•  2
    National Identity, Multiculturalism, and Aboriginal Rights: An Australian Perspective
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26 (sup1): 407-438. 1997.
  •  115
    Australian Intellectuals and the Left — a Symposium
    with George Munster, Tim Rowse, Ariel Kay Salleh, and Terry Smith
    Thesis Eleven 10 (1): 145-165. 1985.
  •  5
    The Reach of Shame
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41 (1): 3-28. 2020.
  •  1
    Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought. (edited book)
    with G. Pattison and C. Emerson
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  • Onora O'Neill, "Faces of Hunger"
    Critical Philosophy 4 (n/a): 222. 1988.
  •  25
    The Truth of Morality and the Morality of Truth
    International Studies in Philosophy 29 (3): 13-28. 1997.
  •  46
    Memory, responsibility, and identity
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 75 (1): 263-286. 2008.
    An important role of memory, both individual and collective, is to remind us of what we owe to the past. To understand this role, we need to conceive memory not merely in cognitive terms, but also as what Nietzsche called "memory of the will." It is this "conative" aspect of memory which explains the link between memory and identity. There still remain problems of how to explain how a collective memory "of the will" is transmitted over long periods of time, and how to explain certain familiar pa…Read more
  • Memory, Responsibility, and Identity
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 75 263-286. 2008.
    An important role of memory, both individual and collective, is to remind us of what we owe to the past. To understand this role, we need to conceive memory not merely in cognitive terms, but also as what Nietzsche called "memory of the will." It is this "conative" aspect of memory which explains the link between memory and identity. There still remain problems of how to explain how a collective memory "of the will" is transmitted over long periods of time, and how to explain certain familiar pa…Read more
  •  73
    On being a person
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (1). 1996.
    This paper questions the assumption that the term 'person' designates what we essentially are or ought to be. I use Hegel to argue against Locke and Kant that personal identity is not the foundation of certain legal and moral practices but their effect; and Nietzsche to suggest that being a person is the price we pay for certain kinds of social life. The concept of a person is an abstraction from our human and embodied existence, and to assume that it picks out what is central to our existence m…Read more
  •  33
    Living with reason
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 35 (2). 1992.
    The aim of this paper is to identify and partially defend a form of practical reason involved in a number of central cases of human action. Against the claims of rational choice theory that reasoning about action is primarily instrumental, it argues for a form of practical reason which allows for the indeterminate, open?ended and creative nature of the most important examples of human action. Rational choice theory not only gives a distorted account of the reasoning involved in these cases; it a…Read more
  •  15
    Nation and Identity
    Routledge. 1999.
    Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the organising principle of much liberal, republican and democratic thought. Ross Poole offers us a new and urgently needed analysis of the concept of identity, arguing that we are now in a position to envisage …Read more
  • On National Identity: A Response to Jonathan Rée
    Radical Philosophy 62 14-19. 1992.
  •  32
    Morality and Modernity
    Routledge. 1991.
    Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of morality at work in contemporary society, and casts a strikingly fresh light on such fundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics, moral objectivity and the distinction between duty and virtue. The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of major philosophers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Habermas, Rawls, Gewirth and MacIntyre. It also presents a systematic critique of three of the most s…Read more
  • Nation and Identity
    Philosophical Quarterly 51 (202): 133-136. 2001.
  •  23
    Special Section Introduction
    Constellations 19 (3): 460-462. 2012.