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23Persons, Organisms, and Death: A Philosophical Critique of the Higher‐Brain Approach 1Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (3): 419-440. 1999.
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23Review of Jennifer S. Hawkins, Ezekiel J. Emanuel (eds.), Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (2). 2009.
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21The distinction between equality in moral status and deserving equal considerationBetween the Species 7 (2): 4. 1991.
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21Review Animals and Public Health: Why Treating Animals Better Is Critical to Human Welfare Akhtar Aysha Palgrave Macmillan London, EnglandJournal of Animal Ethics 3 (1): 108-109. 2013.
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20Moral Vegetarianism from a Very Broad BasisJournal of Moral Philosophy 6 (2): 143-165. 2009.This paper defends a qualified version of moral vegetarianism. It defends a weak thesis and, more tentatively, a strong thesis, both from a very broad basis that assumes neither that animals have rights nor that they are entitled to equal consideration. The essay's only assumption about moral status, an assumption defended in the analysis of the wrongness of cruelty to animals, is that sentient animals have at least some moral status. One need not be a strong champion of animal protection, then,…Read more
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20Ingmar Persson, Inclusive Ethics: Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice , pp. vii + 272Utilitas 30 (2): 244-248. 2018.
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19Guest Editorial: Reassessing Animal Research EthicsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (4): 385-389. 2015.
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19Single Payer Meets Managed CompetitionHastings Center Report 38 (1): 23-33. 2012.Common sense and empirical evidence suggest that single-payer health insurance, combined with competitive private delivery, would be the most cost-effective way of achieving the major, widely accepted goals of health care reform. Among the current presidential candidates, Kucinich and Gravel have the most promising reform proposals, with Edwards’s and Obama’s as fall-backs.
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17On Saving Preterm Infants: A Plea for Sensible OntologyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (8): 36-37. 2017.
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16Opening with a vignette about Francis, who wants to use medications to achieve particular changes in his personality, the paper asks the following: whether his plan involves the use of a biomedical enhancement and, if so, whether this makes his plan morally problematic; whether his plan poses a threat to his identity in a problematic way; and whether his intentions are inauthentic. In response to, it is argued that Francis’ plan does involve biomedical enhancement on either of two plausible unde…Read more
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16Creation ethics: reproduction, genetics and quality of lifeJournal of Medical Ethics 41 (5): 415-416. 2015.
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13Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of LifeOxford University Press. 2012.Creation Ethics illuminates an array of issues in "reprogenetics" through the lens of moral philosophy. With novel frameworks for understanding prenatal moral status and human identity, David DeGrazia tackles the ethics of abortion and embryo research, genetic enhancement and prenatal genetic interventions, procreation and parenting, and obligations to future generations.
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11Bioethics, EarlyView.
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10Liberal bioethics and contested surgeriesHastings Center Report 34 (2): 3. 2004.Arthur Franks's consumer protectionist bioethics focus on the mainstream bioethical offshoot of modern liberalism that focuses on risks and benefits, adequate disclosure, and the consumer's sovereign choice. On the other hand, Socratic bioethics ask questions about the good life and its relation to health that takes seriously the effects of someone's choice on the choices open to others. Degrazia expounds on Franks views on liberal bioethics and Socratic approach on bioethics.
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9Death and Dying: A ReaderSheed & Ward. 2004.Edited by Thomas A. Shannon, this series provides anthologies of critical essays and reflections by leading ethicists in four pivotal areas: reproductive technologies, genetic technologies, death and dying, and health care policy. The goal of this series is twofold: first, to provide a set of readers on thematic topics for introductory or survey courses in bioethics or for courses with a particular theme or time limitation. Second, each of the readers in this series is designed to help students …Read more
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8Some Reflections on the Importance of Philosophy to BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (12): 27-29. 2022.In the target article the authors mention that at a recent conference “several leading scholars in bioethics expressed the view that there is nothing philosophically interesting left to be done in...
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4Meat-eatingIn Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler (eds.), The animal ethics reader, Routledge. pp. 219--224. 2003.
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3Wellbeing of animalsIn Marc Bekoff & Carron A. Meaney (eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, Greenwood Press. pp. 359--360. 1998.
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2Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral StatusPhilosophical Quarterly 49 (195): 246-247. 1999.
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1Interests, Intuition, and Moral Status.Dissertation, Georgetown University. 1989.In this essay I attempt to shed some light on the moral status of animals and provide a framework for further illumination. I attempt in chapter one to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for having moral status, which I tie to having interests. My conclusion is that the key characteristic is conation. ;In chapter two I distinguish the concepts of equal moral status and equal consideration of identical interests--which have not been clearly distinguished, leading to confusion. Mora…Read more
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What is suffering and what sorts of beings can suffer?In Ronald Michael Green & Nathan J. Palpant (eds.), Suffering and Bioethics, Oup Usa. 2014.
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National Institutes of HealthResearcher
Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
20th Century Philosophy |