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Freedom in "Reason" and "Dread: " Toward a Phenomenology of MoralsDissertation, Vanderbilt University. 1983.This dissertation critically examines two possible approaches to interpreting the meaning of freedom--"reason" and "dread." My thesis is, first, that, although freedom has most often been understood conceptually in the reflection of Western ethics in terms of reason or rationality, this framework nonetheless partially obfuscates "what is going on" primordially in the experience of freedom, that is, in the eventfulness of freedom's own occurrence in the human world of life and death; secondly, th…Read more
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69Charles Taylor, Phronesis, and Medicine: Ethics and Interpretation in Illness NarrativeJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (4): 394-409. 2011.This paper provides a brief overview and critique of the dominant objectivist understanding and use of illness narrative in Enlightenment (scientific) medicine and ethics, as well as several revisionist accounts, which reflect the evolution of this approach. In light of certain limitations and difficulties endemic in the objectivist understanding of illness narrative, an alternative phronesis approach to medical ethics influenced by Charles Taylor’s account of the interpretive nature of human ag…Read more
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7Stem Cells and the Metaphysics of Choice: A Rationale--or Ruse--for Genetic Research?American Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 1-2. 2002.No abstract
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30Engagement and suffering in responsible caregiving: On overcoming maleficience in health careTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 17 (3). 1996.The thesis of this article is that engagement and suffering are essential aspects of responsible caregiving. The sense of medical responsibility engendered by engaged caregiving is referred to herein as clinical phronesis, i.e. practical wisdom in health care, or, simply, practical health care wisdom. The idea of clinical phronesis calls to mind a relational or communicative sense of medical responsibility which can best be understood as a kind of virtue ethics, yet one that is informed by the e…Read more
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14Hurrah for Empirical Bioethics (Where Hermeneutically Clarified) or How Perception of Facts 'Depends' on ValuesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (6-7): 95-99. 2009.No abstract
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14Agich on rules within moral experience: Ethics consultation and beyondAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (4). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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13Let's Blame the Physicians … Again: Physician Legalism and CountertransferenceAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (10): 31-33. 2009.
Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |