Dr John Hadley
BiographyBiography
John Hadley is Research Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney. He was formerly a lecturer in philosophy in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Lecturer in Communication Ethics in the School of Communication, Charles Sturt University. During his PhD candidature at the University of Sydney, John lectured in the philosophy department and was a guest lecturer for USYD Laboratory Animal Services. He has published on a wide range of topics in animal and environmental ethics, including recent papers on assisting wild animals in need, animal rights extremism, the reporting of animal research in the media, and the ethical limits of veterinary expenditure. He has refereed for journals such as Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, Social Theory and Practice, Political Studies, Environmental Values, and Environmental Philosophy.
Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
Applied ethics, ethical theory, social and political philosophy, history of philosophy
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
‘Liberty and Valuing Sentient Life’, Ethics and the Environment, forthcoming.
‘Telling it like it is: A Proposal to Improve Transparency in Biomedical Research,’ Between the Species, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2012:103-126.
‘Confining ‘Disenhanced’ Animals’, NanoEthics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012: 41-46.
‘Paying Their Way: Dissident Opinion, Advertising and Access to the Public Sphere,’ Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, Vol. 10, Nos.1&2, 2010: 54-61
‘Animal Rights Extremism and the Terrorism Question’, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2009: 363-378
‘”We Cannot Experience Abstractions”: Moral Responsibility for ‘Eternal Treblinka,’’ Southerly, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2009: 213-222
With Siobhan O’Sullivan, ‘World Poverty, Animal Minds and the Ethics of Veterinary Expenditure’, Environmental Values, Vol. 18, No. 3 2009:361-378.
‘Animal Rights and Self-Defense Theory’, Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2009:165-177.
‘Critique of Callicott’s Biosocial Moral Theory’, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 1. 2007: 67-78.
‘The Duty to Aid Nonhuman Animals in Dire Need’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 4. 2006: 445-451.
‘Nonhuman Animal Property: Reconciling Environmentalism and Animal Rights’, Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2005: 305-315.
*Reprinted in Animal Rights, Clare Palmer ed. (Ashgate, 2008)
‘Excluding Destruction: Towards An Environmentally Sustainable Libertarian Property Rights Regime’, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol.12, No.2, 2005: 22-29.
‘Using and Abusing Others: A Reply to Machan’, Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol.38, No. 3, 2004: 411-414.
