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    Review of Dignity: Its History and Meaning, by Michael Rosen (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 14 (1): 112-116. 2013.
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    What Does Not Budge for Any Nudge?
    American Journal of Bioethics 12 (2): 14-15. 2012.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 14-15, February 2012
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    Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals—eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question—for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love. Yet the move towards capacities is often controversial: if a human’s capacities are the basis of its moral status, how could a human having lesser capacities than you and I have the same "serious" moral status as you and I? Thi…Read more
  •  52
    The idea that we human beings have souls that can continue to have conscious experiences after the deaths of our bodies is controversial in contemporary academic bioethics; this idea is obviously present whenever questions about harm at the end of life are discussed, but this idea is often ignored or avoided because it is more comfortable to do so. After briefly discussing certain types of experiences that lead some people to believe in souls that can survive the deaths of their bodies, I begin …Read more
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    Are there persuasive approaches to embryonic stem cell (ESC) research that appeal, not just to those fellow-citizens in one’s own ideological camp, nor just to those undecided citizens in the middle, but to those citizens on the other side of the issue? I believe that there are such arguments and in this short paper I try to develop one of them. In particular, I argue that certain beliefs shared by some proponents and some opponents of ESC research—beliefs about the personal identity and moral s…Read more
  •  22
    What's wrong with deliberately proselytizing patients?
    American Journal of Bioethics 7 (7). 2007.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Human embryos in the original position?
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (3). 2005.
    Two different discussions in John Rawls' A Theory of Justice lead naturally to a rather conservative position on the moral status of the human embryo. When discussing paternalism, he claims that the parties in the original position would seek to protect themselves in case they end up as incapacitated or undeveloped human beings when the veil of ignorance is lifted. Since human embryos are examples of such beings, the parties in the original position would seek to protect themselves from their em…Read more
  •  37
    The Parthenotes and the Parthenon
    American Journal of Bioethics 11 (3): 35-36. 2011.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    The Non-Identity Problem is the problem of explaining the apparent wrongness of a decision that does not harm people, especially since some of the people affected by the decision would not exist at all were it not for the decision. One approach to this problem, in the context of reproductive decisions, is to focus on wronging, rather than harming, one's offspring. But a Non-Person Problem emerges for any view that claims (1) that only persons can be wronged and (2) that the person-making propert…Read more
  • Book Review (review)
    Philosophia Christi 5 (1): 308-313. 2003.
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    News 127–138 information for contributors 139–140
    with Paul J. Olscamp, R. Jeffrey, Christopher Lake, and Irving Singer
    Journal of Value Inquiry 38 603-605. 2004.
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    Irreversible Shmirreversible
    American Journal of Bioethics 14 (8): 26-28. 2014.
    No abstract
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    The Two-Essence Problem That Wasn’t
    American Journal of Bioethics 12 (9): 34-35. 2012.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 9, Page 34-35, September 2012
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    Review of "Dignity: Its History and Meaning" (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 14 (1): 112-116. 2013.
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    Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction
    British Journal of Aesthetics 46 (1): 96-97. 2006.
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    Three Christian Arguments Against Germline Engineering
    Christian Bioethics 18 (2): 201-218. 2012.
    Are there any specifically Christian grounds for prohibiting, in principle, human germline engineering? In addressing this question, I deliberately limit my investigation in scope (by focusing narrowly on germline engineering itself) and in perspective (by focusing narrowly on the direct and often distinctive contributions of Christian theology). The three arguments I consider for the conclusion that germline engineering is morally prohibited are the argument from playing God, the argument from …Read more
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    Not every cell is sacred: A reply to Charo
    Bioethics 20 (3). 2006.
    ABSTRACT Massimo Reichlin, in an earlier article in this journal, defended a version of the ‘argument from potential’ (AFP), which concludes that the human embryo should be protected from the moment of conception. But R. Alta Charo, in her essay entitled ‘Every Cell is Sacred: Logical Consequences of the Argument from Potential in the Age of Cloning’, claims that versions of the AFP like Reichlin’s are vulnerable to a rather embarrassing problem: with the advent of human cloning, such versions o…Read more