I. Books (authored)
II. Books (edited)
III. Articles, etc. (2009-present)
IV. Reviews (2015-present)
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I. Books (authored)
Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2021.
Understanding Kant’s Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (Broadview Press, 2011) (review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
II. Books (edited)
The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022. With B. Hogan, A. Madva, and B. Yost.)
Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. (Routledge, 2020. With T. Timmerman.)
The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income (Routledge, 2019. With M.E. Weber.) (review in Autonomy)
Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues (Routledge, 2017. With Jaime Ahlberg.) (review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Views on Choosing to End Life (Praeger, 2017)
New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Springer, 2015. With Jukka Varelius.)
Immortality and the Philosophy of Death. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015). (review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
III. Articles, etc. (2009-present)
[1] “Grieving death and meaning in life.” In M. Hauskeller, ed., collection on death and meaning in life (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022)
[2] Schopenhauer on the morality of suicide. For P. Hassan, ed., Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy (invited; forthcoming, Routledge 2022)
[3] “Philosophical approaches to work and labor.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Commissioned; publication expected, 2021.
[4] “Fear and other attitudes toward death: Contemporary developments.” Philosophy Compass, forthcoming 2021 (with A. Davis and J. Diaz)
[5] “The rationality of suicide and the meaningfulness of life.” In I. Landau, ed., Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life (invited; forthcoming, Oxford University Press 2021)
[6] “What’s wrong with esoteric morality.” Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum (forthcoming, 2021)
[7] “Can capital punishment survive if Black lives matter?”In M. Cholbi, B. Hogan, A. Madva, and B. Yost, eds., The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford, forthcoming 2021)
[8] “Equality, self-government, and disinfranchising kids: A reply to Yaffe.” Moral Philosophy and Politics 7 (2020): 281-297 [Special Issue on Children’s Rights].
[9] “The ethics of choosing jobs and careers.” In B. Fischer, ed., College Ethics, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 878-889.
[10] “Equal respect for rational agency.” In M. Timmons, ed., Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2020), 182-203.
[11] “Why grieve?” In M. Cholbi and T. Timmerman, eds., Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2020), pp. 184-190.
[12] “Must I benefit myself?” In D. Portmore, ed., Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 253-268.
[13] “Holding on and letting go: Anticipatory grief and surrogate choices at the end of life.” American Journal of Bioethics 19 (2019): 42-43. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2019.1674414
[14] “The anti-paternalist case for unconditional basic income provision.” In M.E. Weber and M. Cholbi, eds., The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income (Routledge, 2019).
[15] “Regret, resilience, and the nature of grief.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 16 (2019): 486-508.
[16] “The duty to work.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (2018): 1119-1133.
[17] “Palliation and medically assisted dying: A case study in the use of slippery slope arguments in public policy.” In D. Boonin, ed., Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 691-702.
[18] “Why moral expertise needs moral theory.” In L. Guidry-Grimes and J. Watson, eds., Moral Expertise. (Springer, 2018), pp. 71-86.
[19] “Private conscience, public cartels.” Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 17 (2018): 356-377.
[20] “The desire to work as an adaptive preference.” Autonomy 4 (2018).
[21] “Black Lives Matter and the call for death penalty abolition.” Ethics 128 (2018): 517-544.
[22] “Paternalism and duties to self.” In J. Hanna and K. Grill (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism, (Routledge, 2018), pp. 108-118.
[23] “Dignity and assisted dying: What Kant got right (and wrong).” In S. Muders (ed.), Human Dignity and Assisted Death. (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 143-60.
[24] “Finding the good in grief: What Augustine knew but Meursault could not.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 3 (2017): 91-105.
[25] “Suicide.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , revised 2017 (initial publication 2004)
[26] “Paternalism and our rational powers.“ Mind 126 (2017): 123-153.
[27] “Grief’s rationality, backward and forward.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 94 (2017): 255-272.
