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152"For now have I my death": The "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay aliveMidwest Studies in Philosophy 24 (1). 2000.
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49An argument for a modified Russellian principle of acquaintancePhilosophical Perspectives 1 501-512. 1987.
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94Does Philosophy Only State What Everyone Admits? A Discussion of the Method of Wittgenstein's Philosophical InvestigationsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 17 (1): 246-254. 1992.
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16Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 70 (5): 167-177. 1997.
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93Death, Dying, and DignityThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1 189-201. 1999.The word ‘dignity’ is a staple of contemporary American medical ethics, where it often follows the words ‘death with’. People unfamiliar with this usage might expect it to apply to one’s manner of dying—for example, a stately exit involving ceremonial farewells. Instead, conventional usage generally holds that “death with dignity” ends or prevents life without dignity, by which is meant life marked not by buffoonery, but by illness and disability. Popular examples of dignity-depleters include de…Read more
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16How does Ontology Supervene on what there is?In Elias E. Savellos & Ümit D. Yalçin (eds.), Supervenience: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. pp. 264. 1995.
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407Analysis, language, and concepts: The second paradox of analysisPhilosophical Perspectives 4 535-543. 1990.
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45Flourish Your Heart in This World: Emotion, Reason, and Action in Malory's Le Morte D'ArthurMidwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1): 182-226. 1998.
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20Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 66 (7): 43-59. 1993.
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24“Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succour”: Women and the Chivalric Code in Malory’s Morte Darthur (review)Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1): 1-12. 2002.
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84Response to “This Porridge Is Too Thin” by Gretchen M. Brown and “Demolishing a 'Straw Man'” by Elliott J. Rosen (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (3): 323-325. 1998.Each of these hospice officials makes several criticisms of my paper, Philosophy of Hospice I will treat these criticisms in turn
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51A Man by Nothing Is So Well Betrayed as by His Manners? Politeness as a VirtueMidwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1): 250-258. 1988.
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63"Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succour": Women and the chivalric code in malory's morte darthurMidwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1). 2002.I am indebted to many people, especially Dorsey Armstrong, Shannon French, and Kenneth Hodges, for helpful discussions of this material. An early version of this essay was read at the Thirty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies.This essay is dedicated to the glorious memory of Nina Lindsey
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61Goldilocks and Mrs. Ilych: A Critical Look at the “Philosophy of Hospice”Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (3): 314-. 1997.Anyone who thinks contemporary American society is hopelessly contentious and lacking in shared values has probably not been paying attention to the way the popular media portray the hospice movement. Over and over, we are told such things as that “Humane care costs less than high-tech care and is what patients want and need,” that hospices are “the most effective and least expensive route to a dignified death,” that hospice personnel are “heroic,” that their “compassion and dedication seem inex…Read more
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46What Is the Proper Role for Charity in Healthcare?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (3): 425. 1996.My little girl has leukemia; she has had it for over a year, and now she needs at least five pints of blood a day. Not the whole blood, just the platelets. Most of our relatives and friends have given at least a few times. But we need more. Now I have to go to strangers.So begins Roberta Silman's short story, “Giving Blood,” a story about illness and charity. When the narrator's husband solicited blood donations at his workplace, “he thought everyone would help…He must have asked a hundred peopl…Read more
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |