Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memb….

Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of us can and….

As a matter of ethics - our broader social life needs to be constrained by law and other devices - resolving at the societal level matters that shoul….

In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was better able to see two sides to….

As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them distinct while recognizing their inte….

In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal requir….

My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I determined to be an English ….

The selection of topics for intensive research has often been a function of serendipitous opportunity. My forays into philosophy of education were la….

Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debat….

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes..

It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in philosophical writing. There are ….

The roles evolve over time: juries once made determinations about law; nowadays, they are supposedly limited to making factual determinations. A good….

There will always be situations in which conflicts arise between individual and communal values - Catholic police officers deployed to enable women t….

Police do not work at the immediate direction of the communities they serve, but through their institutional connections. Police departments may deve….

One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially….

I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of i….

I remember Stanley Benn remarking that one needed to be a certain age to engage with problems in political philosophy - I think he had in mind a cert….

I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is fo….

I grew up in a home in which loyalty to family was central to my father's outlook. Adolescent changes to my outlook (which set me against parental va….

The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend themselves to the kind of….

Structurally I don't see a fundamental difference between what we may reasonably expect of police and doctors - though obviously the fact that doctor….