Guest Speaker Steve Clarke: Conscientious Objection and Consistency

 

In many countries a right to conscientiously refuse to perform particular professional duties that conflict with personally held moral values is granted to healthcare professionals and military personnel. However, no such right is granted to members of other professions, such as the law and policing, in which individual professionals may also be asked to compromise personally held moral values. Dr. Clarke investigates whether and how this apparent inconsistency could be justified.

 

Steve Clarke is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University, in Australia, and a Senior Research Associate of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. For more, visit here.