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1This manuscript explores the argument for lower student-to-school counselor ratios in U.S. public education. Drawing upon a comprehensive historical review and existing research, we establish the integral role of school counselors and the notable benefits of reduced student-to-counselor ratios. Our analysis of national data exposes marked disparities across states and districts, with the most underfunded often serving higher percentages of low-income students and students of color. This situatio…Read more
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22Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making, Henrik Andersson and Anders Herlitz (ed.). Routledge, 2022, viii+269 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 1-6. forthcoming.
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63Postmodernism for historiansPearson/Longman. 2005.Explaining the emergence of the concept in history and how it looks at the past, this title is a guide to the meanings of postmodernism, showing its origins and ...
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International society, cultural diversity and the clash (or dialogue) of civilizationsIn Fred Reinhard Dallmayr, M. Akif Kayapınar & İsmail Yaylacı (eds.), Civilizations and world order: geopolitics and cultural difference, Lexington Books. 2014.
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24Commentary: Solidarity and Universalism as Premises of Overcoming the Perils of Liberal GlobalisationDialogue and Universalism 19 (11-12): 81-97. 2009.Many scholars have argued that neoliberal economic theory articulates the justifying ideology for contemporary globalization. This ideology claims that “free market” solutions are always the best mechanisms for not only promoting economic growth but for all human problems. This first part of this paper provides a conceptual and historical overview of neoliberal economic theory with critical commentary on two key neoliberal dogma, viz., the idea that markets know best and that privatization and d…Read more
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6The other side of the coin: Semantic dementia as a lesion model for understanding recollection and familiarityBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.The syndrome of semantic dementia represents the “other side of the coin” to Alzheimer's disease, offering convergent evidence to help refine Bastin et al.’s integrative memory model. By considering the integrative memory model through the lens of semantic dementia, we propose a number of important extensions to the framework, to help clarify the complex neurocognitive mechanisms underlying recollection and familiarity.
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9Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence biasCognition and Emotion 37 (2): 238-253. 2023.Stimuli such as surprised faces are ambiguous in that they are associated with both positive and negative outcomes. Interestingly, people differ reliably in whether they evaluate these and other ambiguous stimuli as positive or negative, and we have argued that a positive evaluation relies in part on a biasing of the appraisal processes via reappraisal. To further test this idea, we conducted two studies to evaluate whether increasing the cognitive accessibility of reappraisal through a brief em…Read more
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28Cross-age effects on forensic face constructionFrontiers in Psychology 6 150026. 2015.The own-age bias (OAB) refers to recognition memory being more accurate for people of our own-age than other-age groups (e.g., Wright and Stroud, 2002). This paper investigated whether the OAB effect is present during construction of human faces (also known as facial composites, often for forensic/police use). In doing so, it adds to our understanding of factors influencing both facial memory across the life span as well as performance of facial composites. Participant-witnesses were grouped int…Read more
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16The Utility of KnowledgeErkenntnis 77 (2): 155-165. 2012.Recent epistemology has introduced a new criterion of adequacy for analyses of knowledge: such an analysis, to be adequate, must be compatible with the common view that knowledge is better than true belief. One account which is widely thought to fail this test is reliabilism, according to which, roughly, knowledge is true belief formed by reliable process. Reliabilism fails, so the argument goes, because of the "swamping problem". In brief, provided a belief is true, we do not care whether or no…Read more
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764The composition of reasonsSynthese 191 (5): 779-800. 2013.How do reasons combine? How is it that several reasons taken together can have a combined weight which exceeds the weight of any one alone? I propose an answer in mereological terms: reasons combine by composing a further, complex reason of which they are parts. Their combined weight is the weight of their combination. I develop a mereological framework, and use this to investigate some structural views about reasons, the main two being "Atomism" and "Holism". Atomism is the view that atomic rea…Read more
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13Response to Richard Beardsworth's Review of Practical Judgement in International Political TheoryJournal of International Political Theory 8 (1-2): 110-111. 2012.
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229Priority or sufficiency …or both?Economics and Philosophy 21 (2): 199-220. 2005.Prioritarianism is the view that we ought to give priority to benefiting those who are worse off. Sufficientism, on the other hand, is the view that we ought to give priority to benefiting those who are not sufficiently well off. This paper concerns the relative merits of these two views; in particular, it examines an argument advanced by Roger Crisp to the effect that sufficientism is the superior of the two. My aim is to show that Crisp's argument is unsound. While I concede his objections aga…Read more
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152On Amartya Sen and The Idea of JusticeEthics and International Affairs 24 (3): 309-318. 2010.The Idea of Justice" summarizes and extends many of the themes Amartya Sen has been engaged with for the last quarter century: economic versus political rights, cultural relativism and the origin of notions such as human rights, and entitlements and their relation to gender equality.
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174John Rawls, "the law of peoples," and international political theoryEthics and International Affairs 14. 2000."The Law of Peoples" has been extended into a monograph with the same title,which is the main focus of this essay. Brown includes a sketch of Rawls’s project as a whole as a necessary preliminary
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29Book Review: Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism, by Jean L. CohenGlobalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism, by CohenJean L.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (review)Political Theory 43 (5): 692-695. 2015.
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32Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (review)Political Theory 36 (4): 647-650. 2008.
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104Aggregation and Self-SacrificeEthics 132 (3): 730-735. 2022.Should harms to different individuals be aggregated? Moderate views answer yes and no. Aggregation is appropriate in some but not all cases. Such views need to determine a threshold at which aggregation switches from appropriate to inappropriate. Alex Voorhoeve proposes a method for determining this threshold which links other-regarding and self-regarding ethics. This proposal, however, implies a spurious correlation between favoring aggregation and egoism.
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6Buddhist economics: an enlightened approach to the dismal scienceBloomsbury Press. 2017.Introduction -- Why we need a holistic economic model -- What is Buddhist economics? -- Interdependent with each other -- Interdependent with our environment -- Prosperity for both rich and poor -- Measuring quality of life -- Leap to Buddhist economics.
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10Corrigendum: Construct Validity of the Sensory Profile Interoception Scale: Measuring Sensory Processing in Everyday LifeFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
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14Construct Validity of the Sensory Profile Interoception Scale: Measuring Sensory Processing in Everyday LifeFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Scholars and providers are coming to realize that one’s ability to notice and respond to internal body sensations contributes to an overall sense of wellbeing. Research has demonstrated a relationship between interoceptive awareness and anxiety, for example. Currently, however, tools for evaluating one’s interoception lack the conceptual foundation and clarity necessary to identify everyday behaviors that specifically reflect interoceptive awareness. Unlike existing interoceptive measures, the S…Read more
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8Christianity and Western ThoughtInterVarsity Press. 1990.From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always fascinating story of the thinkers, ideas and movements that have shaped our intellectual landscape. Is philosophy the "handmaiden of faith" or "the doctrine of demons"? Does it clarify the faith or undermine the very heart of Christian belief?Brown writes, "This book is about the changes in preconceptions, world views and paradigms that have affected…Read more
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61International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty writers are anthologised in what is the largest such collection currently available. The texts, most of wh…Read more
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61Moral Mathematics: an interview with Campbell BrownLse Philosophy Blog. 2016.Campbell Brown is one of the most recent additions to our faculty. We thought we’d welcome him to the Department with some questions.
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18The Story of the Mordaunt Letter-book of 1660 in the Rylands Library: The Eloquence of IncompletionBulletin of the John Rylands Library 94 (2): 51-71. 2018.This article gives new information on the so-called Letter-book of John, Viscount Mordaunt beyond that in RHS Camden Series LXIX, identifies the likely scribe, and dates the transcription to late 1660. It shows how the large format book was created to record the heroic role played by Mordaunt and his wife Elizabeth in the achievement of Restoration, and how the unfinished state of the textual project adds to our knowledge of the social and political difficulties experienced by Mordaunt, a client…Read more
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7Journalists are Gatekeepers for a ReasonJournal of Media Ethics 33 (2): 94-97. 2018.CNN exercised its fundamental responsibility to uphold a basic tenet of journalism—to seek the truth and report it—when it opted not to broadcast live the first official press briefing held by the...
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8Analysing Political Discourse: Toward a cognitive approachCritical Discourse Studies 2 (2): 189-201. 2005.
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12Being ‘critical’ as taking a stand: One of the central dilemmas of cdaCritical Discourse Studies 2 (2): 195-198. 2005.
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15Can God Know what Time it is? A Working PaperQuaerens Deum 3 (1). 2017.Many thinkers hold the following five propositions are inconsistent: The dynamic theory of time is correct God is atemporal God knows tensed facts Free human actions are possible God interacts responsively with humans This working paper uses the discussion in Four Views: God and Time as a starting-point and moves towards explaining how these propositions are consistent.