Philosophy Program
Staff Profiles
| Dr Robert Young |
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Position:
Reader
Room: Hu2, 312
Tel: +61 3 9479 2424
Fax: +61 3 9479 3639
Email: Robert.Young@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BEc, BA(Syd.), PhD(Flin.), F.A.H.A.
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Research Interests
- Metaphysics
Freedom and autonomy
- Moral and Political Philosophy
Bioethics; Social justice and equality
- Moral Psychology
Self-respect and self-esteem
- Philosophy of Religion
Problems in Judaeo-Christian theology
Teaching
Ethics (including bioethics)
Political Philosophy & Metaphysics
(including Philosophy of Religion)
Publications
Freedom, Responsibility and God, Macmillan and Barnes and Noble, 1975.
Personal Autonomy: Personal Autonomy: Beyond Negative and Positive Freedom, Croom Helm and St Martin's Press, 1986.
In addition to about sixty papers in professional journals and collections of articles.
He has a further book entitled Medically Assisted Death: Voluntary Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide and Non-Voluntary Euthanasia currently under consideration.
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