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26Public reason and private bias: Accommodating political disagreementJournal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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8Expecting Equality: How Prenatal Screening Policy Harms People with DisabilitiesJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 23 (1). 2022.The “expressivist objection” argues that prenatal screening leading to termination of embryos or fetuses with disabilities sends a harmful message to people with disabilities, such as the message that their lives are not worth living. I first argue that whether it sends such a message depends on how a reasonable person would see the motives behind the screening. I then argue that a reasonable person would see a harmful message, not when individuals terminate embryos, and not for severe disabilit…Read more
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4Thinking about Moral ProgressHastings Center Report 52 (5). 2022.Hastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page inside_front_cover-inside_front_cover, September–October 2022.
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5Here, there, or delaware? How corporate threats distort democracyPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 22 (1): 55-75. 2023.Concern for corporate influence on democratic decisions has mostly focused on campaign funding and access to legislators. While these are certainly worrisome, corporations have another tool to influence decisions, which they are increasingly using. They can threaten to move their operations or cancel expansion plans in a municipality unless its public officials pass (or kill) certain policies. In one sense, this is business as usual. Companies have the right to decide where to operate, and it is…Read more
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133Rule by Automation: How Automated Decision Systems Promote Freedom and EqualityMoral Philosophy and Politics 9 (2): 201-218. 2022.Using automated systems to avoid the need for human discretion in government contexts – a scenario we call ‘rule by automation’ – can help us achieve the ideal of a free and equal society. Drawing on relational theories of freedom and equality, we explain how rule by automation is a more complete realization of the rule of law and why thinkers in these traditions have strong reasons to support it. Relational theories are based on the absence of human domination and hierarchy, which automation he…Read more
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136Justifying the risks of COVID-19 challenge trials: The analogy with organ donationBioethics 36 (1): 100-106. 2022.In the beginning of the COVID pandemic, researchers and bioethicists called for human challenge trials to hasten the development of a vaccine for COVID. However, the fact that we lacked a specific, highly effective treatment for COVID led many to argue that a COVID challenge trial would be unethical and we ought to pursue traditional phase III testing instead. These ethical objections to challenge trials may have slowed the progress of a COVID vaccine, so it is important to evaluate their merit.…Read more
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14Political Liberalism and Public HealthAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (9): 45-47. 2021.In “Neutrality and Perfectionism in Public Health,” Hafez Ismaili M’hamdi poses a dilemma for defenders of “state neutrality” about political justification: either they must reject a wide ra...
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14For the People, By the Viewpoints? Realism and Idealism in Public ReasonJournal of Moral Philosophy 17 (5): 527-557. 2020.Since John Rawls, public reason theorists have attempted to show how liberal political norms could be acceptable to people with diverse religious and ethical viewpoints. However, these theories overlook the importance of the distinction between acceptability to realistic people and acceptability to viewpoints, which matters because public reason theories are committed to the former, but only deliver the latter, thereby failing to justify liberal norms. Public reason theories therefore face a dil…Read more
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13Empowering Marginalized CommunitiesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (5): 80-81. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 5, June 2020, Page 80-81.
Athmeya Jayaram
The Hastings Center
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The Hastings CenterResearch Scholar
APA Eastern Division
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Political Ethics |
Biomedical Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Biomedical Ethics |
Political Ethics |