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Office Holders

Chair: Professor David Archard BA PhD

David Archard is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lancaster. His most recent and forthcoming publications in the area of applied philosophy include:

  • Children: Rights and Childhood (London: Routledge, 1993; 2nd enlarged and revised edition, 2004).
  • 'Wrongful Life', Philosophy, 79 (July 2004), pp.403-420.
  • 'The wrong of rape,' Philosophical Quarterly, 57, Issue 228 (July 2007), pp.374-393.
  • 'Informed Consent: Autonomy and self-Ownership,' Journal of Applied Philosophy (forthcoming 2008).

 

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Secretary: Dr John Tasioulas BA LLB DPhil

John Tasioulas is a Fellow of Corpus Christi, Oxford. His most recent publications in the area of applied philosophy include:

  • 'Punishment and Repentance', Philosophy 81 (2006), pp.279-322.
  • 'Games and the Good', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society supplementary volume LXXX (2006), pp.237-264.
  • 'Crimes of Offence', in A. von Hirsch and A. Simester (eds.), Incivilities: Regulating Offensive Behaviour (Hart Publishing, 2006), pp.149-171.
  • 'The Moral Reality of Human Rights', in T. Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor (OUP: 2007).

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Treasurer: Dr Neil C. Manson BA MPhil DPhil

Neil C. Manson is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University.  His most recent publications in applied philosophy include:

  • 'How not to think about genetic information' in Hastings Center Report 35, (4 July 2005)
  • 'Presenting behavioural genetics: spin, ideology and our narrative interests' in Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (2004) pp. 601-604
  • Re-thinking informed consent (with Onora O'Neill) (Cambridge : CUP, 2006)
  • 'What is genetic information and why is it significant?' Journal of Applied Philosophy (forthcoming 2006)
  • 'Informed Consent' in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan (eds.), Principles of Health Care Ethics (2nd ed), (London: John Wiley, 2007).

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JAP editors:

Dr Suzanne Uniacke BA MA PhD

Suzanne Uniacke, Reader in Applied Ethics at the University of Hull is joint editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Her most recent publications in the area of applied philosophy include:

  • Permissible Killing: The Self-Defence Justification of Homicide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
  • 'Was Mary's Death Murder?', Medical Law Review, vol 9, no. 3 (2001)
  • 'A Critique of the Preference Utilitarian Objection to Killing People', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 80, no. 2 (2002)
  • 'Self-Defence and Just War', in Dieter Janssen & Michael Quante (Hrsg.), Gerechte Kriege (Paderborn: Mentis-Verlag, 2002)
  • 'Emotional Excuses', Law and Philosophy, vol 26 (2007)

 

Professor Alan Carter MA PhD

Alan Carter, Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, is joint editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. His most recent publications in the area of applied philosophy include:

  • A Radical Green Political Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
  • 'Some theoretical foundations for radical green politics', Environmental Values 13, 3 (2004)
  • 'Saving nature and feeding people', lead article in Environmental Ethics 26, 4 (2004)
  • 'Animals, pain and morality', The Journal of Applied Philosophy 22, 1 (2005)
  • 'Inegalitarian biocentric consequentialism, the minimax implication, and multidimensional value theory: A brief proposal for a new direction in environmental ethics', Utilitas 17, 1 (2005)


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Executive Committee Members


President:

Onora O'Neill
Chair:

Dave Archard (Lancaster)
Honorary Secretary:

John Tasioulas (Oxford)
Honorary Treasurer:

Neil Manson (Lancaster)

Ordinary Members:
Tom Sorell (Birmingham)
Lorella Terzi (Roehampton)
Christopher Megone (Leeds)
Elizabeth Ashford (St Andrews)
Rosamund Scott (King's College, London)
Kimberley Brownlee (Manchester)
Co-opted Members:
Jon Cameron (Aberdeen) [Society Administrator]
Suzanne Uniacke (Hull) [Editor, Journal of Applied Philosophy]
Hugh LaFollette (University of South Florida St. Petersburg) [North American representative]

 

 


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