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15054Defending Eugenics: From cryptic choice to conscious selectionMonash Bioethics Review 35 24-35. 2018.
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6400Race Research and the Ethics of BeliefJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 14 (2): 287-297. 2017.On most accounts, beliefs are supposed to fit the world rather than change it. But believing can have social consequences, since the beliefs we form underwrite our actions and impact our character. Because our beliefs affect how we live our lives and how we treat other people, it is surprising how little attention is usually given to the moral status of believing apart from its epistemic justification. In what follows, I develop a version of the harm principle that applies to beliefs as well as …Read more
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32958Public Goods and Government ActionPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 14 (2): 109-128. 2015.It is widely agreed that one of the core functions of government is to supply public goods that markets either fail to provide or cannot provide efficiently. I will suggest that arguments for government provision of public goods require fundamental moral judgments in addition to the usual economic considerations about the relative efficacy of markets and governments in supplying them. While philosophers and policymakers owe a debt of gratitude to economists for developing the theory of public go…Read more
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9119What is an Epidemic?: Currents in Contemporary BioethicsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 42 (3): 389-391. 2014.
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2158Review of Brad Spellberg, Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them (review)American Journal of Bioethics 10 (11): 39-41. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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3597Combating Resistance: The Case for a Global Antibiotics TreatyPublic Health Ethics 3 (1): 13-22. 2010.
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5388Ethics, Antibiotics, and Public PolicyGeorgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 15 (2). 2017.
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5347Social Norms, The Invisible Hand, and the LawUniversity of Queensland Law Journal 33 (2). 2014.
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30173What's Wrong with Factory Farming?Public Health Ethics 8 (3): 246-254. 2015.Factory farming continues to grow around the world as a low-cost way of producing animal products for human consumption. However, many of the practices associated with intensive animal farming have been criticized by public health professionals and animal welfare advocates. The aim of this essay is to raise three independent moral concerns with factory farming, and to explain why the practices associated with factory farming flourish despite the cruelty inflicted on animals and the public health…Read more
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497Review of Michael Hauskeller, Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2013.
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122Review of Brennan and Jaworski, Markets without Limits (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 00. 2016.
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2670Review of Allen Buchanan, Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement (review)Bioethics 26 (7): 391-392. 2012.
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Duke UniversitySenior Lecturer
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |