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53Choosing for Another: Beyond Autonomy and Best InterestsHastings Center Report 39 (2): 31-37. 2009.According to bioethics orthodoxy, the question, “What would the patient choose?” is a question about the patient's autonomy. is at stake. In fact, what underpins the moral force of that question is a value different from either autonomy or best interests. This is the value of doing things in a way that is authentic to the person.
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1Styles of selfishnessIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.
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102Lord Jim and moral judgment: Literature and moral philosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (3): 265-281. 1998.
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99Hypothetical consent and moral forceLaw and Philosophy 10 (3). 1991.This article starts by examining the appeal to hypothetical consent as used by law and economics writers. I argue that their use of this kind of argument has no moral force whatever. I then briefly examine, through some remarks on Rawls and Scanlon, the conditions under which such an argument would have moral force. Finally, I bring these considerations to bear to criticize the argument of judge Frank Easterbrook's majority opinion in Flamm v. Eberstadt.
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89Are alcoholics less deserving of liver transplants?Hastings Center Report 37 (1): 41-47. 2007.When does behavior trigger a lesser claim to medical resources? When does chronic drinking, for example, mean that one has a lesser claim to a liver transplant? Only when one's behavior becomes a callous indifference to others' needs—when one knows the consequences of heavy drinking and knows that by drinking one may end up depriving someone else of a liver.
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25On Noncoercive EstablishmentPolitical Theory 33 (6): 812-839. 2005.In this essay, I raise the question of whether some degree of noncoercive state support for religious conceptions (broadly understood) should be left to the majoritarian branch ofgovernment. I argue that the reason not to do so is that such state support would alienate many citizens. However to take this as a sufficient reason to constrain the majoritarian branch is to accept the thesis that not being alienated from one's polity is a significant part of the human good. Those who would prohibit e…Read more
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8Justification and Radicalism in the 1844 Marx: A Response to Professor AbbeyPhilosophy Today 30 (1): 156-163. 2002.
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70Marx's attempt to leave philosophyHarvard University Press. 1998.Rather, in all the texts of this period Marx tries to mount a compelling critique of the present while altogether avoiding the dilemmas central to philosophy in ...
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33Beyond Autonomy and Best InterestsHastings Center Report 39 (2): 31-37. 2012.According to bioethics orthodoxy, the question, “What would the patient choose?” is a question about the patient's autonomy. is at stake. In fact, what underpins the moral force of that question is a value different from either autonomy or best interests. This is the value of doing things in a way that is authentic to the person.
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Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |