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    Reading Onora o’Neill (edited book)
    Routledge. 2013.
    Onora O’Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O’Neill is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this important thinker. It includes specially commissio…Read more
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    13. Family Law (First Annex)
    In Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. pp. 187-196. 2016.
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    Sex Education
    In Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. 2003.
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    The Methodology of Applied Philosophy
    In Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.
    The methodology of applied philosophy may consist in its mode of application; or it may serve applied philosophy's purpose of speaking to practical matters. There may be no single method that is shared by all sub‐fields of applied philosophy; applied ethics, the dominant form of applied philosophy, should be thought of as neither “top‐down” nor “bottom‐up” in its methods. The use of far‐fetched examples is arguably in tension with the concerns and intended audience of applied philosophy. Finally…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Babette E. Babich, Alison Ainley, John Dillon, Alan P. F. Sell, Paul O'Grady, J. L. Gorman, Brian O'Connor, John E. Chisholm, Fiachra Long, Christopher McKnight, and Kathleen Nutt
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (1): 135-162. 1993.
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    Critical notices
    with Philipp W. Rosemann and Christopher Peacocke
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1). 1996.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Andrew Altman, Erik A. Anderson, Faith Armitage, Gustaf Arrhenius, Marcus Arvan, Michael Bacon, Daniel Bar-Tal, and Paul Benson
    Journal of Social Philosophy 41 (4): 399-402. 2010.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Lucy Allais, Anita Allen, Andrew Altman, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Erik A. Anderson, Faith Armitage, Barbara Arneil, Gustaf Arrhenius, and Marcus Arvan
    Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (4): 363-366. 2012.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Erik A. Anderson, Marcus Arvan, Linda Barclay, Marcia Baron, Daniel Bar-Tal, Debra Bergoffen, and Alyssa Bernstein
    Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (4): 341-345. 2011.
  • Regulating responsible reproduction
    In Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell & Alexandra Mullock (eds.), Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier, Routledge. 2015.
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    Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 56 (5): 645-653. 2022.
    I offer an account of sexual ethics, and thus of an education in sexual morality, that tries to make some sense of how a view of consent as central to those ethics might be combined with an education in certain virtues. I do so by exploring what some see as the shortcomings of a standard of consent, namely, how it can deal with instances of prima facie bad sex. I consider and reject various attempts to show that consensuality is sufficient for morally good sex. I then show how a needed supplemen…Read more
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    Clinical ethics support services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cross-sectional survey
    with Mariana Dittborn and Emma Cave
    Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (10): 695-701. 2022.
    Background Non-adherence to medication is associated with increased risk of relapse in patients with bipolar disorder. Objectives To validate patient-evaluated adherence to medication measured via smartphones against validated adherence questionnaire; and investigate characteristics for adherence to medication measured via smartphones. Methods Patients with BD evaluated adherence to medication daily for 6–9 months via smartphones. The Medication Adherence Rating Scale and the Rogers’ Empowerment…Read more
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    Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy
    with Emma Cave and Joe Brierley
    Journal of Medical Ethics 49 (11): 733-736. 2023.
    In cases where the best interests of the child are disputed or finely balanced, Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) can provide a valuable source of advice to clinicians and trusts on the pertinent ethical dimensions. Recent judicial cases have criticised the lack of formalised guidance and inconsistency in the involvement of parents in CEC deliberations. In Manchester University NHS FT v Verden [2022], Arbuthnot J set out important procedural guidance as to how parental involvement in CEC deliber…Read more
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    From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics, Putting Practice First
    Contemporary Political Theory 3 (2): 212-213. 2000.
    A review of Charles Blattberg's From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
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    The Child’s Right to a Voice
    Res Publica 27 (4): 521-536. 2020.
    This article provides a philosophical analysis of a putative right of the child to have their expressed views considered in matters that affect them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is an influential and interesting statement of that right. The article shows that the child’s ‘right to a voice’ is complex. Its complexity lies in the problem of contrasting an adult’s normative power of choice with a child’s weighted views, in the various senses in which …Read more
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    2000 Years and Beyond: Faith, Identity and the 'Commmon Era'
    with Trevor A. Hart, Nigel Rapport, and Paul Gifford
    Routledge. 2003.
    2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from which Western cultural identity has evolved. Their plural reflections raise searching questions about how we move from past to future - and about who 'we' are. What do the catastrophes of the twentieth ce…Read more
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    Philosophical Advice
    Philosophy 96 (4): 603-623. 2021.
    Philosophers who publish articles that make practical ethical recommendations are thereby offering advice. I consider what obligations they incur in advising. I analyse the giving of advice as a communicative act whose defining and characteristic aim is to secure acceptance of what is advised. Such advice need not be solicited or taken up. I distinguish advice from incitement and threats and specify the scope of the adviser's responsibility for others acting upon the advice. I explore how advice…Read more
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    The pace of change and, indeed, the sheer number of clinical ethics committees has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Committees were formed to support healthcare professionals and to operationalise, interpret and compensate for gaps in national and professional guidance. But as the role of clinical ethics support becomes more prominent and visible, it becomes ever more important to address gaps in the support structure and misconceptions as to role and remit. The recent case of Great Orm…Read more
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    The Child’s Right to a Voice
    Res Publica (4): 1-16. 2020.
    This article provides a philosophical analysis of a putative right of the child to have their expressed views considered in matters that affect them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is an influential and interesting statement of that right. The article shows that the child’s ‘right to a voice’ is complex. Its complexity lies in the problem of contrasting an adult’s normative power of choice with a child’s weighted views, in the various senses in which …Read more
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    Ethical expertise: The good agent and the good citizen
    Zeitschrift Für Ethik Und Moralphilosophie 3 (2): 337-344. 2020.
    I consider whether political deference by a citizen within a liberal democracy to moral experts is morally problematic. I compare and contrast deference in the political and personal domains. I set to one side consequentialist worries about political deference and evaluate its possible intrinsic wrongness, expressed as a worry that deference is inconsistent with the grant to individuals of the power exercised in a democratic vote, just as personal deference is inconsistent with the grant of a po…Read more
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    Democratic Individuality
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 33 356-358. 1991.
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    Ethical perspectives on advances in biogerontology
    with Jean Woo, Derrick Au, Sara Bergstresser, Alexandre Erler, Timothy Kwok, John Newman, Raymond Tong, and Tom Walker
    Aging Medicine 2 (2): 99-103. 2019.
    Worldwide populations are aging with economic development as a result of public health initiatives and advances in therapeutic discoveries. Since 1850, life expectancy has advanced by 1 year for every four. Accompanying this change is the rapid development of anti‐aging science. There are three schools of thought in the field of aging science. One perspective is the life course approach, which considers that aging is a good and natural process to be embraced as a necessary and positive aspect of…Read more
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    A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy
    Philosophical Quarterly 45 (178): 111-113. 1995.
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    The Marxist Ethic of Self-realization: Individuality and Community
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 22 19-34. 1987.
    If, for Marx and Marxists, communism would be the most ideal of human societies, this is because it would make possible the maximum use of human and natural resources to the equal benefit of all. This means that, under communism, human beings would ‘realize themselves’. In direct and pointed contrast to capitalism wherein all individuals lead alienated, stunted, and fragmented lives, communism for Marx would provide the preconditions for a flowering, a full and final development of all human pot…Read more
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    Democratic Individuality (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 33 356-358. 1991.