Brown University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1979
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
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    In this paper I begin by examining a particularly disturbing eliminativist argument from Evelyn Fox Keller against the continued use of the very concept of the gene. If Fox Keller’s argument were to work, then any attempt to continue with or attempt to revise behavioral genetics would be doomed. In the course of replying to Fox Keller’s argument a revised, functional concept of the gene is presented and defending. Using this revised conception of the gene I then consider how appeal to a function…Read more
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    Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card
    with Todd Calder, Claudia Card, Ann Cudd, Alice MacLachlan, Sarah Clark Miller, María Pía Lara, Robin May Schott, Laurence Thomas, and Lynne Tirrell
    Lexington Books. 2009.
    Rather than focusing on political and legal debates surrounding attempts to determine if and when genocidal rape has taken place in a particular setting, this essay turns instead to a crucial, yet neglected area of inquiry: the moral significance of genocidal rape, and more specifically, the nature of the harms that constitute the culpable wrongdoing that genocidal rape represents. In contrast to standard philosophical accounts, which tend to employ an individualistic framework, this essay offer…Read more
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    Moral mysterianism
    Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (1): 69-77. 2006.
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    Moral Mysterianism
    Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (1): 69-77. 2006.
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    Freedom and the Problems of Evil
    with Hardy Jones
    Philosophical Topics 13 (3): 33-49. 1985.