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14Welfare Subjectivism, Sophistication, and Procedural PerfectionismThe Journal of Ethics 1-20. 2024.Welfare subjectivists face a dilemma. On the one hand, traditional subjectivist theories—such as the desire-fulfillment theory—are too permissive to account for the well-being of typical mature human beings. On the other hand, more “refined” theories—such as the life-satisfaction theory—are too restrictive to account for the well-being of various welfare subjects, including newborns, those with profound cognitive impairments, or non-human animals. This paper examines a class of welfare subjectiv…Read more
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14Indirect Discrimination and InequalityIn Mitja Sardoč (ed.), Handbook of Equality of Opportunity, Springer. 2023.Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) is one of the focal points of current antidiscrimination policies. However, few political/moral philosophers have paid substantial attention to indirect discrimination until recently. This contribution provides an overview of the two philosophical questions in this context: the definitional question (DQ) and the moral question (MQ). DQ concerns what distinguishes indirect discrimination from direct discrimination and inequality. Conceptually, either …Read more
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16Beyond the Personhood: An In-Depth Analysis of Moral Considerations in Human Brain Organoid ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (1): 54-56. 2024.Human brain organoids (HBOs), three-dimensional neural tissues derived from human pluripotent stem cells, are at the forefront of biomedical research, provoking intricate ethical quandaries (Sawai...
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18In Defense of the Cultural Insensitivity of NeurorightsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (4): 385-387. 2023.With the rapid advance in emerging neuroscience and neurotechnology, scholars and practitioners have urged the necessity of a governance framework and promoted the notion of “neurorights.” It refer...
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15Infection control, subjective estimates, and the ethics of testing during the COVID‐19 pandemicBioethics 37 (9): 897-903. 2023.On March 16, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization said: “We have a simple message to all countries—test, test, test.” This seems like sound advice, but what if limiting the number of tests has a positive effect on infection control? Although this may rarely be the case, the possibility raises an important ethical question that is closely related to a central tension between deontological and consequentialist approaches to ethics. In this paper, we first argue that early du…Read more
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16Mental Prosthesis Strikes BackAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (3): 247-249. 2023.McCarthy and Howard (2023) develop an ethical case for supported decision-making in medical contexts, mainly building upon the republican ideal of non-domination. Their theoretical inquiry is of mu...
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48Making Sense of Extended Affirmative Action: Review of Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (review)Journal of Value Inquiry. 2022.
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59What Makes Discrimination Morally Wrong? A Harm‐Based View ReconsideredTheoria 87 (2): 483-499. 2020.What is the morally significant feature of discrimination? All of the following seem plausible – (i) discrimination is a kind of wrongdoing and it wrongs discriminatees, which is a matter of intrapersonal morality; (ii) in view of cases of indirect discrimination, significant normative features of discrimination are best captured in a discriminatee‐focused, or harm‐based, way; and (iii) discrimination, as an act‐type, necessarily involves interpersonal comparison. The first task of this article …Read more
Higashi-Hiroshima & Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Distributive Justice |
Areas of Interest
Well-Being |
Discrimination |
Disability |
Neuroethics |
Scientific Research Ethics |