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6Book ReviewsRussell Hardin,. Indeterminacy and Society.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+166. $29.95 (review)Ethics 116 (2): 425-428. 2006.
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5Book ReviewsPhilip. Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 219. $27.50Ethics 113 (2): 423-428. 2003.
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5Health, Luck, and Justice, Shlomi Segall. Princeton University Press, 2010. x + 239 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 27 (2): 190-198. 2011.
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5Comparability of health statesPhilosophical Studies 1-13. forthcoming.Measuring an individual’s health states presupposes the ability to compare them. I maintain that our ability to compare quantities or magnitudes of health are severely limited. It is easier to compare values of health states, but those values are context dependent and often unreliable.
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2The Paradoxes of Respectful Guidance: A Comment on Kenneth V. Iserson, “Do You Believe in Magic? Shove, Don’t Nudge: Advising Patients at the Bedside”Journal of Clinical Ethics 31 (1): 83-85. 2020.This commentary argues that the problems identified in Kenneth V. Iserson’s Essay, “Do you Believe in Magic? Shove, Don’t Nudge: Advising Patients at the Bedside,” are perennial difficulties to which there is no single simple solution. In particular, recent work in psychology offers little help to caregivers, who are in the difficult position of guiding the decisions of their patients while respecting them and ultimately deferring to their wishes.
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1A review of two books by Kevin D. Hoover: Causality in Macroeconomics and The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2): 259-270. 2003.
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1And PreferenceIn Fabienne Peter (ed.), Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 49. 2007.
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1Evaluating social policyIn Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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1Capital, Profits, and Prices: An Essay in the Philosophy of EconomicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (4): 387-392. 1983.
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1Third-Party Risks in Research: Should IRBs Address Them?IRB: Ethics & Human Research 29 (3). 2007.The risks to groups posed by research involving human beings—including genetics research—should be conceived of as a species of third-party risks. The important task of protecting third parties from the risks posed by the conduct and the findings of research should not be assigned to IRBs because they are not designed or equipped to handle such a broad responsibility. The serious problems raised by third-party risks require an integration of policy-making and regulation that is beyond the scope …Read more
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Economic Models: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Capital TheoryDissertation, Columbia University. 1978.Chapter 5 is an essay on the methodology of equilibrium theory. In the course of examining recent controversies concerning lawlike claims and "assumptions" in economic theory, I reach a position similar to J. S. Mill's. Neo-classical economics is what Mill would call "a separate science." It follows a deductive method, since its basic laws supported by everyday experience. In its general equilibrium formulation, equilibrium theory possesses, however, no explanatory worth and very little explanat…Read more
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Health and well-beingIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.
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Philosophy of the behavioral and social sciences: Philosophy of the cognitive sciences / William Bechtel and Mitchell Herschbach. Philosophy of psychology / Edouard Machery. Philosophy of sociology / Daniel Little. Philosophy of economics (review)In Fritz Allhoff (ed.), Philosophies of the Sciences, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
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Physical Causation: Phil Dowe, Physical causation (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction, and Decision Theory), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. ix+ 224, price US $60.00, ISBN: 0-521-78049-7 hbk (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33 (4): 717-724. 2002.
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Deterministic causation of probabilitiesCommunication and Cognition. Monographies 31 (4): 365-390. 1998.
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodProfessor (Part-time)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |