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30Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces the Future (review)Hastings Center Report 35 (4): 22-24. 2012.
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27The Ethical Primate (review)Philosophical Review 106 (1): 131-133. 1997.This short, readable book, aimed at a popular audience, is concerned to show that a naturalistic view of humankind can be reconciled with a commitment to morality and a belief in human freedom.
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369Moral psychology and the unity of the virtuesRatio 20 (2). 2007.The ancient Greeks subscribed to the thesis of the Unity of Virtue, according to which the possession of one virtue is closely related to the possession of all the others. Yet empirical observation seems to contradict this thesis at every turn. What could the Greeks have been thinking of? The paper offers an interpretation and a tentative defence of a qualified version of the thesis. It argues that, as the Greeks recognized, virtue essentially involves knowledge ? specifically, evaluative knowle…Read more
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133Deconstructing welfare: Reflections on Stephen Darwall's welfare and rational careUtilitas 18 (4): 415-426. 2006.In his book Welfare and Rational Care, Stephen Darwall proposes to give an account of human welfare. Or rather, he offers two accounts, a metaethical and a normative account. The two accounts, he suggests, are somewhat supportive of each other though they are logically independent
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58The Challenge of Informed Consent and Return of Results in Translational Genomics: Empirical Analysis and RecommendationsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 42 (3): 344-355. 2014.Large-scale sequencing tests, including whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing, are rapidly moving into clinical use. Sequencing is already being used clinically to identify therapeutic opportunities for cancer patients who have run out of conventional treatment options, to help diagnose children with puzzling neurodevelopmental conditions, and to clarify appropriate drug choices and dosing in individuals. To evaluate and support clinical applications of these technologies, the National Human G…Read more
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13What Adrienne Knew: Living BioethicsHastings Center Report 44 (2): 17-19. 2014.Adrienne Asch pioneered a way of doing bioethics that few are brave enough to attempt. In addition to summoning logic, arguing values, and applying reasoning to cases, Adrienne lived bioethics. Without compromising the strength of her analysis, she grounded that analysis explicitly in her own lived experience of disability. Hers was the view from somewhere—a deep invitation to others to rethink everything from embryo selection to end‐of‐life decisions through the lens of lived disability.
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329Responsibility, Moral and OtherwiseInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (2): 127-142. 2015.Philosophers frequently distinguish between causal responsibility and moral responsibility, but that distinction is either ambiguous or confused. We can distinguish between causal responsibility and a deeper kind of responsibility, that licenses reactive attitudes and judgments that a merely causal connection would not, and we can distinguish between holding people accountable for their moral qualities and holding people accountable for their nonmoral qualities. But, because we sometimes hold pe…Read more
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13INTRODUCTION: Return of Research Results: What About the Family?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (3): 437-439. 2015.
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42Book Review:Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy. Larry Gostin (review)Ethics 102 (3): 671-. 1992.
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88Feminism & bioethics: beyond reproduction (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1996.Bioethics has paid surprisingly little attention to the special problems faced by women and to feminist analyses of current health care issues other than ...
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128The Deflation of Moral Philosophy:Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Bernard WilliamsEthics 97 (4): 821-. 1987.
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397Meaning and moralityProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (3). 1997.Susan Wolf; XV*—Meaning and Morality1, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 97, Issue 1, 1 June 1997, Pages 299–316, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-926.
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283Character and ResponsibilityJournal of Philosophy 112 (7): 356-372. 2015.Many philosophers have been persuaded that if we don’t create our own characters, we cannot be responsible for acts that flow from our characters; they also raise doubts about whether acts that do not flow from our characters can fairly be attributed to us. Both these concerns, however, reflect a simplistic and implausible conception of character and of its relation to our actions and our selves. I suggest a different relationship between character and responsibility: We can be responsible for a…Read more
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16International Policies on Sharing Genomic Research Results with Relatives: Approaches to Balancing Privacy with AccessJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (3): 576-593. 2015.Returning genetic research results to relatives raises complex issues. In order to inform the U.S. debate, this paper analyzes international law and policies governing the sharing of genetic research results with relatives and identifies key themes and lessons. The laws and policies from other countries demonstrate a range of approaches to balancing individual privacy and autonomy with family access for health benefit, offering important lessons for further development of approaches in the Unite…Read more
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3The legal and moral responsibility of organizationsIn J. Roland Pennock & John William Chapman (eds.), Criminal justice, New York University Press. pp. 27. 1985.
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116Neurolaw: The big questionAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (1). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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9186Good-for-nothingsProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 85 (2): 47-64. 2010.Many academic works as well as many works of art are such that if they had never been produced, no one would be worse off. Yet it is hard to resist the judgment that some such works are good nonetheless. We are rightly grateful that these works were created; we rightly admire them, appreciate them, and take pains to preserve them. And the authors and artists who produced them have reason to be proud. This should lead us to question the view that in order for a thing to be good, in a sense wh…Read more
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2787Sanity and the Metaphysics of ResponsibilityIn Ferdinand David Schoeman (ed.), Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions: New Essays in Moral Psychology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 46-62. 1987.My strategy is to examine a recent trend in philosophical discussions of responsibility, a trend that tries, but I think ultimately fails, to give an acceptable analysis of the conditions of responsibility. It fails due to what at first appear to be deep and irresolvable metaphysical problems. It is here that I suggest that the condition of sanity comes to the rescue. What at first appears to be an impossible requirement for responsibility---the requirement that the responsible agent have create…Read more
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546Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good LifeFoundations of Science 21 (2): 253-269. 2016.This paper argues that an adequate conception of a good life should recognize, in addition to happiness and morality, a third dimension of meaningfulness. It further proposes that we understand meaningfulness as involving both a subjective and an objective condition, suitably linked. Meaning arises when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness. In other words one’s life is meaningful insofar as one is gripped or excited by things worthy of one’s love, and one is able to do something …Read more
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