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11Defining Disability: Creating a Monster?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (5): 573-582. 2022.Disability is often defined as deviation from putative norms of physical, cognitive, or affective function. This definition is normatively laden, causing people with disabilities to be thought of as “different” and treated with pity. We address the predominant theme of this issue on “Disability Identity”: defining and imposing the category of “disability” and attempting to overcome it through medical intervention. The issue culminates in a call for courageous humility as the proper response to e…Read more
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27Cultural Embeddedness and the Mestiza Ethics of Care: a Neo-Humean Response to the Problem of Moral InclusionEthical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (5): 1091-1107. 2021.In this paper, we develop a neo-Humean response to the problem of moral inclusion by bringing Humean moral philosophy into deep and serious dialogue with Latin American philosophy. Our argument for achieving this two-fold aim unfolds as follows. In section one, we elucidate Mia Sosa-Provencio’s conception of a mestiza ethics of care. We begin by highlighting its fundamental elements, especially its concern with what we refer to as the cultural embeddedness both of moral agents and of moral patie…Read more
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41The Divine Energies and the “End of Human Life”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91 (3): 473-489. 2017.In this paper, we elucidate an alternative conception of the “end of human life” that Germain Grisez considers but never develops. We then defend this conception against two key objections. We conclude by explaining a few ways that this alternative conception of the “end of human life” is particularly important both theologically (e.g., for interfaith discourse) and philosophically (e.g., for understanding the traditional Christian conception of human nature and, hence, of natural law).
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Areas of Interest
Virtue Ethics |
Feminist Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |