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'''John Tasioulas''' (born 18 December 1964) is a Greek-Australian moral and legal philosopher. He is the inaugural |
'''John Tasioulas''' (born 18 December 1964) is a Greek-Australian moral and legal philosopher. He is the inaugural Director of the [[Institute for Ethics in AI]] ([[artificial intelligence]]), and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, [[University of Oxford]].<ref>https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-09-11-inaugural-director-and-academic-team-appointed-new-institute-ethics-ai, 12 October 2020</ref> He holds dual Australian and British citizenship. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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John Tasioulas was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, in 1964. His parents migrated to Australia from [[Dasyllio]] in the [[Grevena]] region of Greece. He was a student at [[Northcote High School]] and [[Melbourne High School (Victoria)|Melbourne High School]]. He completed undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Law at the [[ |
John Tasioulas was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, in 1964.{{r|cv}} His parents, Konstantinos and Elpiniki Tasioulas, migrated to Australia from [[Dasyllio]] in the [[Grevena]] region of Greece. He was a student at [[Northcote High School]] and [[Melbourne High School (Victoria)|Melbourne High School]]. He completed undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Law at the [[University of Melbourne]] and was the 1989 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]] for Victoria.{{r|psonis}} Studying at [[Balliol College]], he received a doctorate (D.Phil in Philosophy) from [[Oxford University]] for a thesis on moral relativism which was supervised by [[Joseph Raz]]. |
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Tasioulas was a lecturer in jurisprudence at the [[Glasgow university|University of Glasgow]] (1992–1998), Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford where he was a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]] (1998–2010), [[Quain Professor|Quain Professor of Jurisprudence]] in the [[UCL Faculty of Laws|Faculty of Laws]], [[University College London]] (2011–2014), and the inaugural Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at [[The Dickson Poon School of Law]], [[King's College London]] and Director of the [[Yeoh Tiong Lay]] Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law (2014-2020).{{r|joins}} He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the [[Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics]], and a member of the [[Academia Europaea]].{{r|ae|ccae}} He has been a Fellow at the [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study]] at [[Harvard University]] and a Visiting Professor of Law at the [[University of Chicago Law School]]. He delivered the 'Or 'Emet Lecture at [[Osgoode Hall Law School]] (2011), the Natural Law Lecture at [[Notre Dame Law School]] (2012), and the Van Hasselt Lecture at Delft University of Technology (2016). |
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==Academic expertise== |
==Academic expertise== |
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Tasioulas works in moral, legal and political philosophy. He has advanced a version of the communicative theory of punishment, according to which the overarching point of punishment is the communication of censure to wrong-doers. His version of the theory is distinctive in making room for the value of mercy alongside that of retributive justice. |
Tasioulas works in moral, legal and political philosophy. He has advanced a version of the communicative theory of punishment, according to which the overarching point of punishment is the communication of censure to wrong-doers. His version of the theory is distinctive in making room for the value of mercy alongside that of retributive justice. |
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In the philosophy of human rights, Tasioulas has argued for an orthodox understanding of such rights, according to which they are moral rights possessed by all human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This contrasts with a more recent view that characterizes human rights in terms of some political role(s), such as being triggers for international intervention or benchmarks of internal legitimacy. According to Tasioulas, human rights have a foundation both in a plurality of human interests and in equal human dignity. |
In the philosophy of human rights, Tasioulas has argued for an orthodox understanding of such rights, according to which they are moral rights possessed by all human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This contrasts with a more recent view that characterizes human rights in terms of some political role(s), such as being triggers for international intervention or benchmarks of internal legitimacy. According to Tasioulas, human rights have a foundation both in a plurality of human interests and in equal [[human dignity]]. Among other writings in this area, Tasioulas is the author of two reports on minimum core obligations, and their bearing on the human [[right to health]], for the [[World Bank]]. |
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He has written on a range of other topics including moral relativism, games and play, the ethics of robots and Artificial Intelligence, and the philosophy of international law. His co-edited volume, ''The Philosophy of International Law'' (OUP, 2010), is a central text in the field. Tasioulas was a vocal supporter of [[Brexit]]. |
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==Selected works== |
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* ‘[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/sinq/1998/00000041/00000004/art00001 Relativism, Realism and Reflection]’, (1998) 41 Inquiry, pp .377–410. |
* ‘[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/sinq/1998/00000041/00000004/art00001 Relativism, Realism and Reflection]’, (1998) 41 Inquiry, pp .377–410. |
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* '[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00066.x/abstract Mercy]', (2003) CIII Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, pp. 101–132. |
* '[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00066.x/abstract Mercy]', (2003) CIII Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, pp. 101–132. |
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*'[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=F672BAA21F68CF339B211D20740D2C2E.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=471509 Punishment and Repentance]', Philosophy 81 (2006), pp. 279–322. |
*'[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=F672BAA21F68CF339B211D20740D2C2E.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=471509 Punishment and Repentance]', Philosophy 81 (2006), pp. 279–322. |
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* '[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8349.2006.00144.x/abstract Games and the Good]', |
* '[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8349.2006.00144.x/abstract Games and the Good]', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXX (2006), pp. 237–264 |
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* '[http://www.cdh.uchile.cl/anuario04/3-Articulos/JohnTasioulas.pdf The Moral Reality of Human Rights]', in T. Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? (OUP, 2007), pp. 75–101. |
* '[http://www.cdh.uchile.cl/anuario04/3-Articulos/JohnTasioulas.pdf The Moral Reality of Human Rights]', in T. Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? (OUP, 2007), pp. 75–101. |
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* S. Besson and J. Tasioulas (eds.), ''The Philosophy of International Law'' (OUP, 2010) |
* S. Besson and J. Tasioulas (eds.), ''The Philosophy of International Law'' (OUP, 2010) |
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* ‘[https://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/653432 Taking Rights out of Human Rights]’, Ethics 120 (July 2010), pp. 647–678. |
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* '[http://clp.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/1/1.abstract Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights]', Current Legal Problems 65 (2012), pp. 1–30. |
* '[https://web.archive.org/web/20150214115359/http://clp.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/1/1.abstract Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights]', Current Legal Problems 65 (2012), pp. 1–30. |
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* '[http://ajj.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/1/1.full.pdf |
* '[http://ajj.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/1/1.full.pdf Human Rights, Legitimacy, and International Law]{{dead link|date=May 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}', American Journal of Jurisprudence 58 (2013), pp. 1–25. |
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* '[https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29144 Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now]', World Bank (2017). |
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* '[https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29143 The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health]', World Bank (2017). |
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* '[http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tasioulas-1.pdf First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence]' Journal of Practical Ethics 7 (2019), pp. 61–95. |
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==References== |
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<ref name=ae>{{citation|title=Academy of Europe: John Tasioulas|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Tasioulas_John|publisher=[[Academia Europaea]]|accessdate=2017-05-19}}</ref> |
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<ref name=ccae>{{citation|title=Corpus Emeritus Fellow Elected to the Academia Europaea|url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/News/a/Corpus-Emeritus-Fellow-Elected-to-the-Academia-Europaea/page/9/|publisher=[[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]|accessdate=2017-05-19}}</ref> |
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<ref name=cv>{{citation|title=Curriculum vitae|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Tasioulas_John/CV|publisher=[[Academia Europaea]]|date=23 October 2013|accessdate=2017-05-19}}</ref> |
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<ref name=joins>{{citation|title=Professor John Tasioulas joins King's|date=8 July 2014|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2014/July/Leading-legal-thinker-joins-Kings.aspx|publisher=King's College London|accessdate=2017-05-19}}</ref> |
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<ref name=psonis>{{citation|title=Triple win for Rhodes Scholarships|newspaper=[[The Age]]|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/voice/triple-win-for-rhodes-scholarships-20150105-3nlck.html|date=7 January 2015|first=Stav|last=Psonis}}</ref> |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* '[http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/programs/public-lectures/or-emet-lecture/ Is Dignity the Foundation of Human Rights]', 'Or Emet Lecture, 10 March 2011 video |
* '[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907125742/http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/programs/public-lectures/or-emet-lecture/ Is Dignity the Foundation of Human Rights]', 'Or Emet Lecture, 10 March 2011 video |
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* '[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/embed/media/851f1edf6de6/ Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights]', Inaugural Lecture, University College London, 19 January 2012 video |
* '[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/stream/embed/media/851f1edf6de6/ Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights]', Inaugural Lecture, University College London, 19 January 2012 video |
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* '[http://philosophybites.com/2013/10/john-tasioulas-on-human-rights.html/ Human Rights]', Philosophy Bites Interview, 12 October 2013 podcast |
* '[http://philosophybites.com/2013/10/john-tasioulas-on-human-rights.html/ Human Rights]', Philosophy Bites Interview, 12 October 2013 podcast |
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* '[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2014/July/Leading-legal-thinker-joins-Kings.aspx/ Professor John Tasioulas joins King's]', 8 July 2014 |
* '[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2014/July/Leading-legal-thinker-joins-Kings.aspx/ Professor John Tasioulas joins King's]', 8 July 2014 |
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* '[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/political-philosophy-in-the-world:-a-right-to-be-angry/7363952/ Political Philosophy in the World: A Right to be Angry]', The Philosopher's Zone, 1 May 2016 |
* '[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/political-philosophy-in-the-world:-a-right-to-be-angry/7363952/ Political Philosophy in the World: A Right to be Angry]', The Philosopher's Zone, 1 May 2016 |
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* '[https://rightsinfo.org/big-questions-philosopher-john-tasioulas-justice-privilege-people-get-wrong-human-rights/ Big Questions: Philosopher John Tasioulas on Justice, Privilege, and What People Get Wrong About Human Rights]', Rights Info, 16 February 2018. |
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John Tasioulas (born 18 December 1964) is a Greek-Australian moral and legal philosopher. He is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI (artificial intelligence), and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.[1] He holds dual Australian and British citizenship.
Biography
[edit]John Tasioulas was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, in 1964.[2] His parents, Konstantinos and Elpiniki Tasioulas, migrated to Australia from Dasyllio in the Grevena region of Greece. He was a student at Northcote High School and Melbourne High School. He completed undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Law at the University of Melbourne and was the 1989 Rhodes Scholar for Victoria.[3] Studying at Balliol College, he received a doctorate (D.Phil in Philosophy) from Oxford University for a thesis on moral relativism which was supervised by Joseph Raz.
Tasioulas was a lecturer in jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow (1992–1998), Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford where he was a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College (1998–2010), Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Laws, University College London (2011–2014), and the inaugural Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law (2014-2020).[4] He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and a member of the Academia Europaea.[5][6] He has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He delivered the 'Or 'Emet Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School (2011), the Natural Law Lecture at Notre Dame Law School (2012), and the Van Hasselt Lecture at Delft University of Technology (2016).
Academic expertise
[edit]Tasioulas works in moral, legal and political philosophy. He has advanced a version of the communicative theory of punishment, according to which the overarching point of punishment is the communication of censure to wrong-doers. His version of the theory is distinctive in making room for the value of mercy alongside that of retributive justice.
In the philosophy of human rights, Tasioulas has argued for an orthodox understanding of such rights, according to which they are moral rights possessed by all human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This contrasts with a more recent view that characterizes human rights in terms of some political role(s), such as being triggers for international intervention or benchmarks of internal legitimacy. According to Tasioulas, human rights have a foundation both in a plurality of human interests and in equal human dignity. Among other writings in this area, Tasioulas is the author of two reports on minimum core obligations, and their bearing on the human right to health, for the World Bank.
He has written on a range of other topics including moral relativism, games and play, the ethics of robots and Artificial Intelligence, and the philosophy of international law. His co-edited volume, The Philosophy of International Law (OUP, 2010), is a central text in the field. Tasioulas was a vocal supporter of Brexit.
Selected works
[edit]- ‘In Defence of Relative Normativity: Communitarian Values and the Nicaragua Case’, (1996) 16 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, pp. 85–128.
- ‘Relativism, Realism and Reflection’, (1998) 41 Inquiry, pp .377–410.
- 'Mercy', (2003) CIII Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, pp. 101–132.
- 'Punishment and Repentance', Philosophy 81 (2006), pp. 279–322.
- 'Games and the Good', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXX (2006), pp. 237–264
- 'The Moral Reality of Human Rights', in T. Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? (OUP, 2007), pp. 75–101.
- S. Besson and J. Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (OUP, 2010)
- ‘Taking Rights out of Human Rights’, Ethics 120 (July 2010), pp. 647–678.
- 'Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights', Current Legal Problems 65 (2012), pp. 1–30.
- 'Human Rights, Legitimacy, and International Law[dead link]', American Journal of Jurisprudence 58 (2013), pp. 1–25.
- 'Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now', World Bank (2017).
- 'The Minimum Core of the Human Right to Health', World Bank (2017).
- 'First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence' Journal of Practical Ethics 7 (2019), pp. 61–95.
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-09-11-inaugural-director-and-academic-team-appointed-new-institute-ethics-ai, 12 October 2020
- ^ Curriculum vitae, Academia Europaea, 23 October 2013, retrieved 19 May 2017
- ^ Psonis, Stav (7 January 2015), "Triple win for Rhodes Scholarships", The Age
- ^ Professor John Tasioulas joins King's, King's College London, 8 July 2014, retrieved 19 May 2017
- ^ Academy of Europe: John Tasioulas, Academia Europaea, retrieved 19 May 2017
- ^ Corpus Emeritus Fellow Elected to the Academia Europaea, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, retrieved 19 May 2017
External links
[edit]- 'Is Dignity the Foundation of Human Rights', 'Or Emet Lecture, 10 March 2011 video
- 'Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights', Inaugural Lecture, University College London, 19 January 2012 video
- 'Human Rights', Philosophy Bites Interview, 12 October 2013 podcast
- 'Humanity's Debate', Neos Kosmos, 2 December 2013, profile article
- 'Professor John Tasioulas joins King's', 8 July 2014
- 'Political Philosophy in the World: A Right to be Angry', The Philosopher's Zone, 1 May 2016
- 'Big Questions: Philosopher John Tasioulas on Justice, Privilege, and What People Get Wrong About Human Rights', Rights Info, 16 February 2018.
- 1964 births
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- People educated at Melbourne High School
- Melbourne Law School alumni
- Australian Rhodes Scholars
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Philosophers of law
- Jurisprudence academics
- 20th-century Australian philosophers
- 21st-century Australian philosophers
- Artificial intelligence ethicists
- Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Academics of University College London
- Academics of King's College London
- Australian people of Greek descent
- People from Wollongong
- Academics of the University of Glasgow
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