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3A Critical Assessment of Varner's Proposal for Consensus and Convergence in the Biomedical Research DebateBetween the Species 12 (1): 7. 1996.
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17Justification of Empirical Belief: Problems with Haack's Foundherentism: DiscussionPhilosophy 72 (281): 460-463. 1997.
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224A Challenge to the Plausibility of a Fruitful Scientific Intentional PsychologyFacta Philosophica 9 (1): 79-101. 2007.
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33Rawls and the Distribution of Human Resources By Those in the Animal Rights CommunityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 28 (2): 251-266. 2014.Until now, arguments for the distribution of resources by those who care about the plight of human-used animals have been either utilitarian or libertarian in nature. The utilitarian case has been made in writing by both activists and philosophers. The libertarian case is more a position that I have found comes naturally to many in the animal movement. In this article I make use of elements of Rawls’ A Theory of Justice to make a case for two principles of justice for the distribution of human r…Read more
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41Biomedical Testing on Nonhuman AnimalsThe Monist 79 (2): 230-246. 1996.In this paper I will argue that there is a way to reconcile the goals of two seemingly incompatible perspectives on the subject of research involving nonhuman animals: the utilitarian position and the inherent value position. The utilitarian holds that humans generally have a higher moral status than nonhumans. The rights theorist holds that the moral status of some nonhuman animals is equivalent to that of humans in virtue of their both possessing inherent value. These two positions are in oppo…Read more
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Using the world to understand the mind: Evolutionary foundations for ecological psychologyJournal of Mind and Behavior 29 (1-2): 139-157. 2008.In this paper I argue that when behaviorism began to wane and cognitivism became the more dominant framework in psychology, ecological psychology was also strongly suggested at two different levels. First, ecological psychology, considered in light of evolutionary theory, promised to handle three serious philosophical challenges to behaviorism. Second, this ecological approach promised to explain several anomalies in behavioral research. Ecological psychology, then, although largely overlooked, …Read more
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102Justification of Empirical Belief: Problems with Haack's FoundherentismPhilosophy 72 (281). 1997.
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124In ‘An Almost Absolute Value in History’ John T. Noonan criticizes several attempts to provide a criterion for when an entity deserves rights. These criteria, he argues are either arbitrary or lead to absurd consequence. Noonan proposes human conception as the criterion of rights, and justifies it by appeal to the sharp shift in probability, at conception, of becoming a being possessed of human reason. Conception, then, is when abortion becomes immoral.The article has an historical and a philoso…Read more
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