Professor Steve Clarke

Steve Clarke is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Social Work and Arts, at Charles Sturt University and a Research Associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is a Chief Investigator on Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, DP240102614: ‘The Ethics of Voluntary Assisted Dying: Promoting Constructive Debate’. Clarke, S., Savulescu, J., Kennett, J. and Symons X. A$553,139-, (2024-27).

His recent publications include:

Clarke, S., Oakley, J., Pugh, J. and Wilkinson, D. (2024). ‘Misaligned Hope and Conviction in Healthcare’, Bioethics: https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13370.

Clarke, S. and Oakley, J. (2024). ‘Where There’s Hope, There’s Life: On the Importance of Hope in Healthcare’, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhae037

Clarke S. (2024). ‘When Conspiracy Theorists Win’, Inquiry: 10.1080/0020174X.2024.2371482.

Clarke, S. (2024). ‘The Generalist-Particularist Distinction Does Not Need to be Replaced, it Needs to be Revised: A Response to Boudry and Napolitano’, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 13 (11), pp. 23-29.

Clarke, S. (2023). ‘Is There a New Conspiracism?’, Social Epistemology, 37 (1), 127-140.

Clarke, S. (2023). ‘The Sanctity of Life as a Sacred Value’, Bioethics 37 (1), 32-39.

Clarke, S. (2023). ‘Two Problems with the Generalist-Particularist Distinction in the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory and Why I’m not a Generalist’ Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 12 (8), 54-60.

Clarke, S. (2023). ‘Non-accommodationism and Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: A Response to Robinson’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 49 (1), 73-74.

Luck, M. and Clarke, S. (2022). ‘Transformative Technologies, the Status Quo and (Religious) Institutions’, in Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age, edited by Michael Boylan and Wanda Teays, Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 35-47.

Clarke, S. and Savulescu, J. (2021). ‘Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status’, in Rethinking Moral Status, edited by Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny and Julian Savulescu, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-19.

Clarke, S. (2021). ‘Conscientious Objection in Healthcare’, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, edited by Edward Craig, London: Routledge. DOI:10.4324/9780415249126-L167-1

Clarke, S. (2021). ‘Conspiracy Theories?’, in Future Morality, edited by David Edmonds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-147.

Clarke, S., Zohny, H. and Savulescu, J. (eds.) (2021). Rethinking Moral Status. Oxford University Press.