Philosophy Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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How to Resolve an Ethical Dilemma Concerning Randomized Clinical Trials
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 1999-08-26)An apparent ethical dilemma arises when physicians consider enrolling their patients in randomized clinical trials. Suppose that a randomized clinical trial comparing two treatments is in progress, and a physician has an ... -
Nietzsche's Questions Concerning the Will to Truth
(John Hopkins University Press, 2012)By a will to truth Nietzsche understands an overriding commitment, unlimited in scope, to believing in accordance with evidence and argument. I show that the critique of this commitment found in Nietzsche’s later works ... -
Hegel's Concept of Desire
(John Hopkins University Press, 2009)Hegel’s assertion that self-consciousness is desire in general stands at a critical point in the Phenomenology, but the concept of desire employed in this identification is obscure. I examine three ways in which Hegel’s ... -
Hutcheson's Deceptive Hedonism
(John Hopkins University Press, 2010-10)Francis Hutcheson’s theory of value is often characterized as a precursor to the qualitative hedonism of John Stuart Mill. The interpretation of Mill as a qualitative hedonist has come under fire recently; some have argued ... -
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Is Capitalism Good for Women?
(Springer Netherlands, 2014-05-21)This paper investigates an aspect of the question of whether capitalism can be defended as a morally legitimate economic system by asking whether capitalism serves progressive, feminist ends of freedom and gender equality. ... -
Truly humanitarian intervention: considering just causes and methods in a feminist cosmopolitan frame
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-29)In international law, ‘humanitarian intervention’ refers to the use of military force by one nation or group of nations to stop genocide or other gross human rights violations in another sovereign nation. If humanitarian ... -
Commitment as Motivation: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Agency and the Explanation of Behavior
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-03-04)This paper presents Sen's theory of agency, focusing on the role of commitment in this theory as both problematic and potentially illuminating. His account of some commitments as goal-displacing gives rise to a dilemma ... -
The Supererogatory, and How to Accommodate It
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-08)Many find it plausible to posit a category of supererogatory actions. But the supererogatory resists easy analysis. Traditionally, supererogatory actions are characterized as actions that are morally good, but not morally ... -
Book Note: The Natural Rights Republic
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Book Review: The American Language of Rights
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Book Review: An Introduction to Rights
(University of Chicago Press, 2005) -
Book Review: T. H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy
(University of Chicago Press, 2008) -
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "Contractarianism"
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Analyzing Backlash to Progressive Social Movements
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Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to Resist
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Sensationalized Philosophy: A Reply to Marquis's "Why Abortion is Immoral"
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Revising Philosophy Through the Wide-Angle Lens of Feminism
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Oppression by Choice
(Wiley Blackwell, 1994)