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50CRISPR is currently viewed as the central tool for future gene therapy. Yet, many prominent scientists and bioethicists have expressed ethical concerns around CRISPR gene therapy. This paper provides a critical review of concerns about CRISPR gene therapy as expressed in the mainstream academic literature, paired with replies also generally found in that literature. The expressed concerns can be categorised into three types depending on whether they stress risk/benefit ratio, autonomy and inform…Read more
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44Guest Editor's prefaceTheoria 65 (2-3): 89-89. 1999.If we tried, all the time, to do the acts which, according to consequentialism, are right, this would be worse, on consequentialist terms, than if we were less ambitious. In this way consequentialism is indirectly self‐defeating, as Parfit says in Reasons and Persons. But, as Parfit also says, this is not an objection to consequentialism. In a recent contribution, Dancy argues that this is a mistake, however. There is, Dancy suggests, a sense in which consequentialism both recommends that we do …Read more
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42The Liberating Power of Commercial MarketingJournal of Business Ethics 93 (4): 519-530. 2010.The aim of this article is to explore the impact of commercial marketing on personal autonomy. Several philosophers argue that marketing conflicts with ideals of autonomy or, at best, is neutral to these ideals. After qualifying our concept of marketing and introducing the distinctions between (i) divergent and convergent marketing and (ii) being autonomous and acting autonomously, we demonstrate the heretofore unnoticed positive impact of marketing on autonomy. Specifically, we argue that (i) c…Read more
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40Naturalistic epistemologyIn Sven Bernecker & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 836--847. 2011.
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38Experiences and Attitudes Towards End‐of‐Life Decisions Amongst Danish PhysiciansBioethics 10 (3): 233-249. 1996.In this survey we have investigated the experiences and attitudes of Danish physicians regarding end-of-life decisions. Most respondents have made decisions that involve hastening the death of a patient, and almost all find it acceptable to do so. Such decisions are made more often, and considered ethically more acceptable, with the informed consent of the patient than without. But both non-resuscitation decisions, and decisions to provide pain relief in doses that will shorten the patient's lif…Read more
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35Saving the young before the old - a reply to John HarrisBioethics 8 (1). 1994.ABSTRACT For a distribution of health care resources to be fair, it should consider the consequences for the whole lives of the affected persons and not just how badly off they are at the present moment. Since, other things being equal, a person is worse off if he dies young than if he dies old, it is fair to give scarce vital health care resources to young rather than to old persons. In the paper this ageist view is restated and defended against a number of objections raised by John Harris. Acc…Read more
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34Bottom up justification, asymmetric epistemic push, and the fragility of higher order justificationEpisteme 16 (2): 119-138. 2019.
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34On Hedden's proof that machine learning fairness metrics are flawedInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.1. Fairness is about the just distribution of society's resources, and in ML, the main resource being distributed is model performance, e.g. the translation quality produced by machine translation...
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33Public Participation, Legitimate Political Decisions, and Controversial Technologies : IntroductionLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 12 (1): 21-25. 2017.Xavier Landes,Martin Andersen,Klemens Kappel
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26Public Participation, Legitimate Political Decisions, and Controversial Technologies : IntroductionLes Ateliers de l'Éthique / the Ethics Forum 12 (1): 21-25. 2017.Xavier Landes,Martin Andersen,Klemens Kappel
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26Experiences and attitudes towards end-of-life decisions amongst danish physiciansBioethics 10 (3). 1996.ABSTRACT In this survey we have investigated the experiences and attitudes of Danish physicians regarding end‐of life decisions. Most respondents have made decisions that involve hastening the death of a patient, and almost all find it acceptable to do so. Such decisions are made more often, and considered ethically more acceptable, with the informed consent of the patient than without. But both non‐resuscitation decisions, and decisions to provide pain relief in doses that will shorten the pati…Read more
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26Can We Comply with the Ideal of Value-Freedom? A Reply to Miller’s Critique of the Ideal of Value-Freedom in ScienceEthics, Policy and Environment 22 (1): 90-99. 2019.The purpose of this paper is to discuss Miller’s recent claim that 1) the ideal of value-freedom is implausible because evidence from experimental psychology reveals how scientific reasoning is val...
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17We sometimes disagree not only about facts, but also about how best to acquire evidence or justified beliefs within the domain of facts that we dis-agree about. And sometimes we have no dispute-independent ways of set-tling what the best ways of acquiring evidence in these domains are. Follow-ing Michael Lynch, I will call this deep dz'mgreement. Surely, deep dis (review)Discipline Filosofiche (2012) 2 7. 2013.
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13The Problem of Deep DisagreementDiscipline Filosofiche 22 (2): 7-25. 2012.We sometimes disagree not only about facts, but also about how best to acquire evidence or justified beliefs within the domain of facts that we disagree about. And sometimes we have no dispute-independent ways of settling what the best ways of acquiring evidence in these domains are. Following Michael Lynch, I call this phenomenon deep disagreement. In the paper, I outline various forms of deep disagreement, following but also in certain respects revising and expanding Lynch’s exposition in (201…Read more
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9Freedom of Expression, Diversity, and TruthIn Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.The aim of this chapter is to examine how diversity benefits deliberation, information exchange and other socio‐epistemic practices associated with free speech. We separate five distinct dimensions of diversity, and discuss a variety of distinct mechanisms by which various forms of diversity may be thought to have epistemically valuable outcomes. We relate these results to the moral justification of free speech. Finally, we characterise a collective action problem concerning the compliance with …Read more
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5On the klawonntology of consciousness and selfhoodDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 35 (1): 55-71. 2000.
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3On Saying that Someone Knows: Themes from CraigIn Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Social Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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Complementary/alternative medicine and the evidence requirementIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.