Areas of Specialization
       Public Health Ethics
       Medical Ethics
       Social and Political Philosophy
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Areas of Competence
       Ethics
       History of Moral and Political Philosophy

Book
     Trust and Toleration (Rutledge, 2004)
Selected articles
  1. with Jonathan Herington, Jessica Shand, Carl D’Angio, Marianne Chiafrey, Chin-Lin Ching, and Margie Shaw (as first author), “The Ethics of Implementing Emergency Resource Allocation Protocols,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 34 (2023): 58-68.
  2. "A Partnership for the Ages,“ Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 104 (2023): 195-216.
  3. The Logic of Intolerance: Toleration within the Limits of Trust,” in Palgrave Handbook of Toleration, ed. Mitja Sardoc, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 635-51.
  4. “Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead.”  Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 44 (2019).
  5. "Public Health and Normative Public Goods.”  Public Health Ethics 11
          (2018): 20-26.      
  6. with Janet Cohn, Yu-fen Chou, and Matthew Kohn, "Regulating Science: Genomic Editing, the Embryo, and the Lives of Our Children," NYSBA Health Law Journal 20.3 (2015): 33-43.
  7. “​​The Morality of Leverage and the Leverage of Morality,” in Leveraging: A Political, Economic, and Societal Framework, ed.  David Anderson (New York: Springer Publishing, 2014), 83-93.
  8. “​​Transparent Vessels?: What Organ Donors Should be Allowed to Know about Their Recipients,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Philosophy 41 (2013): 323-32.
  9.  with Jennifer Kwon, “The Ethics of Krabbe Newborn Screening,”  Public Health Ethics 6 (2013): 114-19, with commentaries by Lannie Friedman Ross, Fiona Alice Miller, and Niels Nijsingh, 119-28.
  10.  with Eric Singer, “KidneyMatch.com: The Ethics of Solicited Organ Donations,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 19 (2008): 141-49.  Winner of the 2008 Library Award from the Rochester Academy of Medicine for the best essay in ethics or the history of medicine.
  11. “‘One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions’: Hume’s Theory of Government,” in Blackwell Companion to Hume, ed. Elizabeth Radcliffe (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 388-405.
  12. "Of Socinians and Homosexuals: Trust and the Limits of Toleration," in Toleration on Trial,  ed. Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, and Stephen Macedo (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), 85-109.
  13. “Better Brains, Better Selves?: The Ethics of Neuroenhancements,”  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (2007): 375-99.  
  14. “The Bond of Friendship and Trust:  Liberal Societies in the Face of Evil,”  The Modern Schoolman 85 (2007): 71-87.
  15. “‘The Paradoxical Principle and Salutary Practice’: Hume on Toleration,”  Hume Studies 31 (2005): 145-64.
  16. “Moral Ambiguity in a Black-and-White Universe,” in Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine, ed. Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl (Indianapolis: Open Court Press, 2005), 39-53.
  17. “​Morality above Metaphysics: Friendship and Philo's Stance in Dialogue XII,"  Hume Studies 28 (2002): 131-47.
  18. "Establishing Toleration,"  Political Theory 27 (1999):  667-93.
  19. "Trust and the Rationality of Toleration,"  Noûs 32 (1998): 82-98.
  20. "Hume on the Characters of Virtue,"  Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1997): 45-64.
  21. "Moral Conversions,"  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 531-50.
  22. "The Justification of  Tolerance,"  in Values and Public Life, ed. Gerard Magill and Marie Hoff (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995), 29-56. 
  23. "Living with Contextualism,"  Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (1994): 243-60.  ​
  24. "Liberalism in Context,"  Polity 25 (1993): 565-82. 
  25. "Hume and the Contexts of Politics,"  Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1992): 219-42.  

Education  
     University of Rochester Medical School
          Fellowship in Clinical Ethics, 2010   
     University of Michigan
          Ph.D. philosophy, 1990
          Dissertation:  "A Context for Liberalism:  A Humean Account of Political Justification"
          Committee:  Stephen Darwall (chair), Elizabeth Anderson, Allan Gibbard, Peter Railton,
​                               Don Herzog (political science) 
           Honors: Charlotte Newcombe Foundation Fellowship, Research Fellowship Grant 
     Rice University
          B.A. philosophy, 1982, conferred magna cum laude
          Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholarship
All photos on this page by author.  Top: Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand.  Bottom: Calle de Carrozze, Venice; Notre de Dame de Paris; Claus Oldenberg, Typewriter Eraser, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Shakespeare statue, Stratford, Ontario; Mark Rothko, one of the Seagrams Murals, Tate Modern Museum, London; Rowboats at Lapland Lake, New York.