Keith Horton

The photograph was taken in the Great Court at The University of Western Australia in 2007 by Stewart Candlish.

Keith Horton is the current Discipline Chair for Philosophy.

Contact Details

Keith Horton
M207: Philosophy
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
AUSTRALIA

Telephone: (+61 8) 6488 2115
Facsimile: (+61 8) 6488 1182
Room: Arts: 1.16
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Current Projects

From January 2006 to December 2008 Keith holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, working on a project called Collective Obligations and Partial Compliance.

Other major projects include co-editing a book (with Chris Roche), Ethical Questions and International Non-Governmental Organisations, based on papers from an ARC-funded workshop held in 2007; and completing an authored book, Should We Give to Aid Agencies?

Principal Research Interests

Moral Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

Publications

Authored Book

• Should We Give to Aid Agencies? (Edinburgh University Press, under contract)

Edited Books

• Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (co-edited with Thomas Pogge), (Paragon, forthcoming)
• Globalisation and Equality (co-edited with Haig Patapan) (Routledge, 2004)

Journal Articles

• ‘Transnational Medical Aid and the Wrongdoing of Others’, The Oxford Journal of Public Health Ethics (forthcoming)
• ‘Aid and Bias’, Inquiry 47 (2004): 545–61
• ‘International Aid: The Fair Shares Factor’, Social Theory and Practice 30 (2004): 161–74
• ‘Famine and Fanaticism: A Response to Kekes’, Philosophy 79 (2004): 319–327
• ‘Cohen, Nagel, and the Rich Egalitarian’, Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 4 (2002): 34–41
• ‘The Limits of Human Nature’, Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1999): 452–470

Book Chapters

• ‘Keller on Patriotism and Bad Faith: A Response’, in Igor Primoratz and Aleksandar Pavkovic (eds), Patriotism: Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Ashgate, 2008)