•  3
    Living with integrity
    Environmental Values 33 (2): 97-102. 2024.
  •  11
    Tainted Cash?
    The Philosophers' Magazine 3 26-27. 1998.
  •  33
    Disenchanting Global Justice: Liberalism, Capitalism and Finance
    with Anahí Wiedenbrüg and Tim Hayward
    Contemporary Political Theory 21 (3): 475-497. 2022.
  •  17
    Video ethics in educational research involving children: Literature review and critical discussion
    with Michael A. Peters, E. Jayne White, Tina Besley, Kirsten Locke, Bridgette Redder, Rene Novak, Andrew Gibbons, Marek Tesar, and Sean Sturm
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (9): 863-880. 2021.
    Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase in the use of visual mediums in research especially with the development of new and ubiquitous internet technologies and social media. This paper emerged as an expressed concerned by a group of scholars associated with the new Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy that was established in 2016. The paper is the result of a collective writing process over a period of a few months that dis…Read more
  •  11
    Video ethics in educational research involving children: Literature review and critical discussion
    with Michael A. Peters, E. Jayne White, Tina Besley, Kirsten Locke, Bridgette Redder, Rene Novak, Andrew Gibbons, Marek Tesar, and Sean Sturm
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (9): 863-880. 2021.
    Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase in the use of visual mediums in research (such as photovoice and video) especially with the development of new and ubiquitous internet technologies and social media. This paper emerged as an expressed concerned by a group of scholars associated with the new Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (Brill) that was established in 2016. The paper is the result of a collective writing process…Read more
  •  25
    Wittgenstein and Scientific Knowledge (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 10 248-248. 1978.
  •  39
    Preferences, Virtues, and Institutions
    Analyse & Kritik 16 (2): 202-216. 1994.
    Public choice theory presents itself as a new institutional economics that rectifies the failure of the neo-classical tradition to treat the institutional dimension of economics. It offers criticism of both neo-classical defenders of cost-benefit analysis and their environmental critics. Both assume the existence of benign political actors. While sharing some of its scepticism about this assumption, this paper argues that the public choice perspective is flawed. The old institutionalism of class…Read more
  •  19
    On enterprise and ease
    Cogito 8 (1): 86-88. 1994.
  •  66
    One of the paradoxes of recent political and economic theory is that, in spite of a period of extended economic difficulty, there has been a growing consensus concerning the virtues of the market economy. In particular, there has been a trend in socialist theory to argue that not only are socialism and the market not incompatible, but that some version of market socialism is the only feasible, practicable, and ethically and politically desirable form of socialism. Notable proponents of this view…Read more
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    ABSTRACT The UK Supreme Court ruling of Montgomery v Lanarkshire clarified that in obtaining informed consent to treatment, practitioners are under a duty to inform patients of material risks. Traditionally such risk has pertained to the clinical risks inherent to treatment. In examining empirical and judicial evidence, this paper makes the case for disclosure of potent financial interests; with potency relating to those interests likely to have greatest influence over practice. The paper explor…Read more
  •  8
    II–John O’Neill: Rational Choice and Unified Social Science
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 72 (1): 173-188. 1998.
  •  30
    Environmental Virtues and Public Policy
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 8 (2): 125-136. 2001.
    The Aristotelian view that public institutions should aim at the good life is criticized on the grounds that it makes for an authoritarian politics that is incompatible with the pluralism of modem society. The criticism seems to have particular power against modem environmentalism, that it offers a local vision of the good life which fails to appreciate the variety of possible human relationships to the natural environment, andso, as a guide to public policy, it leads to green authoritarianism. …Read more
  •  54
    Essences and Markets
    The Monist 78 (3): 258-275. 1995.
    Socialists and liberals have engaged in a long standing debate in political philosophy about the desirability of markets. Those debates have focused on a series of questions about the market: the kind of moral character it fosters, its tendency to enhance or diminish human welfare, the distribution of goods it promotes, its relationship to political democracy and freedom, its compatibility with socialist goals, and so on. Recently, the very possibility of this debate has been questioned. The who…Read more
  •  6
    A recent study suggests that vaccine hesitancy amongst key demographics – including females, younger individuals, and certain ethnic groups – could undermine the pursuit of herd immunity against COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. At the same time, the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JVCI) indicated that it will not facilitate the choice between available COVID-19 vaccines. This paper reflects upon lessons from the introduction of the UK’s combined Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR…Read more
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    Andrew Collier 1944–2014
    Journal of Critical Realism 14 (1): 3-6. 2015.
