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28Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply.
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33CSR Reputation and Firm Performance: A Dynamic ApproachJournal of Business Ethics 163 (3): 619-636. 2020.Many countries have regulations that require firms to engage in minimum levels of corporate social activities in areas such as the environment and social welfare. In this paper, we argue that changes in a firm’s compliance with CS regulations are reflected in its reputation for corporate social responsibility, which affects the firm’s performance. The performance impacts depend on whether the firm’s CSR reputation in the current and prior periods is positive, neutral, or negative. Our theoretica…Read more
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12Technology, institutions and regulation: towards a normative theoryAI and Society 1-11. forthcoming.Technology regulation is one of the most important public policy issues facing society and governments at the present time, and further clarity could improve decision making in this complex and challenging area. Since the rise of the internet in the late 1990s, a number of approaches to technology regulation have been proposed, prompted by the associated changes in society, business and law that this development brought with it. However, over the past decade, the impact of technology has been pr…Read more
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7The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel SequencingJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 1-8. forthcoming.Forensic genomics now enables law enforcement agencies to undertake rapid and detailed analysis of suspect samples using a technique known as massively parallel sequencing (MPS), including information such as physical traits, biological ancestry, and medical conditions. This article discusses the implications of MPS and provides ethical analysis, drawing on the concept of joint rights applicable to genomic data, and the concept of collective moral responsibility (understood as joint moral respon…Read more
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16Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2017.In this book, Seumas Miller develops distinctive philosophical analyses of corruption, collective responsibility and integrity systems, and applies them to cases in both the public and the private sectors. Using numerous well-known examples of institutional corruption, he explores a variety of actual and potential anti-corruption measures. The result is a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated and empirically informed work on institutional corruption and how to combat it. Part I defines the k…Read more
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17Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal ForceOxford University Press USA. 2016.Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force and its moral justification. In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military combatants, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional r…Read more
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113Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social RealityRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Socializing Metaphysics supplies diverse answers to the basic questions of social metaphysics, from a broad array of voices. It will interest all philosophers and social scientists concerned with mind, action, or the foundations of social theory.
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1Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal InvestigatorsWiley-Blackwell. 2014._Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators_ presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other investigators in contemporary society. Explores ethical issues relating to investigative independence, rights of victims and suspects, use of informants, entrapment, privacy and surveillance, undercover operations, deception, and suspect interviewing Represents the first monograph providing a detailed consideratio…Read more
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67The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical StudyCambridge University Press. 2009.In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social institutions exist to realize various collective ends, indeed, to produce collective goods. He analyses key concepts such as collective responsibility and institutional corruption. Miller also provides distinctive special theories of particular institutions, including governments, welfare agencies, universities, poli…Read more
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53Social Action: A Teleological AccountCambridge University Press. 2001.Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social phenomena, and the fact that conventions and normativity are features of human activity. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles…Read more
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31Cognitive warfare: an ethical analysisEthics and Information Technology 25 (3): 1-10. 2023.This article characterises the nature of cognitive warfare and its use of disinformation and computational propaganda and its political and military purposes in war and in conflict short of war. It discusses both defensive and offensive measures to counter cognitive warfare and, in particular, measures that comply with relevant moral principles.
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7Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, "Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions" (review)Philosophy in Review 43 (3): 7-10. 2023.Review of Ceva and Ferretti's recent book, _Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions._.
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13Designing in Ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.Many of our interactions in the twenty-first century - both good and bad - take place by means of institutions, technology, and artefacts. We inhabit a world of implements, instruments, devices, systems, gadgets, and infrastructures. Technology is not only something that we make, but is also something that in many ways makes us. The discipline of ethics must take this constitutive feature of institutions and technology into account; thus, ethics must in turn be embedded in our institutions and t…Read more
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23War, Reciprocity and the Moral Equality of CombatantsPhilosophia 51 (5): 2337-2344. 2023.In this article I address differences between myself and Uwe Steinhoff in relation to the moral principle of reciprocity and its implications for the doctrine of the moral equality of combatants. Whereas I agree with Steinhoff that there is a principle of reciprocity in play in war, contra Steinhoff, I suggest that this principle and, indeed, moral principles of reciprocity more generally, are particularist principles, although if conventionalised or given legal status they can assume a generali…Read more
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8Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing-Philosophical and Ethical IssuesImprint: Springer. 2016.High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world. While the general area of concern in this book is with police corruption and anti-corruption, the focus is on certain key philosophical and ethical issues that arise for police organisations confronting corruption. On the normative account proffered in this book the principal institutional purpose of policing is the protection of legally enshrined moral rights and the principal in…Read more
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25National Security Intelligence and Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication, and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such as: privacy; autonomy; threats to national security and democracy by foreign states; and accountab…Read more
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7Social Ontology and WarIn Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.This chapter addresses three related issues: (1) Debates between individualists and collectivists regarding the ontological nature of armed forces engaged in war; (2) The ontological nature of the moral rights and collective moral responsibilities of armed forces engaged in war; (3) The implications of individualist and collectivist ontological theories for the application in war of the principles of necessity, proportionality and discrimination.
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5Bioterrorism and the Dual‐Use DilemmaIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.This chapter contains sections titled: The Biological Weapons Convention Experiments of Concern Dual‐Use Research: The Ethical Issues Dissemination of Dual‐Use Research Results The Regulation of Dual‐Use Research An Independent Authority Conclusion.
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10Terrorism, War and States of EmergencyIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.This chapter contains sections titled: Terrorist Attacks, Disasters and States of Emergency Terrorism, Internal Armed Struggles and Theatres of War Targeted Killings Targeted Killings and the Problem of Dirty Hands Conclusion.
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5TortureIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.This chapter contains sections titled: Definition of Torture What Is Wrong with Torture? The Moral Justification for One‐Off Acts of Torture in Emergencies The Moral Justification for Legalized and Institutionalized Torture Conclusion.
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2Terrorism‐as‐CrimeIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.This chapter contains sections titled: Terrorism‐as‐Crime Terrorism‐as‐Crime and Police Institutions Counter‐Terrorism and Human Rights in Liberal Democracies at Peace Conclusion.
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7Defining TerrorismIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.This chapter contains sections titled: The Definition of Terrorism in Terms of Innocents The Definition of Terrorism in Terms of Non‐Combatants Terrorism, Combatants and Authoritarian States The Definition of Terrorism: An Indirect Strategy Conclusion.
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7Terrorism and Collective ResponsibilityIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.This chapter contains sections titled: Moral Justification for the Use of Deadly Force Civilian Immunity and Human Rights Violations Civilian Immunity and Culpable Omissions Terrorism and Non‐Violent Rights Violators Conclusion.
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4The Varieties of TerrorismIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements.
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4IndexIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism, Blackwell. 2008-05-30.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements.
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10Joint Actions: We-Mode and I-ModeIn Miguel Garcia-Godinez & Rachael Mellin (eds.), Tuomela on Sociality, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 59-78. 2023.Raimo Tuomela has a good deal to say about the we-mode and the I-mode in relation to joint actions and related phenomena. Moreover, he also invoked the notion of a pro-group I-mode. However, it is not always entirely clear what the basis of these distinctions is and whether, ultimately, the distinction between the we-mode and the pro-group I-mode can be satisfactorily made out. If not then, since pro-group I-mode is a species of I-mode, the fundamental distinction between we-mode and I-mode is c…Read more
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3Collective Responsibility and Humanitarian Armed InterventionIn Georg Meggle (ed.), Ethics of humanitarian interventions, Ontos. pp. 37-56. 2004.