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95The ethical application of biometric facial recognition technologyAI and Society 37 (1): 167-175. 2022.Biometric facial recognition is an artificial intelligence technology involving the automated comparison of facial features, used by law enforcement to identify unknown suspects from photographs and closed circuit television. Its capability is expanding rapidly in association with artificial intelligence and has great potential to solve crime. However, it also carries significant privacy and other ethical implications that require law and regulation. This article examines the rise of biometric f…Read more
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21Correction to: The ethical application of biometric facial recognition technologyAI and Society 1-1. forthcoming.A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01236-7.
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12A principled approach to cross‐sector genomic data accessBioethics 35 (8): 779-786. 2021.Bioethics, Volume 35, Issue 8, Page 779-786, October 2021.
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23What Makes a Good Internal Affairs Investigation?Criminal Justice Ethics 29 (1): 29-40. 2010.Historically, the quality of police investigations of police corruption and misconduct has been poor. Numerous police commissions in the United States,1 Australia,2 and elsewhere have found major d...
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93Retribution, Rehabilitation, and the Rights of PrisonersCriminal Justice Ethics 28 (2): 238-253. 2009.Richard Lippke, Rethinking Imprisonment, 278pp. Although there are numerous monographs on the ethics of legal punishment1 and a small number of edited coll...
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16Review essay / the utility of tortureCriminal Justice Ethics 27 (1): 104-107. 2008.Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007, pp. xiii + 114.
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1167“If Equity's In, We're Out”: Scope for Fairness in the Next Global Climate AgreementEthics and International Affairs 26 (4): 423-443. 2012.At the United Nations climate change conference in 2011, parties decided to launch the “Durban Platform” to work towards a new long-term climate agreement. The decision was notable for the absence of any reference to “equity”, a prominent principle in all previous major climate agreements. Wealthy countries resisted the inclusion of equity on the grounds that the term had become too closely yoked to developing countries’ favored conception of equity. This conception, according to wealthy countri…Read more
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39Investigating the effect of stimulus variables and eye movement profiles on binocular rivalry rate: Implications for large-scale endophenotype studiesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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10Whither the University? Universities of Technology and the Problem of Institutional PurposeScience and Engineering Ethics 25 (6): 1679-1698. 2019.There is a need to provide an appropriate normative conception of the modern university: a conception which identifies its unifying purposes and values and, thereby, gives direction to institutional role occupants, governments, public policymakers and other would-be institutional designers. Such a conception could admit differences between modern universities; differences, for example, between so-called universities of technology and other universities. Indeed, it is preferable to frame the issu…Read more
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21The Moral Justification for the Preventive Detention of TerroristsCriminal Justice Ethics 37 (2): 122-140. 2018.The moral, as opposed to legal, justification for the preventive detention of terrorists is the topic of this article, and, in particular, for the preventive detention of members of extremist Islam...
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14The Global Banking SectorBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 37 (1): 13-44. 2018.Corrupt, unethical and imprudent practices in the global banking sector have been identified as among the causes of the Global Financial Crisis. In this paper I provide an analysis of institutional corruption that enables institutional corruption within the global banking sector to be viewed in relation to economic injustice, and demarcated from the unfortunate consequences of unavoidably risky market-based activity, poor judgment, ill-informed policy-making etc.; argue for an understanding of a…Read more
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26The Corruption of Financial Benchmarks: Individual and Collective Responsibility in the Global Banking SectorMidwest Studies in Philosophy 42 (1): 248-269. 2018.
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23Terrorism and Collective ResponsibilityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 18 (2): 263-281. 2004.In this paper I consider the general view of terrorism put forward by Jan Narveson in his “Pacificism and Terrorism: Why We Should Condemn Both” and by Alan Rosenbaum in his “On Terrorism and the Just War: Some Philosophical Reflections.” This is the view that terrorism is morally indefensible. Contra Narveson and Rosenbaum, I argue that some forms of terrorism are morally defensible in some circumstances.In the first section of the paper I will discuss the definition of terrorism, including the…Read more
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9Sociopolitical action, ethics and the power of literaturePhilosophy and Social Criticism 21 (3): 93-110. 1995.
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20Self‐defence and Forcing the Choice between LivesJournal of Applied Philosophy 9 (2): 239-243. 2008.ABSTRACT In the standard case of justifiable killing in self‐defence one agent without provocation tries to kill a second agent and the second agent's only way to avoid death is to kill his attacker. It is widely accepted that such killings in self‐defence are morally justifiable, but it has proved difficult to show why this is so. Recently, Montague has put forward an account in terms of forcing a choice between lives, and Teichman has propounded a quasi‐Hobbesian rights‐based account of self‐d…Read more
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18In this article, it is argued that the constitutive principles of Just War Theory and the jus ad bellum/jus in bello duality do not transfer all that well to national security intelligence activity...
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71Research in applied ethics: Problems and perspectivesPhilosophia 37 (2): 185-201. 2009.The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in concern with matters of ethics in all areas of public life. This ‘applied turn’ in ethics raises important issues not only of focus, but also of methodology. Sometimes a moral end or moral feature is designed into an institution or technology; sometimes a morally desirable outcome is the fortuitous, but unintended, consequence of an institutional arrangement or technological invention. If designing-in ethics is the new methodological orientat…Read more
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84Rationalising conventionsSynthese 84 (1). 1990.Conformity by an agent to a convention to which the agent is a party is rational only if the agent prefers to conform given the other parties conform and believes the others will conform. But this justification is inadequate; what, for example, is the justification for this belief? The required rational justification requires recourse to (a) preferences for general conformity (as opposed to merely conditional preferences for one's own conformity) and (b) procedures. An agent adopts a procedure w…Read more
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8Quasi-Universal Forensic DNA DatabasesCriminal Justice Ethics 41 (3): 238-256. 2022.This article considers individual rights and fundamental tenets of the criminal justice system in the context of DNA evidence, in particular recent advancements in genomics that have significantly advanced law enforcement investigative capabilities in this area. It discusses a technique known as Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) which utilizes genomic data held by commercial direct-to-consumer ancestry and health companies to investigate the identity of suspects linked to serious crimes. Usi…Read more
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352Privacy, the workplace and the internetJournal of Business Ethics 28 (3). 2000.This paper examines workplace surveillance and monitoring. It is argued that privacy is a moral right, and while such surveillance and monitoring can be justified in some circumstances, there is a presumption against the infringement of privacy. An account of privacy precedes consideration of various arguments frequently given for the surveillance and monitoring of employees, arguments which look at the benefits, or supposed benefits, to employees as well as to employers. The paper examines the …Read more
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35Police Detectives, Criminal Investigations and Collective Moral ResponsibilityCriminal Justice Ethics 33 (1): 21-39. 2014.In this paper my concern is with the collective moral responsibility of criminal investigators for the outcomes of their investigations, bearing in mind that it is important to distinguish collective moral responsibility from, and relate it to, individual moral responsibility. In what sense, if any, are police detectives individually and collectively morally responsible for their success (or, for that matter, their failure) in gathering sufficient evidence to identify, arrest, and charge an offe…Read more