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34Hobbesian Internationalism: Anarchy, Authority and the Fate of Political PhilosophyPalgrave Macmillan. 2019.This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts – anarchy and authority – constitute the core of Hobbes's political philosophy whose aim is to justify the state. The Hobbesian state is a type of authority (juridical, public, coercive, and supreme) which emerges under conditions of anarchy ('state of nature'). A state-of-nature argument makes a…Read more
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18Practice Theory and International RelationsCambridge University Press. 2018.Are social practices actions, or institutional frameworks of interaction structured by common rules? How do social practices such as signing a cheque differ from international practices such as signing a peace treaty? Traversing the fields of international relations and philosophy, this book defends an institutionalist conception of practices as part of a general practice theory indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel. The proposed practice theory has two core aspects: practice internalism…Read more
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32Why Moral Bioenhancement Is a Bad Idea and Why Egalitarianism Would Make It WorseAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (4): 31-32. 2014.No abstract
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97Why anarchy still matters for International Relations: On theories and thingsJournal of International Political Theory 13 (3): 341-359. 2017.The category of anarchy is conventionally associated with the emergence of an autonomous discipline of International Relations. Recently, Donnelly has argued that anarchy has never been central to IR. His criticism targets not just concepts of anarchy but theories of anarchy and thereby expresses an anti-theory ethos tacitly accepted in the discipline. As a form of conceptual atomism, this ethos is hostile to structuralist and normative theories. This article aims to reinstate theoretical holism…Read more
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72Wood's Kantian Ethics: A Hermeneutics of Freedom - Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, Pp. 342, pbk (review)Kantian Review 16 (1): 141-150. 2011.
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38Kant's System of Nature and Freedom: Selected Essays, by Paul Guyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vii + 384, paperback ISBN 0-19-927347-2 (review)Kantian Review 13 (2): 146-148. 2008.
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28Review: Guyer, Kant's System of Nature and Freedom (review)Kantian Review 13 (2): 146-148. 2008.
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23Neuroscience: On Practices, Truth, and RationalityAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (4): 57-58. 2010.
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King's College LondonSenior Visiting Fellow
London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
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Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Law |
Applied Ethics |
Political Theory |
Freedom and Liberty |