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12There are a variety of ways to accomplish a goal. But how we choose to accomplish a goal matters, morally speaking. The focus of my dissertation is on the ways in which the use of pharmacological enhancements should affect our moral evaluations. I’m concerned with this central question: how should our decision to enhance or not affect our evaluation of the act or person in question? I discuss a number of moral evaluations including deontic evaluations of human action, which concern assessments o…Read more
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878Moral Responsibility and Psychopathy: Why We Do Not Have Special Obligations To The PsychopathAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 4 (2): 26-27. 2013.Addressing concerns about the treatment of psychopaths, Grant Gillett and Flora Huang (2013) argue that we ought to accept a relational or holistic view of psychopathy and APSD rather than the default biomedical-deficit model since the latter “obscures moral truths about the psychopath”. This change in approach to the psychopath will both mitigate at least some of their moral responsibility for the harms they cause, and force communities to incur special obligations, so they claim, because the h…Read more
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121Perception of Addiction and Its Effects on One's Moral ResponsibilityAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 4 (3): 43-44. 2013.
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97The Moral Psychology of Compassion (edited book)Springer. 2018.Compassion is widely regarded as an important moral emotion – a fitting response to various cases of suffering and misfortune. Yet contemporary theorists have rarely given it sustained attention. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering answers to a number of questions surrounding this emotion.
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515Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive EnhancementsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 11 (4): 250-253. 2020.
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97Enhancement and Cheating: Implications for Policy in SportIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 523-533. 2018.There is a widely held view that the rules forbidding the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are justified on grounds that utilizing these drugs constitutes cheating . In this chapter we engage with this assumption. Relying on an interpretative approach borrowed from Ronald Dworkin, we offer a novel analysis of cheating, one that makes it out to be a matter of inhibiting the attainment of certain sorts of achievements. These achievements are the important goods at the centre of sport, the…Read more
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435Introduction: Mapping the TerrainIn Ishtiyaque Haji & Justin Caouette (eds.), Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 1-25. 2013.Determinism is, roughly, the thesis that facts about the past and the laws of nature entail all truths. A venerable, age-old dilemma concerning responsibility distils to this: if either determinism is true or it is not true, we lack "responsibility-grounding" control. Either determinism is true or it is not true. So, we lack responsibility-grounding control. Deprived of such control, no one is ever morally responsible for anything. A number of the freshly-minted essays in this collection address…Read more
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56Free Will and Moral Responsibility (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2013.Determinism is, roughly, the thesis that facts about the past and the laws of nature entail all truths. A venerable, age-old dilemma concerning responsibility distils to this: if either determinism is true or it is not true, we lack "responsibility-grounding" control. Either determinism is true or it is not true. So, we lack responsibility-grounding control. Deprived of such control, no one is ever morally responsible for anything. A number of the freshly-minted essays in this collection address…Read more
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53Robust Alternatives, Blame, and the Tax Evasion CaseSouthwest Philosophy Review 31 (2): 27-32. 2015.
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