WRITINGS
Current project: A Journey into our Beliefs...Sorting the chaos out in our minds
Beliefs
is a book that I penned in 2017 and then paused because my beliefs altered and I realised that the book needed reworking. After a long pause, it is currently (2023) being re-edited for publication.
AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE
The material I initally wrote coverred the following ....
- We often hold contradictory or inconsistent beliefs about the world, other people, and our selves.
- We are often illogical or unreasonable, even though we don't want to be.
- We want to avoid doing what we need to do in order to become who we are.
- We become creatures of habits that we didn't think we'd ever fall into.
- We're confused about the messages we receive around us - from what we've picked up from family, teachers, and our peers - even from our ancestors who lived centuries ago.
- We live in a highly distracting world pulling this way and that and a pace that's dizzying.
- We're confused about the instant gratifications and resources within our grasp and what we really need and want.
- We've forgotten, or not thought about, what we're here for.
In a nutshell, our minds are often chaotic and we're not fulfilling our potential -
- We can easily lose the grip on life.
Beliefs
is about why we're like this and what we can do about it - the series provides the tools for understanding the world around us and for becoming people of integrity, mentally resilient, adaptable, tolerant of ourselves and others, and accepting of our failings and of growing mentally.
As a philosopher, I'm naturally fascinated by the effects of our deeper thinking on our personal life, our professional development, our businesses, our creativity, and our ambitions and goals - but I'm also keen that we move forward from ethereal philosophising over coffee towards taking action.
If we don't take action, we're not taking part in the great human odyssey, never mind fulfilling our potential.
At the same time though, if we don't understand the human condition and how we can realise ourselves through our beliefs - we won't be able to flourish.
We need to know our desires, our purpose, and how we work - we need to learn about ourselves as much as about how the world around us works.
We need to grasp that we're the agent - the source of our happiness or our misery.
Since writing the book, I got into a whole new area of research that deepens the insights into the Journey book. I halted the publication process in order to digest and live the new paradigms I was experiencing. I'm looking forward to getting it out soon!
MEDIA
* BBC RADIO 4 The Moral Maze (November 2015) Just War and Syria
* BBC RADIO 5 LIVE - Private tuition (2014)
* BBC RADIO NOTTINGHAM - Educational issues (2014, 2013)
* Articles on LEWROCKWELL.COM; THE ECONOMICS CIRCLE; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF * MILITARY ETHICS; INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY.
* Small interview in The Independent by Jeremy Sutcliffe - nice picture! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/school
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Aristotle: An Educational Biography
Continuum (2010); Bloomsbury (2014) A-Z of Philosophy,
Continuum (2008)
Also translated into Turkish A'dan Z'ye Felsefe
and Portuguese Filosofia de A A Z: Um Guia Completo (Em Portugues do Brasil
John Locke: An Educational Biography
Continuum (2007); Bloomsbury (2014)
An Introduction to Political Philosophy
Continuum (2007)
Human Rights and Military Intervention
Ashgate (2002) co-edited with Richard Norman.
A Philosophy of War, Algora (2002).
Business Ethics
text book with Jim Fieser.
INTERNET
Interview
with Dr Gianguiseppe Pili on recent thoughts on the philosophy of war:
https://www.scuolafilosofica.com/10989/alexander-moseley-philosophy-of-war-and-peace-intelligence-interview-n-40-giangiuseppe-pili
Founding Editor: Military Ethics Encyclopedia Online
Political Philosophy Editor, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
IEP articles written:
(Translated into Romanian by Irina Vasilescu: Filosofia Razboiulu
- used in several military academies; also reproduced in part in The Encyclopedia of Invasions and Conquests.
• Pacifism
◦ (also translated into Hungarian by Elana Pallet: Pacifizmus http://sc-journal.com/pacifizmus/)
• Egoism
◦ (also translated into Hungarian
by Elana Pallet: Egoizmus http://sc-journal.com/egoism/)
◦ And Ukrainian
http://eustudiesweb.com/egoism/
◦ And Estonian
http://www.autoteileprofi.ch/blog/2017/02/09/egois... by Valerie Bastiaan.
DIGITAL PUBILCATIONS
2013-2016 I was the founding editor of two digital magazines: Prosper Magazine, which integrated ideas and applications to help people grow and develop and The Economics Circle, which revieed key theories and applications in economics and how they apply to the world. They were an invaluable experience in setting up an app and an online presence, but my passions took me down a different route, so I wound them down in 2016,.
ACADEMIC RTICLES
• “John Locke and Early Childhood Education,” in The Sage Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Eds. R.Bailey, D.Carr, R.Barrow, and C.McCarthy. Sage: London (2009)
• “The Philosophical Warrior,” in Military Ethics and Irregular Warfare, eds. Don Carrick, Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee, and Don Carrick. Ashgate: Aldershot (2009)
• “The Ethical Warrior”, Military Ethics, eds. Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee, and Don Carrick. Ashgate: Aldershot (2008).
• “John Locke’s Morality of War” in Journal of Military Ethics, Vol.4, Issue 2, (2005)
• “The Rules of War in Sub-Saharan Africa” in Just War in Comparative Perspective, ed. Paul Robinson (2005)
• “Stretching Humanitarianisms: Cultural and Aesthetic Values and Military Intervention,” co-written with H. Eisenhut, in Human Rights and Military Intervention, eds. Alexander Moseley and Richard Norman (2002)
• “Is war a spontaneous Hayekian institution?” in Peace and Change, February 2002. Now on https://www.academia.edu/6084083/Is_War_A_Hayekian...
• “Liberalism and Suicide Bombers,” in Moral Musings, 1998.
NOVELS
Wither This Land
(2001) - political satire and adventure set against the UK Hunting Ban in the early 2000s
Vestiges of Freedom
(2004) - romp through a dystopian future
The Turning Away (unpublished) - what if the Nazi armies had invaded the Bristol Channel in 1940?