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23Engineered Knowledge, Fragility and Virtue EpistemologyPhilosophia 47 (3): 757-774. 2019.There is a clean image of knowledge transmission between thinkers that involves sincere and reliable speakers, and hearers who carefully assess the epistemic credentials of the testimony that they hear. There is, however, a murkier side to testimonial exchange where deception and lies hold sway. Such mendacity leads to sceptical worries and to discussion of epistemic vice. Here, though, I explore cases where deceit and lies are involved in knowledge transmission. This may sound surprising or eve…Read more
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40Cubism: Art and PhilosophyEspes 7 (1): 30-37. 2018.In this paper I argue that the development of cubism by Picasso and Braque at the beginning of the twentieth century can be illuminated by consideration of long-running philosophical debates concerning perceptual realism, in particular by Locke’s distinction between primary and secondary properties, and Kant’s empirical realism. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Picasso’s dealer and early authority on cubism, interpreted Picasso and Braque as Kantian in their approach. I reject his influential interpreta…Read more
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18Approaches to Implementing the Olmstead ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) RulingJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (S4): 47-48. 2003.The Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights enforces Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. OCR works through complaint investigations and compliance reviews, as well as outreach, technical assistance, and public education to promote voluntary compliance. In the Olmstead decision of June 1999, the Supreme Court held that the ADA’s “integration regulation” requires state and local government to administer services, …Read more
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34Hume on EducationPacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (S1): 619-642. 2017.Hume claims that education is ‘disclaimed by philosophy, as a fallacious ground of assent to any opinion’ (T 1.3.10.1) and that it is ‘never... recogniz'd by philosophers’ (T 1.3.9.19). He is usually taken to be referring here to indoctrination. I argue, however, that his main concern is with association and those philosophers who emphasize the epistemic dangers of the imagination. These include Locke, Hutcheson and Descartes, but not Hume himself. Hume praises education, highlighting its role i…Read more
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6The Orbiting Carbon Observatory mission will make the first global, space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize CO2 sources and sinks on regional scales. The measurement approach and instrument specifications were determined through an analysis of existing carbon cycle data and a series of observing system simulation experiments. During its 2-year mission, OCO will fly in a 1:15 PM sun-synchronous orbit with a 16-day …Read more
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387Timothy Yoder. Hume on God: Irony, Deism and Genuine Theism. Continuum, 2008European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (4): 201-206. 2012.
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Timothy Yoder. Hume on God: Irony, Deism and Genuine Theism. Continuum, 2008European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (4): 201--206. 2012.
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397God’s Knowledge of Other MindsEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (1): 17--34. 2013.This paper explores one aspect of God’s omniscience, that is, his knowledge of human minds. In §1 I spell out a traditional notion of divine knowledge, and in §2 I argue that our understanding of the thoughts of others is a distinct kind of knowledge from that involved in knowledge of the physical world; it involves empathizing with thinkers. In §3 I show how this is relevant to the question of how, and whether, God understands the thoughts of man. There is, we shall see, some tension between th…Read more
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19Gullible Yet IntelligibleAbstracta 3 (1): 46-73. 2006.In this paper I describe the imaginary community of Gullible. Gulliblians are led by moral pressures to believe whatever they are told and, in the scenario that I sketch, this leads to them having widespread contradictory beliefs. This community is nevertheless intelligible to us given what we know about their situation and their moral code. Davidson, however, holds there to be what I call a logicist constraint on interpretation: thinkers can only be interpreted if a good proportion of their bel…Read more
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69Opportunistic Salpingectomy to Reduce the Risk of Ovarian CancerThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 16 (1): 99-131. 2016.Substantial medical evidence shows that about half of ovarian cancers originate in the fallopian tube. Some medical organizations and clinical articles have suggested opportunistic salpingectomy to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in patients at average risk of developing it. This entails removing the fallopian tubes at the same time as another procedure that would occur anyway. The authors argue that the principles of totality and double effect can justify such salpingectomies, even though the…Read more
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31Improving Information and Best Practices for Public Health Emergency Legal PreparednessJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (s1): 64-67. 2008.This is one of four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and nineteen multi-disciplinary partner organizations. Each of the action agenda papers deals with one of the four core elements of public health legal preparedness: laws and legal authorities; competency in using those laws; coordination of law-based public health actions; and information. Options pre…Read more
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32Assessing Information and Best Practices for Public Health Emergency Legal PreparednessJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (s1): 42-46. 2008.Information is the fourth core element of public health legal preparedness and of legal preparedness for public health emergencies specifically. Clearly, the creation, transmittal, and application of information are vital to all public health endeavors. The critical significance of information grows exponentially as the complexity and scale of public threats increase.Only a small body of organized information on public health law existed before the 21st century: a series of landmark books publis…Read more
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28Hospitals, Collaboration, and Community Health ImprovementJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (S1): 56-59. 2015.Medical care in the United States traditionally has focused on the treatment of disease rather than on its prevention. Heart disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseases are the primary drivers of American health care costs; compared to other high-income countries, U.S. health indices are lowest and costs are highest.A “triple aim” — “improving the individual experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita costs of care for populations”…Read more
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The Hermeneutical Significance of Metaphor in Catholic Health Care EthicsDissertation, Saint Louis University. 2000.Traditional Catholic moral theology employs an analogical, sacramental language that is often alien and incomprehensible to the dominant culture of the United States. Historically, that culture has been influenced most steadfastly by a Protestant worldview, which utilizes a notably metaphorical language. The tension between these two worldviews becomes more complex at the threshold of the twenty-first century as the religious, cultural and philosophical diversity of the United States rapidly exp…Read more
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20Managing the Urban CommonsHuman Nature 23 (4): 467-489. 2012.All communities have common resources that are vulnerable to selfish motives. The current paper explores this challenge in the specific case of the urban commons, defined as the public spaces and scenery of city neighborhoods. A theoretical model differentiates between individual incentives and social incentives for caring for the commons. The quality of a commons is defined as the level of physical (e.g., loose garbage) and social (e.g., public disturbances) disorder. A first study compared lev…Read more
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71The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision: A Catholic PerspectiveAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (2): 62-64. 2003.No abstract
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38Assessing Information and Best Practices for Public Health Emergency Legal PreparednessJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (s1): 42-46. 2008.Information is the fourth core element of public health legal preparedness and of legal preparedness for public health emergencies specifically. Clearly, the creation, transmittal, and application of information are vital to all public health endeavors. The critical significance of information grows exponentially as the complexity and scale of public threats increase.Only a small body of organized information on public health law existed before the 21st century: a series of landmark books publis…Read more
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36Improving Information and Best Practices for Public Health Emergency Legal PreparednessJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (s1): 64-67. 2008.This is one of four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and nineteen multi-disciplinary partner organizations. Each of the action agenda papers deals with one of the four core elements of public health legal preparedness: laws and legal authorities; competency in using those laws; coordination of law-based public health actions; and information. Options pre…Read more
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47Testimony, Engineered Knowledge and InternalismPhilosophica 78 (2). 2006.Testimonial knowledge sometimes depends on internalist epistemic conditions, those that thinkers are able to reflect upon. In the testimony literature the only internalist conditions that are considered are those concerning a hearer's knowledge of a speaker's reliability. I argue, however, that the relevant sense of internal"" should not be seen as referring to just the hearer's point of view, but rather to the points of view of both the hearer and the speaker. There are certain cases of testimo…Read more
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26Hume on Sexual AttractionIn Corrigan & Farrell (eds.), Philosophical Frontiers: Essays and Emerging Thoughts, Progressive Frontiers Press. 2009.
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19Pathways to Knowledge: Private and Public By Alvin I. Goldman Oxford University Press, 2002. ix + 224 pp., £25 (review)Philosophy 78 (2): 289-307. 2003.
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2Robert J. Fogelin, A Defense of Hume on Miracles Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (2): 100-102. 2004.
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53Utilitarian Pessimism, Human Dignity, and the Vegetative StateThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 4 (3): 497-512. 2004.
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