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    Conference Report: ‘Ethics and Social Welfare in Hard Times’, London, 1–2 September 2016
    with Sarah Banks, Marian Barnes, Beverley Burke, Lee-Ann Fenge, Liz Lloyd, Mark Smith, Steve Smith, Nicki Ward, and Derek Clifford
    Ethics and Social Welfare 10 (4): 361-366. 2016.
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    Many thanks to bioethics reviewers
    with George Agich, Priscilla Anderson, Alice Asby, Dominic Beer, Rebecca Bennett, Alec Bodkin, Stephen Braude, Dan Brock, and Emma Cave
    In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Bioethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2002. 2002.
  • Editorial
    with Derek Clifford
    Ethics 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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    Introduction
    Human Affairs 14 (2): 99-100. 2004.
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    Editorial
    Res Publica 11 (1): 1-1. 2005.
  • Not Crickets? Ethics, Rhetoric and Sporting Boycotts
    In William John Morgan (ed.), Ethics in Sport, Human Kinetics. 2007.
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    The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children (edited book)
    with Anca Gheaus and Jurgen De Wispelaere
    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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    Ethical Relations to the Past: Individual, Institutional, International
    with Tula Brannelly and Ian Calliou
    Ethics and Social Welfare 15 (4): 341-343. 2021.
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    Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive
    Ethics and Social Welfare 15 (2): 225-228. 2021.
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    Family Autonomy and Class Fate
    Symposion: 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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    Editorial
    with Nicki Ward
    Ethics and Social Welfare 12 (4): 293-297. 2018.
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    Editorial
    Ethics and Social Welfare 12 (1): 1-4. 2018.
  • Editorial
    Ethics and Social Welfare 11 (1): 1-2. 2017.
  • Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country
    Radical Philosophy. forthcoming.
  • Philip J. Ross, De-Privatizing Morality
    Radical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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    Richard Rorty: 1931-2007
    Philosophy Now 62 21-21. 2007.
  • Pragmatism, critical theory and democratic inclusion
    Etica E Politica 12 (1): 52-67. 2010.
    This article explores ideas from Richard Rorty and Nancy Fraser on the justification of democracy. It considers both as exemplary of what, following Michael Walzer, we can call philosophizing “in the city” – eschewing any aim to adopt a generalised, metaphysical perspective on questions of social justice, and seeking instead to locate these, in their conception and elaboration, in the thick of lived social practice. For such approaches, as for other treatments of democracy, issues around inclusi…Read more
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    Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives
    with Edward Garrett and Jess Shannon
    Routledge. 2019.
    This title was first published in 2000: Bringing together a range of viewpoints and disciplines, this collection of essays explores the capacity of liberalism to properly provide for social justice in the shifting contexts of the new millennium.
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    Ethics and Social Ontology
    Analyse & Kritik 30 (2): 427-443. 2008.
    Normative theory, in various idioms, has grown wary of questions of ontology—social and otherwise. Thus modern debates in ethics have tended to take place at some distance from debates in social theory. One arguable casualty of this has been due consideration of relational factors in the interrogation of ethical values. Part 1 of this paper addresses some examples of this tendency, and some of the philosophical assumptions which might underlie it. Parts 2 and 3 discuss two issues of growing prom…Read more
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    Not cricket? Ethics, rhetoric and sporting boycotts
    Journal 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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    Caring about Deliberation, Deliberating about Care
    Ethics and Social Welfare 9 (2): 130-146. 2015.
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    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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    Inclusion and Participation: Working with the Tensions
    Studies 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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    Interview: D.D. Raphael (1916-2015)
    with D. D. Raphael
    Philosophy Now 112 28-29. 2016.
  • Deconstructive Subjectivities (review)
    Radical Philosophy 83. 1997.