Professor Adrian Walsh

Biography

Professor Adrian Walsh works predominantly in political philosophy, the philosophy of economics and applied ethics, although he also has a keen interest in questions of philosophical methodology and in political questions concerning the proper boundaries between scientific disciplines. He has published widely in these areas.

Walsh has been at UNE since 1997 and in that time he has taught on a diverse range of topics including, bioethics, critical reasoning, social and political philosophy, game theory, the metaphysics of personhood and philosophical method.

He has held research fellowships at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and the University of Helsinki and is currently a Guest Professor in the Financial Ethics Research Centre at the University of Gothenburg. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

In addition to numerous articles in journals such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Walsh has published 6 books:

1. Between  Ethics and Economics: A Moral Leeway Approach to Business Ethics  (with  Joakim Sandberg), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  forthcoming, 2026.

2. Scientific Imperialism: Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity (with Uskali Mäki and Manuela Fernandez Pinto), London: Routledge, 2018

3. The Ethical Underpinnings of Climate Economics (with Säde Hormio and Duncan Purves), London: Routledge, 2016

4. The Morality of Money: An Exploration in Analytic Philosophy (with Tony Lynch), Palgrave, London, 2008.

5. Ethics, Money and Sport: This Sporting Mammon (with Richard Giulianotti), Oxford: Routledge, 2007

6. A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Social Justice, Ashgate, Avebury Series in Philosophy: Aldershot, Hampshire, 1997. (Reprinted as a book in Routledge Revival Series 2020.)

He is currently completing a book on Water and Justice and another book on the role of the Empirical in Political Philosophy.