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The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment (2007)
Journal Article
Cole, P. (2007). The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24(2), 169-176. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2007.00369.x

© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2007. In her critique of the social model of disability, Lorella Terzi argues that it oversocialises disability, and that some kind of connection must be made between disability and bodily impairment. In this paper I... Read More about The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment.

Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice (2007)
Journal Article
Cole, P. (2007). Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice. Journal of Medical Ethics, 33(5), 269-272. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.2005.014829

The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is qu... Read More about Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice.

The Myth of Evil (2006)
Book
Cole, P. (2006). The Myth of Evil. Edinburgh University Press

A philosophical history of the concept of evil in western culture. 'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just li... Read More about The Myth of Evil.

Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration (2000)
Book
Cole, P. (2000). Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration. Edinburgh University Press

The mass movement of people across the globe constitutes a major feature of world politics today. Whatever the cause of the movement - often war, famine, economic hardship, political repression or climate change - the governments of western capita... Read More about Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration.

Embracing the "nation" (2000)
Journal Article
Cole, P. (2000). Embracing the "nation". Res Publica, 6(3), 237-257. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1009699517536

The idea of the "nation" has played only a small role in modern political philosophy because of its apparent irrationalism and amoralism. David Miller, however, sets out to show that these charges can be overcome: nationality is a rational element of... Read More about Embracing the "nation".

Social Liberty and the Physically Disabled (1987)
Journal Article
COLE, P. (1987). Social Liberty and the Physically Disabled. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 4(1), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.1987.tb00200.x

ABSTRACT Liberal political philosophy has little of interest to say about the social liberty of the physically disabled. It accepts that the physically disabled and the able‐bodied are equally at liberty, even though the former can do far less than t... Read More about Social Liberty and the Physically Disabled.