Dr
Simon Clarke
Position
- Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
- BA/BCom, M.A. (Auck.)
- D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Room
Room 606
Contact Details (on leave until 2011)
Phone: +64-3-364 2389
Internal Phone: 6389
simon.clarke@canterbury.ac.nz
Background
Simon Clarke received his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2001 and before that did his BA and MA at the University of Auckland. He also spent one semester at Columbia University in New York City as a visiting scholar. His areas of interest are political philosophy, the history of political thought, ethics, and legal philosophy. As well as tutoring at Oxford and Auckland universities, he lectured in the Political Science Programme at Canterbury before joining the Philosophy Programme.
Undergraduate Courses
- Phil 139 Ethics, Politics, and Justice
- Phil 240 Biomedical Ethics
- Phil 317/Pols 301 Contemporary Political Philosophy: Social Justice
Graduate Courses
Research Interests
Simon's research interests are in political philosophy, the history of political thought, bioethics, and moral philosophy. He is working on a book that examines welfare-based arguments for freedom.
Publications
Journal Articles:
'The Self-Development Argument for Individual Freedom’, Minerva, 10, 2006, pp. 137-171.
'Debate: State Paternalism, Neutrality and Perfectionism', Journal of Political Philosophy, 14/1, 2006.
'Two Models of Ethics Committees', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2/1, 2005, pp. 41-47.
'Paternalism and the Right of Access to Medical Records', Journal
of Information Ethics, 12/1, 2003, pp. 80-91.
'A Definition of Paternalism', Critical Review of International Social
and Political Philosophy, 5/1, 2002. pp. 81-91.
'Contractarianism, Liberal Neutrality, and Epistemology', Political Studies,
47/4, 1999, pp. 627-42.
Other:
Book note: 'Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism' by George Crowder, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84/3, 2006.
‘A Case for Affirmative Action’ The Philosophers’ Magazine, 4th Quarter, 2005.
'Rutherford at Canterbury University College', The Rutherford Journal, vol. 1, 2005.
'Clear Thinking' A series of newspaper columns for the Christchurch Press, August to October 2005.
‘On an argument against equality of welfare,’ Equality Exchange website, September 2005.
Comment: ‘Ethical Consistency in Embryonic Stem Cell Research’, New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 5/1, Feb 2004, pp. 29-30.
Book review: 'The State of Democratic Theory' by Ian Shapiro, Australian Journal of Political Science, 40/1, November 2004.
Book review: 'Justice as Impartiality' by Brian Barry, Political Science, December 1996.
Please see Simon's UC Spark for a full list of publications.
School Administration
- Seminars co-coordinator
- Esrkine visitors coordinator
- Research Committee
- Teaching and Learning Committee
- Website maintenence
- Faculty of Arts, Philosophy representative
Other
Philosophy in New Zealand website