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Tom Bailey studied philosophy at Oxford, Warwick, and Pisa and has taught at JCU since 2007. He has worked on Kant, Nietzsche, and Nietzsche’s relation to Kant, the place of religion in democratic politics, and global justice. He is currently exploring topics in political philosophy, the philosophy of love, food justice, and business ethics. He teaches courses in political philosophy, ethics, and business ethics, introductory, modern, and contemporary philosophy, feminist philosophy, the philosophy of art, the philosophy of love, and humanities research methods.

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    Mapping Contemporary Catholic Politics in Italy
    (2016) Bailey, Tom; Driessen, Michael
    This editors’ introduction opens a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies on the topic of ‘Mapping Contemporary Catholic Politics in Italy’. It briefly identifies the political, sociological and ideational changes that have occurred in Catholic politics since the collapse of the Democrazia Cristiana party, and introduces the contributions to the special issue, highlighting the common threads and the important divergences in their analyses.
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    Will to Power: Nietzsche's Transcendental Idealism
    (2021) Bailey, Tom
    This article argues that in Beyond Good and Evil (BGE) Nietzsche defends “will to power” as a transcendentally ideal condition of objectivity, in the sense in which Kant considers, say, space, time, or the concepts of substance and causation to be such conditions. The article shows how Nietzsche's engagement with the transcendental idealist arguments of his Kantian contemporaries leads him to reject naturalism and to adopt a peculiarly transcendental kind of skepticism, which rejects as unjustified the conditions that would make objectivity possible. The article then turns to the argument for “will to power” in BGE 36, showing that it is best read as defending a transcendentally ideal condition of objectivity, and thus as responding to transcendental skepticism. The article concludes by elaborating on this understanding of “will to power,” particularly in relation to the sense of causality that Nietzsche invokes and in comparison with Kant's own transcendental claims.