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6What’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
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8Kognitive romanische Onomasiologie und Semasiologie (edited book)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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8Conceptual Compatibility and Transparency in Capacity AssessmentsAmerican 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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184What 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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8Goals- and Burdens-based DMC as Expressions of Value Rather than Manifestations of DMCAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (11): 94-96. 2022.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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15Urkunde, Brief und Öffentliche Rede. Eine diskurstraditionelle Filiation im ‘Medienwechsel’Das Mittelalter 3 (1). 1998.
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17An Alternative to an Alternative to Brain DeathProceedings 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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58Historical 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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5Sprachgeschichte zwischen Nähe und Distanz: Latein – Französisch – DeutschIn Vilmos Ágel & Mathilde Hennig (eds.), Nähe Und Distanz Im Kontext Variationslinguistischer Forschung, De Gruyter. pp. 155-206. 2010.
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26Comfort Care Request for Preterm Infant: Prescriptive AnalysisAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (1): 84-86. 2017.
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25Ambiguous Interests: Maternal Desires and Fetal InterestsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (2): 31-33. 2016.
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12Ambiguität und Schriftauslegung: Beobachtungen zu Augustins Schrift De utilitate credendiIn Susanne Winkler (ed.), Ambiguity: Language and Communication, De Gruyter. pp. 217-268. 2015.
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Applied Ethics |