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43What 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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27Late in the Quest: The Study of Malory's Morte Darthur as a New Direction in PhilosophyMidwest Studies in Philosophy 23 (1): 312-342. 2002.
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23Imaginary Gardens and Real Toads: On the Ethics of Basing Fiction on Actual PeopleMidwest Studies in Philosophy 16 (1): 142-151. 1991.
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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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48An argument for a modified Russellian principle of acquaintancePhilosophical Perspectives 1 501-512. 1987.
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93Does 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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401Analysis, language, and concepts: The second paradox of analysisPhilosophical Perspectives 4 535-543. 1990.
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42Flourish 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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22“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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17th/18th Century Philosophy |