University of Calgary
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2018
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Environmental Ethics
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    Regan’s Lifeboat Case and the Additive Assumption
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (1): 127-143. 2020.
    In the Case for Animal Rights, Tom Regan considers a scenario where one must choose between killing either a human being or any number of dogs by throwing them from a lifeboat. Regan chooses the human being. His justification for this prescription is that the human being will suffer a greater harm from death than any of the dogs would. This prescription has met opposition on the grounds that the combined intrinsic value of the dogs’ experiences outweighs those of a human being. This objection as…Read more
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    Direct Moral Standing and Regan's Lifeboat Cases
    Dissertation, University of Calgary. 2018.
    Tom Regan claims that all entities he calls “subjects-of-lives”, including humans, dogs, and many other non-human animals, have equal inherent value. He claims that entities have direct moral standing in virtue of having inherent value. If he is right, it suggests that all subjects-of-lives have equal direct moral standing. To say that an entity has direct moral standing is to say that there are possible circumstances in which agents morally ought to consider an entity for its own sake when deci…Read more