Richard Hull
BA, B.Phil. Oxon., Ph.D. (Keele)
(Director of C.O.B.R.A.

Contact Details

• E-Mail: Richard.Hullnuigalway.ie
• Office: Room 104, Philosophy Dept (Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd)
• Phone: 353 (0)91 493714

Teaching

• Bioethics
• Medical Ethics
• Topics in Applied Philosophy

Postgraduate teaching

• Business Ethics
• Political concepts
• Medical Ethics (Master of Medical Science)
• Ph.D and M.A supervision

Research Interests

Ethical theory, Bioethics, Professional Ethics, Political Theory, Nietzsche

Selected Publications

Defining Disability - a philosophical approach, (Res Publica, vol.IV no.2, 1998)

Deconstructing the Doctrine of Double Effect, (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol.3 no 2, 2000, pp. 195-207)

Freedom: not flabby, just big boned, (Res Publica, 6, 2000, pp. 327-336)

The Ethical and Legal Dimension, (Forum on Fluoridation Ireland, 2002, Ch 13)

Genetically modified crops and food: threat or opportunity for Ireland?, Irish Council  for Bioethics, Dublin, 2005. (sections on ethical issues co-authored with Jonathan Hughes).  

Separating Conjoined Twins: Disability, Ontology and Moral Status (with Stephen Wilkinson), in Cutting to the Core: the Ethics of Contested Surgeries, Benatar, D. ed,  Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.

Cheap Listening? Reflections on the concept of wrongful disability, ’Bioethics’ 20, 2, 2006, pp. 55-63 (Blackwell). 

Deprivation and Freedom, Routledge, 2007.

Ethical, scientific and legal issues concerning stem cell research. Opinion, The Irish Council for Bioethics, Dublin, 2008. (co-author). 

Cheap Listening? Reflections on the concept of wrongful disability, reprinted in Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, Steinbock, B. London, A. and Arras, J eds, McGraw Hill, 2008.

Disability and Freedom, in Arguing about Disability, Kristiansen, k. Vehmas, S and Shakespeare, T. eds, Routledge, forthcoming, 2008.    

Projected disability and parental responsibilities, in Disability and Disadvantage, Cureton, A. and Brownlee, K. eds, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Selected presentations

November, 1999 Disability and Freedom, Manchester Centre for Political Thought, University of Manchester, UK.
November, 2001 Concepts of Freedom, University College, Cork.
April, 2002 Hello Dolly, Goodbye Disability? Trinity College, Dublin.
September, 2002 Realising the voluptuousness of our own hell: a role for Nietzsche's genealogy, Society for European Philosophy Conference, Cork.
November, 2002 Disability, genetics and Justice, World Congress on Bioethics, Brazil.
February, 2003 PGD and the concept of 'wrongful disability', Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, Keele University.
September, 2003 Disability as an issue of freedom, UCD.
October, 2003 The medical model of Disability and Social Justice, University of Cape Town.
November, 2003 Reflections on the concept of wrongful disability, Center for Ethics and Social Justice, Loyola University, Chicago and Marquette University, Milwaukee.
Disability, Justice and PGD, Medical College of Wisconsin.
March, 2004 Reflections on the concept of wrongful disability, UCD.

Professional Activities

Consultations European initiative looking into the ethics of new reproductive technologies (2001).
Ethics Committee of the Irish Government's Forum on Fluoridation (2001/2).
September, 2001 Launch and Inaugural Lecture, Centre of Bioethical Research & Analysis, NUI,G. ( See COBRA website)
November, 2002 Appointed member of working group on the ethics of GMOs, Irish Council of Bioethics.
January, 2003 Appointed Review Editor, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
March, 2004 Syposium on Genetics and Disability, NUI,G.
Research Supervision in collaboration with REMEDI - Regenerative Medicine Institute

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