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Success!
I am happy to announce that MIT Press has agreed to publish The Responsible Brain, a book I have been writing with my Elmhurst College colleagues William Hirstein and Tyler Fagan. Our research for the book was supported by a Philosophy and Science of Self Control sub-grant as a part of a Templeton Foundation funded project […]
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Taking Stock
I have so many balls in the air this summer I’m having trouble keeping my projects organized. I thought it might help to publicly take stock of my commitments. Let me begin with the papers or chapters that are for the most part completed: I’ve already reviewed page proofs for a forthcoming chapter titled “Unconscious […]
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Wringe’s Expressive Theory of Punishment
I recently wrote a review of Bill Wringe’s book An Expressive Theory of Punishment for the journal Ethics. You can find the review here.
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Call for Commentators: new Brains blog symposium
The Brains blog invites philosophers and academics in other relevant disciplines to act as a commentator for our upcoming symposium, the second in our series on papers published in the journal Neuroethics. The target paper by Kevin Tobia (Yale) is titled “Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and Neuroethics” (abstract below). We are looking for short (1,000-2,000 […]
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Chemical Castration as Punishment
Here is a draft of a book chapter on US chemical castration statutes I’m working up for this book edited by the great and indefatigable Nicole Vincent. Comments welcome!
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Brains Blog Neuroethics Symposia
I’m helping to organize a new series of symposia on papers published in the journal Neuroethics over at Brains Blog. The first symposium has been published, and I highly recommend that anyone interested in cognitive enhancement (particularly moral enhancement) and personal identity take a look. The target article, by Farah Focquaert and Maartje Schermer, argues that […]
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Bert, minimally conscious states, and responsiblity
I just posted the paper I was working through during my stint at the Flickers of Freedom blog on the academia website. It is in final draft form, to be published some time next year as a chapter in an OUP volume edited by fantastic legal scholars Dennis Patterson and Michael Pardo. Comments are most […]
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I’m the featured author on the Flickers of Freedom blog this month
You can find my posts here.
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Brains Blog call for an early career commentator
The blog Brains (www.philosophyofbrains.com) invites an early career philosopher (graduate student, post-doc, or person who earned their PhD in the past five years) to act as a commentator for symposia on articles appearing in the journal Neuroethics. The symposia will be similar to ones the blog has run the past two years on papers from […]
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Why is Baltimore Burning?
Riots have broken out in Baltimore in response to the death of Freddie Gray, who died due to injuries he received while being transported in a police van. Gray was not buckled in, but was in handcuffs and leg irons, and may have been given a “rough ride,” meaning the police van was driven with […]
Pleas and Excuses 