University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2014
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
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    Our Responsibility to the Non-existent
    Southwest Philosophy Review 29 (1): 249-256. 2013.
    Those who do not exist cannot be harmed. If someone is not worse off than she otherwise would have been, she is not harmed. Together, these claims entail that the individuals in non-identity cases are not harmed, because no one who exists is made worse off. While these claims might be true at the individual level, their truth does not preclude our having harm-based concerns about future persons in general. These concerns are justified when we recognize the responsibility we have over certain off…Read more
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    Beatrice. Jane Tennison. Elizabeth Bennett. Arya Stark. Katniss Everdeen. None of them is real. All of them appear not only to engage our interest but also to move us. Some of them might even be thought to affect us further—to inspire us to do things, or at least to regard things in a different light. The set of problems typically grouped under the designation “paradox of fiction” raises questions about an apparent contradiction, about our responding emotionally to entities and events in the exi…Read more
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    How To Think About the Individual as a Nonautonomous Community
    American Journal of Bioethics 16 (2): 61-62. 2016.
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    Disabusing Physicians of the Assumption of Competing Interests
    American Journal of Bioethics 19 (1): 46-47. 2019.
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    Evolved, NotCausa Sui: An Embodiment Critique of Freedom and Responsibility
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 6 (2): 14-15. 2015.
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    Intentional astrobiological signaling and questions of causal impotence
    Ethics and Information Technology 26 (1): 1-9. 2024.
    My focus is on the contemporary astrobiological activity of Messaging ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (METI). This intentional astrobiological signaling typically involves embedding digital communications in powerful radio signals and transmitting those signals out into the cosmos in an explicit effort to make contact with extraterrestrial others. Some who criticize METI express concern that contact with technologically advanced extraterrestrial life could be seriously harmful to Earth or humanity…Read more