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18The Ethics of Implementing Emergency Resource Allocation ProtocolsJournal of Clinical Ethics 34 (1): 58-68. 2023.We explore the various ethical challenges that arise during the practical implementation of an emergency resource allocation protocol. We argue that to implement an allocation plan in a crisis, a hospital system must complete five tasks: (1) formulate a set of general principles for allocation, (2) apply those principles to the disease at hand to create a concrete protocol, (3) collect the data required to apply the protocol, (4) construct a system to implement triage decisions with those data, …Read more
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35Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi GenocideJournal of Medical Ethics 24 (6): 424-424. 1998.
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45Rationality and moral theory: How intimacy generates reasons * by Diane JeskeAnalysis 69 (3): 578-580. 2009.
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54Predictive mind, cognition, and chessAnalysis 74 (2): 244-249. 2014.According to the ambitious Predictive Theory of the Mind the brain generates models that it tests against experience and corrects to makes them evermore probably accurate of encountered experience. It neatly explains why we cannot tickle ourselves. The convincingness of that example is compromised by its essentially non-cognitive nature whereby an explanation not involving predictive models might do just as well. More telling confirmation of the theory is the essentially cognitive phenomenon of …Read more
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University of RochesterRegular Faculty
Rochester, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Biology |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |