John Wall (philosopher)

John Wall is an American educator and theoretical ethicist who teaches at Rutgers University Camden.

Research

Wall's research focuses on "the groundworks of moral life, particularly their relations to language, power, and childhood" and theoretical work where he argues that "ethical life is fundamentally creative, as well as for his concept of childism, or the empowerment of children by transforming norms".[1]

Career

Wall currently teaches at Rutgers University Camden, where he teaches in the departments of Philosophy, Religion, and Childhood Studies. He is the founding director of the Childism Institute and is the co-founder of the Children’s Voting Colloquium. Wall is also co-editor of the journal

In 2006 he assisted in the creation of a Childhood Studies doctoral program at Rutgers, which is billed as the first of its type in the United States.[1]

Bibliography

Books
  • Marriage, Health, and the Professions (2002, co-editor, Eerdmans)[2]
  • Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought (2002, Routledge)[3]
  • Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility (2005, Oxford University Press)[4][5]
  • Ethics in Light of Childhood (2010, Georgetown University Press)[6][7][8][9]
  • Children and Armed Conflict (2011, co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan)[10]
  • Children’s Rights: Today’s Global Challenge (2017, Rowman & Littlefield)[11][12][13]

Journal articles
  • Wall, John (2008). "Human Rights in Light of Childhood". International Journal of Children’s Rights. 16.4: 523–543.
  • Wall, John (2014). "Why Children and Youth Should Have the Right to Vote: An Argument for Proxy-Claim Suffrage". Children, Youth and Environments. 24.1: 108–123.
  • Wall, John (2019). ""From Childhood Studies to Childism"". Children's Geographies. 17.6: 1–15.

References
  1. "John Wall". Rutgers University. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  2. Toms, Paul E. (Summer 2007). "Marriage, Health, and the Professions (review)". Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics. 23 (2): 126.
  3. Kaplan, D. M. (2004-06-01). "Review: Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 72 (2): 569–572. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh058. ISSN 0002-7189.
  4. Whitehouse, Glenn (April 2007). "John Wall, . Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility . Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii+234 pp. $55.00 (cloth)". The Journal of Religion. 87 (2): 299–300. doi:10.1086/513233. ISSN 0022-4189.
  5. Lounibos, John B. (2006). "Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility. By John Wall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 234 pages. $55.00". Horizons. 33 (2): 376–379. doi:10.1017/S0360966900003777. ISSN 0360-9669.
  6. Walter, Jennifer K. (2011). "Ethics in Light of Childhood. By John Wall. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010. ix + 204 pages. $34.95 (paper)". Horizons. 38 (2): 375–376. doi:10.1017/S0360966900008422. ISSN 2050-8557.
  7. Roche, Mary M. Doyle (November 2011). "Ethics in Light of Childhood - By John Wall: Reviews and author responses". Conversations in Religion & Theology. 9 (2): 200–212. doi:10.1111/j.1479-2214.2011.00221.x.
  8. Brown, Fraser (July 2011). "Ethics in Light of Childhood: Book Reviews". Children & Society. 25 (4): 342–343. doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00363.x.
  9. Kohlhaas, Jacob (March 2014). "Ethics in Light of Childhood. By John Wall. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010. Pp. 204. Paper, $34.95". Religious Studies Review. 40 (1): 31–31. doi:10.1111/rsr.12103_6.
  10. Kassimir, Ron (2014-08-26). "Children and Armed Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Investigations:". Contemporary Sociology. doi:10.1177/0094306114545742l.
  11. Alderson, Priscilla (2019-05-10). "Children's Rights: Today's Global Challenge, written by John Wall". The International Journal of Children’s Rights. 27 (2): 411–415. doi:10.1163/15718182-02702008. ISSN 0927-5568.
  12. Roche, Jeremy (November 2018). "Children's Rights Today's Global ChallengeBy John Wall. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017 ISBN 978-1-4422-4983-7, 191 pp, £17.95". Children & Society. 32 (6): 503–504. doi:10.1111/chso.12276.
  13. Richards, Sarah (March 2019). "Book review: John Wall, Children's Rights, Today's Global Challenge". Global Studies of Childhood. 9 (1): 96–97. doi:10.1177/2043610618778487. ISSN 2043-6106.

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