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The Language of Fund RaisingIn Deni Elliott (ed.), The Ethics of Asking: Dilemmas in Higher Education Fund Raising, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 51--52. 1995.
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Distributive justiceIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 655. 1992.
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Secession, state breakdown, and humanitarian interventionIn Dean Chatterjee & Donald Scheid (eds.), Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Cambridge University Press. pp. 189--211. 2003.
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1Is there a medical profession in the houseIn 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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36Democracy, Elites and Power: John Dewey ReconsideredContemporary 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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22Judging the Past: The Case of the Human Radiation ExperimentsHastings 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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73Toward a Theory of the Ethics of Bureaucratic OrganizationsBusiness 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
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455Moral status and human enhancementPhilosophy and Public Affairs 37 (4): 346-381. 2009.No Abstract
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Social moral epistemology and the tasks of ethicsIn 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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178Philosophy and public policy: A role for social moral epistemologyJournal 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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1Social moral epistemology and the role of bioethicistsIn Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007.
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181"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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213Justice as reciprocity versus subject-centered justicePhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (3): 227-252. 1990.
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569Advance directives and the personal identity problemPhilosophy and Public Affairs 17 (4): 277-302. 1988.
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186The Limits of Evolutionary Explanations of Morality and Their Implications for Moral ProgressEthics 126 (1): 37-67. 2015.Traditional conservative arguments against the possibility of moral progress relied on underevidenced assumptions about the limitations of human nature. Contemporary thinkers have attempted to fill this empirical gap in the conservative argument by appealing to evolutionary science. Such “evoconservative” arguments fail because they overstate the explanatory reach of evolutionary theory. We maintain that no adequate evolutionary explanation has been given for important features of human morality…Read more
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90From nuremburg to kosovo: The morality of illegal international legal reformEthics 111 (4): 673-705. 2001.
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10Toward a Drone Accountability Regime: A RejoinderEthics and International Affairs 29 (1): 67-70. 2015.
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55Choosing who will be disabled: Genetic intervention and the morality of inclusion: Allen BuchananSocial Philosophy and Policy 13 (2): 18-46. 1996.The Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist Walter Gilbert described the mapping and sequencing of the human genome as “the grail of molecular biology.” The implication, endorsed by enthusiasts for the new genetics, is that possessing a comprehensive knowledge of human genetics, like possessing the Holy Grail, will give us miraculous powers to heal the sick, and to reduce human suffering and disabilities. Indeed, the rhetoric invoked to garner public support for the Human Genome Project appears …Read more
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202Political Liberalism and Social EpistemologyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 32 (2): 95-130. 2004.
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191Breaking Evolution's Chains: The Prospect of Deliberate Genetic Modification in HumansJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (1): 6-27. 2011.Many philosophers invoke the "wisdom of nature" in arguing for varying degrees of caution in the development and use of genetic enhancement technologies. Because they view natural selection as akin to a master engineer that creates functionally and morally optimal design, these authors tend to regard genetic intervention with suspicion. In Part II, we examine and ultimately reject the evolutionary assumptions that underlie the master engineer analogy (MEA). By highlighting the constraints on ord…Read more
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830Theories of SecessionPhilosophy and Public Affairs 26 (1): 31-61. 1997.All theories of the right to secede either understand the right as a remedial right only or also recognize a primary right to secede. By a right in this context is meant a general, not a special, right (one generated through promising, contract, or some special relationship). Remedial Right Only Theories assert that a group has a general right to secede if and only if it has suffered certain injustices, for which secession is the appropriate remedy of last resort.1 Different Remedial Right Only …Read more
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