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    What’s the Harm in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 48 (6): 603-612. 2023.
    In clinical ethics, there remains a great deal of uncertainty regarding the appropriateness of attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for certain patients. Although the issue continues to receive ample attention and various frameworks have been proposed for navigating such cases, most discussions draw heavily on the notion of harm as a central consideration. In the following, I use emerging philosophical literature on the notion of harm to argue that the ambiguities and disagreement abou…Read more
  • Kognitive romanische Onomasiologie und Semasiologie (edited book)
    with Andreas Blank
    M. Niemeyer. 2003.
    Dieser Sammelband zeigt anhand von Problemen der Lexik und Grammatik romanischer Sprachen sowie der linguistischen Metasprache, daß die onomasiologische und die semasiologische Perspektive in ihrer Komplementarität unabdingbare Bezugspunkte einer sich als 'kognitiv' verstehenden Sprachwissenschaft sein sollten. Mit im Detail unterschiedlicher Perspektivierung werden Fragen der synchronischen und diachronischen Lexikologie und Grammatik diskutiert, ausgewählte Konzept- bzw. Funktionsbereiche im D…Read more
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    Conceptual Compatibility and Transparency in Capacity Assessments
    American Journal of Bioethics 22 (10): 51-53. 2022.
    In “Harmful Choices, the case of C, and decision making competence,” Pickering et al. offer a thought-provoking interpretation of the relationship between harm and capacity assessments by an...
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    What is a service?
    The Eighth Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO’22), August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping University, Sweden. 2022.
    When governments collect data relating to economic activity they commonly employ a distinction between goods and services. Both goods and services have economic value. Goods (cars, houses, bottles of milk) are, very roughly, independent continuants which can be alienated (sold, gifted, rented, and so forth). Services (hairdressing, gardening, teaching) are, again very roughly, occurrents. They are occurrents which are further often said to be marked by the fact that production and consumption co…Read more
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    In “Three Kinds of Decision-Making Capacity for Refusing Medical Interventions,” Navin et al. (2022) propose two additional kinds of decision-making capacity that ought to be recognized in cases of...
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    An Alternative to an Alternative to Brain Death
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 83 89-98. 2009.
    In this paper I will provide a hylomorphic critique of Jeff McMahan’s “An Alternative to Brain Death.” I will evaluate three puzzles—the dicephalus, the braintransplant, and the split-brain phenomenon—proposed by McMahan which allow him to deny that a human being is identical to an organism. I will contend thatMcMahan’s solution entails counterintuitive consequences that pose problems to organ transplant cases. A Thomistic hylomorphic metaphysics not only avoids these unwelcome consequences and …Read more
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    Historical semantics and cognition (edited book)
    Mouton de Gruyter. 1999.
    Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for ...
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    Comfort Care Request for Preterm Infant: Prescriptive Analysis
    with Harvey Berman, Jack P. Freer, and Geert Craenen
    American Journal of Bioethics 17 (1): 84-86. 2017.
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    Ambiguität und Schriftauslegung: Beobachtungen zu Augustins Schrift De utilitate credendi
    with Christof Landmesser
    In Susanne Winkler (ed.), Ambiguity: Language and Communication, De Gruyter. pp. 217-268. 2015.