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57Joint Epistemic Action: Some ApplicationsJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (2): 300-318. 2018.The notion of a joint action is a familiar one in the philosophical literature. Moreover, the notion of epistemic action has recently been discussed in the literature. Elsewhere I have suggested that these two notions can be brought together to yield the notion of joint epistemic action and provided a relational individualist analysis of joint epistemic actions. In this article I extend this analysis and show how this extended analysis applies to different kinds of important epistemic institutio…Read more
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56Terrorism 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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55Filial 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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54Collective Moral Responsibility for OmissionsBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 20 (1): 5-24. 2001.
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54On conventionsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (4). 1992.This Article does not have an abstract
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51Needs, Moral Self-consciousness, and Professional RolesProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 5 (1-2): 43-61. 1996.
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48Mark Osiel: The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture and the Law of War: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 1–667 (review)Criminal Law and Philosophy 8 (3): 659-669. 2014.Mark Osiel’s The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture and the Law of War provides detailed discussions of a number of important moral and legal issues arising for the United States in its ongoing response to the threats posed by the Al Qaeda terrorist network.Thanks to Andrew Alexandra for comments on this paper. The material in the first section of this critical review is derived from a short review of this book I wrote for the International Harvard Review vol. 31 no. 1 March 2009 p.84. The spec…Read more
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45Individualism, Collective Responsibility and Corporate CrimeBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 16 (4): 19-46. 1997.
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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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37Morality 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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34Self‐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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34Dual Use Science and Technology, Ethics and Weapons of Mass DestructionSpringer Verlag. 2018.This book deals with the problem of dual-use science research and technology. It first explains the concept of dual use and then offers analyses of collective knowledge and collective ignorance. It goes on to present a theory of collective responsibility, followed by four chapters focusing on a particular scientific field or industry of dual use concern: the chemical industry, the nuclear industry, cyber-technology and the biological sciences. The problem of dual-use science research and technol…Read more
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34Institutions, Collective Goods and Moral RightsProtoSociology 18 184-207. 2003.In this paper I offer a teleological account of social institutions. Specifically, I argue that: (a) social institutions have as their defining purposes or ends the provision of collective goods, and; (b) participants in social institutions have moral rights to such collective goods, and the moral rights in question are individual, and jointly held, moral rights.
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33Palestinian 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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32Police 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
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32Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Profession of PolicingProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (3-4): 83-106. 1998.
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30CSR 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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30Cognitive 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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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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24Epistemic Actions, Abilities and Knowing-How: A Non-Reductive AccountSocial Epistemology 36 (4): 466-485. 2022.
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24National 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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23Ethics, public health and technology responses to COVID‐19Bioethics 35 (4): 366-371. 2021.The COVID‐19 pandemic has infected millions around the world. Governments initially responded by requiring businesses to close and citizens to self‐isolate, as well as funding vaccine research and implementing a range of technologies to monitor and limit the spread of the disease. This article considers the use of smartphone metadata and Bluetooth applications for public health surveillance purposes in relation to COVID‐19. It undertakes ethical analysis of these measures, particularly in relati…Read more
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22What 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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21Integrity Systems and Professional Reporting in Police OrganizationsCriminal Justice Ethics 29 (3): 241-257. 2010.An integrity system is an assemblage of institutional entities, mechanisms, and procedures whose purpose is to ensure compliance with minimum ethical standards and to promote the pursuit of ethical...
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21War, 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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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...