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    An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 1998.
    About HumeDavid Hume 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. The Clarendon Hume Edition General Editors: Professor T. L. Beaucha…Read more
  • Books received (review)
    Philosophical Forum 619. 1974.
  • El concepto de consentimiento informado
    with Ruth Faden
    Beauchamp T. And Walters L., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Dickenson Publishing Company, Usa. forthcoming.
  •  1
    Informed Consent. History
    with R. R. Faden
    Encyclopedia of Bioethics. forthcoming.
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    Are we unfit for the future?
    Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (4): 346-348. 2015.
  •  19
    In Hume's cause: A reply to Mackie and flew
    Philosophical Books 23 (3): 140-146. 1982.
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    Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. (edited book)
    with R. G. Frey
    Oup Usa. 2011.
    Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
  •  95
    The medical ethics of physician-assisted suicide
    Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (6): 437-439. 1999.
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    Methods and principles in biomedical ethics
    Journal of Medical Ethics 29 (5): 269-274. 2003.
    The four principles approach to medical ethics plus specification is used in this paper. Specification is defined as a process of reducing the indeterminateness of general norms to give them increased action guiding capacity, while retaining the moral commitments in the original norm. Since questions of method are central to the symposium, the paper begins with four observations about method in moral reasoning and case analysis. Three of the four scenarios are dealt with. It is concluded in the …Read more
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    Critical notice
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 (2): 371-404. 1977.
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    Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine by Tom Koch (review)
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (3): 11-14. 2014.
    The principal thesis in this book is that bioethics emerged—in the 1960s through the 1980s—under the influence of philosophers who claimed to have universally valid principles that could steer medicine and research to the solution of ethical problems, including even those arising at the bedside of patients. Tom Koch contends that these philosophers and their allied bioethicists “stole medicine” and its traditional values, substituting a philosophical discourse generally inaccessible to the avera…Read more
  •  87
    Autonomy in chimpanzees
    with Victoria Wobber
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (2): 117-132. 2014.
    Literature on the mental capacities and cognitive mechanisms of the great apes has been silent about whether they can act autonomously. This paper provides a philosophical theory of autonomy supported by psychological studies of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie chimpanzee behavior to argue that chimpanzees can act autonomously even though their psychological mechanisms differ from those of humans. Chimpanzees satisfy the two basic conditions of autonomy: (1) liberty (the absence of control…Read more
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    Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Concept of Voluntary Consent”
    with Robert M. Nelson
    American Journal of Bioethics 11 (8). 2011.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 8, Page W1-W3, August 2011
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    In defense of affirmative action
    The Journal of Ethics 2 (2): 143-158. 1998.
    Affirmative action refers to positive steps taken to hire persons from groups previously and presently discriminated against. Considerable evidence indicates that this discrimination is intractable and cannot be eliminated by the enforcement of laws. Numerical goals and quotas are justified if and only if they are necessary to overcome the discriminatory effects that could not otherwise be eliminated with reasonable efficiency. Many past as well as present policies are justified in this way
  •  55
    The Belmont Report
    In Ezekiel J. Emanuel (ed.), The Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 149--55. 2008.
  • Industrial Epidemiology Forum's Conference on Ethics in Epidemiology
    with William E. Fayerweather, John Higginson, and E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company
    Pergamon Press. 1991.
  •  3
    Hume’s Reason (review)
    Philosophical Review 112 (4): 572-575. 2003.
    Hume is widely regarded as an antirationalist and skeptic about reason. Yet he often appeals to reason. He also treats “understanding” and “reason” as virtually synonymous and ascribes seemingly cognitive functions to the imagination and the passions—functions that he elsewhere attributes to reason. What, then, is reason and how is it connected to reasoning in Hume's philosophy?
  •  73
    Rethinking the ethics of research involving nonhuman animals: introduction
    with Hope R. Ferdowsian and John P. Gluck
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (2): 91-96. 2014.
    In the relatively short time since 2006—when Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics published an issue on moral issues relevant to the use of nonhuman animals in research [1]—significant changes have occurred for nonhuman animals in many quarters. Public sentiment, new policy initiatives, and scientific studies of nonhuman animals’ capacities have all influenced the ways in which nonhuman animals are perceived and treated in research. Today, a large body of information is available for use in decisi…Read more
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    A Critique of Pure Anarchism
    with Ken Witkowski
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (4). 1973.
    In defense of anarchism Robert Paul Wolff contends that the moral autonomy of individuals cannot be made compatible with legitimate political authority. A state is legitimate, he maintains, if authorities in the state have a right to command where subjects correlatively have an obligation to obey. However, he also holds both that all autonomous individuals have a primary obligation to refuse to be ruled by all authorities and that all men are normally obliged to remain autonomous. It allegedly f…Read more
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    What can a model professional code for bioethics hope to achieve?
    American Journal of Bioethics 5 (5). 2005.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  • Ethical Issues in Death and Dying
    with Seymour Perlin
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 14 (2): 132-133. 1981.
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    The role of principles in practical ethics
    In L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 79--95. 1996.
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    This is the first new scholarly edition since the nineteenth century of one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy: David Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. It is the fourth volume of the Clarendon Hume Edition, which will be the definitive edition for the foreseeable future. In this elegant and lucid Enquiry Hume gives an accessible presentation of his fully developed ethical theory, that is to say his theory of the foundation of morality in human nature. He conside…Read more
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    Oxford Handbook on Ethics and Animals (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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