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55Constraint, Consent, and Well-Being in Human Kidney SalesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 34 (6): 606-631. 2009.This paper canvasses recent arguments in favor of commercial markets in human transplant kidneys, raising objections to those arguments on grounds of the role of injustice, exploitation, and coercion in compromising the autonomy of those most likely to sell a kidney, namely, the least well off members of society
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40Bad Samaritans, Morality, and the LawInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 7 (2): 9-13. 1992.
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69Temptation and the manipulation of desireJournal of Value Inquiry 33 (3): 371-379. 1999.Peer Reviewed.
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69Two Cheers for ForgivenessPhilosophia 44 (2): 361-380. 2016.In this paper I critically discuss what has come to be known as the consensus or standard view of interpersonal forgiveness noting some of the paradoxes it appears to generate, how its conceptual resources seem unable to help illuminate several other varieties of forgiveness that are either themselves instances of interpersonal forgiving or at least types of forgiveness that a theory of interpersonal forgiveness should be able to shed some light upon. In the final section I offer some remarks on…Read more
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150Pornography: Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of SexualityInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2): 106-107. 1988.
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19Review of Alan Soble: Pornography: Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of Sexuality (review)Ethics 98 (3): 599-600. 1988.
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24Larry May and Robert Strikwerda ., Rethinking Masculinity: Philosophical Explorations in Light of FeminismInternational Studies in Philosophy 28 (2): 152-154. 1996.
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36A Review of: “James Stacey Taylor, Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative”: Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 225 pp. $29.95, paperback (review)American Journal of Bioethics 6 (2): 93-94. 2006.No abstract
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23Book ReviewLarry May,. Masculinity and Morality. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. 188. $17.95Ethics 111 (4): 814-817. 2001.
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82What is wrong with entrapment?Southern Journal of Philosophy 42 (1): 45-60. 2004.Proactive law enforcement techniques such as sting operations sometimes go too far, resulting in innocent people being "entrapped" into committing crime. Fortunately, the criminal law recognizes entrapment as a defense to a criminal charge. There is, however, much confusion about entrapment. In this paper I argue that this confusion is a result of misunderstanding the _moral status of entrapment. Since all proactive law enforcement violates the autonomy of those subject to it, it undermines mora…Read more
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16Proactive Law Enforcement, Ambivalence, and AutonomyPublic Affairs Quarterly 19 (2): 127-141. 2005.
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51Donna Dickenson, property in the body: Feminist perspectives (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (4): 551-557. 2009.
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61Moral Atrocity and Political ReconciliationInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1): 123-133. 2001.Over the past decade or so political leaders around the world have begun to apologize for, and even seek reconciliation between perpetrators and victims of large-scale moral wrongs such as slavery, campaigns of ethnic cleansing, and official regimes of racial segregation. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is probably the most well-known example of such political efforts to effect what might be called moral healing within and between nations. In this essay, I canvass var…Read more
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47Rectification and reparation: What does citizen responsibility require?Journal of Social Philosophy 35 (2). 2004.
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19David Konstan, Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-19940-7 $26.99, HbkJournal of Value Inquiry 50 (2): 449-456. 2016.For the past thirty-five years or so forgiveness has been of great interest to philosophers, and the recent spate of new books and scholarly essays on the topic is evidence that this interest continues unabated. David Konstan’s Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea is among the recent contributions to this literature. Konstan argues that none of the various ways in which people in the classical Greek and Roman world managed angry emotional states such as resentment constitute the moder…Read more
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105What is involved in forgiving?Philosophia 25 (1-4): 33-49. 1997.I have argued that forgiveness paradigmatically involves overcoming moral anger, of which resentment is the central case. I have argued, as well, that forgiveness may involve overcoming any form of anger so long as the belief that you have been wrongfully harmed is partially constitutive of it, and that overcoming other negative emotions caused by a wrongdoer's misdeed may, given appropriate qualifications, count as forgiveness. Those qualifications indicate, however, significant differences bet…Read more
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117Ambivalence, Autonomy, and Organ SalesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (2): 237-251. 2006.Recent philosophical arguments in favor of legal markets in human organs such as kidneys claim that respect for autonomy justifies such markets. I argue that these arguments fail to establish the moral permissibility of commercialized organ sales because they do not show that those most likely to serve as vendors would choose to sell autonomously. Pro-market views utilize hierarchical theories of autonomy to demonstrate that potential organ vendors may autonomously consent to selling their organ…Read more
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20Revolutionary Rationality and the Good LifeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 9 (1): 27-34. 1994.
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267Exploitation, Autonomy, and the Case for Organ SalesInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 12 (1): 89-95. 1998.A recent argument in favor of a free market in human organs claims that such a market enhances personal autonomy. I argue here that such a market would, on the contrary, actually compromise the autonomy of those most likely to sell their organs, namely, the least well off members of society. A Marxian-inspired notion of exploitation is deployed to show how, and in what sense, this is the case.
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44What is involved in forgiving?Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (3-4): 331-340. 1993.I have argued that forgiveness paradigmatically involves overcoming moral anger, of which resentment is the central case. I have argued, as well, that forgiveness may involve overcoming any form of anger so long as the belief that you have been wrongfully harmed is partially constitutive of it, and that overcoming other negative emotions caused by a wrongdoer's misdeed may, given appropriate qualifications, count as forgiveness. Those qualifications indicate, however, significant differences bet…Read more
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