Outputs (15)

Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2023). Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients. Journal of Medical Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109264

Some National Health Service healthcare boards in the UK will approve a request for female sterilisation only if the patient first accepts a trial period of 1 year with an intrauterine device (IUD), a form of long-acting reversible contraception. In... Read More about Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device as a condition for elective sterilisation in female patients.

The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes (2023)
Journal Article
Cornell, M., & Baron, T. (2023). The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes. Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2023.33

Disputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case, legally and ethically, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised... Read More about The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes.

The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States (2023)
Book Chapter
Farina, L. (2023). The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States. In C. Misselhorn, T. Poljanšek, T. Störzinger, & M. Klein (Eds.), Emotional Machines: Perspectives from Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction (111-132). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37641-3_5

According to dominant views in affective computing, artificial systems e.g. robots and algorithms cannot experience emotion because they lack the phenomenological aspect associated with emotional experience. In this paper I suggest that if we wish to... Read More about The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States.

Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine (2023)
Journal Article
Egerton, K., & Capitelli-McMahon, H. (2023). Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine. Synthese, 202(3), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04258-4

This paper explores how transformative experience generates decision-making problems of particular seriousness in medical settings. Potentially transformative experiences are especially likely to be encountered in medicine, and the associated decisio... Read More about Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine.

Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2023). Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent. Bioethics, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13204

Assisted reproduction often involves biological contributions by third parties such as egg/sperm donors, mitochondrial DNA donors, and surrogate mothers. However, these arrangements are also characterised by a biological relationship between the chil... Read More about Double‐donor surrogacy and the intention to parent.

Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable (2023)
Journal Article
Dillard, J., Shivji, A., & Bianchi, L. (2024). Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 99, Article 102646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2023.102646

We investigate the politicizing of migrant farmworkers’ rights regarding a fair and humane work environment using an agonistic-based critical dialogic accounting and accountability (CDAA) lens. The aim of CDAA is to employ accounting and accountabili... Read More about Rights-based, worker-driven accountability in the fields: Contesting the uncontested contestable.

Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, T. (2024). Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 33(1), 40-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180123000269

A number of countries and states prohibit surrogacy except in cases of "medical necessity" or for those with specific medical conditions. Healthcare providers in some countries have similar policies restricting the provision of clinical assistance in... Read More about Surrogacy and the Fiction of Medical Necessity.

Diodorus Cronus on Present and Past Change (2023)
Journal Article
Duncombe, M. (2023). Diodorus Cronus on Present and Past Change. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 61(2), 167-192. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2023.0017

Diodorus Cronus reportedly denied that there are truths about present kinēsis (change or movement) but affirmed that there are truths about past kinēsis. Although scholars have argued that Diodorus’s atomism about bodies, place, and time supports his... Read More about Diodorus Cronus on Present and Past Change.

Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing (2023)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2023). Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing. American Philosophical Quarterly, 60(2), 117-130. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.60.2.02

A criminal conviction can trigger numerous burdensome legal consequences beyond the formal sentence. Some charge that these “collateral” legal consequences (CLCs) constitute additional measures of punishment, which raises the further question of whet... Read More about Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing.

Transvaluation and The Practice of Metaphysics (2023)
Journal Article
Goodchild, P. (2023). Transvaluation and The Practice of Metaphysics. The Heythrop Journal, 64(3), 333-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14191

This article aims to develop transvaluation as a practice of metaphysical thinking. Jesus, Anselm, Nietzsche, and Deleuze have been selected and juxtaposed, for all their contrasts, as paradigmatic thinkers of transvaluation. Jesus offers the best pa... Read More about Transvaluation and The Practice of Metaphysics.