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86Individual rights, drug policy, and the worst‐case ScenarioCriminal Justice Ethics 22 (1): 41-45. 2003.
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58Reviving the Socialist Calculation Debate: A Defense of Hayek Against LangeSocial Philosophy and Policy 6 (2): 139. 1989.The socialist calculation debate is a debate about whether rational economic decisions can be made without markets, or without markets in production goods. Though this debate has been simmering in economics for over 65 years, most philosophers have ignored it. This may be because they are unaware of the debate, or perhaps it is because they have absorbed the conventional view that one side decisively won. This is the side represented by economists such as Oskar Lange and Fred Taylor who, in oppo…Read more
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57Smoking tobacco: Irrationality, addiction, and paternalismPublic Affairs Quarterly 8 (2): 187-203. 1994.
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55Why Rawlsian liberals should support free market capitalismJournal of Political Philosophy 3 (1). 1995.
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45Egalitarianism and welfare-state redistributionSocial Philosophy and Policy 19 (1): 1-35. 2002.A central idea of contemporary philosophical egalitarianism's theory of justice is that involuntary inequalities or disadvantages—those that arise through no choice or fault of one's own—should be minimized or rectified in some way. Egalitarians believe that the preferred institutional vehicle for fulfilling these obligations of justice is some form of a welfare state. Of course, contemporary egalitarians disagree about the best way to interpret or understand their theory of justice and institut…Read more
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45Does Ronald Dworkin Take Rights Seriously?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (3). 1982.One of the aims of Ronald Dworkin's recent book, Taking Rights Seriously, is to provide a theory of natural rights. His theory is novel and interesting in two respects. First, Dworkin argues that the commonly held belief that liberty and equality are fundamentally opposed to one another is false. Rights to various liberties are themselves derived from a form of a right to equality — what Dworkin calls the right to equal concern and respect. Second, Dworkin thinks that the notion of a general rig…Read more
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42Ethical and legal issues in e-mail therapyEthics and Behavior 6 (2). 1996.Psychologists and psychiatrists recently started using electronic mail (e-mail) to conduct therapy. This article explores relevant ethical and legal issues including, among others, the nature of the professional relationship, boundaries of competence, informed consent, treating minors, confidentiality, and the duty to warn and protect. To illustrate these complex issues, two services currently operating are discussed. To address potential hazards to clients and the profession, a new ethical stan…Read more
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37The ethics of genetic screening: the first report of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics: another personal viewJournal of Medical Ethics 20 (3): 185-187. 1994.
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35Book ReviewsJohn R. Rowan, Conflicts of Rights: Moral Theory and Social Policy Implications.Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1999. Pp. 225. $62.00 (review)Ethics 112 (4): 855-857. 2002.
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32Free Speech, Free Exchange, and Rawlsian LiberalismSocial Theory and Practice 17 (1): 47-68. 1991.
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30Robert Goodin, Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (3): 371. 1999.
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26Can Old-Age Social Insurance Be Justified?Social Philosophy and Policy 14 (2): 116. 1997.While in America most people think of “welfare” as means-tested programs such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, in reality in the United States and other affluent democracies the heart of the welfare state is social insurance programs, such as health insurance, old-age or retirement pensions, and unemployment insurance. They are insurance programs in the sense that they protect against common risks of a loss of income if and/or when certain events come to pass ; they are “social” becau…Read more
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24Creativity in Medical Education: The Value of Having Medical Students Make StuffJournal of Medical Humanities 37 (4): 475-483. 2016.What is the value of having medical students engage in creative production as part of their learning? Creating something new requires medical students to take risks and even to fail--something they tend to be neither accustomed to nor comfortable with doing. “Making stuff” can help students prepare for such failures in a controlled environment that doesn’t threaten their professional identities. Furthermore, doing so can facilitate students becoming resilient and creative problem-solvers who str…Read more
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22David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin, Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility:Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (review)Ethics 110 (2): 437-441. 2000.
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22Why Even Egalitarians Should Favor Market Health InsuranceSocial Philosophy and Policy 15 (2): 84. 1998.Socialism is dead, though many of its academic proponents take no notice of its demise. With its death, private property in the means of production is not generally in dispute, and the action in political philosophy centers on the justification of the welfare state. The heart of the welfare state is social insurance programs, such as government managed and subsidized health insurance, retirement pensions, and unemployment insurance. The arguments about health insurance will arguably be among the…Read more
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18Why Rawlsian Liberals Should Support Free Market CapitalismJournal of Political Philosophy 3 (1): 58-85. 1995.
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7Research in psychotherapy and psychoanalysisJournal of Medical Ethics 12 (2): 91-92. 1986.Wilkinson's (1) critique of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy is weakened by inconsistent use of crucial terms, a systematically biased selectivity in reviewing empirical evidence and prior debates, and a failure to address issues crucial for a scientific understanding of psychotherapy
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6Thesis (Master, Philosophy) -- Queen's University, 2009-11-25 16:01:42.585.
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A Theory Of Socialism And Capitalism. By Hans-hermann Hoppe. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989 (review)Reason Papers 15 154-156. 1990.
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Communitarianism and social securityIn Christi Favor, Gerald F. Gaus & Julian Lamont (eds.), Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economics: Integration & Common Research Projects, Stanford Economics and Finance. 2010.
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Jeffrey Reiman, Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 11 (4): 286-288. 1991.
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Is the Welfare State Justified?Cambridge University Press. 2007.In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communitarianism, and many forms of liberalism - should converge in a rejection of central welfare state institutions. He examines how major welfare institutions, such as government-financed and -administered retirement pensions, national health insurance, and programs for the needy, actually work. Comparing them to compulsory private insurance and privat…Read more
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