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The Moral Status of AnimalsDissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. 2002.Our moral common sense is divided on the animals issue. On the one hand, we believe that animals have a substantially different moral status than humans have; on the other hand, we believe that we are prohibited from causing any being unnecessary pain, regardless of the species of the being. This division threatens our moral common sense and must be resolved if we wish to remain consistent in our moral thinking. In the first part of the dissertation I consider whether animals have direct moral s…Read more
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21Schizocapital and the branding of American psychosisCultural 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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13HypervalueCultural Values 1 (2): 133-138. 1997.. Hypervalue. Cultural Values: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 133-138.
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38The Indestructible Beauty of Suffering: Diana and the Metaphor of Global ConsumptionTheory and Event 1 (4). 1997.
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29Dying for a smoke: Freudian addiction and the joy of consumptionAngelaki 7 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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40The species-norm account of moral statusBetween 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
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 |