Recent Publications

'Discussing Dilemmas' Christian Bioethics 2008 14(2):141-150

'Two Ways of Doing the Right Thing', Virtue Jurisprudence, eds. Lawrence Solum and Colin Farrelly, 2008, Palgrave-MacMillan, 236-255.

'The Good and Bad Family' in Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy.  Laurence Thomas (ed.), Blackwell, 2008, pp. 57-68.

'Aristotle for Women Who Love Too Much'  Ethics, 2007, pp. 327-334.

'Aristotle Old and New', Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions, eds. Lorna Hardwick and Chris Stray, 2007, Blackwell, 428-439.

'Human Dignity and Charity', Perspectices on Human Dignity: A Conversation, eds. Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickless, Dordrecht, Springer, 2007, 59- 72.

'Virtue Theory', Ethics in Practice, 3rd edition, ed. Hugh LaFollette, Oxford, Blackwell, 2007, 45 – 55.

'Environmental Virtue Ethics' in Working Virtue, Philip J. Ivanhoe and Rebecca L. Walker (eds.), New York, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 155-171.

'Practical Wisdom: A Mundane Account' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106, 2006, pp. 283-307.

'Applying Virtue Ethics to Our Treatment of the Other Animals' in The Practice of Virtue, Jennifer Welchman (ed.), Indianapolis, Hackett, 2006, 136-155.

'Are Virtues the Proper Starting Point for Ethical Theory?' in Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, James Dreier (ed.), Blackwell, 2005, pp.99-112.

'The Central Doctrine of the Mean' in The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Richard Kraut (ed.), Blackwell, 2005, pp.96-115.

'Virtue' in the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems Online, EOLSS Publishers Co/ Ltd., 2005.  (7,000 words) 

'On the Grounding of the Virtues in Human Nature' in What is Good for a Human Being?  Jan Szaif and M. Lutz-Bachmann (eds.), Walter de Gruyer, 2004, pp. 263-275.

'Virtue Ethics' in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta and Colin Allen (eds.), Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003 (7,000 words)

'Virtue Ethics vs Rule-Consequentialism: A Reply to Brad Hooker' , Utilitas Vol 14, March 2002 pp 41-53.

Ethics, Humans and Other Animals, Routledge, 2000 (written as a part of an Open Univrersity course).

On Virtue Ethics, Oxford University Press, 1999. 'Virtue and Human Nature' in Hume Studies double issue, Nov.1999/Feb.2000.

'Intention' in Logic, Cause and Action, ed. Roger Teichmann, Cambridge University Press, 2000.