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20Quality of scholarship in bioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (2): 161-178. 1990.This paper identifies four major forms of scholarship in bioethics: empirical research, the articulation of mid-level principles of bioethics, the relating of these principles to fundamental moral theories, and discussions of the bioethical implications of legal principles and health delivery policies. It develops a reflective equilibrium approach to the relation between these four forms of scholarship. It then presents, in light of this approach, criteria for quality research in each of these f…Read more
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16The role of philosophy in public policy and bioethics: introductionJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (4): 345-346. 1990.
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30Ethical Questions Raised by the Persistent Vegetative PatientHastings Center Report 18 (1): 33-37. 1988.
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8Bioethics: Readings & CasesPrentice-Hall. 1987.This book is the first systematic integrated analysis of ethical issues in health care which combines an introduction to moral theory, a set of readings in health care ethics, and an extensive set of case studies.
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Three. ImplicationsIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 43-70. 1981.
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RSPCA. Jonathan Balcombe has been Associate Director for Education in the Animal Research Issues section of the Humane Society of the United States since 1993. He has degrees from York University and Carleton University, Toronto, and a doctoral degree in ethology from the University of Tennessee (review)In Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler (eds.), The animal ethics reader, Routledge. 2003.
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68Kripke on proper namesIn A. French Peter, E. Uehling Theodore, Howard Jr & K. Wettstein (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 64-69. 1979.Kripke has argued that proper names, as rigid designators, cannot be equivalent in meaning to definite descriptions. in this paper, i argue that definite descriptions are sometimes used rigidly and that proper names are equivalent to definite descriptions used rigidly
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12Religious, Moral, & Sociological Issues: Some Basic DistinctionsHastings Center Report 8 (4): 13-13. 1978.
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5Which Lives and WhyHastings Center Report 25 (1): 48-49. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It. By Frances Kamm.
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10Four. The Theory Of ChangeIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 71-83. 1981.
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Conflicts of interests and the validity of clinical trialsIn Roy G. Spece, David S. Shimm & Allen E. Buchanan (eds.), Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice and Research, Oxford University Press. pp. 407--417. 1996.
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1NotesIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 157-162. 1981.
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73An impersonal theory of personal identityPhilosophical Studies 26 (5-6). 1974.In this paper, I defend the view that the identity of indiscernibles could serve as an adequate basis for a general theory of identity. I then show how a theory of essentialism forces one to modify that general theory. In light of both the original and modified theory, I offer a new resolution of some of the classical and contemporary problems of personal identity
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