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    Bioenhanced “Virtues” May Threaten Personal Identity
    with Kit Rempala, Sydney Samoska, Marley Hornewer, and Joseph Vukov
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2-3): 117-119. 2021.
    Fabiano argues that virtue theory offers the best “safety framework” for mitigating the risks of moral enhancement (1). He advances five desiderata for an ideal safety framework and then explains how virtue theory satisfies each. Among these desiderata is the “preservation of identity” (1). Fabiano argues that moral enhancement can safely preserve personal identity when carried out within the framework of virtue theory. We suggest Fabiano's argument for this conclusion falls short, since contra …Read more
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    Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life. By Nicolas Bommarito (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 44 (1): 104-108. 2021.
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    The Ouroboros Threat
    with Joseph Michael Vukov, Tera Lynn Joseph, Michelle Ramirez, and Michael B. Burns
    American Journal of Bioethics 23 (10): 58-60. 2023.
    Jorge Luis Borges introduces the mythical ouroboros as follows: “A third-century Greek amulet, to be found today in the British Museum, gives us an image that can better illustrate that infinitude:...
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    Extended Frameworks for Extended Reality: Ethical Considerations
    with Michael B. Burns, Sophia Rahman, Maya Roytman, Sydney Samoska, and Joseph Vukov
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 13 (3): 171-173. 2022.
    David Chalmers (2022) argues that reality as we encounter it in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is just as real as the everyday physical world. We may not agree with Chalmers’s prop...
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    Mengzian Sensitivity to Social Roles
    Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 1-32. forthcoming.
    Classical Confucian philosopher Mengzi 孟子 offers resources that can help shed light on the metaphysical status of moral qualities and answer the question of how we come to perceive them. I argue that Mengzi puts forward an account of virtue as sensitivity similar to that offered by John McDowell. Both thinkers endorse a particular kind of motivationally internalist naturalistic moral realism, and both explain virtue as analogous to perception of secondary qualities. I offer an original contribut…Read more