Dr Gideon Calder
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Background: Dr Gideon Calder - Reader in Ethics and Social Philosophy.
I joined the School in 2002, having previously taught at Cardiff University, the Open University, and as a visiting lecturer at UWIC and Edge Hill. Both my teaching and research span various aspects of ethics, political philosophy and social theory - with a special interest in the application of philosophical insights to pressing social issues. I am Director of the Newport Social Ethics Research Group .
Qualifications
* BA Philosophy and Politics (York)
* MA Political Philosophy (York)
* PhD Philosophy (Cardiff)
Interests and Achievements
* Co-editor, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy
* Editorial Committee member, Ethics and Social Welfare
* Research Officer, UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy
* Newport Coordinator, EuroEthos Project
Teaching on
* Programme Leader, Social Studies
* Year 1 Tutor for Social Sciences undergraduate degree programme
* Module Delivery: Human Nature & Social Values; Introducing Sociology; Introduction to Research; Contemporary Social Ethics; Social Work Ethics & Law
* Dissertation supervisor: undergraduate and Master's levels
* PhD supervisor
Membership of Professional Bodies
-UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy
-Society for Applied Philosophy
Email Address
gideon.calder@newport.ac.uk
Research
Current interests
-Contributing to Project RESPECT – a European Commission-funded collaboration between 7 European universities
-Working on a book on democracy.
-Co-editing (with Catriona McKinnon) a collection of articles on Climate Change and Liberal Priorities, to be published by Routledge in 2010.
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Forthcoming publications
Books:
(Co-edited with Catriona McKinnon) Climate Change and Liberal Priorities, Routledge, 2010; to be published simultaneously as a special issue of the journal Critical Research in International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP).
Books
* Citizenship Acquisition and National Belonging: Migration, Membership and the Liberal Democratic State (co-editor; Palgrave, 2009)
* Rorty's Politics of Redescription ( University of Wales Press, and University of Chicago Press 2007)
* Rorty (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003)
* Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives (co-editor; Ashgate, 2000)
Examples of articles since 2002
(co-written with Emanuela Ceva) 'Values, Diversity and the Justification of E. U. Institutions', Political Studies, vol, 57, no. 4 (2009), pp. 828-845
'Ethics and Social Ontology', Analyse & Kritik, vol. 30, no. 2 (2008), pp. 427-43
(co-written with Edmund Dain) 'Not Cricket? Ethics and Sporting Boycotts', Journal of Applied Philosophy , vol. 24, no. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 95-109
'Soft Universalisms: Beyond Young and Rorty on Difference', Critical Research in International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 3-21
'Ownership Rights and the Body', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 89-100
'Postmodernism, Pragmatism, and the Possibility of an Ethical Relation to the Past', Theoria, no. 107 (2005), pp. 82-101
'Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders', forthcoming in Margaret Breen (ed.), Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity (Rodopi, 2005)
'Post-Cartesian Anxieties: Embodied Subjectivity after the Linguistic Turn', New Formations 56 (Autumn 2005), pp. 83-95
'The Language of Refusal: Sexual Consent and the Limits of Poststructuralism', in Paul Reynolds and Mark Cowling (eds), Making Sense of Sexual Consent (Ashgate, 2004).
'Introduction', and 'Interview with David Miller', Imprints: A Journal of Analytical Socialism , special issue co-edited with Jonathan Seglow: 'What We Owe to Others: Situating Duty and Justice', vol. 7, no. 3 (Dec 2003).
'Grounding Human Rights: What Difference Does it Make?', in Richard Norman and Alexander Moseley (eds.), Human Rights and Military Intervention (Ashgate, 2003).Examples of conference and seminar papers
Since 1995 I have given research papers at the universities of Cardiff, Brighton, Bergen, J.E. Purkyne (Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic), Palacky (Olomouc, Czech Republic), Manchester, Cambridge, Lancaster, Lampeter, Drexel (Philadelphia), Anglia Polytechnic, Goldsmiths, Reading, Manchester Metropolitan, Edge Hill, Aberystwyth, Royal Holloway, Open University (Milton Keynes), the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, UWIC, London Metropolitan, Swansea, Kings College London, UWE, Edinburgh, Western Bohemia, and at conferences organised by the Political Studies Association, the UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, the Society for Applied European Thought, the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, the University of Wales Social Work Colloquium, and the International Association for Critical Realism.
For further information please link to the SERG website by clicking here