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How Vice Can Motivate Distrust in Elites and Trust in Fake NewsIn Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News, Oxford University Press. 2021.
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675LGBT testimony and the limits of trustJournal of Medical Ethics (x): 200-201. 2021.Draft of forthcoming article in the Journal of Medical Ethics where I discuss ethical tension between LGBT testimony and testimonial trust of medical professionals.
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43Lotteries, Possible Worlds, and ProbabilityErkenntnis 87 (5): 2097-2118. 2022.A necessary criterion of Duncan Pritchard’s Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology is his safety condition. A believer cannot know p unless her belief is safe. Her belief is safe only if p could not have easily been false. But “easily” is not to be understood probabilistically. The chance that p is false might be extremely low and yet p remains unsafe. This is what happens, Pritchard argues, in lottery examples and explains why knowledge is not a function of the probabilistic strength of one’s evidence. …Read more
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289Social Support Is Not the Only Problematic Criterion, But If Used at All, “Lack of Social Support” Should Count in Favor of Listing, Not AgainstAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (11): 35-37. 2019.Berry, Daniels, and Ladin make a strong argument for discontinuing the use of, “lack of social support,” as an organ transplantation listing criterion. This argument, however, actually leads to conclusions much stronger than those that the authors’ propose: The argument works equally well against using, (1) any “psychosocial” factors at all as a listing criterion, and, (2) any criteria other than factors that directly relate to empirically established medical need, and/or empirically established…Read more
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486Alexis de Tocqueville’s Citizenship: A Model of Collective Virtue (unofficial draft)In Peter J. Boettke and Adam Martin (ed.), The Political Economy of Alexis de Tocqueville, . forthcoming.In this chapter I argue that Alexis de Tocqueville describes the virtue of citizenship in a way that is relevant to contemporary virtue ethics. He explains how a group can possess a virtue that is distinct from the virtue of individual members of the group. (this is an unofficial draft)
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58Response to Commentaries on “Transgender Children and the Right to Transition”American Journal of Bioethics 19 (6). 2019.Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2019, Page W10-W15.
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Dialogue and Joint CommitmentIn Maura Priest & Margaret Gilbert (eds.), Les Defis de Collectif. forthcoming.
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256Social RulesIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications. 2013.
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511Conversation and Collective BeliefIn Alessandro Capone, Franco Lo Piparo & Marco Carapezza (eds.), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Springer. 2013.
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2882Transgender Children and the Right to Transition: Medical Ethics When Parents Mean Well but Cause HarmAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (2): 45-59. 2019.Published in the American Journal of Bioethics
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252Reasonable RegretIn Anna Gotlib & Mark Alfano (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Regret, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
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38Are Obese Children Abused Children?Hastings Center Report 48 (4): 31-41. 2018.In 2010, a South Carolina mother was taken to court when her fourteen‐year‐old son reached 555 pounds. An article on the story reported, “His mother, Jerri Gray, lost custody of her son and is being charged with criminal neglect. Gray is facing 15 years on two felony counts, the first U.S. felony case involving childhood obesity.” If the caretakers of obese children are negligent, then they are also morally and legally blameworthy. I want to suggest, however, that important ethical differences e…Read more
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545Autonomy-Centered HealthcareHEC Forum 30 (3): 297-318. 2018.In this paper, I aim to demonstrate that the consequences of the current United States health insurance scheme on both physician and patient autonomy is dire. So dire, in fact, that the only moral solution is something other than what we have now. The United States healthcare system faces much criticism at present. But my focus is particular: I am interested in the ways in which insurance interferes with physician and patient autonomy. I will argue in favor of an expansion of the traditional con…Read more
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42Risk Sensitive CreditErkenntnis 84 (3): 703-726. 2019.Credit theorists claim to explain the incompatibility of luck and knowledge and also what makes knowledge valuable. If the theory works as well as they think, it accomplishes a lot. Unsurprisingly, however, some epistemologists remain unsure. Jennifer Lackey, for instance, proposes a dilemma that suggests credit theories are either too strong or too weak. Her criticism has been hard to overcome. This paper suggests a modified account of knowledge as credit for true belief that allows credit theo…Read more
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23Why Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology has No Luck with ClosureLogos and Episteme 8 (4): 493-515. 2017.In Part I, this paper argues that Duncan Pritchard’s version of safety is incompatible with closure. In Part II I argue for an alternative theory that fares much better. Part I begins by reviewing past arguments concerning safety’s problems with closure. After discussing both their inadequacies and Pritchard’s response to them, I offer a modified criticism immune to previous shortcomings. I conclude Part I by explaining how Pritchard’s own arguments make my critique possible. Part II argues that…Read more
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80Intellectual Humility: An Interpersonal TheoryErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 4. 2017.
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64Party Politics and Democratic DisagreementPhilosophia 42 (1): 1-13. 2014.Political parties seem inclined to dogmatism. Understanding party politics via a plural-subject account of collective belief explains this phenomenon. It explains inter-party outrage at slight deviations from the party line and dogged refusals to compromise. It also aligns with an alternative theory of political representation. I argue that party dogmatism is unlikely to change and can be a democratic good. I conclude that not parties but patriots counteract the democratic ills of dogmatic party…Read more
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119Blame After ForgivenessEthical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (3): 619-633. 2016.When a wrongdoing occurs, victims, barring special circumstance, can aptly forgive their wrongdoers, receive apologies, and be paid reparations. It is also uncontroversial, in the usual circumstances, that wronged parties can aptly blame their wrongdoer. But controversy arises when we consider blame from third-parties after the victim has forgiven. At times it seems that wronged parties can make blame inapt through forgiveness. If third parties blame anyway, it often appears the victim is justif…Read more
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90Inferior DisagreementActa Analytica 31 (3): 263-283. 2016.Literature in the epistemology of disagreement has focused on peer disagreement: disagreement between those with shared evidence and equal cognitive abilities. Additional literature focuses on the perspective of amateurs who disagree with experts. However, the appropriate epistemic reaction from superiors who disagree with inferiors remains underexplored. Prima facie, this may seem an uninteresting set of affairs. If A is B’s superior, and A has good reason to believe she is B’s superior, A appe…Read more
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Arizona State UniversityPhilosophy - School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious StudiesAssociate Professor
University of California, Irvine
PhD, 2016
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social Epistemology |
Biomedical Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Biomedical Ethics |
Social Epistemology |