[28] “The euthanasia of companion animals.” In C. Overall (ed.), Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals. (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 264-278.
[29] “How procreation generates parental rights and obligations.” In J. Ahlberg and M. Cholbi, eds., Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 15-36
[30] “Grief and end-of-life medical decision making.” In J. Davis (ed.), Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments (Routledge, 2017) pp. 201-217.
[31] “Suicide.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Ed. Duncan Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
[32] “The denial of moral dilemmas as a regulative ideal.“ Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (2016): 268-289.
[33] “The right to die and the medical cartel.” Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health 1 (2015): 486-493.
[34] “Immortality and the exhaustibility of value.” In M. Cholbi (ed.), Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), pp. 221-236.
[35] “Kant on euthanasia and the duty to die: Clearing the air.”Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (2015): 607-610.
[36] “Medically enabled suicides.” In M. Cholbi and J. Varelius (eds.), New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Springer, 2015), pp. 169-184.
[37] “Grief.” International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell), 2015.
[38] “Time, value, and collective immortality.” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 197-211.
[39] “No last resort: Pitting to right to die against the right to medical self-determination.” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 143-157.
[40] “On Marcus Singer’s ‘On duties to oneself.'” Ethics 125 (2015): 851-853.
[41] “Anti-conservative educational bias is real — but not unjust.” Social Philosophy and Policy 31 (2014): 176-203.
[42] “A direct Kantian duty to animals.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (2014): 338-358.
[43] “Luck, blame, and desert.” Philosophical Studies 169 (2014): 313-332
[44] “The implications of ego depletion for the ethics and politics of manipulation.“ In C. Coons and M.E. Weber, ed., Manipulation (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 201-220.
[45] “A plethora of promises — or none at all.” American Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2014):261-272.
[46] “Agents, patients, and obligatory self-benefit.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (2014): 159-184.
[47] “The terminal, the futile, and the psychiatrically disordered.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 36 (2013): 498-505.
[48] “The constitutive approach to Kantian rigorism.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (2013): 439-48.
[49] “Kantian paternalism and suicide intervention.” In C. Coons and M.E. Weber, eds. Paternalism: Theory and Practice, (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 115-33.
[50] “Suicide.” International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell), 2013.
[51] “The ethics of teaching.“ International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell), 2013.
[52] “What is wrong with ‘What is wrong with rational suicide.‘” Philosophia 40 (2012): 285-293.
[53] “The moral conversion of rational egoists.” Social Theory and Practice 37 (2011): 533-556.
[54] “You can’t do magic: Gob Bluth and the illusionist’s craft.” In J. Wisniewski and K. Phillips, eds., Arrested Development and Philosophy (John Wiley & Sons, 2011), pp. 151-161.
[55] “Depression, listlessness, and moral motivation.”Ratio 24 (2011): 28-45.
[56] “A Kantian defense of prudential suicide.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 7 (2010): 489-515.
[57] “The duty to die and the burdensomeness of living.” Bioethics 24 (2010): 412-420.
[58] “Compulsory victim restitution is punishment: A reply to Boonin.” Public Reason 2 (2010): 85-93.
[59] “Moore’s paradox and moral motivation.“ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (2009): 495-510.
[60] “The murderer at the door: What Kant should have said.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (2009): 17-46.
[61] “On hazing.” Public Affairs Quarterly 23 (2009): 143-59.
[62] “Tonkens on the irrationality of the suicidally mentally ill.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2009): 102-106.
IV. Reviews (2015-present)
[1] Review of Eastwood, Finishing Our Story: Preparing for the End of Life. Bioethics, 2019..
[2] Review of Stern, Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation, Philosophical Quarterly 69 (2018): 189-192.
[3] Review of Cassam, Self-knowledge for Humans. Philosophy 91 (2016): 441-46.
[4] Review of Tännsjö, Taking Lives: Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2016.
[5] Review of Bradatan, Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015.
