Books
(1) Genetics Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018)
(2) Biologically Modified Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
(3) An Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory (London: Sage Publications, 2004).
(4) Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader (London: Sage Publications, 2004).
(5) Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)
(6) Virtue Jurisprudence (co-edited with Lawrence Solum) (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008 )
Publications (by discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE
● “How Should we Theorize About Justice in the Genomic Era?” in Politics and the Life Sciences 2021 40(1): 106-125.
●“Toleration, “Mindsight” and the Epistemic Virtues” in The Palgrave Handbook on Toleration (2021).
● “The “Focusing Illusion” of Rawlsian Ideal Theory” in John Rawls: Debating the Major Questions (edited by Sarah Roberts-Cady and Jon Mandle) with Oxford University Press, 2020.
● “Virtue Epistemology and the Democratic Life” in The Oxford Handbook to Virtue (edited by Cynthia Snow) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
●”Play and Politics” Journal of Political Science Education Vol 9(4) 2013, pp. 487-500.
●“Virtue Epistemology and the “Epistemic Fitness” of Democracy” Political Studies Review 10(1), 2012, pp. 7-22.
●“Justice in Ideal Theory: A Refutation” Political Studies Volume 55, 2007, pp. 844–864.
● “Dualism, Incentives and the Demands of Rawlsian Justice” Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 38(3), Sept. 2005, pp. 675-95.
● “Making Deliberative Democracy a More Practical Political Ideal” European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 4(2), 2005, pp. 200-208.
● “Taxation and Distributive Justice” Political Studies Review, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 185-197.
● “Incentives and the Natural Duties of Justice”, Politics, Vol. 20(1), 2000, pp. 19-24.
● “Does Rawls Support the Procedural Republic?” Politics, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 29-35.
● “Neutrality, Toleration and Reasonable Agreement” in D. Castiglioni and C. Mackinnon, eds.,Toleration, Neutrality and Democracy (Amsterdam: Kluwer, 2003).
● “Deliberative Democracy and Nanotechnology” Nanoethics: Examining the Societal Impact of Nanotechnology (NJ: John Wiley and Sons Inc.) edited by Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor and John Weckert.
MEDICINE
●Tyler J. Vander Weele, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Paul Allin, Colin Farrelly et al. “Current Recommendations on the Selection of Measures for Well-being” Preventive Medicine Vol 133, April 2020. [access online for free] Tyler J. Vander Weele, Claudia
● Trudel-Fitzgerald, Paul Allin, Colin Farrelly et al. “Brief Well-being Assessments, or Nothing at All? Preventive Medicine Vol 135, June 2020.
● “Why the NIH Should Create an Institute of Positive Biology” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol. 115(12) (2012): 412-15.
● “Towards a More Inclusive Vision of the Medical Sciences” QJM: An International Journal of Medicine 102 (2009): 579-582.
● “Has the Time Come to Take on Time Itself?” British Medical Journal, Vol. 337, 2008, pp. 147-48.
● “Preparing for Our Enhanced Future” Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline Vol 93(2), 2007, pp. 12-18.
SCIENCE
● “Longevity Science and Women’s Health and Wellbeing” Journal of Population Ageing (2023) early online access.
● ”50 Years of the War on Cancer: Lessons for Public Health and Geroscience” Geroscience. 2021 Jun;43(3):1229-1235 (access online for free).
● “Responsible Biology, Aging Populations and the 50th Anniversary of the “War on Cancer”” (forthcoming) Biogerontology
●“COVID-19, Biogerontology and the Ageing of Humanity” (forthcoming) in Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences.
●“Aging, Geroscience and Freedom” Rejuvenation Research 22(2) 2019: 163-170.
● “Biogerontology and the Intellectual Virtues” Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 67(7), 2012. pp. 734-6.
● “”Positive Biology” as a New Paradigm for the Medical Sciences” Nature’s EMBO Reports 13, 2012, pp. 186 – 188
● “Global Aging, Well-Ordered Science and Prospection” Rejuvenation Research 13(5) (2010):607-12.
● “Framing the Inborn Aging Process and Longevity Science” Biogerontology 11(3) (2010): 377-85.
● “Why Aging Research?”Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1197 (2010): 1–8.
● “A Tale of Two Strategies: The Moral Imperative to Tackle Ageing” Nature’s EMBO Reports, Vol. 9(7), 2008, pp. 592-95. [PDF available for free via PubMed]
● “Sufficiency, Justice and the Pursuit of Health- Extension” Rejuvenation Research Vol. 10(4), 2007, pp. 513-20.
● “Genes and Distributive Justice” Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome 2003.
BIOETHICS
● “Imagination and Idealism in the Medical Sciences of an Aging World” Journal of Medical Ethics 2022.
●“Justice and Life Extension” in End-of-Life Ethics (edited by John Davis) (New York, NY: Routledge Publishing, 2016).
● Colin Farrelly, “Gene Patents and the Social Justice Lens” (commentary) American Journal of Bioethics 8(12) (2018) 49-51.
● “Normative Theorising about Genetics” (forthcoming) Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 22(4) (2013): 408-419.
● “Equality and the Duty to Retard Human Aging” Bioethics 24(8) (2010): 384-94.
● “Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Reproductive Freedom, and Deliberative Democracy” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34(2) (2009):135-154.
● “Aging Research, Priorities and Aggregation” Public Health Ethics , Vol. 1(3), 2008, pp. 258-67.
● “3 Wishes” Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 20(1), 2008, pp. 23-28.
● “The Case for Re-thinking Incest Laws” Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 34:e2, 2008, pp. 1-2.
●“Genetic Justice Must Track Genetic Complexity” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 17(1), 2008, pp. 45-53.
● “Virtue Ethics and Prenatal Genetic Enhancement” Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology Vol. 1(1), 2007, pp. 1-13.
● “Justice in the Genetically Transformed Society” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 15(1), 2005, pp. 91-99.
● “Genes and Equality” Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 30(4), 2004, pp. 587-592.
● “The Genetic Difference Principle” American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 4(2), 2004, W21-28.
● “Genes and Social Justice: A Rawlsian Response to Moore” Bioethics Vol. 16(1), 2002, 72-83.
PHILOSOPHY
● ““Positive Biology” and Well-Ordered Science” in Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities (edited by Matthew Lee, Laura Kubzansky, and Tyler VanderWeele) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2021).
●“Insulating Soldiers from the Emotional Costs of War: An Ethical Analysis” forthcoming in Transhumanizing War: Performance Enhancement and the Implications for Policy, the Soldier, and Society (eds. C. Breede, S. von Hlatky and S. Bélanger) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019).
● “Empirical Ethics and the Duty to Extend the Biological Warranty Period” Social Philosophy and Policy 30 (2013): 480-503.
● “Patriarchy and Historical Materialism” Hypatia 26(1), 2011, pp. pages 1–21
●“Mind the Gap: Beneficence and Senescence” Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. 24(2), 2010, pp. 115-130.
● “Gene Patents and Justice” Journal of Value Inquiry Vol. 41 (2-4), 2007, pp. 147-163.
● “Historical Materialism and Supervenience” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 35(4), 2005, pp. 420-446.
● “A Challenge to Brink’s Metaphysical Egoism” Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2003, pp. 243-256.
● “Genetic Intervention and the New Frontiers of Justice” Canadian Philosophical Review XLI, 2002, pp. 139-154.
● “Justice and a Citizens’ Basic Income”, Journal of Applied Philosophy 16(3), 1999, pp. 283-296.
LAW
● “The Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation” University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 58(2), 2008, pp. 217-32.
● “Civic Liberalism and the ‘Dialogical Model’ of Judicial Review” Law and Philosophy Vol. 25(5), 2006, pp. 489-532. Reprinted in edited volume Virtue Jurisprudence.
● “The Social Character of Freedom of Expression” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 14(2), 2001, pp. 261-71.
● “Public Reason, Neutrality and Civic Virtue” Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 12(1), 1999, pp. 11-25.
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