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47Identity crisis: Face recognition technology and freedom of the willEthics, Place and Environment 8 (2). 2005.In this paper I present the position that the use of face recognition technology (FRT) in law enforcement and in business is restrictive of individual autonomy. I reason that FRT severely undermines autonomous self-determination by hobbling the idea of freedom of the will. I distinguish this position from two other common arguments against surveillance technologies: the privacy argument (that FRT is an invasion of privacy) and the objective freedom argument (that FRT is restrictive of one's free…Read more
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28Restoration, Obligation, and the Baseline ProblemEnvironmental Ethics 36 (2): 171-186. 2014.Should we restore degraded nature, and if so, why? Environmental theorists often approach the problem of restoration from perspectives couched in much broader debates, particularly regarding the intrinsic value and moral status of natural entities. Unfortunately, such approaches are susceptible to concerns such as the baseline problem, which is both a philosophical and technical issue related to identifying an appropriate restoration baseline. Insofar as restoration ostensibly aims to return an …Read more
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28TakingsIn Baird Callicott & Robert Frodeman (eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Macmillan Reference. 2008.
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22Open to debate: Moral consideration and the lab monkeyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (6). 2008.No abstract
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150Gavagai Goulash: Growing Organs for FoodThink 5 (15): 61-70. 2007.Recent advancements in stem-cell research have given scientists hope that new technologies will soon enable them to grow a variety of organs for transplantation into humans. Though such developments are still in their early stages, romantic prognosticators are hopeful that scientists will be capable of growing fully functioning and complex organs, such as hearts, kidneys, muscles, and livers. This raises the question of whether such profound medical developments might have other potentially fr…Read more
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60Culpability and Blame after Pregnancy LossJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (1): 24-27. 2007.The problem of feeling guilty about a pregnancy loss is suggested to be primarily a moral matter and not a medical or psychological one. Two standard approaches to women who blame themselves for a loss are first introduced, characterised as either psychologistic or deterministic. Both these approaches are shown to underdetermine the autonomy of the mother by depending on the notion that the mother is not culpable for the loss if she "could not have acted otherwise". The inability to act otherwis…Read more
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281What's so moral about the moral hazard?Public Affairs Quarterly 23 (1): 1-26. 2009.A "moral hazard" is a market failure most commonly associated with insurance, but also associated by extension with a wide variety of public policy scenarios, from environmental disaster relief, to corporate bailouts, to natural resource policy, to health insurance. Specifically, the term "moral hazard" describes the danger that, in the face of insurance, an agent will increase her exposure to risk. If not immediately clear, such terminology invokes a moral notion, suggesting that changing one's…Read more
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20The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2016._The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics_ is comprised of sixty original essays, which focus on how ethical questions intersect with real and pressing policy issues. Rather than overviewing abstract conceptual categories, the authors focus on specific controversies involving the environment. Clearly written contributions on Fossil Fuels, Urban Sustainability, Novel Ecosystems, and many other subjects make accessible these issues‘ empirical and political dimensions as well as their theore…Read more
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55Experience and the environment: Phenomenology returns to earth (review)Human Studies 28 (1). 2005.
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53Non-Identity for Non-HumansEthical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (5): 1165-1185. 2016.This article introduces a non-human version of the non-identity problem and suggests that such a variation exposes weaknesses in several proposed person-focused solutions to the classic version of the problem. It suggests first that person-affecting solutions fail when applied to non-human animals and, second, that many common moral arguments against climate change should be called into question. We argue that a more inclusive version of the person-affecting principle, which we call the ‘patient…Read more
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88Philosophy Looks at Chess (edited book)Open Court Press. 2008.This book offers a collection of contemporary essays that explore philosophical themes at work in chess. This collection includes essays on the nature of a game, the appropriateness of chess as a metaphor for life, and even deigns to query whether Garry Kasparov might—just might—be a cyborg. In twelve unique essays, contributed by philosophers with a broad range of expertise in chess, this book poses both serious and playful questions about this centuries-old pastime. Perhaps more interestingly,…Read more
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22Gavagai goulash: Growing organs for food: Hale Gavagai goulashThink 5 (15): 61-70. 2007.The suggestion that we might grow human tissue for the dinner table is likely to provoke a ‘yuk’ response in many of us. But would it be morally wrong? Might it not, in fact, be far preferable to the current situation?
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53Choosing to SleepIn Angus Dawson (ed.), The Philosophy of Public Health, Ashgate. 2009.In this paper we claim that individual subjects do not have so much control over sleep that it is aptly characterized as a personal choice; and that normative implications related to public health and sleep hygiene do not necessarily follow from current findings. It should be true of any empirical study that normative implications do not necessarily follow, but we think that many public health sleep recommendations falsely infer these implications from a flawed explanatory account of the decisio…Read more
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28What we want animals to want (review)American Journal of Bioethics 4 (4): 83-85. 2004.No abstract
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66Risk, Judgment and Fairness in Research IncentivesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (2): 82-83. 2007.No abstract
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6John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (3): 331-333. 2007.
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50Ethics, Policy & Environment : A New Name and a Renewed MissionEthics, Policy and Environment 14 (1): 1-2. 2011.Readers of Ethics, Place & Environment will notice at least one major change in this inaugural 2011 issue. Namely, we are no longer operating under the same name. At the Eastern Division American P...
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University of Colorado, BoulderAssistant Professor
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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