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12The public health theory of populismBioethics 37 (8): 748-755. 2023.Successful public health interventions have, in recent decades, improved the health of the working classes in significant ways across much of the western world. Nevertheless, here, I argue that populist electoral breakthroughs over the last decade may be considered side-effects of ‘successful’ public health policies: crucially, the claim is that those political side-effects resulted because of—rather than despite—the health-measured success of those public health interventions.
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11Frankfurt counterexample defendedAnalysis 71 (1): 102-104. 2011.Frankfurt sets out to refute the principle according to which ‘a person is morally responsible for what he has done only if he could have done otherwise’. Frankfurt devises a counterexample in which an agent is intuitively responsible even though she could not have done otherwise: Suppose someone – Black, let us say – wants Jones to perform a certain action. Black is prepared to go to considerable lengths to get his way, but he prefers to avoid showing his hand unnecessarily. So he waits until J…Read more
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10The Control Paradox: From Ai to PopulismRowman & Littlefield International. 2020.New technologies are often introduced with the purpose of improving our control over a certain task: however, software, AI and robots often cause understandable fears of machines taking control away from us. This is what Ezio Di Nucci calls the ‘control paradox’.
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9Does ectogestation have oppressive potential?Journal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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8Sex: we can’t have it both waysMonash Bioethics Review 37 (1-2): 38-45. 2019.I analyse the tension between a plausible liberal view of sex work and the similarly plausible idea that rape and other forms of sexual violence are made morally worse by their sexual nature. I find no conclusive reason to drop the liberal view of sex work, at least as long as the concept of voluntary and informed consent at the core of it is robust enough to account for the realities of prostitution around the world; nor should we abandon the idea that rape is no ordinary immoral act: reducing …Read more
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7Genetische Modifikation und ReproduktionstechnologienIn Johannes Drerup & Gottfried Schweiger (eds.), Handbuch Philosophie der Kindheit, J.b. Metzler. pp. 290-294. 2019.Die neuen Reproduktionstechnologien in der heutigen Zeit sind dabei Familien zu verändern – sowohl in der Theorie als auch in der Praxis.
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6Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 44 (4): 401-403. 2023.
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6Ethics in Healthcare: A Philosophical IntroductionRowman & Littlefield International. 2018.Increasingly, students and professionals within healthcare are faced with difficult questions and decisions: this book meet those ethical needs by providing an accessible guide to ethical theories and practices, which does not presuppose any background or training in philosophy.
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6The Control Paradox: From Technology to PopulismRowman & Littlefield International. 2020.New technologies are often introduced with the purpose of improving our control over a certain task: however, software, AI and robots often cause understandable fears of machines taking control away from us. This is what Ezio Di Nucci calls the ‘control paradox’.
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2Praktische RationalitätIn Ralf Stoecker, Christian Neuhäuser & Marie-Luise Raters (eds.), Handbuch Angewandte Ethik, Verlag J.b. Metzler. pp. 187-192. 2011.Was ist praktische RationalitätRationalitätpraktische? Ein griffiger Slogan lautet: Praktische Rationalität handelt davon, wie man bekommt, was man will. Dies zeigt ein Beispiel aus Aristoteles’ Nikomachischer Ethik:EinePatientArzt-Patienten-BeziehungArztÄrztinArzt ist dazu da, Patienten zu heilen. Sie stellt keine praktischen Überlegungen an, um zu entscheiden, ob sie ihre Patienten heilen soll.
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1COVID-19 and Intergenerational Justice: The Case of DenmarkIn Anne Lykkeskov & Ezio Di Nucci (eds.), The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Studies in Global Justice 22. Springer Nature, Switzerland, Studies in Global Justice 22. Springer Nature, Switzerland. 2022.We analyze Denmark’s COVID-19 containment policies. We argue that, despite the precautionary principle being explicitly appealed to by decision-makers at the highest political level, it is neither clear whether Danish COVID-19 policies did in fact constitute a genuine application of the precautionary principle, nor is it clear that the particular restrictions implemented ought indeed to count as precautionary when seen from a perspective that transcends the short-term emergency. Finally, we poin…Read more
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The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Studies in Global Justice 22. Springer Nature, Switzerland (edited book)Studies in Global Justice 22. Springer Nature, Switzerland. 2022.
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Moral StatusIn Ezio Di Nucci, Ji-Young Lee & Isaac A. Wagner (eds.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
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Physical jerks ungoodIn Ezio Di Nucci & Stefan Storrie (eds.), 1984 and philosophy, is resistance futile?, Open Court. 2018.
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