Title: The Permissibility of Collective Defence Agreements Abstract: Collective defence agreements (CDAs), of the sort that exist between, for example, NATO members, EU members, and African Union members, are a…
This talk is part of our series on Climate Ethics. Title: Ethical births, ethical deaths: Climate anxiety in Britain through the life course Abstract: This paper is based on anthropological…
Title: Consent, Intent, and Communication What is consent? I will assume that it is a normative power 鈥� a power to alter rights and duties directly. If this is right,…
Title: Pleasure Fundamentalism Abstract: Pleasure fundamentalism is the view that moral value is the same thing as pleasure and this explains all other moral facts. This talk presents two arguments…
Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Abstract: Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a…
Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? Abstract: In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever.…
Title: Strip-searching as Abjectification: Racism and Sexual Violence in British Policing Abstract: Co-authored with Tom Kemp (Criminology, University of Nottingham), this paper examines police strip-searching practices in the UK. Drawing…
Title: Philosophical Foundations of Green-House Gas Accounting Abstract: International agreements such as the Kyoto protocol and the Paris agreement require countries to measure and track their greenhouse gas emissions.聽 Companies…
Title:聽Two Moralities of Recognition Abstract: According to moralities of recognition, fundamental moral norms are norms for living together. Moral norms explain how living in unity is possible despite being separate…
Title: Internal Validity, External Validity and the Evaluation of Thought Experiments in Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy Abstract: Thought experiments clearly play a central role in much contemporary ethical theorising.…
Title: Happy Immoralists and Satisfied Loners: A Pragmatic Perspective on Disagreement about Well-being Abstract: Can a morally bad person live well? Can a person without friends achieve well-being? There is…
Title: Goodness as Natural Perfection. Abstract: In this paper I outline Aristotle鈥檚 conception of human functioning, which I take to be a viable and illuminating ground for determining human goods.…