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446Cross-modal Influence on Oral Size PerceptionArchives of Oral Biology 61 89-97. 2016.Objective: Evidence suggests people experience an oral size illusion and commonly perceive oral size inaccurately; however, the nature of the illusion remains unclear. The objectives of the present study were to confirm the presence of an oral size illusion, determine the magnitude (amount) and direction (underestimation or overestimation) of the illusion, and determine whether immediately prior crossmodal perceptual experiences affected the magnitude and direction. Design: Participants (N = 27)…Read more
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647Observed Altruism of Dental Students: An Experiment Using the Ultimatum GameJournal of Dental Education 81 (11): 1301-1308. 2017.PURPOSE: The conventional wisdom in dental and medical education is that dental and medical students experience "ethical erosion" over the duration of dental and medical school. There is some evidence for this claim, but in the case of dental education this evidence consists entirely of survey research, which doesn't measure behavior. The purpose of this study was to measure the altruistic behavior of dental students, in order to fill the significant gap in knowledge of how students are disposed…Read more
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2295Compulsory moral bioenhancement should be covertBioethics 33 (1): 112-121. 2018.Some theorists argue that moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory. I take this argument one step further, arguing that if moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory, then its administration ought to be covert rather than overt. This is to say that it is morally preferable for compulsory moral bioenhancement to be administered without the recipients knowing that they are receiving the enhancement. My argument for this is that if moral bioenhancement ought to be compulsory, then its administr…Read more
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795Moral Enhancement Can KillJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 43 (5): 568-584. 2018.There is recent empirical evidence that personal identity is constituted by one’s moral traits. If true, this poses a problem for those who advocate for moral enhancement, or the manipulation of a person’s moral traits through pharmaceutical or other biological means. Specifically, if moral enhancement manipulates a person’s moral traits, and those moral traits constitute personal identity, then it is possible that moral enhancement could alter a person’s identity. I go a step further and argue …Read more
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11Being Hungry Affects Oral Size PerceptionI-Perception 9 (3). 2018.Oral size perception is not veridical, and there is disagreement on whether this non-veridicality tends to underestimate or overestimate size. Further, being hungry has been shown to affect oral size perception. In the present study, we investigated the effect of hunger on oral size perception. Overall, being hungry had a small but significant effect on oral size perception and seemed to support that oral size perception tends to underestimate the size of objects. Both hungry and sated participa…Read more
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36Conversion Disorder Diagnosis and Medically Unexplained SymptomsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (5): 31-33. 2018.
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391The Ethics of Anti-aging Clinical TrialsScience and Engineering Ethics 24 (2): 441-453. 2018.Interventions aiming to slow, stop, or reverse the aging process are starting to enter clinical trials. Though this line of research is nascent, it has the potential to not only prevent prolonged human suffering, but also to extend human well-being. As this line of research develops, it is important to understand the ethical constraints of conducting such research. This paper discusses some of these constraints. In particular, it discusses the ethical difficulties of conducting this research in …Read more
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231Representing high-level properties in perceptual experiencePhilosophical Psychology 25 (2). 2012.High-level theory is the view that high-level properties---the property of being a dog, being a tiger, being an apple, being a pair of lips, etc.---can be represented in perceptual experience. Low-level theory denies this and claims that high-level properties are only represented at the level of perceptual judgment and are products of cognitive interpretation of low-level sensory information (color, shape, illumination). This paper discusses previous attempts to establish high-level theory, thei…Read more
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667The Epistemology of Moral BioenhancementBioethics 30 (5): 389-396. 2016.Moral bioenhancement is the potential practice of manipulating individuals’ moral behaviors by biological means in order to help resolve pressing moral issues such as climate change and terrorism. This practice has obvious ethical implications, and these implications have been and continue to be discussed in the bioethics literature. What have not been discussed are the epistemological implications of moral bioenhancement. This article details some of these implications of engaging in moral bioe…Read more
Parker Crutchfield
Western Michigan University School Of Medicine
Western Michigan University
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Western Michigan University School Of MedicineProfessor
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Arizona State University
Philosophy - School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
PhD, 2011
Areas of Specialization
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Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Philosophy of Mind |
Biomedical Ethics |
Public Health |
Medical Ethics |
Neuroethics |