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    Ethics at the Beginning of Life: A Phenomenological Critique.James Mumford - 2013 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Many declare the debate about abortion to be hopelessly polarised, between conservatives and liberals, between forces religious and secular. In this book Mumford upends this received wisdom and challenges consensus, arguing that many dominant attitudes and argument fail to take into account the particular way human beings 'emerge' in the world.
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    To arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.James Mumford - 2013 - The New Bioethics 19 (2):72-83.
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    The Experience of Obligation: The Enduring Promise of Levinas for Theological Ethics.James Mumford - 2019 - Studies in Christian Ethics 32 (3):352-369.
    Emmanuel Levinas has proven a major figure in twentieth-century phenomenology and ethics, and his work has influenced not only Jewish but also Christian ethical thought. However, Levinas has recently been the subject of trenchant critique by his fellow French philosopher, Jean-Yves Lacoste. Lacoste objects to Levinas’s construal of intersubjectivity as fundamentally ethical: essentially, that we only instantiate our humanity when we take responsibility for the Other. This smacks for Lacoste of ‘unworldliness’, and is thus phenomenologically inadequate, since it extirpates from (...)
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    Vexed: ethics beyond political tribes.James Mumford - 2020 - London: Bloomsbury Continuum.
    In Vexed, James Mumford tackles the polarization of civil society across the democratic West, taking a fresh look at the existential questions and "hot button" issues that are an essential part of the politics of the Left and Right. In examining issues like the "right-to-die" movement and assisted suicide, family values and economic injustice, sexual liberation and consent, gun-control and abortion, the environment and technology, criminal justice and reform, Mumford questions the basic assumptions of our political groups. His challenge is (...)
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    Book Review: Hans Reinders, Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound. [REVIEW]James Mumford - 2010 - Studies in Christian Ethics 23 (2):2.
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    Book Review: Hans Reinders, Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008). x + 404 pp. US$36.00/£19.99 (pb), ISBN 978—0—8028—6232—7. [REVIEW]James Mumford - 2010 - Studies in Christian Ethics 23 (2):216-219.