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6Limits to Markets with Limits, an Examination of James Stacey Taylor, Market with Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails DebateInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2): 11-16. 2023.In Markets with Limits: How Commodification of Academia Derails Debate, James Stacey Taylor presents a well-written book that is, in great part, a response to Peter Jaworski and Jason Brennan’s work Markets Without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests. In the first part of Taylor’s book, he effectively illustrates the misguided nature of many of Jaworski and Brennan’s arguments. Taylor maintains that Brennan and Jaworski misinterpret the work of their “anti-commodification” opponents. …Read more
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48Dave Monroe, ed.Porn: How to Think with Kink: Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 262 pp. ISBN 978-1405199629 $19.95 pb (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 45 (4): 491-492. 2011.
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7The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (3-4): 537-539. 2005.
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38The morality of an internet market in human ovaJournal of Value Inquiry 40 (2-3): 311-321. 2006.
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90Rae Langton, sexual solipsism: Philosophical essays on pornography and objectification (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 44 (3): 413-423. 2010.
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80Body Integrity Identity Disorder Beyond Amputation: Consent and LibertyHEC Forum 26 (3): 225-236. 2014.In this article, I argue that persons suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) can give informed consent to surgical measures designed to treat this disorder. This is true even if the surgery seems radical or irrational to most people. The decision to have surgery made by a BIID patient is not necessarily coerced, incompetent or uninformed. If surgery for BIID is offered, there should certainly be a screening process in place to insure informed consent. It is beyond the scope of th…Read more
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16Environmental Harms, Causation, and Act UtilitarianismEnvironmental Ethics 26 (2): 189-203. 2004.Act utilitarians often use causation in after-the-fact assessments of accountability in group environmental harms. Such attempts are seriously flawed. Causation need not, and many times should not, be important in assessments of accountability for act utilitarians. A model that maximizes utility in such assessments called the “best fit model” provides a good alternative. Because use of this model leads to more utility than models of after-the-fact accountability which rely on causal links, act u…Read more
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The Obscenity of Internet Pornography: A Philosophical Analysis of the Regulation of Sexually Explicit Internet ContentDissertation, Bowling Green State University. 2004.This dissertation has two principle aims: To show that current arguments from proponents and opponents of the regulation of sexually explicit Internet content are unsound and to construct an argument against content regulation that avoids the failures of current arguments. ;The dissertation is organized into seven chapters. In Chapter One I provide background information on attempts to regulate sexually explicit materials and briefly outline the development of the Internet. Chapter Two examines …Read more
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64The lie of fmri: An examination of the ethics of a market in lie detection using functional magnetic resonance imaging (review)HEC Forum 22 (3): 253-266. 2010.In this paper, I argue that companies who use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans for lie detection encounter the same basic ethical stumbling blocks as commercial companies that market traditional polygraphs. Markets in traditional voluntary polygraphs are common and fail to elicit much uproar among ethicists. Thus, for consistency, if markets in polygraphs are ethically unproblematic, markets using fMRIs for lie detection are equally as acceptable. Furthermore, while I acknowled…Read more
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |