Blake Hereth
Biographic Data
| ID | 5972791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blake Hereth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blake |
| FAMILY NAME | Hereth |
| SIGNATURE | HERETH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9338-0417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beneficial Bloodsucking
The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha‐gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the sym…
Swimming Upstream
In this article, the author argues that the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe and Casey, in conjunction with multiple states’ decisions to ban abortion, reflects an implicit view of moral responsibility for fetal welfare. Utilizing Rivka Weinberg’s Hazmat Theory of parental responsibility, along with Daniel Groll’s principled defense of sperm donation, the author explains why appeals to bodily autonomy do not provide refuge for sperm …
Mulder’s hail Mary
In a recent article Jack Mulder, Jr gives a Plantinga-style defence of the Virgin Mary’s free consent to bear Jesus at the Annunciation. Against Mulder, I argue that a theodicy (rather than a defence) is necessary to undermine my arguments, that Mulder’s Catholic appeal to Mary’s Immaculate Conception amounts to a kind of freedom-undermining metaphysical grooming, and therefore Marian consent remains invalid
Can We Justify Military Enhancements? Some Yes, Most No
The United States Department of Defense has, for at least 20 years, held the stated intention to enhance active military personnel (“warfighters”). This intention has become more acute in the face of dropping recruitment, an aging fighting force, and emerging strategic challenges. However, developing and testing enhancements is clouded by the ethically contested status of enhancements, the long history of abuse by military medical researchers, an…
Animal rights Pacifism
Mary, did you consent
The Christian and Islamic doctrine of the virgin birth claim God asexually impregnated the Virgin Mary with Jesus, Mary's impregnation was fully consensual ( virgin consent ), and God never acts immorally ( divine goodness ). First, I show that God's actions and Mary's background beliefs undermine her consent by virtue of coercive incentives, Mary's comparative powerlessness, and the generation of moral conflicts. Second, I show that God's non-di…
Here’s not looking at you, kid
Anti-natalism is the view that persons ought morally to refrain from procreation. We offer a new argument for a principled version of anti-natalism according to which it is always impermissible to procreate in the actual world since doing so will violate the right to physical security of future, created persons once those persons exist and have the right. First, we argue that procreators can be responsible for non-trivial harms that befall future…
Sanctuary Cities and Non-Refoulement
Against Self-Defense
Here’s not looking at you, kid
Anti-natalism is the view that persons ought morally to refrain from procreation. We offer a new argument for a principled version of anti-natalism according to which it is always impermissible to procreate in the actual world since doing so will violate the right to physical security of future, created persons once those persons exist and have the right. First, we argue that procreators can be responsible for non-trivial harms that befall future…
Against Self-Defense
Sanctuary Cities and Non-Refoulement
Animal rights Pacifism
Mary, did you consent
The Christian and Islamic doctrine of the virgin birth claim God asexually impregnated the Virgin Mary with Jesus, Mary's impregnation was fully consensual ( virgin consent ), and God never acts immorally ( divine goodness ). First, I show that God's actions and Mary's background beliefs undermine her consent by virtue of coercive incentives, Mary's comparative powerlessness, and the generation of moral conflicts. Second, I show that God's non-di…
Here’s not looking at you, kid
Anti-natalism is the view that persons ought morally to refrain from procreation. We offer a new argument for a principled version of anti-natalism according to which it is always impermissible to procreate in the actual world since doing so will violate the right to physical security of future, created persons once those persons exist and have the right. First, we argue that procreators can be responsible for non-trivial harms that befall future…
Can We Justify Military Enhancements? Some Yes, Most No
The United States Department of Defense has, for at least 20 years, held the stated intention to enhance active military personnel (“warfighters”). This intention has become more acute in the face of dropping recruitment, an aging fighting force, and emerging strategic challenges. However, developing and testing enhancements is clouded by the ethically contested status of enhancements, the long history of abuse by military medical researchers, an…
Beneficial Bloodsucking
The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha‐gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the sym…
Swimming Upstream
In this article, the author argues that the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe and Casey, in conjunction with multiple states’ decisions to ban abortion, reflects an implicit view of moral responsibility for fetal welfare. Utilizing Rivka Weinberg’s Hazmat Theory of parental responsibility, along with Daniel Groll’s principled defense of sperm donation, the author explains why appeals to bodily autonomy do not provide refuge for sperm …
Mulder’s hail Mary
In a recent article Jack Mulder, Jr gives a Plantinga-style defence of the Virgin Mary’s free consent to bear Jesus at the Annunciation. Against Mulder, I argue that a theodicy (rather than a defence) is necessary to undermine my arguments, that Mulder’s Catholic appeal to Mary’s Immaculate Conception amounts to a kind of freedom-undermining metaphysical grooming, and therefore Marian consent remains invalid
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (3 works)