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65Was Your Mother Part of You? A Hylomorphist’s Challenge for Elselijn KingmaQuaestiones Disputatae 10 (2): 69-85. 2020.
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36Is that my heart? A hylomorphic account of bodily parthoodDissertation, Baylor University. 2020.This dissertation investigates the metaphysics of human body parts; particularly, the epistemic conditions under which something can be said to be a “body part of” some particular human being. In this dissertation I draw on the hylomorphism of Aristotle and John Duns Scotus to argue that a necessary and sufficient condition on human bodily parthood is an object’s functioning for the sake of the whole human being and the maintenance of her biological life. I argue that, on this view of bodily par…Read more
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2Privation in the Problem of Evil: Impairment, Health, Wellbeing, and a Case of Humans and BetazoidsOxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 9 1-17. 2019.
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8Frontiers of Analogous JusticeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 91 201-210. 2017.In this paper I argue for a Thomistic alternative to Martha Nussbaum’s justice for animals as outlined in Frontiers of Justice. I argue that an account of analogous justice between humans and animals can generate real and robust obligations towards animals. I first show how Aquinas’s treatment of nonhuman animals in the questions on law evince a wider, shared community between humans and animals by which we see animals and humans as equally under divine providence. I then argue that while Aquina…Read more
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36Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, and Sagar Sanyal : The ethics of human enhancement: understanding the debate: Oxford University Press, 2016, 320 pp, $74, ISBN: 978-0-19-875485-5 (review)Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39 (5): 397-401. 2018.
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66Disability and First-Person TestimonySouthwest Philosophy Review 34 (1): 141-151. 2018.It is widely agreed that first-person testimony is a good source of evidence, including testimony about the contents of mental states unobservable to others. Thus we generally think that an individual’s testimony is a good source of evidence about her wellbeing—after all, she experiences her quality of life and we don’t. However, some have argued that the first-person testimony of disabled individuals regarding their wellbeing is defeated: regardless of someone’s claim about how disability affec…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |