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701The Consequences of Individual Consumption: A Defence of Threshold Arguments for Vegetarianism and Consumer EthicsJournal of Applied Philosophy 28 (4): 396-411. 2011.As a moral foundation for vegetarianism and other consumer choices, act consequentialism can be appealing. When we justify our consumer and dietary choices this way, however, we face the problem that our individual actions rarely actually precipitate more just agricultural and economic practices. This threshold or individual impotence problem engaged by consequentialist vegetarians and their critics extends to morally motivated consumer decision-making more generally, anywhere a lag persists bet…Read more
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108Conflicting expert testimony and the search for gravitational wavesPhilosophy of Science 76 (5): 570-584. 2009.How can we make informed decisions about whom to trust given expert disagreement? Can experts on both sides be reasonable in holding conflicting views? Epistemologists have engaged the issue of reasonable expert disagreement generally; here I consider a particular expert dispute in physics, given conflicting accounts from Harry Collins and Allan Franklin, over Joseph Weber’s alleged detection of gravitational waves. Finding common ground between Collins and Franklin, I offer a characterization o…Read more
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127Feminist Reclamations of Normative Masculinity: On Democratic Manhood, Feminist Masculinity, and Allyship PracticesFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 1 (2): 1-22. 2015.‘Feminist masculinity’ might seem like a contradiction in terms. One might have assumed that we can embrace feminism or embrace masculinity, but not both. If traditional masculinity is contrary to feminist values, a pressing query for feminist men is whether repudiation of traditional masculinity should move one to reject normative masculinity entirely, or to reframe and reclaim it instead. bell hooks and Michael Kimmel each counsel against discarding manhood and masculinity. hooks envisions fem…Read more
Ben Almassi
Governors State University
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Governors State UniversityHumanitiesProfessor
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 |