Alec D Walen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4450449 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alec D Walen |
| PRENOMES | Alec D |
| SOBRENOME | Walen |
| ASSINATURA | WALEN A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5828-6596 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
On Blame and Punishment
In Defense of Patient-Centered Theories of Deontology
Using, risking, and consent
Subjects in studies on humans are used as a means of conducting the research and achieving whatever good would justify putting them at risk. Accordingly, consent must normally be obtained before subjects are exposed to any substantial risks to their welfare. Bystanders are also often put at risk, but they are not used as a means. Accordingly—or so I argue—consent is more often unnecessary before bystanders are exposed to similar substantial risks…
Risks and Weak Aggregation
Discussions of risk have assumed that risk must be modeled the same in all cases. This is a mistake. Normally, if people know that those affected by an agent’s choice have conflicting interests, the ex post model should be used. But when the claims of all affected people either align or come close enough to aligning that one group with conflicting claims should waive them for the sake of others, then the ex ante model should be used. Social polic…
The Doctrine of Illicit Intentions
According to the Doctrine of Illicit Intentions, it is impermissible both to form and then to act on an illicit intention. An intention is illicit, roughly, if it causes the agent who has it to be, in a certain way, disposed to perform actions that are impermissible. If the range of actions an agent might be directed to perform by an intention includes impermissible actions, then it may be impermissible to form or act on that intention even if, i…
Permissibly Encouraging the Impermissible
Reasonable Illegal Force
Ideally, should liberals in a pluralistic society be able to agree to abide by a common legal system such that all their disputes are resolved without resort to illegal force? Rawls believes the answer is “yes.” I explain and defend his answer, but I also conclude, focusing on the example of abortion, that the truth is “not necessarily, not always.” Rawls’s conceptions of reasonable citizens and public reason help explain why there is a strong pr…
The Doctrine of Illicit Intentions
According to the Doctrine of Illicit Intentions, it is impermissible both to form and then to act on an illicit intention. An intention is illicit, roughly, if it causes the agent who has it to be, in a certain way, disposed to perform actions that are impermissible. If the range of actions an agent might be directed to perform by an intention includes impermissible actions, then it may be impermissible to form or act on that intention even if, i…
Reasonable Illegal Force
Ideally, should liberals in a pluralistic society be able to agree to abide by a common legal system such that all their disputes are resolved without resort to illegal force? Rawls believes the answer is “yes.” I explain and defend his answer, but I also conclude, focusing on the example of abortion, that the truth is “not necessarily, not always.” Rawls’s conceptions of reasonable citizens and public reason help explain why there is a strong pr…
Permissibly Encouraging the Impermissible
The Doctrine of Illicit Intentions
According to the Doctrine of Illicit Intentions, it is impermissible both to form and then to act on an illicit intention. An intention is illicit, roughly, if it causes the agent who has it to be, in a certain way, disposed to perform actions that are impermissible. If the range of actions an agent might be directed to perform by an intention includes impermissible actions, then it may be impermissible to form or act on that intention even if, i…
Using, risking, and consent
Subjects in studies on humans are used as a means of conducting the research and achieving whatever good would justify putting them at risk. Accordingly, consent must normally be obtained before subjects are exposed to any substantial risks to their welfare. Bystanders are also often put at risk, but they are not used as a means. Accordingly—or so I argue—consent is more often unnecessary before bystanders are exposed to similar substantial risks…
Risks and Weak Aggregation
Discussions of risk have assumed that risk must be modeled the same in all cases. This is a mistake. Normally, if people know that those affected by an agent’s choice have conflicting interests, the ex post model should be used. But when the claims of all affected people either align or come close enough to aligning that one group with conflicting claims should waive them for the sake of others, then the ex ante model should be used. Social polic…
On Blame and Punishment
In Defense of Patient-Centered Theories of Deontology
Political science (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law and economics (5 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · War, Ethics, and Justification (3 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Ethics in Clinical Research (2 obras) · Ethics in medical practice (2 obras) · Free Will and Agency (2 obras)