Management EthicsPrentice-Hall. 1993.Paul A. Vatter, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University, writing of Global Disasters: Inquiries into Management Ethics, ‘In my view one of the most important things that can be done to improve ethics in management is, through cases, to sensitize managers to ethical issues in situations in which they did not perceive themselves as being involved. His well-documented and detailed cases stimulate great interest. His diagnosis of the process through which ethica…Read more
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13Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical RootsPhilosophy East and West 42 (3): 527. 1992.This book review outlines and comments on the ten sections of Robert Allinson’s edited collection, Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots. It begins with John E. Smith, whose essay presents three types of intercultural scholarly occurrences: parallels and agreements, divergences, and conflict. Next is Robert Neville, who discusses common ontological and cosmological themes in Confucianism, Daoism, and Sinicized Buddhism. General themes are then tied to Plato and the mystical sid…Read more
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11A Paragon of Righteous VirtueIn Heather L. Rivera & Robert Arp (eds.), Perry Mason and Philosophy: The Case of the Awesome Attorney, Open Court Press. pp. 11-27. 2020.
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11A Metaphysics for the Future (2nd ed.)Routledge. 2018.Lewis Hahn, Editor of Library of Living Philosophers, including Quine, Gadamer, Davidson, Ricoeur, writes: "Professor Allinson’s work [A Metaphysics for the Future] is impressive. I do not remember when in recent years I have read a more exciting systematic study. With a new phenomenology, a distinctive method and unique modes of validation for philosophy, and an extraordinary command of both Eastern and Western philosophy, Professor Allinson develops his own bold, imaginative and challenging s…Read more
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10'Confucianism and Taoism', 'Aristotle and Economics'In Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (eds.), Handbook of Spirituality and Business, Palgrave. 2011.
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9Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical RootsPhilosophy East and West 44 (2): 411. 1994.This short essay reviews Robert Allinson’s edited collection, Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots. It begins with remarks on the hegemonic stance of Western philosophy in the arena of what ‘philosophy’ means. It then draws attention to the need for Chinese (and, more broadly, Asian) society to occupy a new position in global conversations, philosophical or otherwise. The review then turns to brief synopses of each of the articles that feature in the collection, returning the …Read more
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9Liberal Nationalism for Israel: Towards an Israeli National Identity (Review) (review)Iyyun 51 81-84. 2002.
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8Aristotle and Averroes: The Problem of Necessity and ContingencyPhilosophical Inquiry, an International Quarterly 25 (3-4): 189-197. 2003.
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8Risk Management: Demythologising its Belief FoundationsInternational Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 7 (3): 299-311. 2007.Fallacious anthropomorphic attributions such as 'risky technology' take ethical accountability out of the hands of managers and relegate it to the deterministic or accidental outcomes of complex 'high risk technology'. Equally fallacious mechanistic terms such as 'organisational inertia' are borrowed from physics to apply to human organisations. The responsibility for ethically accountable decision-making is taken out of human hands and either ascribed to the mythological entity "Technology" or …Read more
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7The Logical Reconstruction of the Butterfly Dream: The Case for Internal Textual TransformationJournal of Chinese Philosophy 15 (3): 319-339. 1988.
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7Risk Management: Demthyologizing its Belief FoundationsInternational Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 7 (3): 299-311. 2007.
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6The Interface between Ethics, Decision Making and Risk Assessment in Management Decision Making in matters of Life and Death: The Challenger Launch Decision as a Case StudyInternational Journal of Management and Decision Making 2 (1): 65-84. 2001.
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6The Confucian Golden Rule: A Negative FormualtionJournal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (3): 305-315. 1985.
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6Complementarity as a Model for East-West Integrative PhilosophyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 25 (4): 505-517. 1998.
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6A Rectification of Terms in the Epistolary Plato: Re-reading Plato's Seventh EpistleChinese University of Hong Kong Journal of the Humanities 2 136-150. 1998.
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6The Ethical Producer (3rd ed.)In László Zsolnai (ed.), Spirituality, Ethics, and Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 61-74. 2015.
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6The Epistemological and Ethical Basis of Risk Assessment in Advanced Technological Systems: The Lesson of the ChallengerInternational Journal of Technology Management 17 (1-2): 55-74. 1999.
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5A Non-Dualistic Reply to Moore’s Refutation of IdealismIndia Philosophical Quarterly 5 (4): 600-609. 1978.
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5Value Creation as the Foundation of EconomicsIn Laszlo Zsolnai, Zsolt Boda & Laszlo Fekete (eds.), Ethical Prospects, Economy, Society and Environment, Springer Dordrecht. pp. 63-87. 2009.
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5The Foundations of Business EthicsIn Corporate and White-Collar Crime. pp. 81-101. 2008.While theoretically, egoism may be considered one kind of ethics, generally speaking, egoism, defined as self-interest at the expense of others, is contrary to the central principles of ethics, which are, in the main, other-directed. While Adam Smith's economics is famously argued to serve both self and other, the core thesis of this chapter is that Adam Smith's position is seriously flawed. The chapter argues that self-interest economics is fundamentally flawed and needs to be replaced by an ob…Read more
University of Texas at Austin
PhD, 1972
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |