Deprivations of Liberty: Beyond the Paradigm

Distinguishing Civil and Criminal Institutional Deprivations of Liberty: An Analysis of Expressive Functions

Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm.

A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially 'applied neuroscience'. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technologi...

Deprivations, futures and the wrongness of killing.

In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons. Both argument strategies are inadequate because they rely on indefensible assumptions. Why should being a human being or being a person make a moral difference? I argued that the correct account of the morality ...

Situated Adaptive Software: beyond the Object Paradigm

This paper reviews our progress towards a new software paradigm extending the object paradigm, based on hidden order sorted algebra. Our goal is to produce software that is much more adaptable to context, and is also highly reliable and predictable. We nd the logic of algebra, which is equational logic, especially convenient because of its simple and eecient mech-anisation of reasoning. We show...