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  1. The Porosity of Autonomy: Social and Biological Constitution of the Patient in Biomedicine.Jonathan Beever & Nicolae Morar - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics 16 (2):34-45.
    The nature and role of the patient in biomedicine comprise issues central to bioethical inquiry. Given its developmental history grounded firmly in a backlash against 20th-century cases of egregious human subjects abuse, contemporary medical bioethics has come to rely on a fundamental assumption: the unit of care is the autonomous self-directing patient. In this article we examine first the structure of the feminist social critique of autonomy. Then we show that a parallel argument can be made against relational autonomy as (...)
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    Where ethics is taught: an institutional epidemiology.Jonathan Beever, Stephen M. Kuebler & Jordan Collins - 2021 - International Journal of Ethics Education 6 (2):215-238.
    The goal of this project is to argue for ethics as a necessary component of the institutional health. The authors offer an epidemiology of ethics for a large, metropolitan, very-high-research-activity university in the U.S. Where epidemiology of a pandemic looks at quantifiable data on infection and exposure rates, control, and broad implications for public health, an epidemiology of ethics looks to parallel data on those same themes. Their hypothesis is that knowing more about how undergraduates are exposed to ethics will (...)
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    Reflexive Principlism as an Effective Approach for Developing Ethical Reasoning in Engineering.Jonathan Beever & Andrew O. Brightman - 2016 - Science and Engineering Ethics 22 (1):275-291.
    An important goal of teaching ethics to engineering students is to enhance their ability to make well-reasoned ethical decisions in their engineering practice: a goal in line with the stated ethical codes of professional engineering organizations. While engineering educators have explored a wide range of methodologies for teaching ethics, a satisfying model for developing ethical reasoning skills has not been adopted broadly. In this paper we argue that a principlist-based approach to ethical reasoning is uniquely suited to engineering ethics education. (...)
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    The epistemic and ethical onus of ‘One Health’.Nicolae Morar & Jonathan Beever - 2018 - Bioethics 33 (1):185-194.
    This paper argues that the practical reach and ethical impact of the One Health paradigm is conditional on satisfactorily distinguishing between interconnected and interdependent factors among human, non-human, and environmental health. Interconnection does not entail interdependence. Offering examples of interconnections and interdependence in the context of existing One Health literature, we demonstrate that the conversations about One Health do not yet sufficiently differentiate between those concepts. They tend to either ignore such distinctions or embrace bioethically untenable positions. We conclude that (...)
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    Rethinking the Importance of the Individual within a Community of Data.Kayte Spector-Bagdady & Jonathan Beever - 2020 - Hastings Center Report 50 (4):9-11.
    The Covid‐19 crisis has underscored the importance of the collection and analysis of clinical and research data and specimens for ongoing work. The federal government recently completed a related revision of the human subjects research regulations, founded in the traditional principles of research ethics, but in this commentary, we argue that the analysis underpinning this revision overemphasized the importance of informed consent, given the low risks of secondary research. Governing the interests of a community is different from governing the interests (...)
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    Interconnectedness and Interdependence: Challenges for Public Health Ethics.Jonathan Beever & Nicolae Morar - 2017 - American Journal of Bioethics 17 (9):19-21.
    An increasing number of contemporary voices in both bioethics and environmental ethics have grown dissatisfied with the schisms, abysses, and raging torrents that continue to flow between those two...
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    The Ontology of Species: Commentary on Kasperbauer’s ‘Should We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon? The Ethics of De-Extinction’.Jonathan Beever - 2017 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 20 (1):18-20.
    Beneath important ethical questions about the impacts of de-extinct species on ecosystems and the potential harms to individual organisms lies a more fundamental assumption; namely, that the thing being "de-extinct-ed" is indeed a member of previously existing species. This is the ontological assumption: that genetic make-up of the individual is both a necessary and sufficient condition for species membership. Questioning this ontological assumption poses an even more critical challenge for de-extinction. Genes a member of a species do not make. They (...)
