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5When Artists Go to Work: On the Ethics of Engaging the Arts in Public HealthHastings Center Report 53 (S2): 99-104. 2023.Collaboration between the arts and health sectors is gaining momentum. Artists are contributing significantly to public health efforts such as vaccine confidence campaigns. Artists and the arts are well positioned to contribute to the social conditions needed to build trust in the health sector. Health professionals, organizations, and institutions should recognize not only the power that can be derived from the insights, artefacts, and expertise of artists and the arts to create the conditions …Read more
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The patient-family dyad as interdependent unit of hospice care : toward an ethical justificationIn Timothy W. Kirk & Bruce Jennings (eds.), Hospice Ethics: Policy and Practice in Palliative Care, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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10Respect for Communities in Health JusticeJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 50 (4): 650-655. 2022.Health justice seeks, both conceptually and in practice, to strengthen community engagement and empowerment as an integral means of addressing health disparities. In this essay, we explore the nature of communities and their roles in health care/public health. We propose that an ethical principle of respect for communities is a requisite part of health justice. It is this respect for communities that ethically grounds health justice’s calls for greater community engagement and empowerment. Conce…Read more
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Why bad votes can nonetheless be cast and why bad voters may cast themIn Emily Crookston, David Killoren & Jonathan Trerise (eds.), Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents, Routledge. 2017.
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Rawls and animals : a defenseIn Sarah Roberts-Cady & Jon Mandle (eds.), John Rawls: Debating the Major Questions, Oup Usa. 2020.
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15Yvonne Chiu, Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethics of Cooperation in WarfareJournal of Moral Philosophy 19 (3): 323-326. 2022.
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71Laura Valentini: Justice in a Globalized World: A Normative Framework: Oxford University Press, 2011 Hardcover, 240 pages, £48.00Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (3): 587-588. 2014.Laura Valentini’s Justice in a Globalized World presents, with admirable clarity, a new, hybrid conception of global justice that builds on insights from both cosmopolitans and statists, especially their relational variants. Relational cosmopolitans generally argue that substantial economic cooperation and interdependence (i.e., the relevant economic relations) trigger robust obligations of distributive justice. They then argue that, as a matter of fact, these relations obtain globally in virtue…Read more
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21Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change
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32The Kantian Promise and Peril of Moral BioenhancementJournal of Applied Philosophy 39 (3): 487-503. 2022.Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
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34A normative foundation for statismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (4): 532-553. 2021.
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25A Neo-Republican Theory of Just State SurveillanceMoral Philosophy and Politics 7 (1): 49-71. 2020.This paper develops a novel, neo-republican account of just state surveillance in the information age. The goal of state surveillance should be to avoid and prevent domination, both public and private. In light of that conception of justice, the paper makes three substantive points. First, it argues that modern state surveillance based upon information technology and predicated upon a close partnership with the tech sector gives the state significant power and represents a serious potential sour…Read more
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19Daniel Edward Callies: Climate Engineering: A Normative PerspectiveEnvironmental Ethics 41 (3): 283-286. 2019.
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20Redirecting Threats, the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing, and the Special Wrongness of Solar Radiation ManagementEthics, Policy and Environment 17 (2): 143-146. 2014.David Morrow argues that solar radiation management falls afoul of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing. If we were to engage in large-scale climate engineeri...
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75Cyberattacks as Casus Belli: A Sovereignty‐Based AccountJournal of Applied Philosophy 222-241. 2015.Since cyberattacks are nonphysical, standard theories of casus belli — which typically rely on the violent and forceful nature of military means — appear inapplicable. Yet, some theorists have argued that cyberattacks nonetheless can constitute just causes for war — generating a unilateral right to defensive military action — when they cause significant physical damage through the disruption of the target's computer systems. I show that this view suffers from a serious drawback: it is too permis…Read more
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39Just research into killer robotsEthics and Information Technology 21 (4): 281-293. 2019.This paper argues that it is permissible for computer scientists and engineers—working with advanced militaries that are making good faith efforts to follow the laws of war—to engage in the research and development of lethal autonomous weapons systems. Research and development into a new weapons system is permissible if and only if the new weapons system can plausibly generate a superior risk profile for all morally relevant classes and it is not intrinsically wrong. The paper then suggests that…Read more
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47Legitimacy and Non-Domination in Solar Radiation Management ResearchEthics, Policy and Environment 21 (3): 341-361. 2018.The environmental impacts of anthropogenic climate change, from an increase in global temperatures melting polar ice caps to the generation of extreme weather events, appear to be happening even mo...
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57A normative foundation for statismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 24 (4): 532-553. 2021.
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49Political Revolution As Moral RiskThe Monist 101 (2): 199-215. 2018.Questions about dirty hands have often focused on legitimate, secure leaders deciding whether to violate important deontological principles or the rules of interpersonal morality. The purpose of this paper is to show that revolutionaries have dirty hands; revolutionaries do wrong by engaging in unilateral usurpation of the existing system with the hope that latter benefits will justify their actions. Yet, once the revolution securely generates improvements for the common good, the initial usurpa…Read more
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24The Intergenerational Storm: Dilemma or DominationPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (1). 2013.download
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United States Naval AcademyResident Fellow
Annapolis, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |