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25Review: Philosophie und Medizin. Ein Blick in aktuelle Veröffentlichungen (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 51 (1). 1997.
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Spór między naturalistami i normatywistami o pojęcie choroby umysłowejArcheus. Studia Z Bioetyki I Antropologii Filozoficznej 1 137-144. 2000.
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14Review: Zur Währungskrise der egalitären Gerechtigkeit (Teil 2) (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 58 (1). 2004.
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19Review: Zur Währungskrise der egalitären Gerechtigkeit (Teil 1) (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 57 (4). 2003.
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9SachregisterIn Thomas Schramme & Michael Schefczyk (eds.), John Stuart Mill: Über Die Freiheit, De Gruyter. pp. 201-204. 2015.
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10Preventing Assistance to Die: Assessing Indirect Paternalism Regarding Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted SuicideIn Michael Cholbi & Jukka Varelius (eds.), New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Springer Verlag. pp. 17-30. 2015.The chapter focuses on cases of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia in relation to the rarely discussed notion of indirect paternalism. Indirect paternalism involves not just a paternalistic intervener and a person whose welfare is supposed to be protected, but also another party, whom I call “assistant.” Indirect paternalism interferes with an assistant in order to prevent harm to another person. I will introduce a strategy that paternalists can pursue to justify indirect paternalism. It …Read more
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30Political Perfectionism and State PaternalismJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 14 (1): 147-166. 2009.
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38“Properly a Subject of Contempt”: The Role of Natural Penalties in Mill's Liberal ThoughtJournal of Social Philosophy 51 (3): 391-409. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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11PersonenregisterIn Thomas Schramme & Michael Schefczyk (eds.), John Stuart Mill: Über Die Freiheit, De Gruyter. pp. 199-200. 2015.
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52On the Relationship between Political Philosophy and Empirical SciencesAnalyse & Kritik 30 (2): 613-626. 2008.In this paper, I will focus on the role that findings of the empirical sciences might play in justifying normative claims in political philosophy. In the first section, I will describe how political theory has become a discipline divorced from empirical sciences, against a strong current in post-war political philosophy. I then argue that Rawls’s idea of reflective equilibrium, rightly interpreted, leads to a perspective on the matter of justification that takes seriously empirical findings rega…Read more
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28On Norman Daniels' interpretation of the moral significance of healthcareJournal of Medical Ethics 35 (1): 17-20. 2009.According to Norman Daniels, the moral significance of health needs stem from their impact on the normal opportunity range: pathological conditions involve comparative disadvantage. In this paper I defend an alternative reading of the moral importance of healthcare, which focuses on non-comparative aspects of disease. In the first section I distinguish two contrasting perspectives on pathological conditions, viz a comparative versus a non-comparative. By using this distinction I introduce a rela…Read more
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24Noncomparative Justice Regarding Health and Its Social DeterminantsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (3): 44-45. 2015.
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91On Being Wholeheartedly Ambivalent: Indecisive Will, Unity of the Self, and Integration by Narration (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (1): 27-40. 2014.In this paper, I want to discuss the relation between ambivalence and the unity of the self. I will raise the question whether a person can be both ambivalent about his own will and nevertheless be wholehearted. Since Harry Frankfurt’s theory is my main point of reference, I briefly introduce his account of the will and the reasons for his opposition towards ambivalence in the first section. In the second section, I analyse different interpretations of ambivalence. In the third section, I provid…Read more
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38Natürlichkeit als WertAnalyse & Kritik 24 (2): 249-271. 2002.The predicate “natural” is often used in a normative fashion, especially in Bioethics. But that something is natural does not alone suffice to explain its value. In this essay, I want to fulfil mainly two tasks: Firstly, to differentiate between several usages of the concept of naturalness and scrutinize whether they may serve a function in ethics; secondly, to argue for the (eudaimonistic, not moral) value of naturalness in certain respects. The value of the natural lies firstly in its signific…Read more
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23Michael Schefczyk: Umverteilung AlS legitimationsproblem (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (5): 599-601. 2006.
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6Kommentar I zum Fall: „‚Die kommen alle her und gaffen.‘ Hohes Körpergewicht als medizinische, ethische und gesellschaftliche Herausforderung“Ethik in der Medizin 32 (2): 205-207. 2020.
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20Marcus Düwell (2008) Bioethik. Methoden, Theorien und Bereiche: Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, 276 Seiten, 24,95 €, ISBN 978-3-476-01895-3Ethik in der Medizin 22 (4): 367-368. 2010.
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54Lennart Nordenfelt’s theory of health: Introduction to the theme (review)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10 (1): 3-4. 2006.The paper contrasts Lennart Nordenfelt’s normative theory of health with the naturalists’ point of view, especially in the version developed by Christopher Boorse. In the first part it defends Boorse’s analysis of disease against the charge that it falls short of its own standards by not being descriptive. The second part of the paper sets out to analyse the positive concept of health and introduces a distinction between a positive definition of health and a positive conception of health. An obj…Read more
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Medizin und Philosophie: Ein Blick in aktuelle VeröffentlichungenZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 51 (1). 1997.
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39Lennart Nordenfelt, rationality and compulsion: Applying action theory to psychiatry (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13 (2): 229-232. 2010.
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38Is Rawlsian Justice Bad for the Environment?Analyse & Kritik 28 (2): 146-157. 2006.In this paper I show that Rawls’s contract apparatus in A Theory of Justice depends on a particular presumption that is in conflict with the goal of conserving environmental resources. He presumes that parties in the original position want as many resources as possible. I challenge Rawls’s approach by introducing a rational alternative to maximising. The strategy of satisficing merely goes for what is good enough. However, it seems that under conditions of scarcity Rawls’s maximising strategy is…Read more
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20IntroductionIn New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care, Springer Verlag. 2015.This chapter introduces the main findings of the medical research on psychopathy as well as the most significant threads of the philosophical debates surrounding psychopathy. It also introduces the articles collected in this volume. The introduction focuses on issues in moral psychology and metaethics, such as moral motivation, moral responsibility, and moral understanding. It shows the difficulty in conceptualising psychopathy and in using psychopathy as a test case for philosophical theories.
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113‘I hope that I get old before I die’: ageing and the concept of diseaseTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 34 (3): 171-187. 2013.Ageing is often deemed bad for people and something that ought to be eliminated. An important aspect of this normative aspect of ageing is whether ageing, i.e., senescence, is a disease. In this essay, I defend a theory of disease that concludes that ageing is not a disease, based on an account of natural function. I also criticize other arguments that lead to the same conclusion. It is important to be clear about valid reasons in this debate, since the failure of bad analyses is exploited by pr…Read more
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14Hinweise zu den Autorinnen und AutorenIn Thomas Schramme & Michael Schefczyk (eds.), John Stuart Mill: Über Die Freiheit, De Gruyter. pp. 205-206. 2015.
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Areas of Interest
Paternalism |
Empathy and Sympathy |
Altruism |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |