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7From Chance to Choice: Genetics and JusticePhilosophy 76 (297): 472-475. 2000.This book, written by four internationally renowned bioethicists and first published in 2000, was the first systematic treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to human beings. Probing the implications of the remarkable advances in genetics, the authors ask how should these affect our understanding of distributive justice, equality of opportunity, the rights and obligations as parents, the meaning of disability, and the role of the concept of…Read more
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33The International Dimension of the Problem of Contested SecessionPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 4 (1). 2014.Download
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Justifying Preventive WarIn Henry Shue & David Rodin (eds.), Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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7BRICKHOUSE Thomas C. and Nicholas D. Smith (eds): The Trial andBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (3): 507-511. 2002.
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Justice, DistributiveIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 1--655. 1992.
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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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37Democracy, 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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74Toward 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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465Moral 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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179Philosophy 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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217Justice as reciprocity versus subject-centered justicePhilosophy and Public Affairs 19 (3): 227-252. 1990.
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571Advance directives and the personal identity problemPhilosophy and Public Affairs 17 (4): 277-302. 1988.
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25Social Moral EpistemologySocial Philosophy and Policy 19 (2): 126-152. 2002.The distinctive aim of applied ethics is to provide guidance as to how we ought to act, as individuals and as shapers of social policies. In this essay, I argue that applied ethics as currently practiced is inadequate and ought to be transformed to incorporate what I shall call social moral epistemology. This is a branch of social epistemology, the study of the social practices and institutions that promote the formation, preservation, and transmission of true beliefs. For example, social episte…Read more
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296Enhancement and the ethics of developmentKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 18 (1). 2008.Much of the debate about the ethics of enhancement has proceeded according to two framing assumptions. The first is that although enhancement carries large social risks, the chief benefits of enhancement are to those who are enhanced (or their parents, in the case of enhancing the traits of children). The second is that, because we now understand the wrongs of state-driven eugenics, enhancements, at least in liberal societies, will be personal goods, chosen or not chosen in a market for enhancem…Read more
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77In Better than Human, noted bioethicist Allen Buchanan grapples with the ethical dilemmas of the medical revolution and biomedical enhancements. One problem, he argues, is that the debate over these enhancements has divided into polar extremes--into denunciations of meddling in the natural order, or else a heady optimism that we can cure all that ails humanity. In fact, Buchanan notes, the human genome has always been unstable, and intervention is no offense against nature.
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63Privatization and just healthcareBioethics 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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40Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and regulatory issuesIn 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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