Dr Steve Clarke
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James Martin Research Fellow Stephen.Clarke@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Suite 8
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Research Interests
Philosophy of science, Applied Philosophy, Bioethics, Moral Psychology, Cognitive Science of Religion
Career & Education
| 2006-2012 |
James Martin Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Ethics (formerly known as the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences), Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. |
| 2006-2012 |
Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. |
| 2009-2012 |
Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. |
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2006 onwards |
Senior Research Fellow, ARC Commonwealth Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University (on leave 2009-2012) |
| 2001-2005 |
Research Fellow, ARC Commonwealth Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University |
| 1998-2000 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Philosophy, La Trobe University |
| 1995-97 |
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| 1994, 98, 2000 |
Contract Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne |
Education: | |
| Ph.D. Monash University | |
Recent Publications (since 2007)
Books:
- Religion, Intolerance and Conflict: a Scientific and Conceptual Investigation, edited by Steve Clarke, Russell Powell and Julian Savulescu, Oxford, Oxford University Press, under contract 21 March 2011.
- Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: the Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance, edited by Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, July 2007, pp. xii & 304.
Articles:
In Refereed Journals
- ‘Religion as an Evolutionary Byproduct: A Critique of the Standard Model’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. Accepted for publication 6/6/2011. Co-authored with Russell Powell.
- ‘An Ethical and Political Argument for Prioritizing the Reduction of Parasite-Stress in the Allocation of Healthcare Resources’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, forthcoming. Accepted for publication 9/5/2011. Co-authored with Russell Powell and Julian Savulescu
- ‘Introducing Transformative Technologies into Democratic Societies’, Philosophy and Technology, Co-authored with Rebecca Roache.. Accepted for publication 25/1/2011.
- ‘Transcendental Realisms in the Philosophy of Science: on Bhaskar and Cartwright’, Synthese, 173, April 2010, pp. 299-315.
- ‘Cognitive Bias and the Precautionary Principle: What’s Wrong with the Core Argument in Sunstein’s Laws of Fear and a Way to Fix it’, Journal of Risk Research, 13, March 2010, pp. 163-174.
- ‘The Duty to Disclose Adverse Clinical Trial Results’, American Journal of Bioethics, 9 (8), August 2009, pp. 1-9. Co-authored with S. Matthew Liao and Mark Sheehan.
- ‘Disclosing Clinical Trial Results: Publicity, Significance and Independence’, American Journal of Bioethics, 9 (8), August 2009, pp. W3-W5. Co-authored with S. Matthew Liao and Mark Sheehan.
- ‘Scientific Imperialism and the Proper Relations between the Sciences’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 23, July, 2009, pp. 195-207. Co-authored with Adrian Walsh.
- ‘Naturalism, Science and the Supernatural’, Sophia, 48, May 2009, pp. 127-142.
- ‘Bioconservatism, Bioliberalism and the Wisdom of Reflecting on Repugnance’, Monash Bioethics Review, 28, March 2009, pp. 04.1-04.21. Co-authored with Rebecca Roache
- ‘SIM and the City: Rationalism in Psychology and Philosophy and Haidt's Account of Moral Judgment’, Philosophical Psychology, 21, December 2008, 799-820.
- ’Neuroethics and Psychiatry’, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 21, November 2008, pp. 568-571. Co-authored with Neil Levy.
- ‘Paternalism, Consent and the Use of Experimental Drugs in the Military’, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 33, August 2008, pp. 337-355. Co-authored with Jessica Wolfendale.
- ‘Waiting for a Miracle … Miracles, Miraclism and Discrimination’, Southern Medical Journal, 100, November 2007, pp. 1259-1262. Co-authored with Julian Savulescu.
- ‘The Supernatural and the Miraculous’, Sophia, 46, 3, December 2007, pp. 275-283.
- ‘Conspiracy Theories and the Internet: Controlled Demolition and Arrested Development’, Episteme, 4, 2, 2007, pp. 167-180.
- ‘Against the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, February 2007, pp. 21-22.
In Edited Collections
- ‘Religion, Tolerance and Intolerance: Views from Across the Disciplines’, in Religion, Intolerance and Conflict: a Scientific and Conceptual Investigation, edited by Steve Clarke, Russell Powell and Julian Savulescu, Oxford, Oxford University Press, under contract and forthcoming. Co-authored with Russell Powell. Accepted for publication 21/3/2011.
- ‘Coercion, Consequence and Salvation’, in Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Yujin Nagasawa, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, accepted for publication 11/2/2011.
- ‘The Precautionary Principle and the Dual Use Dilemma’, in On the Dual Uses of Science and Ethics: Principles, Practices and Prospects, edited by Brian Rappert and Michael Selgelid, Canberra, ANU E-Press, forthcoming, accepted for publication 8/12/2010.
- ‘Cognitive Bias and Collective Enhancement’ in Enhancing Human Capacities, edited by Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen and Guy Kahane, Oxford, Blackwell, 2011, pp. 127-137.
- ‘On New Technologies’, in The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics, edited by Luciano Floridi, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 234-248.
- ‘Enhancement am Menschen, Intuitionen und die Weisheit das Nachdenkens über den Widerwillen’ in Der Neue Mensch? Enhancement und Genetik, edited by Nikolaus Knoepffler and Julian Savulescu, Frieburg, Verlag Karl Alber, 2009, pp. 55-81.. Co-authored with Rebecca Roache.
- ‘Surgeon Report Cards and Patient Safety’, in Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care, edited by Judith Healy and Paul Dugdale, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 2009, pp. 221-236. Co-authored with Justin Oakley.
- ‘New Technologies, Common Sense and the Paradoxical Precautionary Principle’, in Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Problems for the Assessment of Technological Developments, edited by Marcus Duwell and Paul Sollie, Dordrecht, Springer, 2009, pp. 159-173.
- ‘Some Optimism for the Pessimist: a Response to Nola’, in Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities, edited by Lena Soler, Howard Sankey and Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Dordrecht, Springer, 2008, pp. 203-205.
- ‘Surgeons’ Report Cards, Heuristics, Biases and Informed Decision Making’, in Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: the Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance, edited by Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 167-179.
- ‘Accountability, Informed Consent and Clinician Report Cards’, in Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: the Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance, edited by Steve Clarke and Justin Oakley, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 1-21. Co-authored with Justin Oakley.
Book Reviews
- Review of ‘Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong’, by Marc D. Hauser. Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 46, March 2008, pp. 147-150.
Other Publications
- ‘Ethical arguments for performance monitoring and reporting’ Saferhealthcare, http://www.saferhealthcare.org.uk/ihi, forthcoming. Co-authored with Justin Oakley.
- ‘The Ethics of Geoengineering’, Geoengineering Quarterly, forthcoming. Accepted for publication 30/8/2010. Co-authored with Russell Powell, Mark Sheehan, Tom Douglas, Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu.
- ‘Miracles’, in The Science and Religion Primer, edited by H. Looy and H. Campbell, Baker Academic, forthcoming.
- ‘Realism’, in The Science and Religion Primer, edited by H. Looy and H. Campbell, Baker Academic, forthcoming.
- ‘Conspiracy Theories on the Internet and on the Loose’, Online Opinion, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5946, June 7, 2007.