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1189The 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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244Family 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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85Values and Ontology: An Interview with Andrew Collier, PartJournal of Critical Realism 8 (1): 63-90. 2009.
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83Inclusion 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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76R. L. Sandler, Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics: Columbia University Press, New York, 2007, xii + 201 pp. ISBN 0-231-14106-2 . £27.50 (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13 (2): 233-234. 2010.
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65Ethics and Social OntologyAnalyse & 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 (for example) debates in social theory. One arguable casualty of this has been due consideration of relational factors (between agents and the social structures they inhabit) in the interrogation of ethical values. Part 1 of this paper addresses some examples of this tendency, and some of the philosophical assumptions whi…Read more
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63Not 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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57Climate change and normativity: constructivism versus realismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (2): 153-169. 2011.Is liberalism adaptable enough to the ecological agenda to deal satisfactorily with the challenges of anthropogenic climate change while leaving its normative foundations intact? Compatibilists answer yes; incompatibilists say no. Comparing such answers, this article argues that it is not discrete liberal principles which impede adapatability, so much as the constructivist model (exemplified in Rawls) of what counts as a valid normative principle. Constructivism has both normative and ontologica…Read more
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55How groups matter: challenges of toleration in pluralistic societiesRoutledge. 2014.When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to treat a certain specific identity/cultural/ethnic group. What is missing from these debates is a comprehensive analysis of groups as both agents and objects of social policies. While this has been subject to much scrutiny by sociologis…Read more
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52Philosophy and politics: An interview with Andrew Collier, partJournal of Critical Realism 7 (2): 276-296. 2008.
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45Brighouse and Swift on the family, ethics and social justiceEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (3): 363-372. 2016.The family disrupts equality while also, think many, providing goods of unique value. In Family Values, Brighouse and Swift tackle both of these tendencies, offering a refined and distinctive liberal egalitarian account both of the value of family life, and the limits of what may be done in its name. It builds up from an account of children's specific interests to a defence of ‘familial relationship goods’ as providing the best way of satisfying those interests. Thus though parenthood carries go…Read more
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42Ownership Rights and the BodyCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 15 (1): 89-100. 2006.edited by Doris Schroeder, welcomes contributions on all health topics related to human rights and relevant generic contributions from the human rights debate. To submit a paper or to discuss suitable topics, please e-mail Doris Schroeder at [email protected]. a
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39Ethics between curriculum and workplaceJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (5): 1036-1037. 2012.
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37Postmodernism, 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
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34Alan Norrie, Law and the Beautiful Soul: Glasshouse Press, London, 2005, vi + 218 ppCriminal Law and Philosophy 3 (3): 317-320. 2009.
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31Bodies for sale: ethics and exploitation in the human body tradeJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (7). 2005.
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28Caring about Deliberation, Deliberating about CareEthics and Social Welfare 9 (2): 130-146. 2015.
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28Soft Universalisms: Beyond Young and Rorty on DifferenceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (1): 3-21. 2006.Recent critiques of normative universalism have helped entrench a dichotomy between formalist universal egalitarian claims (typical of the liberal tradition) and particularist attention to cultural difference (in contemporary communitarianism, and in more or less postmodernist approaches). Focusing on the work of Richard Rorty and Iris Marion Young, this article explores whether, and how, we might find space for a universalism which avoids problems encountered by the formalist model. I argue tha…Read more
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27Conference 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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23Many thanks to bioethics reviewersIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Bioethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2002. 2002.
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22Introduction: Climate change and liberal prioritiesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (2): 91-97. 2011.Is liberalism adaptable enough to the ecological agenda to deal satisfactorily with the challenges of anthropogenic climate change while leaving its normative foundations intact? Compatibilists answer yes; incompatibilists say no. Comparing such answers, this article argues that it is not discrete liberal principles which impede adapatability, so much as the constructivist model (exemplified in Rawls) of what counts as a valid normative principle. Constructivism has both normative and ontologica…Read more
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20Rorty's Politics of RedescriptionUniversity of Wales Press. 2007.Political philosopher Richard Rorty’s influence on contemporary thought has increased in tandem with the controversy his outspoken views have provoked. His rejection of the grand, metaphysical questions of traditional philosophy has made him the most prominent living thinker in social and political theory. By declaring himself a pragmatist Rorty has attempted to shift the direction of modern philosophy toward the question of how to achieve a better, more humane, and more tolerant society. Redesc…Read more
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20Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical InquiryEthics and Social Welfare 6 (4): 426-428. 2012.No abstract
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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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17Competence, Ethical Practice and Professional Ethics TeachingEthics and Social Welfare 9 (3): 297-311. 2015.
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |