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38Self Inconsistency or Mere Self Perplexity?Hume Studies 5 (1): 36-44. 1979.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:36. A DISCUSSION ON PERSONAL IDENTITY Jane L. Mclntyre's original paper "Is Hume's Self Consistent?" was presented at the MoGiIl Hume Conference; it will be published in the forthcoming volume devoted to those preceedings. Tom Beauchamp" s paper is presented here as delivered. John Biro's paper has been revised since its original presentation. 37. SELF INCONSISTENCY OR MERE SELF PERPLEXITY? Professor Mclntyre's imaginative and constr…Read more
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32An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1999.Tom Beauchamp presents a new edition, designed especially for the student reader, of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the classic work in which David Hume gave a general exposition of his philosophy to a broad educated readership. An authoritative new version of the text is preceded by a substantial introduction explaining the historical and intellectual background to the work and surveying its main themes. The volume also includes detailed explanatory notes on the text, a glossary of …Read more
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70The Research‐Treatment Distinction: A Problematic Approach for Determining Which Activities Should Have Ethical OversightHastings Center Report 43 (s1): 4-15. 2013.Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge generation is so embedded into the core of the practice of medicine that it is a natural outgrowth and product of the healthcare delivery process and leads to continual improvement in care.” We applaud this conception, and in this paper, we put forward a new ethics framework for it. No such framework has previously been a…Read more
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61Internal and external standards for medical moralityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (6). 2001.What grounds and justifies conclusions in medical ethics? Is the source external or internal to medicine? Thee influential types of answer have appeared in recent literature: an internal account, an external account, and a mixed internal / external account. The first defends an ethic derived from either the ends of medicine or professional practice standards. The second maintains that precepts in medical ethics rely upon and require justification by external standards such as those of public opi…Read more
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7Refusals of treatment and requests for deathKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 6 (4): 371-374. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Refusals of Treatment and Requests for DeathTom L. Beauchamp (bio)It would be hard to overestimate the importance of two decisions on physician-assisted suicide delivered recently by the Ninth and Second Circuit Courts (Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, 79 F.3d 790 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc), aff’g 850 F.Supp. 1454 (W.D. Wash. 1994), rev’g 49 F.3d 586 (9th Cir. 1995); Quill v. Vacco, 80 F.3d 716 (2nd Cir. 1996). They are the…Read more
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74An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical EthicsHastings Center Report 43 (s1): 16-27. 2013.Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge generation is so embedded into the core of the practice of medicine that it is a natural outgrowth and product of the healthcare delivery process and leads to continual improvement in care.” We applaud this conception, and in this paper, we put forward a new ethics framework for it. No such framework has previously been a…Read more
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63Hume on Causal Contiguity and Causal SuccessionDialogue 13 (2): 271-282. 1974.Hume notoriously maintains that contiguity, succession, and constant conjunction are individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions of causation. While his arguments for the necessity of constant conjunction have been thoroughly dissected, his arguments for contiguity and succession have generally been either ignored or misstated. I hope both to correct this unfortunate state of affairs and to show some fatal defects in Hume's account.The pertinent passages in Hume's writings acknowled…Read more
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85Principlism and Its Alleged CompetitorsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 5 (3): 181-198. 1995.Principles that provide general normative frameworks in bioethics have been criticized since the late 1980s, when several different methods and types of moral philosophy began to be proposed as alternatives or substitutes. Several accounts have emerged in recent years, including: (1) Impartial Rule Theory (supported in this issue by K. Danner Clouser), (2) Casuistry (supported in this issue by Albert Jonsen), and (3) Virtue Ethics (supported in this issue by Edmund D. Pellegrino). Although often…Read more
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1Universal principles and universal rightsIn André den Exter (ed.), Human rights and biomedicine, Maklu. 2010.
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30On causal irregularity: A reply to Dretske and SnyderPhilosophy of Science 40 (2): 285-287. 1973.
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37Changes of climate in the development of practical ethicsScience and Engineering Ethics 8 (2): 131-138. 2002.
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111The Concept of Paternalism in Biomedical EthicsJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 14 (1): 77-92. 2009.
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A Patient's Bill of RightsContemporary Issues in Bioethics (Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth Publishing Company,) 5th. forthcoming.
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71The Concept of Voluntary ConsentAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (8): 6-16. 2011.Our primary focus is on analysis of the concept of voluntariness, with a secondary focus on the implications of our analysis for the concept and the requirements of voluntary informed consent. We propose that two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions must be satisfied for an action to be voluntary: intentionality, and substantial freedom from controlling influences. We reject authenticity as a necessary condition of voluntary action, and we note that constraining situations may or may not …Read more
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20A Doctor May WithholdIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--409. 2014.
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8Animal ExperimentationIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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17Problèmes philosophiques de la répartition des ressources médicalesRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 92 (3). 1987.L'actuel débat sur l'« égalité face aux soins » et le « droit aux soins » est la conséquence directe des progrès techniques réalisés dans le domaine de la santé, mais il reste encore à fonder rationnellement les politiques suivies en la matière et à formuler une théorie adéquate de la justice distributive. Le présent article analyse le rôle et le statut du droit aux soins, ainsi que les considérations tenant à la justice qui vont à rencontre de la rentabilité et de l'utilité sociales. Les choix …Read more
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7Who deserves autonomy, and whose autonomy deserves respectIn J. Stacey Taylor (ed.), Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 310--329. 2005.
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109Ethical Theory and Business (edited book)Pearson/Prentice Hall. 2008.For forty years, successive editions of Ethical Theory and Business have helped to define the field of business ethics. The 10th edition reflects the current, multidisciplinary nature of the field by explicitly embracing a variety of perspectives on business ethics, including philosophy, management, and legal studies. Chapters integrate theoretical readings, case studies, and summaries of key legal cases to guide students to a rich understanding of business ethics, corporate responsibility, and …Read more
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283Opposing views on animal experimentation: Do animals have rights?Ethics and Behavior 7 (2). 1997.Animals have moral standing; that is, they have properties (including the ability to feel pain) that qualify them for the protections of morality. It follows from this that humans have moral obligations toward animals, and because rights are logically correlative to obligations, animals have rights.
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259The right to die as the triumph of autonomyJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (6). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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88David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2000.David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; he had broad interests not only in philosophy as it is now conceived but in history, politics, economics, religion, and the arts. He was a master of English prose. about the Clarendon Hume Edition: The Clarendon Hume will in…Read more
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15The mettle of moral fundamentalism: A reply to Robert BakerKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8 (4): 389-401. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Mettle of Moral Fundamentalism: A Reply to Robert Baker*Tom L. Beauchamp (bio)AbstractThis article is a reply to Robert Baker’s attempt to rebut moral fundamentalism, while grounding international bioethics in a form of contractarianism. Baker is mistaken in several of his interpretations of the alleged moral fundamentalism and findings of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. He also misunderstands moral fundame…Read more
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12538Contemporary Issues in BioethicsCengage Learning. 1982.This anthology represents all of the most important points of view on the most pressing topics in bioethics. Containing current essays and actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding scholars from around the globe, this book provides readers with diverse range of standpoints, including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal exerts, and philosophers.
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