Staff Profile
Professor David Rose
Professor of Social Ethics
- Email: david.rose@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3864
- Address: Philosophy
10.10, Level 10
Henry Daysh Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
David Rose’s major research interests are in social ethics, Hegelian thought and rational hermeneutics. The main themes of his work are grounded in readings in the history of ideas, especially the writings of Hegel and Vico, and more generally in counter-enlightenment ethical thought. He has published various articles on posthumanism, the history of European thought, ethics and political philosophy as well as an introduction to Hegel's social philosophy and monographs on the concept of free-will, the ethics of pornography and posthumanism.
He is also a leading exponent of object-centred learning and innovative pedagogies in philosophical learning.
Currently, the dominant themes of his thinking concern the human being's self-understanding and its relation to culture in its broadest sense, including education, technology and network systems.
Area of expertise
- History of Ethical Thought
- Hegel, Vico
- History of European Philosophy
Qualifications
- Ph.D (Glasgow), MA (Warwick), BA (Hons.) (UEA)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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Research Interests
David Rose’s major research interests are in social ethics, Hegelian thought and rational hermeneutics. The main themes of his work are grounded in readings in the history of ideas, especially the writings of Hegel and Vico, and more generally in counter-enlightenment ethical thought. He has published various articles on the history of European thought, ethics and political philosophy as well as an introduction to Hegel's social philosophy and monographs on the concept of free-will and the ethics of pornography. He is also a leading exponent of object-centred learning and innovative pedagogies in philosophical learning.
Other Expertise
David has also published on issues in contemporary applied ethics and culture as well as producing work in the area of educational philosophy. His specialisms include: political philosophy, history of European ideas, Italian philosophy, cosmopolitanism and applied ethics.
Current Work
Currently, the dominant themes of Rose's thinking concern the human being's self-understanding and its relation to culture in its broadest sense, including education, technology and network systems.
Funding
The Subject Centre in Philosophical and Religious Studies mini-project, "Philosophical Theory and Contemporary Relevance", from June, 2008 - June, 2009.
David Rose teaches courses on the history of philosophy as well as ethics and political philosophy. He is also very interested in developing ideas about the impact of technology on self-understanding and the developments of humanism.
He is a Senior Fellow of the HEA.
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Articles
- Rose DE. Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) - Counter-Enlightenment, Revloution, and Dissent Foreword. Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) 2020, 3(2), i-iv.
- Rose DE. Tracing the Subjectivities of the Changing Human: Hegel, Self-Understanding, and Posthuman Objective Freedom. Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media 2019, 2(2), 189-212.
- Rose DE. Sartre’s Hegelianism: A Culturally Appropriate Form of Radical Rebellion. The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 2019, 3(2), 148-167.
- Brown DR, Gordon R, Rose D. Re-aligning society and its institutions: Ethics, "social licence to operate," and responsible management practice. Business and Professional Ethics Journal 2018, 37(2-3), 141-159.
- Rose DE. Dirty Pleasures: the ethics of the representation of sexual violence. Philosophical Journal of Violence and Conflict 2018, 2(1), 97-111.
- Rose DE. Ethical Pluralism and the Universal Error in Moral Enquiry. The Philosopher, Journal of the Philosophical Society 2016, CIV(3), 91-14.
- Rose DE. Essere italiano: The Provenance of Vattimo. Philosophy Today 2016, 60(3), 621-640.
- Rose DE. Debts and duties of patients who benefit from medical research with reference to arthroplasty. Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 2016, 8, 1-8.
- Rose DE. A Brief Sketch of the Possibility of a Hegelian Cosmopolitanism. Critical Horizons 2016, 17(1), 40-52.
- Rose DE. Sartre and the Problem of Universal Human Nature Revisited. Delti 2015, 4, 165-184.
- Rose DE. Philosophical education and cultural relevance: discipline-affirmation in the context of the knowledge economy. Journal of Further and Higher Education 2013, 37(2), 242-260.
- Rose DE. The definition of pornography and avoiding normative silliness: a commentary adjunct to Rea's definition. Philosophy Study 2012, 2(8), 547-559.
- Rose DE. Pornography, moral wrongness and ontological pluralism. The Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 2011, 13(2), 1-11.
- Rose DE. Weaving philosophy into the fabric of cultural life. Discourse 2010, 9(1), 165-182.
- Rose D. Peter Singer’s Hegelianism: the Social Context of Equality. Between the Species: an online journal for the study of philosophy and animals 2009, 13(8), 1-32.
- Rose D. Vichian normative political theory: history and human nature. New Vico Studies 2008, 26, 75-102.
- Rose D. Postmodern political values: pluralism and legitimacy in the thought of John Rawls and Gianni Vattimo. Contemporary Political Theory 2008, 7(4), 416-433.
- Rose D. Hegel’s theory of moral action, its place in his system and the ’highest’ right of the subject. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 2007, 3(2-3), 170-191.
- Rose D. Sartre and the Problem of Universal Human Nature Revisited. Sartre Studies International 2003, 9(1), 1-20.
- Rose D. The Ethical Claims of il Pensiero Debole: Gianni Vattimo, Pluralism and Postmodern Subjectivity. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 2002, 7(3), 63-79.
- Rose D. From Production to Consumption (The Return): Deterritorialising the Human. Philosophical Writings 1998, (8), 51-71.
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Authored Books
- Rose DE. Our Posthuman Past: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and Ethical Futures. Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. In Press.
- Rose DE. The Ethics and Politics of Pornography. London: Palgrave MacMillian, 2013.
- Rose DE. The ethics and politics of pornography. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Rose D. Free Will and Continental Philosophy: The Death without Meaning. London: Continuum Press, 2009.
- Rose D. Hegel's "Philosophy of Right": A Reader's Guide. London, New York: Continuum Press, 2007.
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Book Chapters
- Rose DE. Rejecting Intellectual Property: the disappearance or affirmation of the posthuman self through digital and distributed cognitive production. In: Žarko Paić, ed. The Technosphere as a New Aesthetic. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, pp.245.
- Lewis MA, Rose DE. Introduction. In: Lewis MA; Rose DE, ed. The Bloomsbury Italian Philosophy Reader. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2022, pp.1-28.
- Rose DE. Gianni Vattimo. In: Lewis M.; Rose DE, ed. The Bloomsbury Italian Philosophy Reader. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Rose DE. Context-Based Projects: The Possibility of an Optimistic Learning Approach in the Technologically Enabled University. In: Sengupta, E., Blessinger, P., Makhanya, M, ed. International Perspectives on the Role of Technology in Humanizing Higher Education. United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, 2021, pp.49--67.
- Rose DE. Crisis, Moral Errors and History. In: Maggini,G; Karabatzaki,H; Solomou-Papanikolaou,V; Vila-Chã,J, ed. Philosophy and crisis : responding to challenges to ways of life in the contemporary world. Washington DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018, pp.207-216.
- Rose DE. A Brief Sketch of the Possibility of a Hegelian Cosmopolitanism. In: Bailey,T, ed. Contestatory Cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge, 2017.
- Rose DE. Cosmopolitan Understanding and Vico's Fantasia as a Guide to Normative Intelligibility. In: Telegdi-Csetri, A, ed. Problematizing Cosmopolitanism. Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut, 2014, pp.35-52.
- Rose DE. Society and the origin of moral law: Giambattista Vico and non-reductive naturalism. In: Musschenga, B., van Harskamp, A, ed. What Makes us Moral: On the capacities and conditions for being moral. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer, 2013, pp.311-326.
- Rose DE. Vico and Hegel: The Alternative Ethics of the Enlightenment and the Erroneous Polarisation of Modern Intellectual History. In: Potari, D., Magoulas, C, ed. Enlightenment in the Greek and European Tradition. Athens: Olympic Centre for Philosophy and Culture, 2012, pp.57-68.
- Rose DE. Hegel. In: Gaus, G.F., D'Agostino, F, ed. Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. London, UK: Routledge, 2012, pp.114-123.
- Rose DE. Context-based learning. In: Steel, N, ed. Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Netherlands: Springer, 2012, pp.799-802.
- Rose DE. The relevance of Hegel's social thought to contemporary conservatism. In: Ozsel, D, ed. Reflections of Conservatism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011, pp.107-123.
- Rose DE. The problem with the problem with pornography. In: Monroe, D, ed. Porn: How to Think with Kink. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp.178-190.
- Rose DE. Is it rational to support Aston Villa?. In: Richards, T, ed. Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game. New York: Open Court, 2010, pp.199-214.
- Rose D. Hermeneutics and the rational resolution of conflict. In: Chakrabarti, C; Fairbanks, SJ, ed. Politics, Pluralism and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp.111-132.
- Rose DE. Hegel’s theory of moral action, its place in his system and the ’highest’ right of the subject. In: Knowles, D, ed. G. W. F. Hegel. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, pp.357-378.
- Rose D. Hegel’s theory of moral action, its place in his system and the ’highest’ right of the subject. In: Ashton, P; Nicolacopoulos, T; and Vassilacopoulos, G, ed. The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking. Melbourrne: re.press, 2008, pp.52-71.
- Vattimo G, Rose D (trans.). Postmodernity and (the end of) metaphysics. In: Goulimari, P, ed. Postmodernism. What Moment?. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp.32-38.
- Rose D. Imagination and Reason: An Ethics of Interpretation for a Cosmopolitan Age. In: Morgan, D; Banham, G, ed. Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future. London: Palgrave, 2007, pp.40-68.
- Rose D. Kant. In: Claeys, G, ed. Routledge Encyclopaedia to Nineteenth Century Thought. London: Routledge, 2005.
- Rose D. Freud. In: Claeys, G, ed. Routledge Encyclopaedia to Nineteenth Century Thought. London: Routledge, 2005.
- Rose D. Croce. In: Claeys, G, ed. Routledge Encyclopaedia to Nineteenth Century Thought. London: Routledge, 2005.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
- Rose D. The Universal Error in Moral Enquiry. In: Proceedings Metaphysics 2003, Second World Conference. 2005, Rome, Italy: Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca.
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Edited Books
- Lewis MA, Rose DE, ed. The Bloomsbury Italian Philosophy Reader. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.
- Rose DE, ed. Counter-enlightenment, revolution, and dissent. Budapest: Trivent, 2020.
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Online Publication
- Rose DE. The moral argument for open borders. Bylines Network, 2022. Available at: https://northeastbylines.co.uk/the-moral-argument-for-open-borders/.
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Report
- Rose DE. Philosophical theory and contemporary relevance: personalised, object-based learning in philosophical studies and the methods and practices of acquiring and developing core critical skills. Centre for Knowledge, Science & Society, Newcastle University, 2009.
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Reviews
- Rose DE. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on Natural Right and Political Science: The First Philosophy of Right. Philosophy in Review 2014, 34(1-2), 21-23.
- Rose DE. Arto Laitinen and Constantine Sandis, eds., Hegel on Action. Philosophy in Review 2012, 32(3), 196-200.
- Rose D. Haldane, J. ed., 'Values, education and the human world', Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004. Philosophical Quarterly 2006, 56(223), 312-315.