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    Meaning Matters: The Biosemiotic Basis of Bioethics.Jonathan Beever - 2012 - Biosemiotics 5 (2):181-191.
    If the central problem in philosophical ethics is determining and defining the scope of moral value, our normative ethical theories must be able to explain on what basis and to what extent entities have value. The scientific foundation of contemporary biosemiotic theory grounds a theory of moral value capable of addressing this problem. Namely, it suggests that what is morally relevant is semiosis. Within this framework, semiosis is a morally relevant and natural property of all living things thereby offering us (...)
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    Bioethics and the Challenge of the Ecological Individual.Jonathan Beever & Nicolae Morar - 2016 - Environmental Philosophy 13 (2):215-238.
    Questions of individuality are traditionally predicated upon recognizing discrete entities whose behavior can be measured and whose value and agency can be meaningfully ascribed. We consider a series of challenges to the metaphysical concept of individuality as the ground of the self. We argue that an ecological conception of individuality renders ascriptions of autonomy to selves highly improbable. We find conceptual resources in the work of environmental philosopher Arne Naess, whose distinction between shallow and deep responses helps us rethink the (...)
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    From education to enculturation: rethinking the development of ethical professionals in higher education.A. C. Nikolaidis, Jonathan Beever, Stephen M. Kuebler & Laurie A. Pinkert - forthcoming - International Journal of Ethics Education:1-21.
    Despite the increase in ethics education offerings of the past few decades, universities struggle to foster desirable ethical dispositions among developing professionals. Part of the reason is that the values implicit in the enculturation of students in higher education cut against the aims of explicit ethics education. To accomplish desirable ethical dispositions among future professionals we ought to broaden our understanding of what the cultivation of ethical professionals entails from a narrow focus on ethics education to a broad focus on (...)
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    Baudrillard’s simulated ecology.Jonathan Beever - 2013 - Sign Systems Studies 41 (1):82-92.
    Jean Baudrillard, the scholar and critic of postmodernity, struggled with questions of postmodern ontology: representation of the real through the semioticprocess of signification is threatened with the rise of simulacra, the simulated real. With this rise, seductive semiotic relationships between signs replace any traditional ontological representamen. This struggle has implications for environmentalism since the problems of contemporary environmental philosophy are rooted in problems with ontology. Hence the question of postmodern ecology: can the natural survive postmodern simulation? Baudrillard’s communicative analysis of (...)
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    Baudrillard'i simuleeritud ökoloogia. Kokkuvõte.Jonathan Beever - 2013 - Sign Systems Studies 41 (1):92-92.
    Jean Baudrillard, the scholar and critic of postmodernity, struggled with questions of postmodern ontology: representation of the real through the semioticprocess of signification is threatened with the rise of simulacra, the simulated real. With this rise, seductive semiotic relationships between signs replace any traditional ontological representamen. This struggle has implications for environmentalism since the problems of contemporary environmental philosophy are rooted in problems with ontology. Hence the question of postmodern ecology: can the natural survive postmodern simulation? Baudrillard’s communicative analysis of (...)
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    Perspectives in bioethics, science, and public policy.Jonathan Beever & Nicolae Morar (eds.) - 2013 - West Lafayette, Indiana: Published in collaboration with the Global Policy Research Institute by Purdue University Press.
    In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible way. Addressing a mixed public audience, the authors go beyond dry theory to explore some of the difficult moral questions that face scientists and policy-makers every day. The introduction presents a theoretical framework for the book, (...)
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    The Porosity of Autonomy: (Some) Replies to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Porosity of Autonomy: Social and Biological Constitution of the Patient in Biomedicine”.Jonathan Beever & Nicolae Morar - 2016 - American Journal of Bioethics 16 (4):4-6.
    Autonomy isn't going anywhere. Yet challenges to autonomy's place of privilege atop the mantle of bioethics are similarly perennial. From our perspective, the emerging literature of microbial biolo...
