Seumas Miller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3788673 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Seumas Miller |
| PRENOMES | Seumas |
| SOBRENOME | Miller |
| ASSINATURA | MILLER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4851-3177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Technology, institutions and regulation
Introduction
Ethics, intelligence collection, and analysis, notably espionage, have coexisted for millennia. Ethics as a sustained discussion on right and wrong has existed since at least the era of the ancient
National Security Intelligence Activity and the Just Intelligence Theory
National security intelligence (NSI) activity is considered through a normative (ethical) lens and the application of a normative theory to NSI collection, analysis, and dissemination undertaken. The currently favored normative theory is the Just Intelligence Theory (JIT), derived from the Just War Theory, applicable to waging war. Whereas JIT has provided a useful starting point to normative theorizing about NSI activity as well as several speci…
Lethal autonomous weapon systems (Laws)
This article is concerned with three key ethical issues that arise from the use in military combat of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). The first issue concerns the unpredictability of LAWS in respect of the requirement of Meaningful Human Control (MHC) – as opposed to machine control - in theatres of war. It is argued that the unpredictability of (especially) ‘self-learning’ LAWS is not necessarily a barrier to their morally acceptable u…
The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions
This book explores the ethics of national security intelligence institutions operating in contemporary liberal democracies. Intelligence collection by agencies such as the CIA, MI6, and Mossad involves practices that are apparently inconsistent with the principles of ordinary morality - practices such as lying, spying, manipulation, and covert action. However, in the defence of national security, such practices may not only be morally permissible…
Robots, institutional roles and joint action
In this article, firstly, cooperative interaction between robots and humans is discussed; specifically, the possibility of human/robot joint action and (relatedly) the possibility of robots occupying institutional roles alongside humans. The discussion makes use of concepts developed in social ontology. Secondly, certain key moral (or ethical—these terms are used interchangeably here) issues arising from this cooperative action are discussed, spe…
Euthanasia and faith-based aged-care organisations
In this paper we focus on an important specific issue which has not received serious attention in the scholarly literature on euthanasia, namely, that of the coercive imposition (by way of sanction-backed regulations) of the practice of voluntary active euthanasia (in particular) on faith-based, aged-care organizations. In Section 1 we outline the relevant conceptual background drawing on existing literature. In Section 2, we consider two conflic…
Cognitive warfare
This article characterises the nature of cognitive warfare and its use of disinformation and computational propaganda and its political and military purposes in war and in conflict short of war. It discusses both defensive and offensive measures to counter cognitive warfare and, in particular, measures that comply with relevant moral principles
Epistemic Actions, Abilities and Knowing-How
The aim is to provide a synoptic view of the epistemic landscape in respect of epistemic actions, abilities and knowing how. The resulting view consists of the following propositions: (1) knowledge-by-acquaintance cannot be reduced to propositional knowledge or to knowing-how or some combination of these; the same point holds for propositional knowledge in relation to knowledge-by-acquaintance and knowing-how, and to knowing-how in relation to kn…
National security intelligence activity
This article provides philosophical analyses of some of the key notions involved in national security intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination. In Section 1, and relying on the intelligence studies literature, the notion of intelligence is characterized by means of an outline its main features or, at least, those features typically ascribed to it. In Section 2, an analysis of the notion, or rather inter-related set of notions, of knowl…
The ethical application of biometric facial recognition technology
Biometric facial recognition is an artificial intelligence technology involving the automated comparison of facial features, used by law enforcement to identify unknown suspects from photographs and closed circuit television. Its capability is expanding rapidly in association with artificial intelligence and has great potential to solve crime. However, it also carries significant privacy and other ethical implications that require law and regulat…
Counter-Terrorism
This insightful book provides an analysis of the central ethical issues that have arisen in combatting global terrorism and, in particular, jihadist terrorist groups, notably Al Qaeda, Islamic State and their affiliates. Chapters explore the theoretical problems that arise in relation to terrorism, such as the definition of terrorism and the concept of collective responsibility, and consider specific ethical issues in counter-terrorism.
Global Jihadist Terrorism
This insightful book provides a unified repository of information on jihadist terrorism. Offering an integrated treatment of terrorist groups, zones of armed conflict and counter-terrorism responses from liberal democratic states, it presents fresh empirical perspectives on the origins and progression of conflict, and contemporary global measures to combat terrorist activity.
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology
This open access book discusses ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies.
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
This is open access book. This book undertakes a multifaceted & integrated examination of biometric identification, including current state of technology.
Ethics, public health and technology responses to Covid‐19
The COVID‐19 pandemic has infected millions around the world. Governments initially responded by requiring businesses to close and citizens to self‐isolate, as well as funding vaccine research and implementing a range of technologies to monitor and limit the spread of the disease. This article considers the use of smartphone metadata and Bluetooth applications for public health surveillance purposes in relation to COVID‐19. It undertakes ethical …
A principled approach to cross‐sector genomic data access
Genomic data is growing in importance as scientific knowledge and technology develop, and in availability, as direct‐to‐consumer genomic health testing and recreational genealogy services become more widely utilized. Access to genomic data needs to be considered in light of individual privacy. Cross‐sector use of genomic health and ancestry data, and by law enforcement in particular, raises ethical questions and requires appropriate regulation. T…
Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis
In this article, it is argued that the constitutive principles of Just War Theory and the jus ad bellum/jus in bello duality do not transfer all that well to national security intelligence activity. Accordingly, while Just Intelligence Theory – comprising jus ad intelligentiam and jus in intelligentia – provides a useful starting point in the construction of a normative framework for national security intelligence activities, ultimately it is fou…
Elder Sexual Abuse and Sexual Freedom in Faith-based Residential Care Facilities
The issues of elder sexual abuse and sexual freedom in residential care facilities are complicated by the existence of many residents with cognitive impairments of a kind that compromise their ability to make decisions based on informed consent. The issues of elder sexual abuse and sexual freedom in faith-based residential care facilities, in particular, are further complicated by restrictive, theologically based, ethical principles pertaining to…
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
Shared Intention Is Not Joint Commitment
Margaret Gilbert has long defended the view that, roughly speaking, agents share the intention to perform an action if and only if they jointly commit to performing that action. This view has proven both influential and controversial. While some authors have raised concerns over the joint commitment view of shared intention, including at times offering purported counterexamples to certain aspects of the view, straightforward counterexamples to th…
Institutional Corruption
In this book, Seumas Miller develops distinctive philosophical analyses of corruption, collective responsibility and integrity systems, and applies them to cases in both the public and the private sectors. Using numerous well-known examples of institutional corruption, he explores a variety of actual and potential anti-corruption measures. The result is a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated and empirically informed work on institutional cor…
Political Theory, Institutional Purpose and Policing
Joint Political Rights and Obligations
In this paper it is argued that: (1) political rights and obligations are a species of institutional (moral) right and obligation (respectively) and are not, therefore, natural rights and obligation; (2) political rights and obligations in a given polity are not simply aggregates of individual rights and obligations rather they are joint political rights and obligations; (3) the exercise of these joint rights, and the concomitant discharging of t…
Assertions, joint epistemic actions and social practices
If Equity's In, We're Out
At the United Nations climate change conference in 2011, parties decided to launch the "Durban Platform" to work towards a new long-term climate agreement. The decision was notable for the absence of any reference to "equity," a prominent principle in all previous major climate agreements. Wealthy countries resisted the inclusion of equity on the grounds that the term had become too closely yoked to developing countries' favored conception of equ…
Human Rights
All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance with the law. This interdisciplinary and international project br…
Noble cause corruption in policing
Privacy and confidentiality in social work
In the human services confidentiality is a central principle defining the relationship between the worker and the client. In this paper the authors argue that the human services have privileged the notion of confidentiality over the more fundamental right of privacy. They argue there is a persistent confusion between these two concepts and that privacy is an important but neglected ethical concept within human services. The authors discuss the re…
Robots, institutional roles and joint action
In this article, firstly, cooperative interaction between robots and humans is discussed; specifically, the possibility of human/robot joint action and (relatedly) the possibility of robots occupying institutional roles alongside humans. The discussion makes use of concepts developed in social ontology. Secondly, certain key moral (or ethical—these terms are used interchangeably here) issues arising from this cooperative action are discussed, spe…
Assertions, joint epistemic actions and social practices
Marxist Literary Aesthetics
Rationalising conventions
Three views of literary theory
Human Rights
All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance with the law. This interdisciplinary and international project br…
Three views of literary theory
Marxist Literary Aesthetics
Rationalising conventions
Davidson's paratactic analysis of mood
Re-Thinking Theory
Sociopolitical action, ethics and the power of literature
L'A. developpe une theorie positive des pouvoirs de la litterature qui se manifestent: 1) dans le cadre de l'action sociopolitique, par le contenu communicatif de litterature qui enrichit la vie de l'individu comme de la colllectivite, 2) dans le cadre ethique ou les theoriciens de la litterature developpent la notion d'agent moral substantif capable de verite
Freedom of the press
In this paper I argue for the following claims. Firstly, freedom of the press (media) is justified in part because of its legitimate role as the provider of a forum for the members of the public (including individuals, groups and organisations such as government) to communicate to the public at large. Secondly, the freedom of the press is justified in part because of its legitimate role as an investigator and communicator of matters that the publ…
Social Norms, Corruption and Transcultural Interaction
In this paper I will explore the relationship between social norms - in the sense of regularities in action which embody moral attitudes - and corruption, in contexts of transcultural interaction. There is a great deal of theoretical unclarity in relation to all the key notions involved, namely, social norms, corruption and transcultural interaction, and yet theoretical clarity is a necessary precursor to resolving the empirical and policy issues…
Noble cause corruption in policing
Social Norms and Practical Reason
Copyright in Teaching Materials
Speech acts and conventions
Social Action
Social action is central to social thought. This centrality reflects the overwhelming causal significance of action for social life, the centrality of action to any account of social phenomena, and the fact that conventions and normativity are features of human activity. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and th…
Privacy and confidentiality in social work
In the human services confidentiality is a central principle defining the relationship between the worker and the client. In this paper the authors argue that the human services have privileged the notion of confidentiality over the more fundamental right of privacy. They argue there is a persistent confusion between these two concepts and that privacy is an important but neglected ethical concept within human services. The authors discuss the re…
Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations
Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Noble Cause Corruption in Politics
There are many forms of corruption, including many types of police corruption, judicial corruption, academic corruption, and so on. Indeed, there are at least as many forms of corruption as there are human institutions that might become corrupted. My concern in this chapter is with political corruption, and with a specific form of political corruption, namely noble cause corruption. In the first section I provide a conceptual analysis of corrupti…
Against the Collective Moral Autonomy Thesis
Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences
Terrorism and Counter‐Terrorism
Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences
The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions
In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social institutions exist to realize various collective ends, indeed, to produce collective goods. He analyses key concepts such as collective responsibility and institutional corruption. Miller also provides distinctive special theories of particular institutions, including…
Security and Privacy
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global terrorism. The ethical challenge at the heart of this study is to establish an acceptable and sustainable equilibrium between two central moral values in
Just war on terrorism
Just war on terrorism: a Christian and Muslim response, edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010, 231 pp., $25.65 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-409-40808-6
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