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11Life’s Ethical SymphonyJournal of Philosophy of Education 42 (2): 201-218. 2008.Most modern moral theories are impartialist in character. They perceive the demands of morality as standing in opposition to partial concerns and acting as constraints upon them. In this paper I argue that our partial concerns in general, and our love and concern for others in particular, are not ultimately at odds with the demands of morality, impartially understood, but are the necessary preconditions of our being motivated by impartial morality. If we are to care about morality, we must first…Read more
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11All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: justifying higher educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 26 (2): 173-182. 1992.This article addresses the question‘What is the justification of higher education in modern society?’ It takes issue with writers such as Alasdair Macintyre and Allan Bloom, who argue that the fragmentation of value characteristic of modernity has undermined the possibility of providing a coherent justification of higher education. Against MacIntyre and Bloom, I argue that we should understand education as a means of developing reflective consciousness in students, and that that will require fra…Read more
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10Democratic Dirty HandsIn Karl Marker, Annette Schmitt & Jürgen Sirsch (eds.), Demokratie und Entscheidung. Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie, Springer. pp. 169-179. 2018.There is widespread agreement that politics calls for dirty hands in general, and for secrecy and duplicity in particular. The claim is, of course, most famously made by Machiavelli in The Prince, but it is also to be found in Book 3 of Plato’s Republic. However, in arguing that politics calls for duplicity, neither Plato nor Machiavelli was writing about democratic societies, and we might therefore wonder whether, in democratic societies, the problem of dirty hands should be differently underst…Read more
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9Human Morality By Samuel Scheffler Oxford University Press 1992 145 pp., £9.50 paper (review)Philosophy 69 (270): 509-. 1994.
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8Faces of Hunger: An Essay on Poverty, Justice and DevelopmentPhilosophical Books 28 (1): 45-46. 1987.
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7Bernard Williams, Shame and Necessity , pp.254. ISBN 0-520-08046-7. £18.50 (review)Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 13 (1-2): 104-118. 1994.
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7Philosophy and Medical WelfareCambridge University Press. 1989.This volume of papers, arising from the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on Philosophy and Medical Welfare, includes contributions from doctors, nurses, and administrators in the field of health care as well as academics in the disciplines of philosophy, economics, and politics.
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4Harm, offence, and censorshipIn John Horton & Susan Mendus (eds.), Aspects of Toleration: Philosophical Studies, Methuen. 1985.
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4Hare and Critics: Essays on Moral Thinking with comments by R. M. Hare Edited by Douglas Seanor and N. Fotion Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, viii + 307 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 64 (248): 269-271. 1989.
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3A Theory of Value and Obligation By Robin Attfield Croom Helm, 1987, 262 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 63 (245): 406-407. 1988.
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3Autonomy and Self Respect By Thomas E. HillJr. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 218 pp., £27.50, £9.95 paper (review)Philosophy 67 (262): 561-563. 1992.
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2Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics By Christine Battersby The Women's Press, 1989, viii + 161 pp., £12.95 (review)Philosophy 65 (254): 525-526. 1990.
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2Mill's the Subjection of Women: Critical Essays (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.The articles collected in this critical edition represent a variety of interpretations both of the kind of feminism Mill represents and of the specific arguments he offers in The Subjection of Women including their lexical ordering and relative merit. Each selection is preceded by a brief and useful summary of the author's position intended to assist introductory students
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