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242Should Hobbes’s State of Nature Be Represented as a Prisoner’s Dilemma?Southern Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 1-16. 1992.
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172Ethical 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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85Academic personality and the commodification of academic textsEthics and Information Technology 4 (4): 279-286. 2002.This paper explores the nature of, and justification for, copyright in academic texts in the light of recent developments in information technology, in particular the growth of electronic publication on the internet. Copyright, like other forms of property, is best thought of as a cluster of rights. A distinction is drawn within this cluster between first order `control rights' and higher order `commodity rights'. It is argued that copyright in academic texts is founded on its role as a means to…Read more
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66All Men Agree On This--Hobbes On The Fear Of Death And The Way To PeaceHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (January): 37-55. 1989.
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64Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral VirtuePhilosophical Quarterly 46 (185): 550. 1996.In Leviathan Thomas Hobbes defines moral philosophy as 'the science of Virtue and Vice', yet few modern readers take this description seriously. Moreover, it is typically assumed that Hobbes' ethical views are unrelated to his views of science. Influential modern interpreters have portrayed Hobbes as either an amoralist, or a moral contractarian, or a rule egoist, or a divine command theorist. David Boonin-Vail challenges all these assumptions and presents a new, and very unorthodox, interpretat…Read more
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61Needs, Moral Self-consciousness, and Professional RolesProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 5 (1): 43-61. 1996.
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56Private Military and Security Companies and the Liberal Conception of ViolenceCriminal Justice Ethics 31 (3): 158-174. 2012.Abstract The institution of war is the broad framework of rules, norms, and organizations dedicated to the prevention, prosecution, and resolution of violent conflict between political entities. Important parts of that institution consist of the accountability arrangements that hold between armed forces, the political leaders who oversee and direct the use of those forces, and the people in whose name the leaders act and from whose ranks the members of the armed forces are drawn. Like other part…Read more
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50Australian Plant Intellectual Property Law in ContextBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 21 (3-4): 47-69. 2002.
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43Exclusion, commodification and plant variety rights legislationAgriculture and Human Values 14 (4): 313-323. 1997.Plant variety rights legislation, now enactedin most Western countries, fosters the commodificationof plant varieties. In this paper, we look at theconceptual issues involved in understanding andjustifying this commodification, with particularemphasis on Australian legislation. The paper isdivided into three sections. In the first, we lay outa taxonomy of goods, drawing on this in the secondsection to point out that the standard justificationof the allocation of exclusionary property rights byap…Read more
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39Should Hobbes's State of Nature Be Represented as a prisoner's Dilemma?Southern Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 1-16. 1992.
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35Ethics in practice: moral theory and the professionsUNSW Press. 2009.Dozens of times a day, in matters both grave and mundane, we make moral choices, Guided by our sense of what is right or wrong, fair or unfair, kind or cruel, ...
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20Private Military and Security Companies: Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations (edited book)Routledge. 2008.Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to the functioning and identity of the modern state, and to international order, these developments clearly are of great practical and conceptual interest. This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary …Read more
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17Professional ethics for politicians?In Igor Primoratz (ed.), Politics and Morality, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 76--91. 2007.
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9Reasons, values, and institutionsTertiary Press. 2002.Philosophical exploration of Australia's major social institutions: the family, the political system, the economic system, the media, and science and technology. The book promotes and demonstrates the use of philosophical method in evaluating these institutions with their inherently moral nature, and their conceptual connections. Topics covered include love, sex and the family, filial responsibility, the Australian political system, the economy, media values, the mass media and science and value…Read more
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6Integrity 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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1Plea Bargaining in Lower Courts in New South WalesAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 1 (1). 1999.
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Accountability and Ministerial AdvisorsAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 5 (2). 2003.