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30Levy, Neil, Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. xiv + 346, AUD$99.00, US$57.99 (paper) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (1): 184-187. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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702Attributability, Answerability, and Accountability: Toward a Wider Theory of Moral ResponsibilityEthics 121 (3): 602-632. 2011.Recently T. M. Scanlon and others have advanced an ostensibly comprehensive theory of moral responsibility—a theory of both being responsible and being held responsible—that best accounts for our moral practices. I argue that both aspects of the Scanlonian theory fail this test. A truly comprehensive theory must incorporate and explain three distinct conceptions of responsibility—attributability, answerability, and accountability—and the Scanlonian view conflates the first two and ignores the im…Read more
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360The insignificance of personal identity for bioethicsBioethics 24 (9): 481-489. 2009.It has long been thought that certain key bioethical views depend heavily on work in personal identity theory, regarding questions of either our essence or the conditions of our numerical identity across time. In this paper I argue to the contrary, that personal identity is actually not significant at all in this arena. Specifically, I explore three topics where considerations of identity are thought to be essential – abortion, definition of death, and advance directives – and I show in each cas…Read more
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232Psychopathy, Responsibility, and the Moral/Conventional DistinctionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 49 (s1): 99-124. 2011.In this paper, I attempt to show that the moral/conventional distinction simply cannot bear the sort of weight many theorists have placed on it for determining the moral and criminal responsibility of psychopaths. After revealing the fractured nature of the distinction, I go on to suggest how one aspect of it may remain relevant—in a way that has previously been unappreciated—to discussions of the responsibility of psychopaths. In particular, after offering an alternative explanation of the avai…Read more
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37Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2013.Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work in moral philosophy and philosophy of action. Contributors to the series draw from a diverse range of cross-disciplinary sources, including moral psychology, psychology proper, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of law, legal theory, metaphysics, neuroscience, neuroethics, political philosophy, and more. It is unified by its focus on who we are as deliberators and actors, embodied practical agent…Read more
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