PHILOSOPHY
Areas of research, writing and teaching:
Philosophy of Science; including complexity theory, nanoscience, uncertainity and risk
Buddhist Philosophy; including Nishida, Nishitani, Tanabe, Dougen, Nagarjuna, Kegongyou
Environmental Philosophy; including climate change
History of Philosophy; including Descartes, Newton & Leibniz; Hegel, Marx & Gramsci; Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Whitehead
Philosophy of Medicine and Technology; including nanotechnology, nanomedicine, biometrics, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, research ethics
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PUBLICATIONS
Sample of papers:
The Formal Structure of the Liar Paradox, Logique et Analyse, XXIX: 115 (1986), 349-360.
Gramsci, Civil Society & Bureaucracy, Praxis International, VI:2 (1986) 206-219.
Gramsci & the Concept of Homo oeconomicus, International Studies in Philosophy, XVII:1 (1985) 11-23.
Two Methodological Paradigms in Development Economics, The Philosophical Forum, XVIII: 1 (1986), 52-68.
China's Case Against the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Rationality & Morality, Journal of Applied Philosophy, III: 2 (1986) 183-199.
Antonio Labriola, Evolutionist Marxism and Italian Colonialism, Praxis International, VII: 3/4 (1987-88) 340-359. [Amended version in book chapter.]
The Development of the Concept of Civil Society in Marx, History of Political Thought, VIII: 2 (1987) 263-276. [Earlier version in Proceedings of the XVII World Congress of Philosophy, section 2a, Montreal, 1983 under the title 'The Anatomy of Civil Society'.]
Hegel and Economic Science, in Bernard Cullen (ed), Hegel Today, Aldershot: Avebury, 1988, 61-87.
The Paradox of the Minimal State, Irish Philosophical Journal, 5: 1/2 (1988) 22-30.
Schizophrenia & Indeterminacy: The Problem of Validity, Theoretical Medicine (Kluwer), 11: 1 (March 1990) 61-78.
Patient Choice and the National Health Service Review, Journal of Social Welfare Law, No. 4 (1990) 245-255.
Is There a Conflict between Environmental Protection and the Development of the Third World, chapter in Attfield, R. & Wilkins, B. (Eds), International Justice & the Third World: Studies in the Philosophy of Development, Routledge, London, 1992.
Death, Medicine & Bioethics, Theoretical Medicine (Kluwer), 1994, 15: 371-387.
Antonio Labriola; Nursing Ethics. Two commissioned entries in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, Ten volumes, Routledge, London 1997.
Whistleblowing, essay entry for Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press, California, USA, 1998.
Abortion: Why Bioethics Can Have No Answer. Nursing Ethics (1999) 6(1) 47-57.
Buddhism and the care of the dying, Palliative Matters, Boehringer-Ingelheim, No. 19, June 2000, pp. 3-4.
Hunt, G. papers on Gramsci of 1985/86 now included in edited volume: James Martin (ed) Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments, Routledge, London, 2002, 4 vols. In vol. 2, ch: 37 Praxis Int. 1986 paper; in ch: 38 Int. Stud. Phil. 1985 paper. ISBN 0415217474.
Hunt, G & Abe, G. The Language of War: Ideological Imagery in American English, Journal of the Research Institute for Comparative Culture, No. 18, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan, May 2002, pp 25-53. Also in: Rohlerm L.E. & Cook, R. Great Speeches, for Criticism and Analysis, 4th edition, Alistair Press, The Educational Video Group, Greenwood, Indiana, USA, with CD-rom attached (ISBN 1-889388-07-6), 2001.
Hunt, G. The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers in Modern Healthcare, Studies in Comparative Philosophy (Japanese Society for Comparative Philosophy) No. 28 (March 2002) pp. 1-8.
Hunt, G. Clones, Stem Cells & Human Survival: The Ethical Question, [Trans. into Japanese by Chikako Noma], Journal of Seizon and Life Sciences , Vol. 13, series A, Sept. 2002, pp. 56-74.
Hunt G. Feeding and hydrating the terminally ill: nursing ethics, (trans. into Japanese by Prof. Masami Matsuda) (2002) The Japanese Journal of Nursing 12 (vol. 66) pp. 1127-1131. Reproduced in Matsuda, M. Inochi no Chiiki Kea [Community Care for Our Lives]. Saitama, Japan: Yadokari Shuppan, 2nd edn., 2005, pp 277-285.
Hunt, G. Good Nursing, Nursing the Good: Kitaro Nishida's Philosophy & Nursing, Quality Nursing: The Japanese Journal of Nursing Education & Nursing Research Vol. 9 No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 63-73. Reproduced in Matsuda, M. Inochi no Chiiki Kea [Community Care for Living]. Saitama, Japan: Yadokari Shuppan, 2nd edn., 2005, pp 286-307.
Hunt, G. Nursing Accountability: The Broken Circle, translated into Japanese by Hiroyuki Eto, Quality Nursing (Japan), vol. 9. no. 12 (2003) pp. 41-55.
Hunt, G. A Sense of Life: The Future of Industrial-style Healthcare, Nursing Ethics. Vol.11 No. 2 pp 189-202. March 2004.
Hunt, G. Kegon gyou and Modern Science, Japanese Journal of Comparative Philosophy, May 2010.
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