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30Review of Martin Peterson, An Introduction to Decision Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010. 2010.A review of Martin Peterson, _An Introduction to Decision Theory_ (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. x + 317.
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18Moral Theory and Climate Change: Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet (edited book)Routledge. 2020.Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to date, there have been no books that have brought together a broad range of ethical theories to apply them systematically to the problems of climate change. This volume fills that deep need. Two preliminary chapters--an up-to-date synopsis of climate science and an overview of the ethical issues raised by…Read more
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17The Number of Preference Orderings: A Recursive ApproachThe Mathematical Gazette 99 (544): 21-32. 2015.This article discusses approaches to the problem of the number of preference orderings that can be constructed from a given set of alternatives. After briefly reviewing the prevalent approach to this problem, which involves determining a partitioning of the alternatives and then a permutation of the partitions, this article explains a recursive approach and shows it to have certain advantages over the partitioning one.
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12Review of Henry West, An Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004. 2004.A review of Henry R. West, _An Introduction to Mill’s Utilitarian Ethics_ (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. xii + 216.
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3In “The Desire Theory of Claim-Rights,” Brian Kierland presents an analysis of the concept of a claim-right according to which one person has a claim-right against another just in case there is a perfect correlation between (1) whether the second person has a duty owed to the first and (2) whether the first wants the second to do the act in question. I respond by suggesting that in certain cases, including a variant of the case of Ulysses and the Sirens, the Desire Theory has seriously counter-i…Read more
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1UtilitarianismIn Dan Callahan & Peter Singer (eds.), Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, 2nd edition, . pp. 452-458. 2012.
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Genetic Discrimination in Health Insurance: An Ethical and Economic AnalysisIn Aine Donovan & Ronald Michael Green (eds.), The Human Genome Project in College Curriculum: Ethical Issues and Practical Strategies, Upne. pp. 46-57. 2008.Current research on the human genome holds enormous long-term promise for improvements in health care, but it poses an immediate ethical challenge in the area of health insurance, by raising the question of whether insurers should be allowed to take genetic information about customers into account in the setting of premiums. It is widely held that such discrimination is immoral and ought to be illegal, and the prevalence of this view is understandable, given the widespread belief, which I endors…Read more
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IntroductionIn Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller & David Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life. pp. 3-18. 2011.
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Review of Sterba, Ethics: The Big Questions (review)APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 99 273-274. 2000.
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Normative and Descriptive Decision Theory |
Philosophy of Law |
Areas of Interest
Act- and Rule-Utilitarianism |