Mathieu Doucet
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mathieu Doucet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mathieu |
| FAMILY NAME | Doucet |
| SIGNATURE | DOUCET M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2453-3915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trading one problem for two
The past two decades have seen growing calls for the “tobacco endgame.” Its advocates are united by their commitment to two ideas. First, tobacco‐related harms represent a catastrophic health emergency, and second, current tobacco‐control approaches are an inadequate response to the scale of that emergency. To endgame advocates, tobacco policy should have more ambitious goals than merely “controlling” tobacco. Instead, it should aim to bring abou…
What Is the Harm in Addiction? Autonomy, Vulnerability, and the Case for Harm Reduction Drug Policy
Successful drugs policy must be driven by thoughtful principle and intergovernmental consensus, not by departmental or legal inertia, nor by public (mis)conceptions about drug use. Perhaps the most pressing choice for drugs policymakers at present is between harm reduction and abstinence approaches to drugs policy. To choose between these two approaches, we need to know addiction's normative status: is having an addiction a misfortune or a harm i…
Culpable Ignorance and Mental Disorders
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Non-psychological weakness of will
Playing Dice with Morality
In this article I criticize the non-consequentialist Weighted Lottery (WL) solution to the choice between saving a smaller or a larger group of people. WL aims to avoid what non-consequentialists see as consequentialism's unfair aggregation by giving equal consideration to each individual's claim to be rescued. In so doing, I argue, WL runs into another common objection to consequentialism: it is excessively demanding. WL links the right action w…
Playing Dice with Morality
In this article I criticize the non-consequentialist Weighted Lottery (WL) solution to the choice between saving a smaller or a larger group of people. WL aims to avoid what non-consequentialists see as consequentialism's unfair aggregation by giving equal consideration to each individual's claim to be rescued. In so doing, I argue, WL runs into another common objection to consequentialism: it is excessively demanding. WL links the right action w…
Non-psychological weakness of will
Culpable Ignorance and Mental Disorders
here
What Is the Harm in Addiction? Autonomy, Vulnerability, and the Case for Harm Reduction Drug Policy
Successful drugs policy must be driven by thoughtful principle and intergovernmental consensus, not by departmental or legal inertia, nor by public (mis)conceptions about drug use. Perhaps the most pressing choice for drugs policymakers at present is between harm reduction and abstinence approaches to drugs policy. To choose between these two approaches, we need to know addiction's normative status: is having an addiction a misfortune or a harm i…
Trading one problem for two
The past two decades have seen growing calls for the “tobacco endgame.” Its advocates are united by their commitment to two ideas. First, tobacco‐related harms represent a catastrophic health emergency, and second, current tobacco‐control approaches are an inadequate response to the scale of that emergency. To endgame advocates, tobacco policy should have more ambitious goals than merely “controlling” tobacco. Instead, it should aim to bring abou…
Epistemology (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Normative (2 works) · Political science (2 works)