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613Female Under-Representation Among Philosophy Majors: A Map of the Hypotheses and a Survey of the EvidenceFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 1 (1): 1-30. 2015.Why is there female under-representation among philosophy majors? We survey the hypotheses that have been proposed so far, grouping similar hypotheses together. We then propose a chronological taxonomy that distinguishes hypotheses according to the stage in undergraduates’ careers at which the hypotheses predict an increase in female under-representation. We then survey the empirical evidence for and against various hypotheses. We end by suggesting future avenues for research.
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15449Sex, Lies, and ConsentEthics 123 (4): 717-744. 2013.How wrong is it to deceive someone into sex by lying, say, about one's profession? The answer is seriously wrong when the liar's actual profession would be a deal breaker for the victim of the deception: this deception vitiates the victim's sexual consent, and it is seriously wrong to have sex with someone while lacking his or her consent.
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1378Vague ValuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (2): 352-372. 2013.You are morally permitted to save your friend at the expense of a few strangers, but not at the expense of very many. However, there seems no number of strangers that marks a precise upper bound here. Consequently, there are borderline cases of groups at the expense of which you are permitted to save your friend. This essay discusses the question of what explains ethical vagueness like this, arguing that there are interesting metaethical consequences of various explanations
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859A Deluxe Money PumpThought: A Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 21-29. 2014.So-called money pump arguments aim to show that intransitive preferences are irrational because they will lead someone to accept a series of deals that leaves his/her financially worse off and better off in no respect. A common response to these arguments is the foresight response, which counters that the agent in question may see the exploitation coming, and refuse to trade at all. To obviate this response, I offer a “deluxe money pump argument” that applies dominance reasoning to a modified mo…Read more
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493Aggregation, Beneficence, and ChanceJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 7 (2): 1-19. 2013.It is plausible to think that it is wrong to cure many people’s headaches rather than save someone else’s life. On the other hand, it is plausible to think that it is not wrong to expose someone to a tiny risk of death when curing this person’s headache. I will argue that these claims are inconsistent. For if we keep taking this tiny risk then it is likely that one person dies, while many others’ headaches are cured. In light of this inconsistency, there is a conflict in our intuitions about ben…Read more
Areas of Specialization
| Normative Ethics |
| Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Meta-Ethics |
| Normative Ethics |
| Social and Political Philosophy |
PhilPapers Editorships
| Rights in Applied Ethics |
| Rights |