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2Climate Change, Relational Philosophy, and Ecological CareIn Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer Nature. pp. 449-465. 2023.This chapter discusses the notion of “care” as a supporting ethical rationale for policies and efforts to mitigate and adapt to global climate change. A conception of care as paying attention to the moral dignity, standing, and needs of others is presented. It then asks how care, so understood, can contribute to a new understanding of the appropriate relationship between humans and nature. How can ecological care and recognition avoid the pitfalls of a human-centered (anthropocentric) understand…Read more
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Design for dying : new directions for hospice and end-of-life careIn Timothy W. Kirk & Bruce Jennings (eds.), Hospice Ethics: Policy and Practice in Palliative Care, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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3Agency and Moral Relationship in DementiaIn Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero, Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Bioethics in a New Key Relationship and Recognition in Dementia Care Quality of Life and Agency References.
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23The killing fields: Science and politics at Berkeley, California, USA (review)Agriculture and Human Values 14 (3): 259-271. 1997.Over the past several decades, a group of scholars at the Berkeley campus of the University of California have frequently challenged many of the dominant themes of contemporary agricultural research. In their work, they have organized curricula questioning the assumptions of conventional agriculture and its sciences while encouraging the development of alternative agricultural practices based on principles of ecology. Their collective critique has stimulated an intellectual climate calling forth…Read more
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10Bioethics (edited book)Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. 2014.Volume 1: A-B -- Volume 2: C-E -- Volume 3: F-I -- Volume 4: J-O -- Volume 5: P-R -- Volume 6: S-X.
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IntroductionIn Christopher J. Orr & Kaitlin Kish (eds.), Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet, Routledge. 2019.
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5A Bioethics for Democracy: Restoring Civic VisionPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 65 (4): 646-653. 2022.ABSTRACT:Democracy—as a form of governance, a moral community, and a way of life—is under great stress. The prospects for democracy and bioethics are linked because bioethics relies on an open society and a democratic cultural environment in order to flourish. For its part, democracy can be restored and strengthened by widespread cultural and psychological support for the values of mutual recognition, equal dignity and respect for persons, and solidarity, interdependence, and the common good. Pr…Read more
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7The ordeal of adaptation: Recognition and relationality in a climate changed worldJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 42 (3): 177-188. 2022.
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24The Right Recognition of RightsHastings Center Report 52 (4): 46-47. 2022.Hastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 46-47, July–August 2022.
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9John Rawls, Godfather of BioethicsHastings Center Report 51 (6): 51-53. 2021.At a time when ethical and political philosophy were thought passé, John Rawls gave serious attention to ethical questions, providing them with a renewed academic legitimacy. This helped fields of practical ethics such as bioethics become established in higher education and in public affairs. This essay addresses the influence Rawls has had on bioethics through both the style and the substance of his ethical argumentation. The essay argues that his distinctive rhetorical strategy and tone attemp…Read more
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IntroductionIn Timothy Kirk & Bruce Jennings (eds.), Hospice Ethics: Policy and Practice in Palliative Care, Oxford University Press. 2014.This chapter introduces readers to the aims and scope of the book. Readers are given the social and scholarly context in which the book emerges. The introduction suggests that the history and philosophy of hospice care contain moral values that can be resonant or dissonant with larger social values, giving those who work in hospice organizations an important place in the national discussion about terminal care. Finally, it offers a brief explanation of the goals of each chapter in the book.
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14Redoing the DemosHastings Center Report 51 (S1): 58-63. 2021.Forces including extreme economic inequality, cultural polarization, and the monetizing and privatizing of persons as commodities are undermining the forms of moral recognition and mutuality upon which democratic practices and institutions depend. These underlying factors, together with more direct modes of political corruption, manipulation, and authoritarian nationalism, are undoing Western democracies. This essay identifies and explores some vital underpinnings of democratic citizenship and c…Read more
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15Civic Learning for a Democracy in CrisisHastings Center Report 51 (S1): 2-4. 2021.This essay introduces a special report from The Hastings Center entitled Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose, which grew out of a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This multiauthored report offers wide‐ranging assessments of increasing polarization and partisanship in American government and politics, and it proposes constructive responses to this in the provision of objective information, institutional reforms in government…Read more
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7Remembering HospiceHastings Center Report 50 (5): 40-41. 2020.This book review essay discusses The Crisis of US Hospice Care: Family and Freedom at the End of Life (2019), by Harold Braswell.
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10A Gay Epidemiologist and the DC Commission of Public Health AIDS Advisory CommitteeNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics. forthcoming.
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21Ends and Means of SolidarityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (5): 64-66. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 5, June 2020, Page 64-66.
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6Daniel Callahan and the Vocation of BioethicsHastings Center Report 49 (5): 13-14. 2019.Did Dan Callahan know the calling he was displaying in his own work and offering to others in the special intellectual garden of The Hastings Center, which he cocreated, with Will Gaylin, and went on to prune and tend for nearly four decades? I would say, yes, he knew what he was about. Successful people usually have self‐confidence and drive in abundance, but in Dan's case, there was something more profound and interesting at work. Having gone through the endnotes of his latest book one day, I …Read more
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15Special Supplement: Ethical Challenges of Chronic IllnessHastings Center Report 18 (1): 1. 1988.
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Applied ethics and the vocation of social scienceIn Joseph P. DeMarco, Richard M. Fox & Michael D. Bayles (eds.), New Directions in Ethics: The Challenge of Applied Ethics, Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 205--217. 1986.
Bruce Jennings
Vanderbilt University
Center for Humans and Nature
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Center for Humans and NatureSenior Fellow (Part-time)
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The Hastings CenterSenior Advisor (Part-time)
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |