Keith HortonDr Keith Horton

BA (hons) (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne), MPhil (University College London), PhD (Reading)

Location: 19:1091
Phone: 02 42214069
Email: khorton@uow.edu.au

Lecturer in Philosophy

Keith Horton came to Australia from the UK in November 2000 to work as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, where he remained till the end of 2006. He was awarded his PhD (from the University of Reading) in 2002. From 2006 to 2008 he was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. From 2007 to 2008 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. He came to the University of Wollongong in January 2009.

Research Interests

Keith Horton’s main research interests are in moral and political philosophy, especially the moral implications of world poverty, moral methodology, partial compliance theory, and the demandingness of morality.

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Publications

Authored Books:

  • Should We Give to Aid Agencies? (under contract with Edinburgh University Press)

Edited Books:

  • Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (co-edited with Thomas Pogge) (Paragon, 2008)
  • Globalisation and Equality (co-edited with Haig Patapan) (Routledge, 2004)

Journal Articles:

  • ‘Transnational Medical Aid and the Wrongdoing of Others’, Public Health Ethics 1 (2008): 171-9
  • ‘Aid and Bias’, Inquiry 47 (2004): 545-61
  • ‘International Aid: The Fair Shares Factor’, Social Theory and Practice 30 (2004): 161-74
  • ‘Famine and Fanaticism: A Response to Kekes’, Philosophy 79 (2004): 319-27
  • ‘Cohen, Nagel, and the Rich Egalitarian’, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 4 (2002): 34-41
  • ‘The Limits of Human Nature’, Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1999): 452-70

Book Chapters:

  • ‘Keller on Patriotism and Bad Faith: A Response’, in Igor Primoratz and Aleksandar Pavkovic (eds), Patriotism: Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Ashgate, 2008)

Current Research Projects

Keith Horton is completing an authored book, Should We Give to Aid Agencies? (to be published by Edinburgh University Press), co-editing a book manuscript (with Chris Roche), Ethical Questions and International Non-Governmental Organisations, and working on papers on a number of themes related mainly to the moral implications of world poverty.

Higher Degree Research Supervision

Current:

  • Andy Lamey (University of Western Australia): The Ethical Creature: Animals and Equality
  • Craig Edwards (University of Western Australia): The Ethics of Civil Commitment of Mentally Ill Persons

Completions:

  • Giorgiana Kirkham (University of Western Australia) (2008): Creating Art or Vexing Nature? Ethics and The Manipulation of Nature
Last reviewed: 19 January, 2009