University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2000
West Point, New York, United States of America
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    Case Study: Dialysis for a Prisoner of War
    with Daniel Zupan, Gary Solis, and George Annas
    Hastings Center Report 34 (6): 11. 2004.
  •  19
    Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification
    Journal of Military Ethics 9 (3): 279-282. 2010.
    No abstract
  •  18
    Case Study: Dialysis for a Prisoner of War
    with Daniel Zupan, Gary Solis, and George Annas
    Hastings Center Report 34 (6): 11. 2004.
  • Any theory of explanation must capture the intimate connection between explanation and causation, or between explanation and a broader notion of dependence, which includes causal and, e.g., mereological dependence. This does not, however, require realism about causation. Following up on a suggestion of P. Kitcher's, I analyze causation in terms of explanation. In order to recover a relation of causation from an augmented and improved version of Kitcher's theory, I develop a notion of an ideal hi…Read more