People at the Centre
David Silver, PhD
Associate Professor, Acting Director
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David Silver is Associate Professor and Acting Director at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, and holds the Chair in Business and Professional Ethics at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He is also an associate member of the UBC Department of Philosophy and a faculty affiliate of the National Core for Neuroethics.
Current Research
I am currently working on a book entitled Corporate Ethics in a Liberal Democracy. The working paper, "Corporate Ethics in Politics" is derived from one of the chapters.
My dissertation (University of Arizona 1997) is entitled A Virtue Theory of Practical Reason and concerns the intersections between metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.
Recent Publication
RESEARCH:
2000. "Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60. (With Michael Rea).
2001. “Religious Experience and the Facts of Religious Pluralism.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49: 1-17.
2002. “Collective Responsibility and the Ownership of Actions”. Public Affairs Quarterly 16 (3): 287-304.
2002. “Religious Experience and the Evidential Argument from Evil.” Religious Studies 38 (3): 339-353.
2003. “Lethal Injection, Autonomy and the Proper Ends of Medicine”, Bioethics 17 (2): 205-11.
2003. "Evolutionary Naturalism and the Reliability of our Cognitive Faculties." Faith and Philosophy.
2004. "The Legacy of Injustice: Wronging the Future, Responsibility for the Past" in Historical Justice, ed. Lukas H. Meyer, Nomos Verlag. (With Rahul Kumar).
2005. “Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Value of Autonomy”, Journal of Business Ethics 59 (1-2), pp. 3-8.
2005. “A Strawsonian Defense of Corporate Moral Responsibility,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 42(4) October 2005. pp. 279-295.
2006. "Collective Responsibility, Corporate Responsibility and Moral Taint", Midwest Studies in Philosophy 30 (1), pp. 269-278.
2008. “Defending the Independence Constraint: a reply to Snider”, Religious Studies. 44(2), 203-207.
2008. “The Ethics of Exclusion”. in The Future of Citizenship. (with Rahul Kumar) Ed. Jose V. Ciprut. MIT Press.
2011. "Towards an Epistemology of Objective Normative Authority". APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 10(2)., pp. 11-17. Online
2012. "Citizens as Contractualist Stakeholders." Journal of Business Ethics. 109 (1), pp. 3-13. Online
Forthcoming. "Fair Compensation for Workers in the Great Recession".
BOOK REVIEWS:
2009. Review of Mitchell Silver’s A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology. in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
