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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 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:

  • '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)

 

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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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