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Prof. Paul Gilbert

MA (Cantab)

Emeritus Professor

Profile

Professor Paul GilbertPaul first arrived in Hull in 1967. He has been head of department on and off for nearly 20 years and received his personal chair in 2000.

Paul's research interests are principally in the field of human relationships, both personal and political, including aspects of national identity, though he also maintains an active interest in the philosophy of mind. He is currently working on a book on the philosophical method

Publications

Books

  • Human Relationships (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
  • Terrorism, Security, and Nationality (London: Routledge, 1994). [Spanish translation: Terrorismo, nacionalismo, pacificon (Madrid: Catedra, 1998). Italian translation: Il dilemma del terrorismo (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1997).]
  • The Philosophy of Nationalism (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1998).
  • Philosophy of Mind, co-authored with Stephen Burwood and Kathleen Lennon (London: UCL Press, 1998).
  • Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).
  • New Terror, New Wars (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003 / Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003).
  • The World, the Flesh and the Subject, co-authored with Kathleen Lennon (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
  • Ed. Nations, Cultures and Markets, co-edited with Paul Gregory (Aldershot: Avebury, 1994).
  • Cultural Identity and Political Ethics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

Articles:

  • "System and Theory in Philosophy", Philosophy 59 (1984): 331-341.
  • "Westphal and Wittgenstein on White", Mind 96 (1987): 399-403.
  • "Reflections on White: A Rejoinder to Westphal", Mind 98 (1989): 423-426.
  • "Community and Civil Strife", Journal of Applied Philosophy 7 (1990): 3-14.
  • "Immediate Experience", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 (1992): 233-250.
  • "Criteria of Nationality and the Ethics of Self-Determination", History of European Ideas 16 (1993): 515-520.
  • "Proportionality in the Conduct of War", Journal of Military Ethics 4 (2005): 100-107.
  • "A Reply to my Critics", Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2006): 382-385.
  • "What's Not Wrong with Terrorism", Filozofski Godisnjak 19 (2006): 68-77.

Book Chapters

  • "The Idea of a National Literature", in J. Horton and A. T. Baumeister (eds.), Literature and the Political Imagination, pp. 198-217 (London: Routledge, 1996).
  • "National Obligations: Political, Cultural, or Societal?" in S. Carey, D. George, and P. Jones (eds.), National Rights, International Obligations, pp. 102-118 (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1996).
  • "Prolegomena to an Ethics of Secession", in M. Wright (ed.), Morality and International Relations, pp. 53-71 (Aldershot: Avebury, 1996).
  • "Family Values and the Nation-State", in G. Jagger and C. Wright (eds.), Changing Family Values, pp. 136-149 (London: Routledge, 1999).
  • "Repression, Secession and Intervention", in A. Moseley and R. Norman (eds.), Human Rights and Military Intervention, pp. 211-227 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
  • "Roles and Identities in Old and New Wars", in J. Irwin (ed.), War and Virtual War, pp. 1-20 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005).
  • "Republics, Tribes and National Identities", in M. Wintle (ed.), Image into Identity (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006).
  • "Civilian Immunity in the 'New Wars'", forthcoming in I. Primoratz (ed.), Civilian Immunity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).