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  • Justice, Distributive
    In Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 1--655. 1992.
  • The Language of Fund Raising
    In Deni Elliott (ed.), The Ethics of Asking: Dilemmas in Higher Education Fund Raising, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 51--52. 1995.
  • Distributive justice
    In Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 655. 1992.
  • Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian intervention
    In Dean Chatterjee & Donald Scheid (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Cambridge University Press. pp. 189--211. 2003.
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    Is there a medical profession in the house
    In Roy G. Spece, David S. Shimm & Allen E. Buchanan (eds.), Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice and Research, Oxford University Press. pp. 105--36. 1996.
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    Democracy, Elites and Power: John Dewey Reconsidered
    Contemporary Political Theory 8 (1): 68-89. 2009.
    This essay demonstrates that the management and contestability of power is central to Dewey's understanding of democracy and provides a middle ground between two opposite poles within democratic theory: Either the masses become the genuine danger to democratic governance (à la Lippmann) or elites are described as bent on controlling the masses (à la Wolin). Yet, the answer to managing the relationship between them and the demos is never forthcoming. I argue that Dewey's response to Lippmann for …Read more
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    Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation Experiments
    Hastings Center Report 26 (3): 25-30. 1996.
    Our reluctance to measure the morality of past practices is more than a nagging problem for moral theorists. The legitimacy of retrospective moral judgment has fundamental implications for how practices and institutions should be viewed, and judged, now.
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    Les conditions de la sécession
    Philosophiques 19 (2): 159-168. 1992.
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    Review: Marx as Kierkegaard (review)
    Philosophical Studies 53 (1). 1988.
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    Toward a Theory of the Ethics of Bureaucratic Organizations
    Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 419-440. 1996.
    This essay articulates a crucial and neglected element of a general theory of the ethics of bureaucratic organizations, both private andpublic. The key to the approach developed here is the thesis that the distinctive ethical principles applicable to bureaucratic organizations are responses to the distinctive agency-risks that arise from the nature of bureaucratic organizations as complex webs of principal/agent relationships. It is argued that the most important and distinctive ethical principl…Read more
  • Social moral epistemology and the tasks of ethics
    In N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen & Jeff McMahan (eds.), Ethics and humanity: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Glover, Oxford University Press. 2010.
    This chapter first identifies what is extremely valuable and distinctive in the approach to Ethics Glover takes in Humanity. It then goes on to argue that Glover's approach is incomplete, because it is insufficiently empirical and, more importantly because it lacks a conceptual framework capable of identifying the full range of topics for empirically informed Ethics research. The needed conceptual framework must incorporate social moral epistemology, which focuses on the interaction between the …Read more
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    Philosophy and public policy: A role for social moral epistemology
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (3): 276-290. 2009.
    abstract Part 1 of this essay argues that one of the most important contributions of philosophers to sound public policy may be to combat the influence of bad Philosophy (which includes, but is not limited to, bad Philosophy produced by accredited academic philosophers). Part 2 argues that the conventional conception of Practical Ethics (CPE) that philosophers bring to issues of public policy is defective because it fails to take seriously the phenomenon of the subversion of morality, the role o…Read more
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    Social moral epistemology and the role of bioethicists
    In Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007.
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    Why not the best?
    with Dan Brock, Norman Daniels, and Dan Wikler
    "Be All You Can Be," the Army recruiting poster urges young men and women. Many parents share the sentiment. They want their children to be the best they can be. For many parents, their most important project in life is to pursue that goal, and they make sacrifices to see it happen. And why shouldn't parents aim to make their offspring the best they can be?
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    Marx as Kierkegaard (review)
    Philosophical Studies 53 (1): 157-172. 1988.
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    Justice as reciprocity versus subject-centered justice
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (3): 227-252. 1990.
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    Book review (review)
    Journal of Business Ethics 13 (2): 94-94. 1994.
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    Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and regulatory issues
    with Matthew DeCamp
    In Bonnie Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford handbook of bioethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.
    While acknowledging the potential benefits of pharmacogenomics as a methodology, a number of comprehensive reports in the past several years examine a multitude of ethical, legal, and social factors that may limit the extent to which these benefits are realized — and realized in ethically acceptable ways. This article aims to identify and explore the most basic ethical and regulatory issues that are likely to arise if pharmacogenomics becomes widely enough used to have a significant impact on re…Read more
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    Privatization and just healthcare
    Bioethics 9 (3). 1995.
    When advocates of insurance‐privatization consider whether private insurance‐dominated systems achieve justice at all, they tend to rely on an incomplete set of criteria for a just healthcare system. They also mistakenly assume that it is enough to show that justice is in principle achievable within a private insurance‐dominated system. This essay offers a more complete set of criteria for a just healthcare system. It then argues that the motivational assumptions needed to make insurance‐privati…Read more
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    The Marxian Critique Of justice and Rights
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (sup1): 269-306. 1981.
    Among analytic philosophers in the past few years there has been a growing commitment to taking Marx seriously. Since the publication in 1971 of John Rawls’ book A Theory of Justice there has been a growing commitment to taking problems of Justice and rights seriously. These two developments intersect in mutual criticism: Marx's radical critique challenges the resources of recent theories of rights and Justice, while the sophistication of recent theories raises the possibility that they escape M…Read more
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    This book brings together ten influential essays on justice and healthcare, written by a major figure in bioethics and political philosophy. What emerges is a systematic and unified approach to the issues that challenges widely-held dogmas and unsettles the framing assumptions of a number of prominent debates. Unlike most work in bioethics, this book takes the problem of implementing justice seriously, exploring the relationship between institutions, incentives, and moral commitments.
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    Human nature and enhancement
    Bioethics 23 (3): 141-150. 2008.
    Appeals to the idea of human nature are frequent in the voluminous literature on the ethics of enhancing human beings through biotechnology. Two chief concerns about the impact of enhancements on human nature have been voiced. The first is that enhancement may alter or destroy human nature. The second is that if enhancement alters or destroys human nature, this will undercut our ability to ascertain the good because, for us, the good is determined by our nature. The first concern assumes that al…Read more
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    Toward a theory of secession
    Ethics 101 (2): 322-342. 1991.
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    Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making
    with Dan W. Brock
    Cambridge University Press. 1989.
    This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent - and yet in some respects most neglected - problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents. Part I develops a general theory for making treatment and care decisions for patients who are not competent to decide for themselves. It provides an in-depth analysis of competence, articulates and defends a coherent set of principles to specify suitable surrogate decisionmakers and to guide their choices, examines …Read more
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    Secession
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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    Conflicts of interest in clinical practice and research (edited book)
    with Roy G. Spece and David S. Shimm
    Oxford University Press. 1996.
    Our society has long sanctioned, at least tacitly, a degree of conflict of interest in medical practice and clinical research as an unavoidable consequence of the different interests of the physician or clinical investigator, the patient or clinical research subject, third party payers or research sponsors, the government, and society as a whole, to name a few. In the past, resolution of these conflicts has been left to the conscience of the individual physician or clinical investigator and to p…Read more
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    In Beyond Humanity a leading philosopher offers a powerful and controversial exploration of urgent ethical issues concerning human enhancement.