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40Introduction, Philosophy through TeachingIn E. Esch R. Kraft & K. Hermberg (eds.), Philosophy through Teaching, Philosophy Documentation Center. 2014.
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38Holding On and Letting Go: Anticipatory Grief and Surrogate Choices at the End of LifeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (12): 42-43. 2019.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ On Death and Dying sparked widespread scholarly and popular interest in the emotional landscape of dying. Its publication in 1969 also coincided, roughly, with two important...
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37Equality, Self-Government, and Disenfranchising Kids: A Reply to YaffeMoral Philosophy and Politics 2020 (2): 281-297. 2020.Gideon Yaffe has recently argued that children should be subject to lower standards of criminal liability because, unlike adults, they ought to be disenfranchised. Because of their disenfranchisement, they lack the legal reasons enfranchised adults have to comply with the law. Here I critically consider Yaffe’s argument for such disenfranchisement, which holds that disenfranchisement balances children’s interest in self-government with adults’ interest in having an equal say over lawmaking. I ar…Read more
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33Tonkens on the irrationality of the suicidally mentally illJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (1): 102-106. 2009.abstract Ryan Tonkens proposes that my Kantian approach to suicide intervention with respect to the mentally ill (2002) wrongly assumes that the suicidally mentally ill are rational and are therefore rational agents to whom Kantian moral constraints ought to apply. Here I indicate how the empirical evidence concerning the suicidally mentally ill does not support Tonkens' criticism that the suicidally mentally ill are irrational. In particular, that evidence does not support the conclusion that s…Read more
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27Taking Life: Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing, by Torbjörn Tännsjö: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xvi + 309, £16.99 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (1): 206-207. 2017.
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22Self-Knowledge for Humans By Quassim Cassam Oxford University Press, 2015, 256pp, £30 ISBN: 9780199657575 (review)Philosophy 91 (3): 441-446. 2016.
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22Précis: Grief: A Philosophical GuideJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 4 (1): 1-5. 2022.Précis of Grief: A Philosophical Guide.
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18Replies to Garland, Ben-Ze'ev, Timmerman, and BeiseckerJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 4 (1): 33-47. 2022.I respond here to commentators’ concerns about the scope of grief, further clarifying the role of practical identity in those whose deaths we grieve; elaborating my understanding of grief as egocentric; defending my own resolution of the paradox of grief against alternative resolutions proposed by my commentators; and substantiating the role of self-knowledge in the self-regarding duty to grieve.
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17Review, Bradatan, "Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers" (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015. 2015.
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15New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Second Edition (edited book, 2nd ed.)Springer. 2023.
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15Finishing Our Story: Preparing for the End of Life Gregory L. Eastwood Oxford University Press: New York, 2019. 140 pp. ISBN 9780190888084. US$14.95 (review)Bioethics 34 (1): 142-143. 2019.Bioethics, EarlyView.
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14Identity ThreatThe Forum. 2017.Michael Cholbi on the ways in which paternalism shows disrespect.
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14IntroductionIn Jukka Varelius & Michael Cholbi (eds.), New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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14Imagining the end: Mourning and ethical life. By JonathanLear, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2022. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐27259‐0 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 857-859. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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7Dimensions of Consequentialism: Ethics, Equality, and Risk (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2013 1-2. 2013.
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2The Anti-Paternalist Case for Unconditional Basic Income ProvisionIn Michael Cholbi & Michael Weber (eds.), The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income. pp. 62-78. 2019.Argues that an anti-paternalist case for unconditional basic income (UBI) is more difficult to make than it appears. Those who support UBI on anti-paternalist grounds wrongly understand paternalism in terms of how having options affects liberty rather than, in terms of how others intercede in their rational agency in ways that reflect judgments of the recipients’ inferiority. Moreover, a basket of essential goods appears better equipped than UBI to prevent unequal social relations that paternali…Read more
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2Debating a Post-Work Future: Perspectives from Philosophy and the Social Sciences (edited book)Routledge. 2024.Growing economic inequality, workforce precarity, the perceived meaninglessness of many jobs, and the prospect of widespread technological unemployment have led to an unprecedented level of critical scrutiny of the institution of work. Some scholars go so far as to propose that we should take seriously, or even embrace, a “post-work” future. This volume aims to provide the first critical overview of the scholarly arguments about the design and desirability of such a “post-work” world. Topics ad…Read more
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Paternalism and duties to selfIn Kalle Grill & Jason Hanna (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism, Routledge. 2018.
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Publicity and Practical Reason: Between Kantianism and SubjectivismDissertation, University of Virginia. 1999.The subjectivist contract theory , developed principally by Gauthier, and Kantian constructivism , developed by Rawls, Korsgaard, Scanlon, and Habermas, represent the two dominant contract-based approaches to providing morality a public justification. SCT rests upon an subjectivist and maximizing conception of practical rationality; morality is justified on the grounds that obedience to ostensible moral requirements is in fact maximizing over the long term. Morality's publicity is thus due to it…Read more
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The Politics of Race |
Moral Emotion, Misc |
Kantian Ethics |
Equality |
Punishment in Criminal Law |
Suicide |
Death and Dying |
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Morality of Procreation |