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189Epistemic Authorities and Skilled Agents: A Pluralist Account of Moral ExpertiseTopoi 1-13. forthcoming.This paper explores the concept of moral expertise in the contemporary philosophical debate, with a focus on three accounts discussed across moral epistemology, bioethics, and virtue ethics: an epistemic authority account, a skilled agent account, and a hybrid model sharing key features of the two. It is argued that there are no convincing reasons to defend a monistic approach that reduces moral expertise to only one of these models. A pluralist view is outlined in the attempt to reorient the di…Read more
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8A defense of surgical procedures regulationTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 43 (2-3): 155-168. 2022.Since the advent of drug regulation in 1962, regulatory agencies have been in the practice of using strict standards to test the safety and efficacy of medical treatments and products. Regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, demand two full-fledged Randomized Clinical Trials demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of drugs to grant its marketing authorization. On the contrary, surgical treatments are left completely unregulated. There are several reasons explaining this difference, and all of t…Read more
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31Identity, Virtue Theory, and the Death of Moral EnhancementAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2-3): 114-116. 2021.
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184Knowledge Brokers in Crisis: Public Communication of Science During the COVID-19 PandemicSocial Epistemology 36 (5): 656-669. 2022.Knowledge brokers are among the main channels of communication between scientists and the public and a key element to establishing a relation of trust between the two. But translating knowledge from the scientific community to a wider audience presents several difficulties, which can be accentuated in times of crisis. In this paper we study some of the problems that knowledge brokers face when communicating in times of crisis. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we collected intervie…Read more
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Social Epistemology |
Testimony, Misc |
Moral Disagreement |
Neuroethics |
Autonomy and Agency |
Practical Reason |
Social Psychology |
Value Theory |