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16Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 70 (5): 167-177. 1997.
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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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15Commentary on ‘expressivism at the beginning and end of life’Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (8): 548-549. 2020.Death can be good— I’ll tell you how. Just have it come Decades from now.1 Full disclosure: The above poem expresses my outlook, and I have trouble empathising with people who want to die. But that does not make me unable to evaluate objections to the expressivist argument against PAS. Reed sets forth the expressivist argument as follows: ‘[W]hen we allow PAS for individuals who are terminally ill or facing some severe disease or disability, we send a message of disrespect to all individuals who…Read more
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13You see now that it is at any rate possibleTeaching Ethics 17 (1): 93-101. 2017.Fiction can help make students better thinkers about some philosophical issues, but this does not mean it will make them morally better people.
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13Coronavirus Is a Curse / Discrimination Makes It WorseEthics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine: An International Journal. forthcoming.
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10“I’ve Been Bad”: Using Light Verse in Teaching PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetic Education 53 (3): 3-13. 2019.. Conventional wisdom in our society is that a good death involves accepting it as natural rather than striving to stave it off as long as possible. An alternative view is “Death can be good / I’ll show you how / Just have it come / decades from now.” In this essay, I discuss how I use this poem and other light verses of mine in teaching philosophy. These poems offer unusual viewpoints in several additional areas of philosophical and bioethical interest, including growth through adversity, old a…Read more
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7Longer Living through Technology: In Favor of Life-Prolonging Biomedical Technology for Old PeopleEthics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 6 (3-4): 163-171. 2015.
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4Coronavirus Is a Curse; Discrimination Makes it WorseEthics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 11 (1): 9-16. 2020.
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3Letter to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (5): 873-873. 1987.
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2What, If Anything, Should Count as Elder Abuse?In Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 309-318. 2023.The concept of elder abuseElder abuse has become increasingly prominent in public health. It raises problems that call for critical discussion, especially in light of the COVID pandemic. This essay offers such discussion, including discussion of whether the concept is worth retaining at all.
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Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 79 (2): 5-6. 2005.
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |