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    The Infectiousness of Hope
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 22 (2): 94-103. 2015.
    Perhaps not wholly unrelatedly to the message of the first Obama presidential campaign, the concept of hope has been receiving increased philosophical attention in recent years. A good bit has been written on honing a definition of hope, and investigating the morally relevant territory. After a brief summary of that literature, I situate myself amongst those who advocate for hope—at its best—as a virtue, and I then suggest that hope seems to have a unique status amongst the virtues insofar as it…Read more
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    Group Moral Agency as Environmental Accountability
    Social Philosophy Today 24 69-88. 2008.
    If there is such a thing as a virtuous community, as Aristotle would have it, and if members of communities need to understand themselves in relation to community, then we have a large space from within which to grapple with the issues of social responsibility. Iris Marion Young developed a “social connection model” of justice which requires individuals to think outside of the borders of any one society when considering their responsibility to others. Donald Beggs advocates for a “group moral vi…Read more
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    The Primacy of Hope
    Social Philosophy Today 32 125-136. 2016.
    This paper raises the question of whether there is anything foundational to hopefulness when considering it as a virtue, and uses the Aristotelian distinction between virtue in the “natural sense” and virtue in the “strict sense” to make the claim that hopefulness has a primacy to it. While that primacy rests on the existence of care and responsiveness of community, those caretakers must themselves be possessed of hopefulness, which, at its best will be virtuous.
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    Introduction
    Social Philosophy Today 33 1-5. 2017.
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    What Happens Now?: Oregon and Physician‐Assisted Suicide
    Hastings Center Report 28 (3): 9-17. 1998.
    With assisted suicide now legally sanctioned, health care professionals in Oregon face the challenge of implementing Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Physicians, hospice professionals, pharmacists, and other caregivers may find their relationships with patients, families, and fellow professionals changing in unanticipated ways as all learn what it means to make aid in dying openly and compassionately available to patients at the end of life.
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    Gouges, Olympe de
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2015.
    Olympe de Gouges “Woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum” wrote Olympe de Gouges in 1791 in the best known of her writings The Rights of Woman, two years … Continue reading Gouges, Olympe de →.
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    What price reproductive potential?
    Hastings Center Report 28 (1): 47. 1998.
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    Group Moral Agency as Environmental Accountability
    Social Philosophy Today 24 69-88. 2008.
    If there is such a thing as a virtuous community, as Aristotle would have it, and if members of communities need to understand themselves in relation to community, then we have a large space from within which to grapple with the issues of social responsibility. Iris Marion Young developed a “social connection model” of justice which requires individuals to think outside of the borders of any one society when considering their responsibility to others. Donald Beggs advocates for a “group moral vi…Read more
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    Introduction
    Social Philosophy Today 38 1-4. 2022.
  • Refusing Evil: The Place of Acuity in Morality
    Dissertation, University of Oregon. 1996.
    Arendt wrote that "to think what we are doing" may make humans "abstain from evil-doing." I suggest that there is more to it than that. Moral Acuity is a phrase I use to discuss how one can know the right thing to do, often practically without thinking, when situations involving evil arise. Evil, for my purposes, refers to the causing of great harm to another. I propose that to be Morally Acute one must have the capacity for independent judgments and possess sympathetic awareness of suffering. O…Read more
  • Justice: social, criminal, juvenile (edited book)
    Published on behalf of the North American Society for Social Philosophy by the Philosophy Documentation Center. 2018.
    This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 34th International Social Philosophy Conference (2017), an annual event sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy. The theme of the conference was "Justice: Social, Criminal, Juvenile"; this volume invites wider discussion of the issues explored at the conference.