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742The composition of reasonsSynthese 191 (5): 779-800. 2013.How do reasons combine? How is it that several reasons taken together can have a combined weight which exceeds the weight of any one alone? I propose an answer in mereological terms: reasons combine by composing a further, complex reason of which they are parts. Their combined weight is the weight of their combination. I develop a mereological framework, and use this to investigate some structural views about reasons, the main two being "Atomism" and "Holism". Atomism is the view that atomic rea…Read more
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224Priority or sufficiency …or both?Economics and Philosophy 21 (2): 199-220. 2005.Prioritarianism is the view that we ought to give priority to benefiting those who are worse off. Sufficientism, on the other hand, is the view that we ought to give priority to benefiting those who are not sufficiently well off. This paper concerns the relative merits of these two views; in particular, it examines an argument advanced by Roger Crisp to the effect that sufficientism is the superior of the two. My aim is to show that Crisp's argument is unsound. While I concede his objections aga…Read more
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174John Rawls, "the law of peoples," and international political theoryEthics and International Affairs 14. 2000."The Law of Peoples" has been extended into a monograph with the same title,which is the main focus of this essay. Brown includes a sketch of Rawls’s project as a whole as a necessary preliminary
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151On Amartya Sen and The Idea of JusticeEthics and International Affairs 24 (3): 309-318. 2010.The Idea of Justice" summarizes and extends many of the themes Amartya Sen has been engaged with for the last quarter century: economic versus political rights, cultural relativism and the origin of notions such as human rights, and entitlements and their relation to gender equality.
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103Aggregation and Self-SacrificeEthics 132 (3): 730-735. 2022.Should harms to different individuals be aggregated? Moderate views answer yes and no. Aggregation is appropriate in some but not all cases. Such views need to determine a threshold at which aggregation switches from appropriate to inappropriate. Alex Voorhoeve proposes a method for determining this threshold which links other-regarding and self-regarding ethics. This proposal, however, implies a spurious correlation between favoring aggregation and egoism.
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62Postmodernism for historiansPearson/Longman. 2005.Explaining the emergence of the concept in history and how it looks at the past, this title is a guide to the meanings of postmodernism, showing its origins and ...
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60The tetrahedron as an archetype for the concept of change in the I ChingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 9 (2): 159-168. 1982.
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59Moral Mathematics: an interview with Campbell BrownLse Philosophy Blog. 2016.Campbell Brown is one of the most recent additions to our faculty. We thought we’d welcome him to the Department with some questions.
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57International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.This unique collection presents texts in international relations from Ancient Greece to the First World War. Major writers such as Thucydides, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and John Stuart Mill are represented by extracts of their key works; less well-known international theorists including John of Paris, Cornelius van Bynkershoek and Friedrich List are also included. Fifty writers are anthologised in what is the largest such collection currently available. The texts, most of wh…Read more
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56Cosmopolitanism, world citizenship and global civil societyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 3 (1): 7-26. 2000.
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41Cerebral lateralisation, “social constraints,” and coordinated anti-predator responsesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4): 591-592. 2005.Lateralisation is traditionally viewed by neuroscientists and comparative psychologists from the perspective of the individual; however, for many animals lateralisation evolved in the context of group living. Here I discuss the implications of individual lateralisation within the context of the group from an evolutionary ecology perspective, with particular reference to coordinated anti-predator behaviour.
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35The Impact of Retraction on Citation NetworksScience and Engineering Ethics 21 (1): 127-137. 2015.Article retraction in research is rising, yet retracted articles continue to be cited at a disturbing rate. This paper presents an analysis of recent retraction patterns, with a unique emphasis on the role author self-cites play, to assist the scientific community in creating counter-strategies. This was accomplished by examining the following: A categorization of retracted articles more complete than previously published work. The relationship between citation counts and after-retraction self-c…Read more
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34Inner truth and the origin of the Yarrow stalk oracleJournal of Chinese Philosophy 9 (2): 197-210. 1982.
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32Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (review)Political Theory 36 (4): 647-650. 2008.
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30Explorations of lung cancer stigma for female long‐term survivorsNursing Inquiry 20 (4): 352-362. 2013.Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women, accompanied by greater psychological distress than other cancers. There is minimal but increasing awareness of the impact of lung cancer stigma (LCS) on patient outcomes. LCS is associated with increased symptom burden and decreased quality of life. The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of female long‐term lung cancer survivors in the context of LCS and examine how participants discursively adhere to or reject stigmatiz…Read more
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29Book Review: Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism, by Jean L. CohenGlobalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism, by CohenJean L.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (review)Political Theory 43 (5): 692-695. 2015.
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26Cross-age effects on forensic face constructionFrontiers in Psychology 6 150026. 2015.The own-age bias (OAB) refers to recognition memory being more accurate for people of our own-age than other-age groups (e.g., Wright and Stroud, 2002). This paper investigated whether the OAB effect is present during construction of human faces (also known as facial composites, often for forensic/police use). In doing so, it adds to our understanding of factors influencing both facial memory across the life span as well as performance of facial composites. Participant-witnesses were grouped int…Read more
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2615 Issues in the history of the debates on miraclesIn Graham H. Twelftree (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Miracles, Cambridge University Press. pp. 273. 2011.
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25Europe Comes to Mr Milton's Door, and Other Kinds of VisitationThe European Legacy 17 (3). 2012.Using various meanings of ?visit? and ?friend? this essay freely explores connections between Milton's cultivation of fame in Europe, leading to reports in the early lives of visits of scholarly foreigners to his door, and the extraordinary concentration on scenarios of human and divine visitation in the late poems. Social, political and religious strands are followed, from humanist self-presentation in the sonnets through to prophetic isolation in the late poems. Codes of friendship are rehears…Read more
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24Philosophy & the Christian faithInter-varsity Press. 1969.Colin Brown surveys the thought of over four hundred philosophers from the Middle Ages to the present day. This clear and concise guide shows how various thinkers and ideas have affected Christian belief and brings together the lessons Christians can learn from philosophy.
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24Commentary: Solidarity and Universalism as Premises of Overcoming the Perils of Liberal GlobalisationDialogue and Universalism 19 (11-12): 81-97. 2009.Many scholars have argued that neoliberal economic theory articulates the justifying ideology for contemporary globalization. This ideology claims that “free market” solutions are always the best mechanisms for not only promoting economic growth but for all human problems. This first part of this paper provides a conceptual and historical overview of neoliberal economic theory with critical commentary on two key neoliberal dogma, viz., the idea that markets know best and that privatization and d…Read more
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23The First American SublimeIn Timothy M. Costelloe (ed.), The sublime: from antiquity to the present, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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22Value Incommensurability: Ethics, Risk, and Decision-Making, Henrik Andersson and Anders Herlitz (ed.). Routledge, 2022, viii+269 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 1-6. forthcoming.
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18The Story of the Mordaunt Letter-book of 1660 in the Rylands Library: The Eloquence of IncompletionBulletin of the John Rylands Library 94 (2): 51-71. 2018.This article gives new information on the so-called Letter-book of John, Viscount Mordaunt beyond that in RHS Camden Series LXIX, identifies the likely scribe, and dates the transcription to late 1660. It shows how the large format book was created to record the heroic role played by Mordaunt and his wife Elizabeth in the achievement of Restoration, and how the unfinished state of the textual project adds to our knowledge of the social and political difficulties experienced by Mordaunt, a client…Read more