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    An Ecological Turn in American Indian Environmental Ethics.Jonathan Beever - 2015 - Environmental Philosophy 12 (1):1-19.
    In this paper I argue that, instead of standing as an exemplar of contemporary environmentalism, North American Indian voices on the environment offer insights concerning ecological relationships that can be brought to bear on theories of environmental value and the politics of environmentalism. I argue that environmentally orthodox representations of Native views are further complicated by the metaphysics of local ecological knowledge. I then argue that moral ecologism, a normative view focused on inter­dependence throughout the living world and evidenced by (...)
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    Bioethics of public commenting: Manipulation, data risk, and public participation in E‐Rulemaking.Jonathan Beever & Lakelyn E. Taylor - 2021 - Bioethics 36 (1):18-24.
    Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 18-24, January 2022.
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    Baudrillard, Simulated Ecology, and Recovering Remainders of the Real.Jonathan Beever - 2007 - Semiotics:10-19.
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    Conceptual Stewardship and Ethics Centers in advance.Jonathan Beever - forthcoming - Teaching Ethics.
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    Conceptual Stewardship and Ethics Centers.Jonathan Beever - 2021 - Teaching Ethics 21 (2):225-237.
    In this essay I propose that ethics centers should take leadership roles in clarifying uses of normatively thick and complex concepts. Using the concept of integrity as an example, I build a case for increased focus on thick concepts at work in ethics. Integrity is a special case, given its conceptual complexity and the diversity of contexts in which it is utilized. I argue that failure to focus on conceptual clarification leaves the door open to misuse or manipulation of ethical (...)
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    Not Nanoethic, but Nanosemiotics.Jonathan Beever - 2008 - Semiotics:708-715.
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    Nicholas Shrubsole. What Has No Place, Remains: The Challenges for Indigenous Religious Freedom in Canada Today.Jonathan Beever - 2020 - Environmental Philosophy 17 (1):183-186.
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    On the Scope of Valuation in Peirce's Teleology.Jonathan Beever - 2009 - Semiotics:330-337.
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    On zoosemiotics and bridging the value gap.Jonathan Beever - 2014 - Semiotica 2014 (198):121-135.
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    Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence.Jonathan Beever (ed.) - 2020 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of the dark spectre, and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations.
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    Sonic Liminality: Soundscapes, Semiotics, and Ecologies of Meaning.Jonathan Beever - 2020 - Biosemiotics 13 (1):77-88.
    The spaces between the modernist categories of human and nonhuman, or nature and culture, are collapsing in the Anthropocene. As human technological influence continues become evidenced as a global geologic force, ‘liminal spaces’ expand. Liminal spaces are spaces at the intersections and aggregations of human- and nonhuman-animal umwelten mediated by technology. Soundscapes, the collection of human and nonhuman created sounds of a particular place and time, give us unique access to the semiotic exchanges that constitute those spaces. Soundscape ecology, the (...)
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    Teaching Ethics Ecologically in advance.Jonathan Beever - forthcoming - Environmental Philosophy.
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    Teaching Ethics Ecologically.Jonathan Beever - 2016 - Teaching Ethics 16 (2):195-206.
    Narrative based real world case examples are powerful tools by which to help learners more empathetically engage the complexity of ethical conflicts and interactions, enabling clearer analysis of ecological ethical issues and overcoming apathy toward real-world responses. In this paper, I develop ecological ethical inquiry as a means by which to use narrative-based case studies to help ethicists connect to and empathize with other morally relevant individuals. I argue that ecological issues not only benefit from but also require a narrative (...)
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    The Horror of Relations.Jonathan Beever - 2022 - Philosophy Now 152:32-33.
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    Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts.Jonathan Beever, Rudy McDaniel & Nancy A. Stanlick - 2019 - New York, NY: Routledge. Edited by Rudy McDaniel & