University of California, Irvine
The Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
PhD, 2014
Orange, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics
Normative Ethics
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    This paper argues for a methodological point that bears on a relatively long-standing debate concerning collective beliefs in the sense elaborated by Margaret Gilbert: are they cases of belief or rather of acceptance? It is argued that epistemological accounts and distinctions developed in individual epistemology on the basis of considering the individual case are not necessarily applicable to the collective case or, more generally, uncritically to be adopted in collective epistemology.
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    Money for Nothing: Are Decoupled Agricultural Subsidies Just?
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (6): 1105-1125. 2015.
    Every year, the US government pays farmers billions of dollars not to grow anything. Especially within urban constituencies, politically and geographically distant from food production centers, these decoupled agriculture subsidies may seem to be unjust uses for public tax dollars. But can any argument be given in favor of such payments? I argue the affirmative by linking decoupled agricultural subsidies to the solution of pressing moral issues: obesity and food deserts. First, I argue that deco…Read more