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34Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Profession of PolicingProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (3-4): 83-106. 1998.
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15Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Profession of PolicingProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (3): 83-106. 1998.
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13Book Review: Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture: A Philosophical Analysis, written by Fritz Allhoff (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 12 (1): 116-120. 2015.
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89Assertions, joint epistemic actions and social practicesSynthese 193 (1): 71-94. 2016.In this paper I provide a theory of the speech act of assertion according to which assertion is a species of joint action. In doing so I rely on a theory of joint action developed in more detail elsewhere. Here we need to distinguish between the genus, joint action, and an important species of joint action, namely, what I call joint epistemic action. In the case of the latter, but not necessarily the former, participating agents have epistemic goals, e.g., the acquisition of knowledge. It is joi…Read more
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146Shared Intention is not Joint CommitmentJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (2): 179-189. 2018.Margaret Gilbert has long defended the view that, roughly speaking, agents share the intention to perform an action if and only if they jointly commit to performing that action. This view has proven both influential and controversial. While some authors have raised concerns over the joint commitment view of shared intention, including at times offering purported counterexamples to certain aspects of the view, straightforward counterexamples to the view as a whole have yet to appear in the litera…Read more
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14Re-Thinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative AccountJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (3): 366-367. 1994.
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59Filial responsibility and the care of the agedJournal of Applied Philosophy 14 (2). 1997.What obligations and responsibilities, if any, do adult children have with respect to their aged parents? This paper briefly considers the socio‐historical and legal bases for filial obligations and suggests there is a mismatch between perceptions in the community over what they see as their obligations, what policy makers would like to impose and how philosophers identify and ground these obligations. Examining four philosophical models of filial obligation, we conclude that no one account prov…Read more
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62Needs, Moral Self-consciousness, and Professional RolesProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 5 (1): 43-61. 1996.
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7Integrity Systems for OccupationsRoutledge. 2010.An integrity system is an integrated assemblage of institutional mechanisms, designed to minimize ethical misconduct and promote ethical health in institutions, organizations, occupations and the like. This book analyzes, describes and demonstrates the value of well-designed integrity systems for efficient, effective and ethically sustainable practice, in occupational groups in particular. Developing a blueprint for the design of integrity systems which can be tailored to the specific ethical ne…Read more
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174Ethical theory, “common morality,” and professional obligationsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30 (1): 69-80. 2009.We have two aims in this paper. The first is negative: to demonstrate the problems in Bernard Gert’s account of common morality, in particular as it applies to professional morality. The second is positive: to suggest a more satisfactory explanation of the moral basis of professional role morality, albeit one that is broadly consistent with Gert’s notion of common morality, but corrects and supplements Gert’s theory. The paper is in three sections. In the first, we sketch the main features of Ge…Read more
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102Police ethics (edited book)Allen & Unwin. 1997.The ethical issues that affect police officers of all ranks and locations are explored in this fascinating introduction to the stark and shocking reality of real-life policing situations. Drawing on examples from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, and South Africa, this book examines policing incidents from the everyday to public events that capture widespread media attention. Fully updated with revised case studies, this edition offers discussion and analysis of current eth…Read more
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15Palestinian intellectuals. J. Geiger hellenism in the east. Studies on greek intellectuals in palestine. Pp. 177. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2014. Cased, €49. Isbn: 978-3-515-10617-7 (review)The Classical Review 66 (1): 104-106. 2016.
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4Impressions of presidents: Effects of information, time, and discrepancyBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 17 (4): 187-189. 1981.
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18Eye gaze patterns reveal how we reason about fractionsThinking and Reasoning 24 (4): 445-468. 2017.ABSTRACTFractions are defined by numerical relationships, and comparing two fractions’ magnitudes requires within-fraction and/or between-fraction relational comparisons. To better understand how individuals spontaneously reason about fractions, we collected eye-tracking data while they performed a fraction comparison task with conditions that promoted or obstructed different types of comparisons. We found evidence for both componential and holistic processing in this mixed-pairs task, consisten…Read more
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29Epistemic Actions, Abilities and Knowing-How: A Non-Reductive AccountSocial Epistemology 36 (4): 466-485. 2022.