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6The conflict of the faculties and the knowledge industry: Kant's diagnosis, in his time and oursPhilosophy 83 (4): 483-495. 2008.Kant's short essay is a reflection on the contemporary structure of academic studies; he examines this structure in terms of the functions of the State and of the Universities which form part of it. His analysis links the empirical facts with conceptual distinctions, in ways that are familiar from his more general and abstract philosophy. His main aim is to ground a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate ways in which different Faculties of the University may approach intellectual issue…Read more
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135Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust: A Study in the Ethics of CharacterMind 110 (438): 485-488. 2001.
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3Seeking an ethical and legal way of procuring transplantable organs from the dying without further attempts to redefine human deathPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2 (1): 11. 2007.Because complex organs taken from unequivocally dead people are not suitable for transplantation, human death has been redefined so that it can be certified at some earlier stage in the dying process and thereby make viable organs available without legal problems. Redefinitions based on concepts of "brain death" have underpinned transplant practice for many years although those concepts have never found universal philosophical acceptance. Neither is there consensus about the clinical tests which…Read more
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2The ethics of war Richard Sorabji & David Rodin (eds.) Ashgate, 2006, pp. IX+ 253Philosophy 82 (2): 370. 2007.
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8The Highest Good in the Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Practical ReasonProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 16 59-65. 2008.Kant’s moral philosophy is celebrated for its doctrines of the primacy of the good will, the categorical imperative, and the significance of autonomy. These themes are pursued in the section of the Critique of Practical Reason which Kant called the Analytic, as well as in less formal works such as The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. In his main work Kant added a Dialectic, which is less well studied but is still essential to understanding his whole project. The concept of the Highest G…Read more
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10What we say and what we do: The relationship between real and hypothetical moral choicesCognition 123 (3): 434-441. 2012.
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Utah State UniversityRegular Faculty
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Religion |
Normative Ethics |