University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 2002
Fairborn, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
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    The species-norm account of moral status
    Between the Species 13 (5): 1. 2005.
    Many philosophers have argued against Singer’s claim that all animals are equal. However, none of these responses have demonstrated an appreciation of the complexity of his position. The result is that all of these responses focus on one of his arguments in a way that falls victim to another. This paper is a critical examination of a possible response to the full complexity of Singer’s position that derives from the work of Carl Cohen, Kathleen Wilkes, and F. Ramsey. On this response, a being’s …Read more
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    Animals and ethics
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.
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    Schizocapital and the branding of American psychosis
    Cultural Values 4 (4): 474-496. 2000.
    This essay reads Deleuze and Guattari's Anti‐Oedipus, somewhat perversely, as a radical Lacanian means of conceptualizing hypermodern capitalism. If, as Deleuze and Guattari argue, it is psychoanalysis that rediscovers and retraces the death instinct in classical, nineteenth‐century capitalism, Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis better exemplifies the ways in which the deterritorializing flows of twenty‐frrst‐century global capitalism have overcoded and overwritten that classical, nineteenth‐…Read more
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    Hypervalue
    Cultural Values 1 (2): 133-138. 1997.
    . Hypervalue. Cultural Values: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 133-138.