Philosophy, Literature and History of Art

PHILOSOPHY

(1) Moral Rules and Political Action: A Rule-Consequentialist Account of the Relationship between Ethics and Politics (Published by Etica Press, 2012)

For synopsis, click here

For Chapter One (Introduction) click here

I hope eventually to publish a second edition in electronic format. For updates to the 2012 published book (when available) click here.

The printed book is occasionally available second-hand on Amazon, but I can supply a copy via my Contacts page.

(2) Ethics and Ideology

A study of the relationship between normative theory and political ideology

(3) Kinds of Things: How we Classify the World

Synopsis: click here

(4) Philosophy and Literature: Case Studies

The book includes chapters on the following

(i) Introduction: Philosophy and, of, and in literature

(ii) Degeneration in Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, Wells's The Time Machine and Stoker's Dracula

(iii) Luck and 'moral luck' in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles

(iv) Derrida's Kafka

(v) David Hume's influence on Woolf's To the Lighthouse

(v1) Theoretical approaches to the Ghost Story

Conference papers, etc. (All given at University of Wales,Trinity Saint David, Lampeter)

(a) 'Three Forms of Collective Responsibility' (Philosophy Conference, 16 July 2018).

(b) ‘Rules and Consequences: A Fresh Look at Rule-Consequentialism’ (Philosophy Colloquium, 20 February 2019).
(c) 'Lévinas on Alterity and Suffering, and Implications for Medical Ethics' (‘Faith and Finitude’, 1-2 August 2019).

I also act as a reviewer for academic journals in the fields of ethics and environmental philosophy.

LITERATURE