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47Medical Ghostwriting and Informed ConsentBioethics 28 (9): 491-499. 2013.Ghostwriting in its various forms has received critical scrutiny from medical ethicists, journal editors, and science studies scholars trying to explain where ghostwriting goes wrong and ascertain how to counter it. Recent analyses have characterized ghostwriting as plagiarism or fraud, and have urged that it be deterred through stricter compliance with journal submission requirements, conflict of interest disclosures, author-institutional censure, legal remedies, and journals' refusal to publis…Read more
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195Trust in expert testimony: Eddington's 1919 eclipse expedition and the British response to general relativityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40 (1): 57-67. 2009.
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174Experts, Evidence, and Epistemic IndependenceSpontaneous Generations 1 (1): 58-66. 2007.Throughout his work on the rationality of epistemic dependence, John Hardwig makes the striking observation that he believes many things for which he possesses no evidence (1985, 335; 1991, 693; 1994, 83). While he could imagine collecting for himself the relevant evidence for some of his beliefs, the vastness of the world and constraints of time and individual intellect thwart his ability to gather for himself the evidence for all his beliefs. So for many things he believes what others tell him…Read more
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103Trust and the Duty of Organ DonationBioethics 28 (6): 275-283. 2014.Several recent publications in biomedical ethics argue that organ donation is generally morally obligatory and failure to do so is morally indefensible. Arguments for this moral conclusion tend to be of two kinds: arguments from fairness and arguments from easy rescue. While I agree that many of us have a duty to donate, in this article I criticize these arguments for a general duty of organ donation and their application to organ procurement policy. My concern is that these arguments neglect th…Read more
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244Climate Change, Epistemic Trust, and Expert TrustworthinessEthics and the Environment 17 (2): 29-49. 2012.The evidence most of us have for our beliefs on global climate change, the extent of human contribution to it, and appropriate anticipatory and mitigating actions turns crucially on epistemic trust. We extend trust or distrust to many varied others: scientists performing original research, intergovernmental agencies and those reviewing research, think tanks offering critique and advocating skepticism, journalists transmitting and interpreting claims, even social systems of modern science such as…Read more
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55Evan Selinger and Robert Crease, eds., The Philosophy of Expertise:The Philosophy of Expertise (review)Ethics 117 (2): 377-381. 2007.
Ben Almassi
Governors State University
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Governors State UniversityPhilosophy; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Studies; Gender & Sexuality Studies; Political & Social Justice StudiesProfessor
Chicago, IL, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Trust |
Environmental Ethics |
Social Epistemology |
Justice, Misc |
Medical Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Testimony |
Feminist Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |