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  1. The Role of Philosophy in South Africa.Seumas Miller & I. Macdonald - 1989 - Theoria 73:11-18.
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    Teaching ancient languages communicatively - (m.E.) Lloyd, (s.) hunt (edd.) Communicative approaches for ancient languages. Pp. XII + 229, ill. London and new York: Bloomsbury academic, 2021. Paper, £24.99, us$34.95 (cased, £75, us$100). Isbn: 978-1-350-15733-0 (978-1-350-15734-7 hbk). [REVIEW]Seumas Macdonald - 2022 - The Classical Review 72 (1):349-352.
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  3. Ethical and philosophical consideration of the dual-use dilemma in the biological sciences.Seumas Miller & Michael J. Selgelid - 2007 - Science and Engineering Ethics 13 (4):523-580.
    The dual-use dilemma arises in the context of research in the biological and other sciences as a consequence of the fact that one and the same piece of scientific research sometimes has the potential to be used for bad as well as good purposes. It is an ethical dilemma since it is about promoting good in the context of the potential for also causing harm, e.g., the promotion of health in the context of providing the wherewithal for the killing of (...)
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  4. Privacy, the workplace and the internet.Seumas Miller & John Weckert - 2000 - Journal of Business Ethics 28 (3):255 - 265.
    This paper examines workplace surveillance and monitoring. It is argued that privacy is a moral right, and while such surveillance and monitoring can be justified in some circumstances, there is a presumption against the infringement of privacy. An account of privacy precedes consideration of various arguments frequently given for the surveillance and monitoring of employees, arguments which look at the benefits, or supposed benefits, to employees as well as to employers. The paper examines the general monitoring of work, and the (...)
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    Joint action.Seumas Miller - 1992 - Philosophical Papers 21 (3):275-297.
  6. The collectivist approach to collective moral responsibility.Seumas Miller & Pekka Makela - 2005 - Metaphilosophy 36 (5):634-651.
    In this article we critique the collectivist approach to collective moral responsibility. According to philosophers of a collectivist persuasion, a central notion of collective moral responsibility is moral responsibility assigned to a collective as a single entity. In our critique, we proceed by way of discussing the accounts and arguments of three prominent representatives of the collectivist approach with respect to collective responsibility: Margaret Gilbert, Russell Hardin, and Philip Pettit. Our aims are mainly critical; however, this should not be taken (...)
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  7. Against collective agency.Seumas Miller - 2002 - In Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research. Dr. Haensel-Hohenhausen. pp. 273–98.
     
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    The Limits of Theory (review).Seumas Miller - 1990 - Philosophy and Literature 14 (2):423-424.
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    Intentions, ends and joint action.Seumas Miller - 1995 - Philosophical Papers 24 (1):51-66.
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    Collective responsibility and information and communication technology.Seumas Miller - 2008 - In M. J. van den Joven & J. Weckert (eds.), Information Technology and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 226.
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    (1 other version)Torture.Seumas Miller - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    On conventions.Seumas Miller - 1992 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (4):435 – 444.
  13. Judith Jarvis Thomson on Killing in Self-Defence.Seumas Miller - 2001 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 3 (2).
     
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  14. Foucault on discourse and power.Seumas Miller - forthcoming - Theoria.
     
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    Corruption.Seumas Miller - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  16. Privacy, data bases, and computers.Seumas Miller - 1998 - Journal of Information Ethics 7 (1):42-48.
     
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    The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study.Seumas Miller - 2009 - Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social institutions exist to realize various collective ends, indeed, to produce collective goods. He analyses key concepts such as collective responsibility and institutional corruption. Miller also provides distinctive special theories of particular institutions, including governments, welfare agencies, universities, police organizations, business corporations, and communications and information technology entities. These theories are philosophical and, thus, foundational (...)
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  18. Police ethics.Seumas Miller (ed.) - 1997 - St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
    The ethical issues that affect police officers of all ranks and locations are explored in this fascinating introduction to the stark and shocking reality of real-life policing situations. Drawing on examples from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, and South Africa, this book examines policing incidents from the everyday to public events that capture widespread media attention. Fully updated with revised case studies, this edition offers discussion and analysis of current ethical issues, including zero-tolerance policing; community-based policing; private (...)
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    Collective Responsibility.Seumas Miller - 2001 - Public Affairs Quarterly 15 (1):65-82.
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    Social Norms, Corruption and Transcultural Interaction.Seumas Miller - 1998 - Theoria 45 (92):57-77.
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    What Makes a Good Internal Affairs Investigation?Seumas Miller - 2010 - Criminal Justice Ethics 29 (1):29-40.
    Historically, the quality of police investigations of police corruption and misconduct has been poor. Numerous police commissions in the United States,1 Australia,2 and elsewhere have found major d...
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    Collective Moral Responsibility for Omissions.Seumas Miller - 2001 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 20 (1):5-24.
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    Individualism, Collective Responsibility and Corporate Crime.Seumas Miller - 1997 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 16 (4):19-46.
  24. Social Action: A Teleological Account.Seumas Miller - 2001 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social phenomena, and the fact that conventions and normativity are features of human activity. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. A distinctive feature of the book is that it applies (...)
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    Co-ordination, salience and rationality.Seumas Miller - 1991 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 29 (3):359-370.
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    Marxist literary aesthetics.Seumas Miller - 1990 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 16 (4):303-319.
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    Research in applied ethics: Problems and perspectives.Seumas Miller - 2009 - Philosophia 37 (2):185-201.
    The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in concern with matters of ethics in all areas of public life. This ‘applied turn’ in ethics raises important issues not only of focus, but also of methodology. Sometimes a moral end or moral feature is designed into an institution or technology; sometimes a morally desirable outcome is the fortuitous, but unintended, consequence of an institutional arrangement or technological invention. If designing-in ethics is the new methodological orientation for applied ethics, globalisation (...)
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    Social norms and practical reason.Seumas Miller - 1999 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 31 (3):313–326.
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    Review essay / the utility of torture.Seumas Miller - 2008 - Criminal Justice Ethics 27 (1):104-107.
    Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007, pp. xiii + 114.
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  30. Retribution, Rehabilitation, and the Rights of Prisoners.Seumas Miller - 2009 - Criminal Justice Ethics 28 (2):238-253.
    Richard Lippke, Rethinking Imprisonment, 278pp. Although there are numerous monographs on the ethics of legal punishment1 and a small number of edited coll...
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    Killing in Self-defense.Seumas Miller - 1993 - Public Affairs Quarterly 7 (4):325-339.
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    Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy.Seumas Miller - 2017 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    In this book, Seumas Miller develops distinctive philosophical analyses of corruption, collective responsibility and integrity systems, and applies them to cases in both the public and the private sectors. Using numerous well-known examples of institutional corruption, he explores a variety of actual and potential anti-corruption measures. The result is a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated and empirically informed work on institutional corruption and how to combat it. Part I defines the key concepts of corruption, power, collective responsibility, bribery, abuse of authority (...)
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    Collective Rights.Seumas Miller - 1999 - Public Affairs Quarterly 13 (4):331-346.
  34. Justification in ethics : desiring to be good and ethical commendation.Seumas Miller - 2009 - In John-Stewart Gordon, Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, James A. Donahue, Marcus Duwell, Dale Jacquette, Tanja Kohen, Christopher Lowry, Seumas Miller, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Johann-Christian Poder, Edward H. Spence, Udo Schuklenk, Wanda Teays & Rosemarie Tong (eds.), Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
     
