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8Ethical Challenges of Advances in Vaccine Delivery TechnologiesHastings Center Report 54 (1): 13-15. 2024.Strategies to address misinformation and hesitancy about vaccines, including the fear of needles, and to overcome obstacles to access, such as the refrigeration that some vaccines demand, strongly suggest the need to develop new vaccine delivery technologies. But, given widespread distrust surrounding vaccination, these new technologies must be introduced to the public with the utmost transparency, care, and community involvement. Two emerging technologies, one a skin‐patch vaccine and the other…Read more
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We-Intentions and How One Reports ThemIn Jeremy Randel Koons & Ronald Loeffler (eds.), Ethics, practical reasoning, agency: Wilfrid Sellars's practical philosophy, Routledge. 2023.In this chapter, Kyle Ferguson argues for an individualist account of Sellarsian we-intentions. According to the individualist account, we-intentions’ intersubjective form renders them shareable rather than requiring that they be shared. Contrary to collectivist accounts, one may we-intend independently of whether and without presupposing that one's community shares one's we-intentions. After providing textual support, Ferguson proposes and implements a strategy of reportorial ascent, which stre…Read more
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24Who commits the unnaturalistic fallacy?Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (6): 382-383. 2022.According to G E Moore,1 we commit the naturalistic fallacy when we infer ‘x is good’ from non-evaluative premises involving x such as ‘ x is pleasant’ or ‘ x is desired’. On Moore’s view, the mistake is to think that we can reduce moral goodness to anything else or explain it in any other terms. We cannot analyse ‘good’, Moore thought, because goodness is simple, non-natural and sui generis. If Moore were alive today, and if he were to ask contemporary bioethicists the right questions, he would…Read more
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460Conscientious objections, the nature of medicine, and the need for reformabilityBioethics 36 (1): 63-70. 2022.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 63-70, January 2022.
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362Does Medicine Need to Accommodate Positive Conscientious Objections to Morally Self-Correct?American Journal of Bioethics 21 (8): 74-76. 2021.The controversy around the accommodation of conscientious objections in medicine persists, especially for such contentious services as abortions. COs are typically considered in their negativ...
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339Phantom premise and a shape-shifting ism: reply to HassounJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (11). 2021.In ‘Against vaccine nationalism’, Nicole Hassoun misrepresents our argument, distorts our position and ignores crucial distinctions we present in our article, ‘Love thy neighbor? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligations’. She has created a strawman that does not resemble our position. In this reply, we address two features of ‘Against vaccine nationalism’. First, we address a phantom premise. Hassoun misattributes to us a thesis, according to which citizen-directed duties are stro…Read more
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387The Health Reframing of Climate Change and the Poverty of Narrow BioethicsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 48 (4): 705-717. 2020.We must resist thoroughly reframing climate change as a health issue. For human health–centric ethical frameworks omit dimensions of value that we must duly consider. We need a new, an environmental, research ethic, one that we can use to more completely and impartially evaluate proposed research on mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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410Love thy neighbour? Allocating vaccines in a world of competing obligationsJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (12). 2021.Although a safe, effective, and licensed coronavirus vaccine does not yet exist, there is already controversy over how it ought to be allocated. Justice is clearly at stake, but it is unclear what justice requires in the international distribution of a scarce vaccine during a pandemic. Many are condemning ‘vaccine nationalism’ as an obstacle to equitable global distribution. We argue that limited national partiality in allocating vaccines will be a component of justice rather than an obstacle to…Read more
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592Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in GhanaScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (6): 3037-3052. 2020.Research misconduct remains an important problem in health research despite decades of local, national, regional, and international efforts to eliminate it. The ultimate goal of every health research project, irrespective of setting, is to produce trustworthy findings to address local as well as global health issues. To be able to lead or participate meaningfully in international research collaborations, individual and institutional capacities for research integrity are paramount. Accordingly, t…Read more
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169It’s Not Easy Bein’ FairAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 160-162. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 160-162.
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112Metaethical Intentionalism and the Intersubjectivity of MoralsDissertation, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. 2020.I defend a thesis called metaethical intentionalism, according to which deontic moral judgments (“ought” judgments) are intersubjective intentions or verbal expressions of intersubjective intentions. They have the form, “We shall any of us do A in C,” or are derivable from such practical commitments. They are universalizable by virtue of their content (“… any of us …”) and sharable by virtue of their form (“We …”). My account of the moral “ought” is inspired by the moral writings of Wilfrid Sell…Read more
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19A Model for the Assessment of Medical Students' Competency in Medical EthicsAJOB Primary Research 4 (4): 68-83. 2013.
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214'You Gotta Listen to How People Talk': Machines and Natural LanguageIn Kevin S. Decker & Richard Brown (eds.), Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, Wiley. pp. 239-252. 2009.A fun piece discussing the challenges to and prospects of building machines that are able to produce and understand natural language.
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