Miscellaneous Writings and Talks

19. 'The Constitution of the Machine: Why We Need a Claudit', Substack (3 Mar. 2026).

18. 'Higher Education's AI Panic', Substack (27 June 2025).

17. 'Appearance and Reality', Substack (29 June 2024).

16. 'Offence, Hypocrisy, and the Function of Democracy', in J.R. Shackleton (ed.) Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2021): 225-43; full text.

15. 'Freedom of Conscience in UK Health Care: Time for Change?', in Grzegorz Blicharz (ed.) Freedom of Conscience: A Comparative Law Perspective (Warsaw: Instytut Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości, 2019): 315-34; full text.

14. 'Freedom of Conscience in Scandinavian Health Care: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly', in Grzegorz Blicharz (ed.) Freedom of Conscience: A Comparative Law Perspective (Warsaw: Instytut Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości, 2019): 375-94; full text.

13. Guest post at http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2016/10/04/further-clarity-on-co-operation-and-morality/ BMJ Blogs: 'Further Clarity on Co-operation and Morality', 4 October 2016.

12. 'Why I am not a Consequentialist', Intellectum 6 (December 2009; full text)

11. 'Bioethics Today', Human Life Review (Fall, 2008): 98-109 (full text)

10. 'Science, Stem Cells, and Fraud', Intellectum 1 (June 2006; full text)

9. 'What's Wrong with Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research?', Human Life Review (Fall, 2005): 21-33 (full text)

8. 'Ordinary Duties, Extraordinary Means', Human Life Review (Winter, 2004): 50-6 (full text)

7. 'Perennial Philosophy's Theory of Art', Quadrant (Jan-Feb, 2004): 68-74 (full text; Powerpoint slide show)

6. 'Why I am a Relativist', Quadrant (May, 2003): 38-43 (full text)

5. 'Starved to Death by Order of the Court', Human Life Review (Summer, 2001): 103-12 (full text)

4. 'The War Against the Elderly', Quadrant (Oct. 2000): 47-52 (full text)

3. 'The Illusion of Animal Rights', Human Life Review (Spring-Summer, 2000): 37-45 (full text)

2. Review of Gordon Moran, Silencing Scientists and Scholars in other Fields, The Spectator (20 Feb. 1999): 35-6 (full text)

1. A founding myth in the history of science: review of Jeffrey Burton Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth, Quadrant (Jan.-Feb. 1993): 110-11 (full text)