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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:

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

 

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Secretary:Dr Kimberley Brownlee BA, MPhil, DPhil

Kimberley Brownlee is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. Her most recent publications in the area of applied philosophy include:

  • Disability and Disadvantage (with A Cureton, eds.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • 'Legal Obligation as a Duty of Deference', Law and Philosophy, 27: 6 (2008), pp.583-597.
  • 'Penalizing Public Disobedience', Ethics 118 (July 2008), pp. 711-716.
  • 'Justifying Punishment: A Response to Douglas Husak', Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2:2 (2008), 123-129.

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Treasurer: Dr Neil C. Manson BA MPhil DPhil

Neil C. Manson is Lecturer in the department of philosophy at Lancaster University.  His most recent publications in applied philosophy include:

  • 'Informed Consent' in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan (eds.), Principles of Health Care Ethics (2nd ed), (London: John Wiley, 2007)
  • Re-thinking informed consent (with Onora O'Neill) (Cambridge : CUP, 2006)
  • 'What is genetic information and why is it significant?' Journal of Applied Philosophy (2006)
  • '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. 601-4

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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:

  • 'Responsibility: intention and consequence', in Routledge Companion to Ethics, (ed.) John Skorupski (London: Routledge, 2010)
  • 'On Getting One's Retaliation in First', in Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, (ed.) Henry Shue & David Rodin (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • 'The Doctrine of Double Effect', in Principles of Health Care Ethics, second edition (ed.) Richard Ashcroft, et al, (Chichester: Wiley & sons, 2007).
  • 'Emotional Excuses', Law and Philosophy 26 (2007), pp.95-117
  • 'Responsibility and Obligation: Some Kantian Directions', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13.4, (2005), pp. 461-75

 

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Executive Committee Members


President:

Onora O'Neill
Chair:

Dave Archard (Lancaster)
Honorary Secretary:

Kimberley Brownlee (Manchester)
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)
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]
Ingmar Persson (Gothenberg) [European representative]

 

 

Nominations for membership of the Executive Committee

The Society invites nominations for membership of the Executive Committee of the Society. There is currently one position to be filled. This is open to any member of the Society who is an academic postholder and affiliated with an appropriate UK university department. Individuals can nominate themselves. The election for this position will take place at the Annual General Meeting of the Society in Oxford on 3 July 2010.

Please complete the EC nomination form and return to admin@appliedphil.org by no later than Friday 18 June 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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