last updated: October 29, 2009

David S. Oderberg, B.A., L.L.B. (Melbourne), D.Phil. (Oxford), Professor of Philosophy

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        Reviews:

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        Crawford Elder, Analysis 69:2 (2009): 376-8

        Sebastian Rehnman, The Review of Metaphysics 62:3 (2009): 678-80

    

   

       

What's new

'The Non-Identity of the Categorical and the Dispositional', Analysis, Oct. 2009

Books (authored):

              4. Real Essentialism (London: Routledge, 2007; paperback 2009) ISBN-10: 0415323649; ISBN-13: 978-0415323642 (h/b); 978-0-415-87212-6 (p/b); Publisher link

      3. Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; 248pp.) ISBN 0 631 21905 6 (p/b; also available in h/b, 0 631 21904 8) Publisher link; Portuguese translation, 2008.

      2. Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000; 197pp.) ISBN 0 631 21903 X (p/b; also available in h/b, 0 631 21902 1) Publisher link; Portuguese translation, 2008.

      1. The Metaphysics of Identity over Time (London/New York: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1993; 228 pp.) ISBN 0 333 59351 0 (UK); 0 312 10208 9 (USA) (h/b) Publisher link; abstract

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Books (edited):

4. The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005; 242pp.) ISBN 0-262-15113-8 (h/b), 0-262-65106-8 (p/b) Publisher link

                                                 

Articles:  

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35. 'The Non-Identity of the Categorical and the Dispositional', Analysis 69 (2009): 677-84 (abstract; you can email me for the full text)

34. 'The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited', Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (2008): 263-76 (abstract; full text)

33. 'Concepts, Dualism, and the Human Intellect', in A. Antonietti, A. Corradini, and E.J. Lowe (eds) Psycho-Physical Dualism Today : An Interdisciplinary Approach (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefied, 2008): 211-33 (abstract; full text)

32. 'Self-Love, Love of Neighbour, and Impartiality', in N. Athanassoulis and S. Vice (eds), The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008): 58-84. (abstract; full text)

31. 'Teleology: Inorganic and Organic', in A.M. González (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008): 259-79. (abstract; full text)

30. 'The Cosmological Argument', in C. Meister and P. Copan (eds) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2007): 341-50. (abstract; full text)

29. 'Instantaneous Change without Instants', in C. Paterson and M.S. Pugh (eds) Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006): 101-18 (abstract; full text)

28. (with J.A. Laing) 'Artificial Reproduction, the "Welfare Principle", and the Common Good', Medical Law Review 13 (2005): 328-56 (abstract; full text)

27. 'Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering', in N. Athanassoulis (ed.) Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): 109-134 (abstract; full text)

26. 'Hylemorphic Dualism', in E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, and J. Paul (eds) Personal Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 70-99. (Originally in Social Philosophy and Policy 22 (2005): 70-99.) (abstract; full text)

25.'Predicate Logic and Bare Particulars', in D.S. Oderberg (ed.) The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005): 183-210 (abstract; full text)

24.'The Structure and Content of the Good', in D.S. Oderberg and T. Chappell (eds) Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; rev. ed. p/back 2007): 127-65 (abstract; full text) (Spanish trans. with reply by E. Ortiz, Scio 2 (2008).)

23. 'The Beginning of Existence', International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2003): 145-57 (abstract; full text)

22. 'Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2004): 686-708 (abstract; full text)

21. 'The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing', in A. O'Hear (ed.) Modern Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series 2002-3): 203-27 (abstract; full text)

20. 'Intelligibility and Intensionality', Acta Analytica 17 (2002) 171-8 (abstract; full text)

19. 'The Tristram Shandy Paradox: A Reply to Graham Oppy', Philosophia Christi 4 (2002): 353-6 (abstract; full text)

18. 'Traversal of the Infinite, the “Big Bang” and the Kalam Cosmological Argument', Philosophia Christi 4 (2002): 305-36 (abstract; full text)

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17. 'Hylomorphism and Individuation', in J. Haldane (ed.) Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002: 125-42) (abstract; full text)

16. 'How to Win Essence Back from Essentialists', Philosophical Writings (No. 18, Autumn 2001): 27-45 (abstract; full text)

15.  'The Kalam Cosmological Argument Neither Bloodied nor Bowed: A Response to Graham Oppy', Philosophia Christi 3 (2001): 193-6 (abstract; full text)

14. 'Is There a Right to be Wrong?', Philosophy 75 (2000): 517-37 (abstract; full text)

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8.'Voluntary Euthanasia and Justice', in D.S. Oderberg and J.A. Laing (eds.) Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (London: Macmillan, 1997): 225-40 (abstract; full text)

4. 'Reply to Sprigge on Personal and Impersonal Identity', Mind 98 (1989): 129-34 (abstract; full text)

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 Reviews:

21. G. Klosko, Jacobins and Utopians, Philosophy 81 (2006): 690-4

20. T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne, Conceivability and Possibility, International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2004): 587-9

19. James Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia, Times Literary Supplement, 10.6.04; full text (.htm)

18. Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and its Limits, Ratio 16 (2003): 99-104

17. Paul M. Pietroski, Causing Actions, Philosophy 78 (2003): 128-32

16. R. Hursthouse, Virtue Ethics, Philosophical Books 43 (2002), pp.159-63

15. P. Horwich, Meaning, International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2001): 102-4

14. A. O'Hear, Beyond Evolution, Philosophical Books 40 (1999): 68-70

13. C. Dilworth, Scientific Progress and The Metaphysics of Science, Ratio 10 (1997): 188-194

12. A. Dyson and J. Harris (eds.), Ethics and Biotechnology, Philosophical Books 37 (1996): 56-9

11. G. Klempner, Naive Metaphysics, Times Higher Education Supplement, 23.6.95, p.23

10. D. Owens, Causes and Coincidences, Ratio 8 (1995): 108-12

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9. M. Heller, The Ontology of Physical Objects, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (1993): 394-5

8. K. Lehrer, Theory of Knowledge, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (1993): 395

7. C. Taylor, Sources of the Self, Philosophical Studies (Ireland) 33 (1992): 291-301

6. P. Singer, H. Kuhse et al., Embryo Experimentation, Philosophical Studies (Ireland) 33 (1992): 276-83

5. J. Glover, I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity, Noûs 26 (1992): 360-5

4. N.M.L. Nathan, Will and World, Times Higher Education Supplement, 17.7.92, p.23

3. T. Williamson, Identity and Discrimination, Philosophical Books 33 (1992): 89-92

2. C. Macdonald, Mind-Body Identity Theories, Philosophical Books 32 (1991): 45-47

1. C.J.F. Williams, What is Identity?, Times Literary Supplement, 30.11.90, p.1297

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Speaking Engagements:

Recent papers and other activities:

  • May, Butler Society, Oriel College, Oxford: on the First Way (audio below)

  • February 2009, Southampton: on Peter Singer's bioethics

  • October 2008, Oxford: 'The Individuality of the Embryo' (student-sponsored event)

  • May 2008, University of Exeter: on concepts and dualism

  • April 2008, King's College, London, workshop on philosophy of religion: on Kenny on the First Way

  • September 2007, Catholic University of Valencia: lectures on consequentialism and on euthanasia.

