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800Does Shared Decision Making Respect a Patient's Relational Autonomy?Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 25 (6): 1063-1069. 2019.According to many of its proponents, shared decision making ("SDM") is the right way to interpret the clinician-patient relationship because it respects patient autonomy in decision-making contexts. In particular, medical ethicists have claimed that SDM respects a patient's relational autonomy understood as a capacity that depends upon, and can only be sustained by, interpersonal relationships as well as broader health care and social conditions. This paper challenges that claim. By considering …Read more
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562Review of John McMillan, The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Meta-BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (7). 2019.Although McMillan recognizes that moral theory has its place, he suggests that by setting bioethics up as a discipline whose predominant issues are to do with theory, not only are students insulated from the broadness of its scope and the diversity of its methods, but the subject comes across as largely inaccessible to those without some formal train- ing in normative ethics and of limited practical signifi- cance to those dealing with concrete issues.
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169Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger, by Lee Braver: Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 2012, pp. xvi + 354, £27.95 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (1): 206-207. 2014.No abstract
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1245Experimental Design: Ethics, Integrity and the Scientific MethodIn Ron Iphofen (ed.), Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity, . pp. 459-474. 2020.Experimental design is one aspect of a scientific method. A well-designed, properly conducted experiment aims to control variables in order to isolate and manipulate causal effects and thereby maximize internal validity, support causal inferences, and guarantee reliable results. Traditionally employed in the natural sciences, experimental design has become an important part of research in the social and behavioral sciences. Experimental methods are also endorsed as the most reliable guides to po…Read more
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470Hegel and the Ethics of Brandom’s MetaphysicsEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 10 (2): 1-21. 2018.In order to develop his pragmatist and inferentialist framework, Robert Brandom appropriates, reconstructs and revises key themes in German Idealism such as the self-legislation of norms, the social institution of concepts and facts, a norm-oriented account of being and the critique of representationalist accounts of meaning and truth. However, these themes have an essential ethical dimension, one that Brandom has not explicitly acknowledged. For Hegel, the determination of norms and facts and t…Read more
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470Review of Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology edited by O. Švec and J. Čapek (review)Phenomenological Reviews 3 76. 2017.
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235Inclusive Ethics Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice by Ingmar Persson (review)Metapsychology 21 (45). 2017.
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377Heidegger Uncovered.PhaenEx 7 (2): 314-26. 2012.This paper analyses Mark A. Wrathall’s interpretation of Heidegger’s idea of alêtheia (Unverborgenheit) and its relation to the opening up of the world, the disclosure of being, and the uncovering of entities. It also assesses whether Wrathall’s interpretation of Heidegger is able to do the work necessary to justify the former’s criticisms of contemporary conceptions of the nature of truth, language, and history.
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50Reification and the Aesthetics of MusicRoutledge. 2016.This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. _Reification and the Aesthetics of Music_ challenges the most emphatic and problematic conception…Read more
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