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    Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force.Seumas Miller - 2016 - New York: Oxford University Press USA.
    Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force and its moral justification. In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military combatants, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles. His conception constitutes a (...)
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    Dual Use Science and Technology, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction.Seumas Miller - 2018 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This book deals with the problem of dual-use science research and technology. It first explains the concept of dual use and then offers analyses of collective knowledge and collective ignorance. It goes on to present a theory of collective responsibility, followed by four chapters focusing on a particular scientific field or industry of dual use concern: the chemical industry, the nuclear industry, cyber-technology and the biological sciences. The problem of dual-use science research and technology arises because such research and technology (...)
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    Social institutions.Seumas Miller - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  38. Against collective agency.Seumas Miller - 2002 - In Georg Meggle (ed.), Social Facts and Collective Intentionality. Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical research. Dr. Haensel-Hohenhausen. pp. 273--98.
  39. Collective moral responsibility: An individualist account.Seumas Miller - 2006 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 30 (1):176–193.
  40. Needs, Moral Self-consciousness, and Professional Roles.Andrew Alexandra & Seumas Miller - 1996 - Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 5 (1):43-61.
  41. The ethical application of biometric facial recognition technology.Marcus Smith & Seumas Miller - 2022 - AI and Society 37 (1):167-175.
    Biometric facial recognition is an artificial intelligence technology involving the automated comparison of facial features, used by law enforcement to identify unknown suspects from photographs and closed circuit television. Its capability is expanding rapidly in association with artificial intelligence and has great potential to solve crime. However, it also carries significant privacy and other ethical implications that require law and regulation. This article examines the rise of biometric facial recognition, current applications and legal developments, and conducts an ethical analysis of (...)
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    Joint Abilities, Joint Know-how and Collective Knowledge.Seumas Miller - 2019 - Social Epistemology 34 (3):197-212.
    In this article, I introduce and analyze the notion of joint abilities; a species of ability possessed by agents who perform joint actions of a certain kind. Joint abilities are abilitie...
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  43. Shared Intention is not Joint Commitment.Matthew Kopec & Seumas Miller - 2018 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (2):179-189.
    Margaret Gilbert has long defended the view that, roughly speaking, agents share the intention to perform an action if and only if they jointly commit to performing that action. This view has proven both influential and controversial. While some authors have raised concerns over the joint commitment view of shared intention, including at times offering purported counterexamples to certain aspects of the view, straightforward counterexamples to the view as a whole have yet to appear in the literature. Here we provide (...)
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  44. Against the collective moral autonomy thesis.Seumas Miller - 2007 - Journal of Social Philosophy 38 (3):389–409.
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    Plato and Parmenides.Francis MacDonald Cornford - 1939 - Mind 48 (192):536-543.
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    Ethics, public health and technology responses to COVID‐19.Seumas Miller & Marcus Smith - 2021 - Bioethics 35 (4):366-371.
    The COVID‐19 pandemic has infected millions around the world. Governments initially responded by requiring businesses to close and citizens to self‐isolate, as well as funding vaccine research and implementing a range of technologies to monitor and limit the spread of the disease. This article considers the use of smartphone metadata and Bluetooth applications for public health surveillance purposes in relation to COVID‐19. It undertakes ethical analysis of these measures, particularly in relation to collective moral responsibility, considering whether citizens ought, or (...)
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  47. Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators.Seumas Miller & Ian A. Gordon - 2014 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators_ presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other investigators in contemporary society. Explores ethical issues relating to investigative independence, rights of victims and suspects, use of informants, entrapment, privacy and surveillance, undercover operations, deception, and suspect interviewing Represents the first monograph providing a detailed consideration of ethical issues in police investigations Features authorship by an applied philosopher specializing in police ethics, and a former UK (...)
     
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    War, Reciprocity and the Moral Equality of Combatants.Seumas Miller - 2023 - Philosophia 51 (5):2337-2344.
    In this article I address differences between myself and Uwe Steinhoff in relation to the moral principle of reciprocity and its implications for the doctrine of the moral equality of combatants. Whereas I agree with Steinhoff that there is a principle of reciprocity in play in war, contra Steinhoff, I suggest that this principle and, indeed, moral principles of reciprocity more generally, are particularist principles, although if conventionalised or given legal status they can assume a generalised form. Moreover, I also (...)
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    Whither the University? Universities of Technology and the Problem of Institutional Purpose.Seumas Miller - 2019 - Science and Engineering Ethics 25 (6):1679-1698.
    There is a need to provide an appropriate normative conception of the modern university: a conception which identifies its unifying purposes and values and, thereby, gives direction to institutional role occupants, governments, public policymakers and other would-be institutional designers. Such a conception could admit differences between modern universities; differences, for example, between so-called universities of technology and other universities. Indeed, it is preferable to frame the issue at the level of higher education or university systems rather than at the level (...)
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    Joint Rights : Human Beings, Corporations and Animals.Seumas Miller - 2021 - Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 12:1-7.
    In this paper I, firstly (section 1), distinguish between human rights, natural rights and institutional rights and argue that some so-called human rights, such as the right to life, are natural rights and others, such as the right to vote, are institutional rights. Secondly (section 2), I sketch my account of joint rights (developed in more detail elsewhere1) and apply it to two kinds of entities that are importantly different from one another and from individual human beings, namely, business corporations (...)
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