Selected Publications and Online Papers
Papers:
“ 'For Now Have I My Death': The ‘Duty to Die' vs. the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive,” in P. A. French and H. K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy , XXIV : Death (Blackwell, 2000): 172-85, reprinted in B. Steinbock, et al. (eds.), Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine , 6th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2002): 426-34 and 7 th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2008): 521-29. (pdf available here)
“ ‘Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succour': Women and the Chivalric Code in Malory's Morte Darthur ,” in P. French and H.K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXVI: Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002): 1-12 . (pdf available here)
“ ‘Never to do outrageousity nor murder': The World of Malory's Morte Darthur ,” in Shannon E. French, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring the Values of Warrior Cultures, Past and Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003): 115-37.
“Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death,” in R. Rhodes, et al. (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell, 2007): 52-68.
"Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents," in B. Steinbock, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics (Oxford University Press, 2007): 324-48.
Stories:
“A Man by Nothing is So Well Betrayed as by His Manners,” Mid-American Review 6.1 (1986): 1-12, revised and reprinted in J. Heil (ed.) Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest: Essays Honoring Mark Carl Overvold (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993): 135-49, and in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Fall 1995: 72-77. (Available online here)
“What Would You Like to Know?” Playgirl , September 1987: 96-9, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Fall 2007. (Available online here)
"The Forecasting Game", Commentary, December 1988: 49-56, reprinted in Inside, September 1989: 94-9 and 152-4, in W. Abrahams (ed.), Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards (Doubleday) 315-35, and in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Fall 1992: 80-6.
"Flourish Your Heart in This World", in M. Nussbaum and C. Sunstein (eds.), Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Norton, 1998), 310-31, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Spring 1999: 134-40.
“Entertain the Thought,” Witness , Spring 2002: 42-53, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Spring 2007. (Available online here)
"The Other Two Sides," in S. Hales (ed.), What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Cat (Open Court, 2008): 89-100, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Spring 2009: 18-21. (Available online here)
Poems:
“Rose and Blue,” Ragged Edge Online (2005), reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Fall 2005 and in The Providence Journal, April 3, 2009: B6.
(Available online here and here)
“This is for My Grandmother,” Ragged Edge Online (2006), reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Spring 2006, and and in The Providence Journal , May 24, 2009: C4 (under the title "For My Grandmother"). (Available online here and here)
“Henrietta Pratt, 80, Has a Surprise for You,” Ragged Edge Online (2006), reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Fall 2006
and in The Providence Journal, April 23, 2009: B6 (under the title "Henrietta's Surprise"). (Available online here and here)
"To Lucasta, on Not Going to the Wars," English Studies Forum , 2.2 (Fall-Winter 2006) (Available online here)
"Aunt Vera," Free Inquiry , February-March 2008: 32, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Spring 2008. (Available online here)
"For N.T.," Free Inquiry , February-March 2008: 52.
"After the Visitor Spoke," The Providence Journal , February 13, 2008: B5, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine , Fall 2008. (Available online here)
"How Thrilled," The Providence Journal , February 16, 2009: C4. (Available online here)
"Light," Free Inquiry , June/July 2009: 53.
"Strawberry Ice Cream for Breakfast," Free Inquiry , June/July 2009: 60.
“' The Raven' revisited,” The Providence Journal , June 19, 2009: B6. (Available online here)
Op-ed columns:
“Why I didn't help ‘focus the nation,' ” The Providence Journal , February 8, 2008: B5. (Available online here)
"College admissions and the 'whole person'," The Providence Journal , April 6, 2008: D7. (Available online here)
"Marrying your way to the top of academia," The Providence Journal, May 27, 2008: B5. (Available online here)
"A blind devotion to fair grading," The Providence Journal , June 24, 2008: B5, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy , Spring 2009: 15. (Available online here and here)
“An American tragedy on our campuses,” The Providence Journal, July 29, 2008: B5. (Available online here)
"Wa(i)ving rights away," The Providence Journal, August 26, 2008: B, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy , Fall 2009, forthcoming. (Available online here)
“Bioethicists push for your death,” The Providence Journal , September 30, 2008: B5. (Available online here)
“The virtue of pity: Medieval guidance for modern life,” The Providence Journal , November 25, 2008: B6. (Available online here)
"What is expendable on our campuses," The Providence Journal , December 30, 2008: B7. (Available online here)
“What should you give at the office?” The Providence Journal , January 27, 2009: B6. (Available online here)
"What are liberal professors liberal about?" The Providence Journal , February 24, 2009: B7. (Available online here)
"Using Global Hunger as a Gimmick," The Providence Journal, April 26, 2009: B6. (Available online here)
“Better late than hasty,” The Providence Journal, June 30, 2009: B6. (Available online here)
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