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    Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 5 (1): 50-76. 2008.
    Of great importance to many non-consequentialists is a claimed moral difference between doing and allowing harm. I argue that non-consequentialism is best understood, however, as consisting in three morally distinct categories where commentators typically identify two: standard doings of harm, standard allowings of harm, and denials of resources. Furthermore, the moral distinctness of denials of resources is independent of whether denials are doings or allowings of harm, I argue. I argue by way …Read more
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    Killing, Letting Die, and the Denial of Resources
    Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 2003.
    The traditional non-consequentialist moral distinction between doing and allowing harm should be revised. A trichotomy consisting of what I call central cases of harming, refraining from aiding, and denying resources is more apt way of distinguishing behaviors. ;I argue that there are morally significant differences between denial behaviors and each of the other two categories of behavior. I first employ what has been called the method of comparable cases in support of this conclusion. I also pr…Read more
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    Reification, or the Anxiety of Late Capitalism (review)
    Radical Philosophy 121. 2003.
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    Is there a Right to Bear Arms?
    Public Affairs Quarterly 20 (4): 293-312. 2006.
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    Plant chromatin: Development and gene control
    with Guofu Li and Rachel Holmes-Davis
    Bioessays 24 (3): 234-243. 2002.
    It is increasingly clear that chromatin is not just a device for packing DNA within the nucleus but also a dynamic material that changes as cellular environments alter. The precise control of chromatin modification in response to developmental and environmental cues determines the correct spatial and temporal expression of genes. Here, we review exciting discoveries that reveal chromatin participation in many facets of plant development. These include: chromatin modification from embryonic and m…Read more
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    Abortion, the Right to Life, and Dependence
    Social Theory and Practice 31 (3): 405-429. 2005.