Assoc Prof Adrian Walsh
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
BA(Hons)(Flinders), Ph.D. (Melb)
Contact
| Email: | awalsh@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2657 (or +61 2 6773 2657 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3748 |
Areas of Teaching
Coordinator PHIL101 - Bioethics
Coordinator PHIL 375 - Social Philosophy
Coordinator PHIL 342 - Ethical Theory
Lecturer PHIL 333/433 - Professional Ethics in Australian Society
Research interests
Political philosophy, applied ethics and moral theory
General
Adrian's research interests are concentrated in Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics. In the area of Political Philosophy he is concerned with questions of the limits of the market, social justice and the nature of work. In Applied Ethics he is interested in a range of issues, including the morality of genetic engineering, new reproductive technologies, and the commercialisation of natural resources. More recently he has developed an interest in both the Philosophy of Economics and Medieval Economic Theory.
Adrian, an expatriate Victorian, has been at UNE since 1997. Prior to that he worked in the Philosophy Department at the University of Wollongong where he taught applied ethics and political philosophy. He now lives on the outskirts of the small New England town of Uralla and spends much of his time trying to keep the blackberries and rabbits from taking over the block.
Adrian's major research areas are ethical issues surrounding money and the market, sport and ethics, and the relationship between ultimate value and price.
"The Commodification of the Public Service of Water: A Normative Perspective", Public Reason, 2011 (forthcoming).
"A Moderate Defence of the Use of Thought Experiments in Applied Ethics", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 14, 2011, pp 467-481.
"Virtue and Natural Resource Management" (with Mark Shepheard) , J. Williams and P. Martin (eds.), Defending the Social Licence of Farming, CSIRO Publications, Melbourne, 2011, pp. 23-36.
"Scientific Imperialism and the Proper Relations between the Sciences" (with Steve Clarke), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.23, no.2, July 2009, pp.195-207.
"Commercial Medicine and the Profit Motive", Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 40, (2-3) 2006, pp.341-357
Ethics, Money and Sport: This Sporting Mammon (with Richard Giulianotti), Oxford: Routledge, 2007.
"The Use of Thought Experiments in Health Care Ethics", in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan, Principles of Health Care Ethics 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2007, pp.177-183
"Report Cards, Informed Consent and Market Forces", in Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: the Ethics of Auditing and Reporting Surgeon Performance, edited by Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 180-191
"HRM and The Ethics of Commodified Work in a Market Economy" in Pinnington, A.H., Macklin, R.H., and Campbell, T. (Eds.) Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment, Oxford University Press, 2006.
"The Morality of the Market and the Medieval Schoolmen", Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2004, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 241-257.
"The Development of Price Formation Theory and Subjectivism about Ultimate Values" (with Tony Lynch), Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp 263-278, 2003.
"Monetary Valuation in the law, Incommensurability and the Objection from Substitutability", Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 28, pp. 102-121, 2003.
"Are Market Norms and Intrinsic Valuation Mutually Exclusive?", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.79, no.4, December 2001, pp.525-543.
"The Mandevillean Conceit and the Profit Motive" (with Tony Lynch), Philosophy, Vol. 78, 2003.
"This Sporting Mammon: A Normative Critique of the Commodification of Sport "(with Richard Giulianotti), Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol.28, no.1, 2001, pp.53-77.
"The Good Mercenary?" (with Tony Lynch), Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol.8, no.2, June 2000, pp.133-53.
"Consumer Sovereignty, Rationality and the Mandatory Labelling of Genetically Modified Food" (with John Burgess), Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol.18, nos.3&4, Fall-Winter 1999, pp.7-26.
"Generosity, Virtue and Blocked Exchange", Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, vol.1, no.2, November 1999, pp.72-85
"Factory Work, Burdens and Justice", Journal of Social Philosophy, vol.30, no.3, Winter, 1999, pp.325-46.
"Teaching, Preaching and Queaching about Commodities", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 36, no.3, 1998.
"Is Genetic Engineering Wrong Per Se?" (with John Burgess), Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol.32, no 3 (September 1998), pp.393-406.
"Market Pathology and the Range of Commodity Exchange: A Preliminary Sketch", Public Affairs Quarterly, vol.12, no.2, 1998, pp.203-19.
"Exclusion, Commodification and Plant Variety Rights Legislation" (with Andrew Alexandra), Agriculture and Human Values, vol.14, no.4, 1997, pp.313-23.
"Meaningful Work as a Distributive Good", Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol.32, no.2, June 1994, pp.233-50.