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38Values, Diversity and the Justification of EU InstitutionsPolitical Studies 57 (4): 828-845. 2009.Liberal theories of justice typically claim that political institutions should be justifiable to those who live under them – whatever their values. The more such values diverge, the greater the challenge of justifiability. Diversity of this kind becomes especially pronounced when the institutions in question are supra-national. Focusing on the case of the European Union, this paper aims to address a basic question: what kinds of value should inform the justification of political institutions fac…Read more
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24Conference Report: ‘Ethics and Social Welfare in Hard Times’, London, 1–2 September 2016Ethics and Social Welfare 10 (4): 361-366. 2016.
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26Many thanks to bioethics reviewersIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Bioethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2002. 2002.
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1EditorialEthics and Social Welfare 17 (4): 347-349. 2023.This fourth and final issue of the year comes during the latest outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East, and it will be going through the publication process in all probability before there is a...
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5On Thinking “Post-Foundationally” about The Public/private DistinctionHuman Affairs 13 (1): 7-19. 2003.
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Not Crickets? Ethics, Rhetoric and Sporting BoycottsIn William John Morgan (ed.), Ethics in Sport, Human Kinetics. 2007.
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1315The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children (edited book)Routledge. 2018.Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life as it is a phase through which all adults have passed. Childhood is foundational to the development of selfhood, the formation of interests, values and skills and to the lifespan as a whole. Understanding what it is like to be a child, and what differences childhood makes, are essential for any broader understanding of the human condition. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children is an outstanding reference source…Read more
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7Ethical Relations to the Past: Individual, Institutional, InternationalEthics and Social Welfare 15 (4): 341-343. 2021.
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277Family Autonomy and Class FateSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (2): 131-149. 2016.The family poses problems for liberal understandings of social justice, because of the ways in which it bestows unearned privileges. This is particularly stark when we consider inter-generational inequality, or ‘class fate’ – the ways in which inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next, with the family unit ostensibly a key conduit. There is a recognized tension between the assumption that families should as far as possible be autonomous spheres of decision-making, and the assumpt…Read more
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28Caring about Deliberation, Deliberating about CareEthics and Social Welfare 9 (2): 130-146. 2015.
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69Not cricket? Ethics, rhetoric and sporting boycottsJournal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1). 2007.abstract Using as a background the ongoing crisis afflicting the international cricket scene over whether or not to boycott Zimbabwe, this paper seeks to explore the moral complexities surrounding the case of the sporting boycott in general as a response to morally odious regimes. Rather than attempting to provide some easy formula by which to determine justifiable from unjustifiable boycotts, we take as our starting point many of the arguments raised in the national press and explore and develo…Read more
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1Rorty: And Redescription. 2003.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best known for his unusually readable books and articles on philosophy -- most notably Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989) -- Rorty has for some years now been a wide-ranging public intellectual, unwilling to be confin…Read more
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17Opportunities and risks in gauging practitioners' ethical commitments – commentary on Little et alJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17 (5): 954-956. 2011.
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84Inclusion and Participation: Working with the TensionsStudies in Social Justice 5 (2): 183-196. 2011.Democracy is crucially about inclusion: a theory of democracy must account for who is to be included in the democratic process, how, and on what terms. Inclusion, if conceived democratically, is fraught with tensions. This article identifies three such tensions, arising respectively in: (i) the inauguration of the democratic public; (ii) enabling equal participation; and (iii) the relationship between instrumental and non-instrumental accounts of democracy’s value. In each case, I argue, rather …Read more
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38Postmodernism, pragmatism, and the possibility of an ethical relation to the pastTheoria 44 (108): 82-101. 2005.In this article I explore background questions with reference to two recent strands in anti-foundationalist theory: Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism, and Keith Jenkins's postmodernist treatment of historiography. Both approaches seek fresh perspectives on our relationship to history which reject the aspiration towards a perspective positioned at any kind of Archimedean point, beyond the clutches of time and chance. Both might be called 'historicist' in the sense that rather than seeking to play do…Read more
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |