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38The Metric and the Threshold Problem for Theories of Health Justice: A Comment on VenkatapuramBioethics 30 (1): 19-24. 2015.Any theory of health justice requires an account of what areas of social life are important enough to be of public concern. What are the goods that ought to be provided as a matter of justice? This is what I will call the metric problem. The capabilities approach puts forward a particular solution to this problem. In this article I will discuss some issues of such an approach in relation to Sridhar Venkatapuram's well-known theory. Another problem I examine is how to determine a threshold of pro…Read more
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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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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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30Political Perfectionism and State PaternalismJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 14 (1): 147-166. 2009.
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9Preventing 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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12John Stuart Mill: Über Die Freiheit (edited book)De Gruyter. 2015.This work provides an interpretation of John Stuart Mill s On Liberty and elucidates the fundamental principles of Mill s concept of liberty. For Mill, the right to form one s own convictions and live according to them should only be infringed upon for one reason, namely to prevent harm to others."
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35Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine (edited book)Springer. 2017.This is the first wide-ranging, multi-authored handbook in the field of philosophy of medicine, covering the underlying conceptual issues of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care. It introduces and develops over 70 topics, concepts, and issues in the field. It is written by distinguished specialists from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, health sciences, nursing, sociology, political theory, and medicine. Many difficult social and ethical issues in health c…Read more
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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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Areas of Interest
Paternalism |
Empathy and Sympathy |
Altruism |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |