Michael Lück
Biographic Data
| ID | 254000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Lück |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lück |
| SIGNATURE | LÜCK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2452-5560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In defence of bullshit in universities
Does a world created by God have more bestowed worth
This paper examines Ballard’s narrow pro-theistic argument for the claim that a world created by God would possess more bestowed worth than a world not created by God. I argue that not only could the world have just as much bestowed worth were it not created by God, but it could possibly have more
What’s Wrong with Being an Extremist? On Clarke and Coady’s Conceptual Arguments Against Anti-Extremism
Extremism often carries “an unmissable and inescapable negative connotation” (Cassam 2021, p.34) and has become “an increasingly convenient insult” (Berger 2018, p.2). But what exactly is wrong with being an extremist? One answer is that the wrongness of being an extremist comes, at least in part, from the extremeness of their beliefs. I assess two arguments, offered by Clarke (2019) and Coady (2024), which reject this view and go further by sugg…
Professionals and the Ethics of Workplace Surveillance
Surveillance, in the broadest sense, is the act of paying close and sustained attention to some entity, individual or group, for some particular reason (Clarke 1988; Lyon 2001; Macnish 2020).1 In a New York Times article, Kantor and Sundaram (2022) describe recent developments in workplace surveillance. Central to these developments is the surge of employers subjecting employees to productivity monitoring and assigning employees productivity scor…
Freedom, AI and God
One response to the existential threat posed by a super-intelligent AI is to design it to be friendly to us. Some have argued that even if this were possible, the resulting AI would treat us as we do our pets. Sparrow (AI & Soc. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01698-x , 2023) argues that this would be a bad outcome, for such an AI would dominate us—resulting in our freedom being diminished (Pettit in Just freedom: A moral compass for a complex…
The Robo-Barbie Dilemma
Artificial moral patients (or AMPs) are those things successfully made to resemble moral patients, but are not. They are artificial both in the sense that they are made by us (artefacts), and that they are not a real instance of what they are made to resemble (artifice). ChatGPT, sex dolls, social robots, and non-player characters are all examples of AMPs. As these technologies start to resemble humans with greater accuracy the question as to how…
Can we solve the Gamer’s Dilemma by resisting it
The Gamer’s Dilemma (Luck, 2009a) is a paradox concerning the moral permissibility of two types of acts performed within computer games. Some attempt to resolve the dilemma by finding a relevant difference between these two acts (Bartel, 2012; Patridge, 2013; Young, 2016; Nader, 2020; Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, 2020; and Milne & Ivankovic, 2021), or to dissolve the dilemma by arguing that the permissibility of these acts is not as they seem (Ali, 2…
The repugnant resolution
Coghlan and Cox (Between death and suffering: Resolving the gamer’s dilemma. Ethics and Information Technology ) offer a new resolution to the Gamer’s Dilemma (Luck, The Gamer’s Dilemma. Ethics and Information Technology ). They argue that, while it is fitting for a person committing virtual child molestation to feel self-repugnance, it is not fitting for a person committing virtual murder to feel the same, and the fittingness of this feeling ind…
Paramedic Professionalism and Sex Work
In this paper we focus on the possibility that a paramedic might also be a (legal) sex worker. We consider whether such a possibility is grounds for an employer to dismiss, and/or a professional board to deregister, such a paramedic. To make this determination we consider whether it is ever permissible for an employer to dismiss someone because they are a sex worker. To this end we examine a paradigm case of permissible dismissal for engaging in …
Wildlifeselfies
Wildlife tourism has experienced a shift from passive observations towards highly interactive encounters between tourists and wild animals. Tourist behaviour is influenced by the pursuit of ‘visual trophies’ for social media. More specifically, the ‘wildlife selfie’ phenomenon, which requires proximity to a plethora of animal species, may contribute to compromised tourist safety and harassment of wildlife. This paper explores the perceptions of s…
Innovative local response to cyclone damaged reef leads to rapid tourism recovery
Climate change poses substantial risks to natural and human systems and effective response is essential. Underwater sculptures have been installed at multiple global locations to restore damaged reefs, increase tourism and educate visitors. There has been limited research that evaluates the environmental, social, cultural and economic costs of impacts such as cyclones and interventions such as underwater sculptures. Thisresearch investigated the …
Has Montefiore and Formosa resisted the Gamer’s Dilemma
Montefiore and Formosa (Ethics Inf Technol 24:31, 2022) provide a useful way of narrowing the Gamer’s Dilemma to cases where virtual murder seems morally permissible, but not virtual child molestation. They then resist the dilemma by theorising that the intuitions supporting it are not moral. In this paper, I consider this theory to determine whether the dilemma has been successfully resisted. I offer reason to think that, when considering certai…
Foreign aid, human agency, and self‐reliance in the Pacific
Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities
Social entrepreneurship has been popularised as a market-based activity with an embedded social purpose aimed at positively transforming communities and society. As a strategy for developing sustainable tourism, social entrepreneurship is promoted as a catalyst for positive community change. This study develops and applies a conceptual model that can help understand the changes directly and indirectly induced by tourism social entrepreneurship (T…
A kaleidoscope of tourism research
Experienced photographer’s behaviour during commercial swim-with-wildlife tours
Capturing images has long been recognized as influential in wildlife tourism experiences. With the ubiquity of Web 2.0 in people’s everyday lives, images can now be shared instantaneously via social media platforms. The quest for ‘photo-trophies’ that can be liked, shared and reproduced may influence how tourists behave around wildlife. Trends such as the ‘wildlife selfie’, which requires closeness to unpredictable animal species, is gaining popu…
Tourism
Fully revised, this 2nd edition covers aspects of tourism from a modern perspective, providing students with a range of theoretical and research-based explanations, supported by examples, case studies and unique insights from industry representatives. This book is divided into five major parts. Part One, 'Tourism Perspectives', introduces the nature of tourism and the economics of this activity. Part Two, 'Tourism People', considers the role of t…
Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees
The current COVID-19 pandemic has evolved to unprecedented proportions. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ship employees stuck at sea. Using an inductive qualitative approach, a synchronous online focus group was conducted with nine cruise ship employees who were stuck at sea during COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed that COVID-19 pandemic has managed to erase …
Mermaiding As A Form Of Marine Devotion
Mermaiding, the practice of wearing a mermaid tail and/or costume, and often swimming in costume, began in the mid-20th Century and has since grown into a global phenomenon. Despite its increasing popularity, there appears to be no research exploring mermaiding as a tourism activity. Consequently, this is the first study exploring the motivations and experiences of mermaid tourists, employing a case study approach at a mermaid school on the islan…
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites
The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 travel blogs. The findings suggest that tourists can have a deeply reflective experience at sites of past warfare, which includes cognitive dissonance to the war narrative. Tourist experiences in Vietnam presented a connection to…
Escaping Heaven and Hell
Adams (1993) argues that the traditional view that no one in Hell can leave, poses a problem for the theist. This is because, she argues, such a bad state of affairs should be prevented by God. In response, Buckareff and Plug (2005) argue that everyone in Hell can leave. More recently, Matheson (2014) argues that if everyone in Hell can leave, then everyone in Heaven can also leave. However, Matheson provides reason to think that it is impossible…
Defining Miracles
In this paper, a candidate necessary condition of a miracle is introduced: the direct restriction. The direct restriction holds that all miraculous effects have direct non-natural causes
Marine systems and tourism
Against Norström’s Argument for Technological Knowing How Not Being an Instance of Knowing That
Scuba diving tourism
Scuba diving has developed in serious terms since 1967 and today represents a multibillion dollar industry worldwide, and it is no surprise that scuba diving has also been proclaimed as ‘one of the
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites
The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 travel blogs. The findings suggest that tourists can have a deeply reflective experience at sites of past warfare, which includes cognitive dissonance to the war narrative. Tourist experiences in Vietnam presented a connection to…
The 'New Environmental Paradigm
More than twenty years ago, Dunlap and Van Liere (1978) developed the 'New Environmental Paradigm' scale (NEP) from the existent 'Dominant Social Paradigm' (DSP). Changes in values and beliefs concerning environmental issues made it necessary to further develop the DSP and include ideas, such as 'limits to growth', a 'steady-state economy', and 'a balance of nature'. The NEP has been adapted for a variety of further research, but only recently wi…
Wildlifeselfies
Wildlife tourism has experienced a shift from passive observations towards highly interactive encounters between tourists and wild animals. Tourist behaviour is influenced by the pursuit of ‘visual trophies’ for social media. More specifically, the ‘wildlife selfie’ phenomenon, which requires proximity to a plethora of animal species, may contribute to compromised tourist safety and harassment of wildlife. This paper explores the perceptions of s…
Scuba diving tourism
Scuba diving has developed in serious terms since 1967 and today represents a multibillion dollar industry worldwide, and it is no surprise that scuba diving has also been proclaimed as ‘one of the
Gay Tourism
Contemporary Issues in Heritage and Environmental Interpretation
In defence of Mumford's definition of a miracle
In a recent paper in Religious Studies , Clarke criticizes Mumford's definition of a miracle as it fails to recognize a supernatural agent capable of intent. Clarke believes that in order for an event to qualify as a miracle a supernatural agent must intend it. It is my aim to dismiss this qualification and demonstrate how Mumford's intent-neutral definition is less problematic. I will do this by examining each of the three cases against Mumford'…
The 'New Environmental Paradigm
More than twenty years ago, Dunlap and Van Liere (1978) developed the 'New Environmental Paradigm' scale (NEP) from the existent 'Dominant Social Paradigm' (DSP). Changes in values and beliefs concerning environmental issues made it necessary to further develop the DSP and include ideas, such as 'limits to growth', a 'steady-state economy', and 'a balance of nature'. The NEP has been adapted for a variety of further research, but only recently wi…
Gay Tourism
Sustainable development of tourism
Gay Tourism
Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions
The Miracle of the Religious Divide
The article offers the author's insights on the perceived religious segregation between rural and urban settings. The U.S. Census Bureau cites several common sense elements in determining the division of rural and urban environments. According to A. MacIntyre, rural communities were more capacitated to preserve social norms which appeared to be instilled with implication beyond their own pursuit, on the other hand urban communities were apparentl…
Defining Miracles
Philosophers have made numerous and varied attempts to analyse the concept of a miracle. To the end, an assortment of necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth an instantiation of a miracle have been offered. In this paper we discuss one of the most common of these conditions - the violation restriction. This restriction holds that all miracles involve a violation of a law of nature
Events, Society and Sustainability
Planned events,1 such as those listed above, pervade the lives of those who work within universities and colleges. They are embedded into the fabric of the way that virtually every aspect of higher and further education (HE and FE) operate; spanning teaching and learning, research, operations and administration. If we spend more than a few minutes browsing any governance or operational document of a large institution, planned meetings and other k…
On Why Gaita Doesn’t Describe Eichmann as Sacred
In this article we examine a potential problem for Raimond Gaita (born 1946). It arises from the way that Gaita, in Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, affirms the value of describing Eichmann as sacred, yet says that he, as a non-religious person, is unable to describe Eichmann as sacred. We argue that the tension in Gaita’s position does not in reality amount to a contradiction, and so we defuse the potential problem
Marine systems and tourism
Against Norström’s Argument for Technological Knowing How Not Being an Instance of Knowing That
Scuba diving tourism
Scuba diving has developed in serious terms since 1967 and today represents a multibillion dollar industry worldwide, and it is no surprise that scuba diving has also been proclaimed as ‘one of the
Escaping Heaven and Hell
Adams (1993) argues that the traditional view that no one in Hell can leave, poses a problem for the theist. This is because, she argues, such a bad state of affairs should be prevented by God. In response, Buckareff and Plug (2005) argue that everyone in Hell can leave. More recently, Matheson (2014) argues that if everyone in Hell can leave, then everyone in Heaven can also leave. However, Matheson provides reason to think that it is impossible…
Defining Miracles
In this paper, a candidate necessary condition of a miracle is introduced: the direct restriction. The direct restriction holds that all miraculous effects have direct non-natural causes
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites
The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 travel blogs. The findings suggest that tourists can have a deeply reflective experience at sites of past warfare, which includes cognitive dissonance to the war narrative. Tourist experiences in Vietnam presented a connection to…
Mermaiding As A Form Of Marine Devotion
Mermaiding, the practice of wearing a mermaid tail and/or costume, and often swimming in costume, began in the mid-20th Century and has since grown into a global phenomenon. Despite its increasing popularity, there appears to be no research exploring mermaiding as a tourism activity. Consequently, this is the first study exploring the motivations and experiences of mermaid tourists, employing a case study approach at a mermaid school on the islan…
Tourism
Fully revised, this 2nd edition covers aspects of tourism from a modern perspective, providing students with a range of theoretical and research-based explanations, supported by examples, case studies and unique insights from industry representatives. This book is divided into five major parts. Part One, 'Tourism Perspectives', introduces the nature of tourism and the economics of this activity. Part Two, 'Tourism People', considers the role of t…
Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees
The current COVID-19 pandemic has evolved to unprecedented proportions. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ship employees stuck at sea. Using an inductive qualitative approach, a synchronous online focus group was conducted with nine cruise ship employees who were stuck at sea during COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed that COVID-19 pandemic has managed to erase …
A kaleidoscope of tourism research
Experienced photographer’s behaviour during commercial swim-with-wildlife tours
Capturing images has long been recognized as influential in wildlife tourism experiences. With the ubiquity of Web 2.0 in people’s everyday lives, images can now be shared instantaneously via social media platforms. The quest for ‘photo-trophies’ that can be liked, shared and reproduced may influence how tourists behave around wildlife. Trends such as the ‘wildlife selfie’, which requires closeness to unpredictable animal species, is gaining popu…
Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities
Social entrepreneurship has been popularised as a market-based activity with an embedded social purpose aimed at positively transforming communities and society. As a strategy for developing sustainable tourism, social entrepreneurship is promoted as a catalyst for positive community change. This study develops and applies a conceptual model that can help understand the changes directly and indirectly induced by tourism social entrepreneurship (T…
Innovative local response to cyclone damaged reef leads to rapid tourism recovery
Climate change poses substantial risks to natural and human systems and effective response is essential. Underwater sculptures have been installed at multiple global locations to restore damaged reefs, increase tourism and educate visitors. There has been limited research that evaluates the environmental, social, cultural and economic costs of impacts such as cyclones and interventions such as underwater sculptures. Thisresearch investigated the …
Has Montefiore and Formosa resisted the Gamer’s Dilemma
Montefiore and Formosa (Ethics Inf Technol 24:31, 2022) provide a useful way of narrowing the Gamer’s Dilemma to cases where virtual murder seems morally permissible, but not virtual child molestation. They then resist the dilemma by theorising that the intuitions supporting it are not moral. In this paper, I consider this theory to determine whether the dilemma has been successfully resisted. I offer reason to think that, when considering certai…
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