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    Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life, by Karen Stohr
    Teaching Philosophy 47 (1): 129-131. 2024.
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    Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society (edited book)
    with John-Stewart Gordon, Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, James A. Donahue, Marcus Duwell, Dale Jacquette, Tanja Kohen, Christopher Lowry, Seumas Miller, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Johann-Christian Poder, Udo Schuklenk, Wanda Teays, and Rosemarie Tong
    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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    Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community
    with Anita Allen, Lawrence C. Becker, Deryck Beyleveld, David Cummiskey, David DeGrazia, David M. Gallagher, Alan Gewirth, Virginia Held, Barbara Koziak, Donald Regan, Jeffrey Reiman, Henry Richardson, Beth J. Singer, Michael Slote, and James P. Sterba
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.
    As one of the most important ethicists to emerge since the Second World War, Alan Gewirth continues to influence philosophical debates concerning morality. In this ground-breaking book, Gewirth's neo-Kantianism, and the communitarian problems discussed, form a dialogue on the foundation of moral theory. Themes of agent-centered constraints, the formal structure of theories, and the relationship between freedom and duty are examined along with such new perspectives as feminism, the Stoics, and Sa…Read more
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    The title refers to the question addressed in this paper, namely, to what degree if any technology, including nanotechnologies, in the form of products and processes, is capable of contributing to a good life. To answer that question, the paper will develop a meta-normative model whose primary purpose is to determine the essential conditions that any normative theory of the Good Life and Technology (T-GLAT) must adequately address in order to be able to account for, explain and evaluate the Cont…Read more
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    This paper provides a general philosophical groundwork for the theoretical and applied normative evaluation of information generally and digital information specifically in relation to the good life. The overall aim of the paper is to address the question of how Information Ethics and computer ethics more generally can be expanded to include more centrally the issue of how and to what extent information relates and contributes to the quality of life or the good life , for individuals and for soc…Read more
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    A universal model for the normative evaluation of internet information
    Ethics and Information Technology 11 (4): 243-253. 2009.
    Beginning with the initial premise that as the Internet has a global character, the paper will argue that the normative evaluation of digital information on the Internet necessitates an evaluative model that is itself universal and global in character. The paper will show that information has a dual normative structure that commits all disseminators of information to both epistemological and ethical norms that are in principle universal and thus global in application. Based on this dual normativ…Read more
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    Internet Addiction and Well-Being: Daoist and Stoic Reflections
    with Hui Jin
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15 (2): 209-225. 2016.
    This article explores the phenomenon of Internet addiction and its possible amelioration, from both Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives. Internet addiction is caused by the excessive use of the Internet and its resulting dependence, having negative effects on human well-being. The ideas of a key ancient Chinese Daoist thinker Zhuangzi 莊子 and his Western contemporaries, the Stoics, as viewed through the world, the things and beings in it, and their relationships, offer insights which m…Read more
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    The normative structure of information and its communication
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 8 (2): 150-163. 2010.
    PurposeBeginning with the initial premise that the internet has a global character, the purpose of this paper is to argue that the normative evaluation of digital information on the internet necessitates an evaluative model that is itself universal and global in character. To this end, the paper aims to demonstrate and support a universal model for the normative evaluation of information on the internet.Design/methodology/approachThe design and application of a dual normative model of informatio…Read more
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    The Ethics of Clinical Trials
    Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (3-4): 173-184. 1998.
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    The Ethics of Clinical Trials: To Inform or Not Inform? That is the Question
    Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (3): 173-184. 1998.
  •  1
    The Ethics of Clinical Trials
    Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (3-4): 173-184. 1998.
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    The Cambridge Handbook of Information & Computer Ethics (review)
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 15 (1): 72-76. 2011.
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    The Cambridge Handbook of Information & Computer Ethics
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 15 (1): 72-76. 2011.
  • This chapter provides an innovative approach to evaluating information and its normative relation to well-being, through the concept of wisdom. Wisdom understood as a form of metainformation or metaknowledge provides a direct conceptual and practical link between the concepts of information, knowledge, and well-being, and generally a direct link between digital media, communication ethics, and well-being. As such, the concept of wisdom allows for a direct normative evaluation of the impact of in…Read more
  •  8
    Philosophy Plays: A Neo-Socratic Way of Performing Public Philosophy
    Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (2): 35-57. 2021.
    This paper provides an explanatory rationale within a theoretical philosophical framework for the Philosophy Plays project as a call to public philosophy, conceived as a way of life and a form of communal therapy for the mind. The Philosophy Plays aim is to introduce philosophy to the general public through philosophical presentations by professional philosophers incorporating drama. Like Plato’s dialogues, the Philosophy Plays, that combine dialectic with rhetoric seek to engage their public au…Read more
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    Philosophy Plays
    Teaching Ethics 5 (1): 41-57. 2004.
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    The recent transnational wave of destruction that was caused by the earthquake-induced tsunamis in South East Asia has raised the issue of global justice in terms of the rights of victims to expect aid relief and the moral responsibility of the rest of the world to provide it. In this paper I will discuss the issue of global ethics in terms of positive rights that people have to assistance from others when they cannot provide such assistance themselves. The main object of the paper is to demonst…Read more
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    This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases, fake news, deep fakes, and staged news. The book starts with a conceptual philosophical analysis of corruption in general, followed by an in-depth analysis of media corruption, across its various transformations, from the legacy media of the 4th Estate to the d…Read more
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    Journalism Ethics' Eightfold Truths
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics 25 (3): 246-250. 2010.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Information ethics as a guide for new media
    with Aaron Quinn
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics 23 (4). 2008.
    Good journalism is based—and to some extent thrives—on a diversity of perspectives from those who supply information and informed opinions to the public. New media journalism is a contemporary newsgathering and disseminating method with enormous communication potential because it is an online forum that can connect a great number of diverse contributors and audiences. Citizen journalism—performed on a global level through the Web—is a potential marvel because of its wide reach and range of diver…Read more
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    Foreword
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics 19 (2). 2004.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Corruption in the Media
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2): 231-241. 2008.
    Using a general model of corruption that explains and accounts for corruption across different corporate and professional activities, the paper will examine how certain practices in the media, especially in areas where journalism, advertising and public relations regularly intersect and converge, can be construed as instances of corruption. By applying this general model of corruption the paper will then offer a taxonomy of media corruption by identifying most if not all the major types of media…Read more
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    Spence develops and applies a normative model based on rationalist and virtue ethics as well as stoic philosophy to assess the impact of technology on wellbeing. Through developing this model, Spence offers a novel and important examination of the benefit of technology to our society as a whole.
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    Stoic Ethics and the Normative Impact of Technology on Wellbeing
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2021.
    Spence develops and applies a normative model based on rationalist and virtue ethics as well as stoic philosophy to assess the impact of technology on wellbeing. Through developing this model, Spence offers a novel and important examination of the benefit of technology to our society as a whole.
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    Corruption in the media
    The Philosophers' Magazine 58 28-29. 2012.
  • Groundwork for a neo-epicurean approach to a sustainable good life in a technological world
    Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 10 (1-2): 73-81. 2010.
  • Media Ethics: An Ethical Rationalist Approach
    Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 5 (1): 35-44. 2003.
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    Philosophy Plays
    Teaching Ethics 5 (1): 41-57. 2004.
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    The Good Life in a Technological Age (edited book)
    Routledge. 2012.
    Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of disciplines, this volume combines an empirical investigation of technology and its social, psychological, and political effects, and a philosophi…Read more
  • Two Dimensions of Photo Manipulation:Correction and Corruption
    with Aaron Quinn
    Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 9 (1). 2007.