Philip A Reed
Biographic Data
| ID | 4485320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip A Reed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip A |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed |
| SIGNATURE | REED P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canisius College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6445-2856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Autonomy-centred assisted death laws still avoid expressivism
Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by appealing to autonomy-centred assisted death laws. He claims that these laws need to appeal to a person’s motivations for requesting assisted death and that judgments that these motivations are reasonable will express a message of disrespect for similarly-situated individuals. I argue that VandenHombergh’s article errs in at …
Virtue Ethics for the Real World
Developing Systemic Thinking Skills
A design-based research study on the development of one-page tools to support systemic thinking in public managers is presented. Study participants included public managers of social and human service agencies within government or nonprofit organizations, as learners for whom the tools were designed; and instructional design professionals, offering expert opinions regarding the design of tools for adult learners. The design process consisted of g…
Terminalism and assisted suicide
Discrimination against the dying
The purpose of this paper is to identify a kind of discrimination that has hitherto gone unrecognised. ‘Terminalism’ is discrimination against the dying, or treating the terminally ill worse than they would expect to be treated if they were not dying. I provide four examples from healthcare settings of this kind of discrimination: hospice eligibility requirements, allocation protocols for scarce medical resources, right to try laws and right to d…
Response to commentaries on ‘Expressivism at the beginning and end of life’
I appreciate all of the commentaries for their careful and thoughtful engagement with my article. Because of limited space, I can only focus on some criticisms and cannot develop my responses as fully as I would like. This is probably best for the reader anyway. John Keown worries about the ‘dualism’ of the third objection against expressivism. By this I think he means that critics of the expressivist argument at the beginning of life view a cert…
Expressivism at the beginning and end of life
Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with disabilities. Disability rights advocates also commonly criticise and oppose physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia on the same grounds. Despite the structural and motivational similarity of these two kinds of arguments, there is no literature comparing and contras…
Hume¿s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology
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Hume¿s Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology
Response to commentaries on ‘Expressivism at the beginning and end of life’
I appreciate all of the commentaries for their careful and thoughtful engagement with my article. Because of limited space, I can only focus on some criticisms and cannot develop my responses as fully as I would like. This is probably best for the reader anyway. John Keown worries about the ‘dualism’ of the third objection against expressivism. By this I think he means that critics of the expressivist argument at the beginning of life view a cert…
Expressivism at the beginning and end of life
Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with disabilities. Disability rights advocates also commonly criticise and oppose physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia on the same grounds. Despite the structural and motivational similarity of these two kinds of arguments, there is no literature comparing and contras…
Terminalism and assisted suicide
Discrimination against the dying
The purpose of this paper is to identify a kind of discrimination that has hitherto gone unrecognised. ‘Terminalism’ is discrimination against the dying, or treating the terminally ill worse than they would expect to be treated if they were not dying. I provide four examples from healthcare settings of this kind of discrimination: hospice eligibility requirements, allocation protocols for scarce medical resources, right to try laws and right to d…
Autonomy-centred assisted death laws still avoid expressivism
Jonathon VandenHombergh argues in this journal that the expressivist objection against assisted death cannot be avoided by appealing to autonomy-centred assisted death laws. He claims that these laws need to appeal to a person’s motivations for requesting assisted death and that judgments that these motivations are reasonable will express a message of disrespect for similarly-situated individuals. I argue that VandenHombergh’s article errs in at …
Virtue Ethics for the Real World
Developing Systemic Thinking Skills
A design-based research study on the development of one-page tools to support systemic thinking in public managers is presented. Study participants included public managers of social and human service agencies within government or nonprofit organizations, as learners for whom the tools were designed; and instructional design professionals, offering expert opinions regarding the design of tools for adult learners. The design process consisted of g…
Medicine (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethics in medical practice (3 works) · Expressivism (3 works) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Abortion (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)