Global Utilities

Philosophy Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Robert Young

Robert Young

Position Research Associate
Room: Hu2, 210
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.

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


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.

Medically Assisted Death, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

"John Stuart Mill, Ronald Dworkin and Paternalism,"
[forthcoming in C.L. Ten (ed.), Mill’s ‘On Liberty’: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)]

In addition to about sixty papers in professional journals and collections of articles.

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