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585The Egalitarian Fallacy: Are Group Differences Compatible with Political Liberalism?Philosophia 48 (2): 433-444. 2020.Many people greet evidence of biologically based race and sex differences with extreme skepticism, even hostility. We argue that some of the vehemence with which many intellectuals in the West resist claims about group differences is rooted in the tacit assumption that accepting evidence for group differences in socially valued traits would undermine our reasons to treat people with respect. We call this theegalitarian fallacy. We first explain the fallacy and then give evidence that self-descri…Read more
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570Review of Mark White, The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism (review)The Independent Review 18 (2). 2013.
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565Compensation for Cures: Paying People to Participate in Challenge StudiesBioethics 33 (7): 792-797. 2019.Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health problems humanity faces. Research into new classes of antibiotics and new kinds of treatments – including risky experimental treatments such as phage therapy and vaccines – is an important part of improving our ability to treat infectious diseases. In order to aid this research, we will argue that we should permit researchers to pay people any amount of money to compensate for the risks of participating in clinical trials, including…Read more
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563Dodging Darwin: Race, Evolution, and the Hereditarian HypothesisPersonality and Individual Differences 160. 2020.
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501The Future of Phage: Ethical challenges of using phage viruses to treat bacterial infectionsPublic Health Ethics 13. 2020.
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490Review 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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112Review of Jessica Flanigan, Pharmaceutical Freedom (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2018.
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55Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current (review)The Independent Review 27 (2). 2022.
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46Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Science and Public Policy (review)The Independent Review 25 (1). 2020.
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Duke UniversitySenior Lecturer
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |