Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
of
Environmental Studies, Bioethics Ph.D. 2006 (Philosophy), University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. 2001 (Philosophy), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Email:
Phone:
212-992-8686
Office Address:
Environmental Studies Program
New York University
285 Mercer Street, Room 908
New York, NY 10003
Areas of Research/Interest: My research is focused on two projects. First, I am trying to understand the extent and shape of government's obligation to provide health care for its citizens. I am curious about how we can achieve justice in health given our limited resources. Second, I am interested in the ethics of marginal cases--the question of how we ought to treat living things that are significantly less (or more!) psychologically sophisticated than we are.
External Affiliations: Member, American Philosophical Association
Fellowships/Honors: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, National Institute of Health, 2009.
Selected Works:
‘Reasons and Requirements’ Ethical Theory
and Moral Practice 11:1 (February 2008): 73-83.
‘The Liberty
Principle and Universal Health Care’ The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
18:2 (June 2008): 149-72.
‘Extortion and the Ethics of “Topping Up”,’ The
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, forthcoming.
