A
selection of my published articles:
Metaphysics:
- "Vague Existence Implies Vague Identity" Vague Objects and Vague Identity ed. Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad, Springer. 2014
- "Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers?" American Philosophical Quarterly. 50:2, April 2013, 203-208.
- "Four-Dimensional Animalism" Essays on Animalism Anthology eds. Paul Snowdon and
Stephan Blatti. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
- "Do
Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal
Identity?" Mind. 114:453, January 2005, 31-59.
- "Organisms and Their Bodies." Mind. 2009, 118:70. 803-809.
- "Problems with a Constitution Account of Persons." Dialogue. 48:2. 2009, 291-312.
- "The
Thesis of Vague Objects and Unger's Problem of the Many." Philosophical Papers. 30:1, March 2001, 47-57.
- "Can
There Be Spatially Coincident Entities of the Same Kind?"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 31:1, March 2003, 1-22.
- "A Hylomorphic Account of Thought Experiments Concerning Personal Identity." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 82:3. 2008. 481-502.
- "Lowe's
Defense of Constitution and the Principle of Weak Extensionality."
Ratio. 21:2, June 2008, 168-181.
- "Olson's
Embryo Problem."
Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 80:4, December
2002, 502-511.
- "Persons
as Proper Parts of Organisms." Theoria. 71:1, 2005, 29-37.
- "Countering
the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity."
Philosophy. 79, 2004, pp. 445-472.
- "The
Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation."
International Philosophical Quarterly. 47:2:186, June 2007, 181-85.
- "Scattered
Artifacts." The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 40:2, 2002, 211-126.
- "Shoemaker's
Problem of Too Many Thinkers." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical
Association. 80, 2007, 225-36.
- "Identity Matters" The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics ed. Manson, N. and Barnard, R. Continuum International Group. Forthcoming.
- "Merrick's
Identification of the Person and Organism." Australasian
Journal of Philosophy. (Resubmission Requested).
- "Organisms, Artifacts, and Eliminativism." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. (Resubmission Requested).
- "Olson's Account of Function and Substance Concepts."
Bioethics:
- "Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism and Moral Status." Persons, Moral Worth and Embryos:
A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments from Philosophy, Law and Science ed. Steve Napier. Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics Center. 2011. 125-144.
- "Morally Relevant Potential" with Rose Hershenov. Journal of Medical Ethics 2014.
- "Perdure and Murder
" American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and
Medicine 2011.
- "The
Death of a Person." The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
31:1. April 2006, 107-20.
- "The
Problematic Role of 'Irreversibility' in the Definition
of Death." Bioethics. 17:1, February
2003, 89-100.
- "An
Argument for Limited Human Cloning." Public Affairs Quarterly.
14:3, July 2000, 245-258. Reprinted in What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics, ed. Boonin, D. and Odie, G. Oxford University Press, 2004, 688-693.
- "The Metaphysical Foundations for a More Liberal Organ Procurement Policy." (with Jim Delaney) Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Special Issue on Personal Identity and Bioethics. Forthcoming.
- "Animals, Persons and Bioethics." Earlier versions published in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, 8:1, 2008, 8-11 and Proceedings of the Creighton Society: The Philosophical Association of New York. October 2008.
- "Why Consent May Not Be Needed For Organ Procurement." (with Jim Delaney). Target Article. American Journal of Bioethics. 9:8, 2009, 3-10.
- "Response to Seven Critics." (with Jim Delaney) American Journal of Bioethics. 9:8, 2009.
- "Abortions
and Distortions: An Analysis of Morally Irrelevant Factors in
Thomson's Violinist Thought Experiment." Social Theory
and Practice. 27:1, January 2001, 129-148.
- "Misunderstanding the Moral Equivalence of Killing and Letting Die." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly,8:2, Summer 2008, 239-245.
- "Fission
and Confusion." Christian Bioethics. 12:3, December 2006, 237-254.
- "Death,
Dignity and Degradation." Public Affairs Quarterly,
21:1, 2007, 21-36.
- "Mandatory Autopsies and Organ Conscriptions" (with
Jim Delaney) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 19:4, 2009, 367-391.
- "Explaining
the Psychological Appeal of Viability as a Cutoff Point."
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. 6:4, Winter 2006, 681-686.
- "How
a Hylomorphic Metaphysics Constrains the Abortion Debate."
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. 5:4, 2005, 751-764.
- "A More Palatable Epicureanism." American Philosophical Quarterly, 44:2, April 2007, 171-180.
- "The 'I'm Personally Opposed to Abortion But?' Argument." American Catholic Philosophical Association Proceedings, 82:2009. Forthcoming May 2010.
- Thomistic Principles and Bioethics by Jason Eberl. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:1, Spring 2008, 191-194. (Book Review)
- Human Identity and Bioethics by David Degrazia National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:4, Winter 2008. (Book Review)
- "The
Relevance of Metaphysics to the Morality of Abortion." (with Rose Hershenov)
Mind. (Resubmission Requested).
Philosophy of Religion:
- "Split Brains: No Headache for Soul Theorists" with Adam Taylor. Religious Studies: An
International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 2014.
- "Are There Too Many Hylomorphic Individuals Thinking about this Life and the Next?" Keynote for the Talbot Philosophical Society Graduate Conference.
- "The
Metaphysical Problem of Intermittent Existence and the Possibility
of Resurrection." Faith and Philosophy. 20:1, January 2003, 24-36.
- "Van
Inwagen, Zimmerman and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection."
Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy
of Religion. 38, December 2002, 451-469.
- "Soulless Organisms? Hylomorphism vs. Animalism." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Forthcoming.
- "Personal
Identity and Purgatory." Religious Stuides: an International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion. 42, December 2006, 439-451.
- Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Souls by Nancy Murphy Religious Studies, 43:2, June 2007, 237-242. (Book Review).
Philosophy of Law and Ethics:
- "Restitution
and Revenge." Journal of Philosophy. 96:2,
February 1999, 79-94.
- "Restitution and Punishment." in New Perspectives on the Ethics of Punishment. eds. Jesper Ryberg, Angelo Corlett Palmgrave. MacMillian Press. Forthcoming.
- "Why
Must Punishment Be Unusual As Well As Cruel to Be Unconstitutional?"
Public Affairs Quarterly. 16:1, January 2002,
77-98.
- "Punishing
Attempted Crimes Less Severely than Successes." The Journal
of Value Inquiry. 34:4, December 2000, 479-489.
- "A Puzzle about the Demands of Morality." Philosophical Studies. 107:3, February 2002, 275-290.
- "Two
Epistemic Accounts for Deliberative Democracy." Polity:
The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association.
37:2, April 2005, 216-234.
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