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36Can Duties to the Self Bind if They Are Waivable?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (1): 190-195. 2021.ABSTRACT It is often argued that, because she would always be in the position to waive it, a person cannot owe a duty to herself. In a recent AJP article, Janis David Schaab argues that a person can owe a duty to herself even if it can be waived, thus rendering unwarranted a scepticism about such duties, as well as efforts to show that they are unwaivable. Here I argue that, for all that Schaab says, waivability continues to threaten the very possibility of duties to self. As such, scepticism ab…Read more
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21Philip Pettit, The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality, Kinch Hoekstra (ed.), Michael TomaselloJournal of Moral Philosophy 17 (6): 707-710. 2020.
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59Practical Identity and Duties to the SelfAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 56 (3): 219-232. 2019.In this paper, I appeal to the notion of practical identity in order to defend the possibility of synchronic duties to the self—that is, self-directed duties focused on one's present self as opposed to one's future self. While many dismiss the idea of self-directed duties, I show that a person may be morally required to act in ways that advance her present interests and autonomy by virtue of her occupying multiple practical identities at a single moment.
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666In Silico Approaches and the Role of Ontologies in Aging ResearchRejuvenation Research 16 (6): 540-546. 2013.The 2013 Rostock Symposium on Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Aging Research was again dedicated to dissecting the aging process using in silico means. A particular focus was on ontologies, as these are a key technology to systematically integrate heterogeneous information about the aging process. Related topics were databases and data integration. Other talks tackled modeling issues and applications, the latter including talks focussed on marker development and cellular stress as well as …Read more
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73Following the law because it’s the law: obedience, bootstrapping, and practical reasonPhilosophical Explorations 21 (3): 400-411. 2018.Voluntarists in the early modern period speak of an agent’s following the law because she was ordered to do so or because it’s the law. Contemporary philosophers tend either to ignore or to dismiss the possibility of justified obedience of this sort – that is, they ignore or dismiss the possibility that something’s being the law could in itself constitute a good reason to act. In this paper, I suggest that this view isn’t taken seriously because of certain widespread beliefs about practical reas…Read more
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21Action and Agency in The Red ShoesFilm-Philosophy 22 (3): 484-500. 2018.In this paper, I argue that Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ballet musical The Red Shoes is concerned with topics surrounding phenomenology, action, and embodied agency, and that it exploits resources that are uniquely cinematic in order to “do philosophy.” I argue that the film does philosophy in two ways. First, it explicates a phenomenological model of action and agency. Second, it addresses itself to the philosophical question of whether an individual's non-reflective movements – tho…Read more
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13Stephen Darwall , Morality, Authority, & Law. Essays in Second-Person Ethics I . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 34 (6): 296-299. 2014.
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21Stephen Darwall , Honor, History, and Relationship: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 34 (6): 296-299. 2014.
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