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    The case against evolutionary ethics today.Peter G. Woolcock - 1999 - In Jane Maienschein & Michael Ruse (eds.), Biology and the foundation of ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 276--306.
  2. Are science and religion natural enemies?Peter G. Woolcock - 2012 - The Australian Humanist 108 (108):1.
    Woolcock, Peter G A topic much exercising the minds of religious believers at the moment is whether or not science and religion are natural enemies. The Religion and Ethics program on the ABC's Radio National, for example, has recently provided access on its website to a series of articles on the topic, with titles such as Science or Naturalism? The Contradictions of Richard Dawkins; Christianity and the Rise of Western Science; Did Darwin Defeat God?; Does Science Make Belief in God (...)
     
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    Naturalistic Metaethics, External Reasons, and the Nature of Moral Argument.Peter G. Woolcock - 2006 - Journal of Philosophical Research 31:103-121.
    Desire-based accounts of practical argument about incompatible ends seem limited either to advice about means or to coercive threats. This paper argues that this can be avoided if the parties to the dispute desire its resolution by means other than force more than they desire the satisfaction of any particular ends. In effect, this means they must argue as if in a position of equal power. This leads to an explanation of the apparent objectivity of moral claims and of why (...)
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    Objectivity and illusion in evolutionary ethics: Comments on Waller.Peter G. Woolcock - 2000 - Biology and Philosophy 15 (1):39-60.
    In this paper I argue that any adequate evolutionary ethical theory needs to account for moral belief as well as for dispositions to behave altruistically. It also needs to be clear whether it is offering us an account of the motivating reasons behind human behaviour or whether it is giving justifying reasons for a particular set of behaviours or, if both, to distinguish them clearly. I also argue that, unless there are some objective moral truths, the evolutionary ethicist cannot offer (...)
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    Public Health-Consent Health Care Rationing: The Prior Consent Approach.Peter G. Woolcock - 1993 - Bioethics Research Notes 5:1.
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    Power, Impartiality and Justice.Peter G. Woolcock - 1998 - Routledge.
    First published in 1998, this volume argues that two conditions need to be met for any agreement between people with conflicting desires to count as an unforced one, namely, that the parties argue as if they had equal power and that their antipathy to being coerced exceeds their desire to coerce others. These conditions entail objective moral principles and a theory of justice, modifying and developing Rawls' contractarian theory, but without the veil of ignorance. They support Rawls on basic civil (...)
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    Skills-Grouping as a Teaching Approach to the "Philosophy for Children" Program.Peter G. Woolcock - 1993 - Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 10 (3):23-28.
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  8. Social humanism: A new metaphysics [Book Review].Peter G. Woolcock - 2013 - The Australian Humanist 109 (109):21.
    Woolcock, Peter G Review of: Social humanism: A new metaphysics, by Brian Ellis, Routledge, New York, 2012. $120.
     
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    The "Disagreements" Approach to Inservicing Philosophy for Children.Peter G. Woolcock - 1991 - Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 9 (2):43-45.
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    Dale Jamieson’s Morality’s Progress: A Critical Review. [REVIEW]Peter G. Woolcock - 2005 - Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3):599-609.