  • Sustainability
    In Darrel Moellendorf & Heather Widdows (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, Routledge. 2014.
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    What is lost through no net loss
    Economics and Philosophy 36 (2): 287-306. 2020.
    No net loss approaches to environmental policy claim that policy should maintain aggregate levels of natural capital. Substitutability between natural assets allows losses in some assets to be compensated for by gains in others while maintaining overall levels of natural capital. This paper argues that significant goods that matter to people’s well-being will be lost through a policy of no net loss. The concepts of natural capital and ecosystem services that underpin the no net loss approach to …Read more
  •  31
    Need, Humiliation and Independence
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 57 73-98. 2005.
    The needs principle—that certain goods should be distributed according to need—has been central to much socialist and egalitarian thought. It is the principle which Marx famously takes to be that which is to govern the distribution of goods in the higher phase of communism. The principle is one that Marx himself took from the Blanquists. It had wider currency in the radical traditions of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century it remained central to the mutualist form of socialism defen…Read more
  •  23
    Ethics, Economics and Sustainability
    Philosophy 97 (3): 337-359. 2022.
    On the dominant economic approach to environmental policy, environmental goods are conceptualised as forms of capital that provide services for human well-being. These services are assigned a monetary value to be weighed against the values of other goods and services. David Wiggins has offered a set of arguments against central assumptions about the nature of well-being, practical reason and ethical deliberation that underpin this dominant economic approach. In this paper I outline these argumen…Read more
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    The author draws on considerable research in this area to provide an overdue critical evaluation of the limits of the market, and future prospects for non-market socialism.
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    Central to Raimon Panikkar’s work is the acclaimed Cosmotheandric epigram, according to which reality has three interrelated and irreducible dimensions, the human, the cosmos, and the divine. The paper examines this thesis and examines related concepts, such as ‘sacred secularity’ in Panikkar’s thinking. The overall pluralistic thesis allows for dialogue, communication and conversations across cultures. Panikkar considers that a new mythos may be emerging that places value on actions in this wor…Read more
  •  6
    Exploitation and Workers’Co‐operatives: a reply to Alan Carter
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 (2): 231-235. 2008.
    ABSTRACT In a recent paper Alan Carter argues that the claim that workers’co‐operatives merely replace exploitation by employers with ‘self‐exploitation’is nonsense: the term ‘self‐exploitation’is self‐contradictory. He maintains that the only form of exploitation to which a workers’co‐operative may be said to be subject is ‘market‐exploitation’by dominant economic actors who are external to the co‐operative. I argue that these conclusions are mistaken. While the concept of ‘market‐exploitation’…Read more
  •  6
    What Gives (with Derrida)?
    European Journal of Social Theory 2 (2): 131-145. 1999.
    This article is a close reading of Jacques Derrida's critique of Marcel Mauss's classic, The Gift, and its revision through Charles Baudelaire's `The Counterfeit Coin'. Derrida's rejection of any exchange/reciprocity relation in the gift as an immoral binding of free subjects strangely accommodates the current ideological crisis of the gift in welfare societies. Moreover, Derrida's textual substitution of Baudelaire for Mauss repeats the counterfeit practice on which his own aporia of the gift i…Read more
  •  5
    The integrity of nature over time
    with A. Holland
    Global Bioethics 11 (1-4): 9-18. 1998.
    The subject of this paper is the integrity of nature over time—‘diachronic integrity’. The argument of the parer is that any serious attempt to address conservation problems—the kinds of problems faced by environmental managers the world over, needs to operate with an eye to some principle of diachronic integrity. Whilst acknowledging that applying the principle is largely a matter of experience and judgement, we argue that it applies equally both to human and to natural history.
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    Reflection and Radical Finitude
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (1): 17-22. 1983.
  •  6
    Marxism and the Two Sciences
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (3): 281-302. 1981.
  •  7
    On Enterprise and Ease
    Cogito 8 (1): 86-88. 1994.
  •  5
    Existentialism and Sociology: A Study of Jean-Paul Sartre (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 9 234-235. 1977.