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535The Concept of AutonomyGrazer Philosophische Studien 12 (1): 203-213. 1981.In both theoretical and applied contexts the concept of autonomy has assumed increasing importance in recent normative philosophical discussion. Given various problems to be clarified or resolved the author characterizes the concept by first setting out conditions of adequacy. The author then links the notion of autonomy to the identification and critical reflection of an agent upon his first-order motivations. It is only when a person identifies with the influences that motivate him, assimilate…Read more
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20AutonomyIn Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 1996.The concept of autonomy has assumed increasing importance in contemporary political philosophy. Philosophers such as Rawls, Wolff, Scanlon, Raz and Hurley have employed the concept to ground principles and illuminate issues such as the choice of principles of justice, the justification of political authority, the limits of free speech, the nature of the liberal state and the justification of democracy.
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49Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (2). 1994.
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63Special Supplement: The XYY Controversy: Researching Violence and GeneticsHastings Center Report 10 (4): 1. 1980.
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14Offense to Others: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law (review)Philosophical Review 98 (2): 239-242. 1989.
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10On Democracy: Towards a Transformation of American Society (review)Philosophical Review 93 (4): 623-626. 1984.
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18Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied EthicsHastings Center Report 20 (3): 42. 1990.Book reviewed in this article: Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics. By David Lamb.
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16Tracking Nozick (review)Hastings Center Report 12 (2): 41. 1982.Book reviewed in this article: Philosophic Explanations. By Robert Nozick.
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23Dangerous Ground?Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics (review)Hastings Center Report 20 (3): 42-43. 2012.Book reviewed in this article: Down the Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics. By David Lamb.
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24Case Studies in Bioethics: Can Convicts Consent to Castration?Hastings Center Report 5 (5): 17. 1975.
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122Determinism, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility (edited book)Prentice-Hall. 1970.Of liberty and necessity, by D. Hume.--The doctrine of necessity examined, by C. S. Peirce.--Determinism in history, by E. Nagel.--Some arguments for free will, by T. Reid.--Has the self free will? by C. A. Campbell.--Dialogue on free will, by L. de Valla.--Can the will be caused? by C. Ginet.--Free will, by G. E. Moore.--A modal muddle, by S. N. Thomas.--Determinism, indeterminism, and libertarianism, by C. D. Broad.--An empirical disproof of determinism? by K. Lehrer.--Free will, praise and bl…Read more
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11Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted SuicideCambridge University Press. 1998.The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by cases that extend far beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of killing by physicians. The need for a sophisticated but lucid exposition of the two sides of the argument is now urgent. This book supplies that need. Two prominent philosophers, Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey present the ca…Read more
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37Review of James Stacy Taylor, Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (9). 2009.
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180Patients and prisoners: the ethics of lethal injectionAnalysis 62 (2): 181-189. 2002.An argument against the participation of physicians in capital punishment by means of lethal injection.
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