  • October 2007, University of Birmingham conference: Nature and its Classification, 'The Nature and Classification of Life'

  • August 2007, Princeton: Witherspoon Institute Thomistic Seminar; classes for graduate students on essentialism, teleology, dualism, and natural law

  • May 2007, University of Lisbon: lectures on consequentialism and euthanasia

  • April 2007, Georgetown: 'The Structure of Essence'; workshop on double effect

  • December 2006, Princeton: 'Why Peter Singer is Wrong' (student-sponsored event)

  • December, 2006, University of Sussex: 'Teleology: Inorganic and Organic'

  • March, 2006: University of Navarra, Spain: natural law

  • January, 2006: University of Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar , 'The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law'

  • September, 2005: Catholic University of America, Washington, DC: 'The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law'

  • June, 2005: Address to the International Society for Stem Cell Research, San Francisco, on the ethics of human embryonic stem cell research

  • May, 2005: Public debate with Prof. Julian Savulescu at the National Portrait Gallery, London, sponsored by The Times Higher, on the ethics of cloning; accompanying article in the Higher available below.

  • April, 2005: State University of Valencia, Spain, and Catholic University of Valencia - papers on dualism and on natural law theory

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  • November, 2004: 'Ordinary and Extraordinary Means', conference on Ethical Issues in Intensive Care, at the University of Reading, in conjunction with the Royal Berkshire Hospital

  • November, 2004, University of Saarbrücken: 'A Defence of an Aristotelian/Thomistic Account of Personal Identity'

  • June, 2004: University of Brighton: 'Why You Should be a (Certain Kind of) Dualist'

  • April, 2004: Bowling Green State University, conference on Personal Identity at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center: 'Hylemorphic Dualism'

  • June, 2003: Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London: 'Perennial Philosophy's Theory of Art'

  • July-August, 2003: Visiting Scholar at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Social Philosophy and Policy Center

  • 2003: Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series, Modern Moral Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing'

  • November, 2001: American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: on the Kalam Cosmological Argument (in debate with Wes Morriston)

  • October, 2001: Philosophical Society, Oxford: temporal parts and change

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Miscellaneous Writings (full text; all rights reserved; reproduced with permission; not to be cited without complete reference):

11. 'Bioethics Today', Human Life Review (Fall, 2008): 98-109 (full text)

10. 'Science, Stem Cells, and Fraud', Intellectum 1 (June 2006; scroll to bottom of page)

  9. 'What's Wrong with Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research?', Human Life Review (Fall, 2005): 21-33 (full text)

  8. 'Ordinary Duties, Extraordinary Means', Human Life Review (Winter, 2004): 50-6 (full text)

  7. 'Perennial Philosophy's Theory of Art', Quadrant (Jan-Feb, 2004): 68-74 (full text; Powerpoint slide show)

  6. 'Why I am a Relativist', Quadrant (May, 2003): 38-43 (full text)

  5. 'Starved to Death by Order of the Court', Human Life Review (Summer, 2001): 103-12 (full text)

  4. 'The War Against the Elderly', Quadrant (Oct. 2000): 47-52 (full text)

  3. 'The Illusion of Animal Rights', Human Life Review (Spring-Summer, 2000): 37-45 (full text)

  2. Review of Gordon Moran, Silencing Scientists and Scholars in other Fields, The Spectator (20 Feb. 1999): 35-6 (full text)

  1. A founding myth in the history of science: review of Jeffrey Burton Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth, Quadrant (Jan.-Feb. 1993): 110-11 (full text)

Bits and pieces

Audio of talk on Aquinas's First Way, given at the Joseph Butler Society, Oriel College, Oxford, May 2009. The talk is 1 hour, followed by 1 hour of Q&A. mp3 (113 mb); wma (57 mb).

Audio of talk 'Why Peter Singer is Wrong', with accompanying PowerPoint slideshow, delivered at Princeton on 6 Dec. 2006. The text of the talk is available from me by email. (audio file is 44 mb; 1 hr 33 min.)

Video of a lecture, followed by Q&A, on 'The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law' (delivered at the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., Sept. 2005. Both files are .wmv and can be played on Windows Media Player; lecture is 1 hr 16 min., Q&A is 53 min.)

Interview with Victor Tsilonis, originally published in the University of Nottingham law school magazine; this version appeared in Intellectum, a Greek publication.

Has a mysterious mental affliction crept its way into Australian philosophy? Click here to find out.

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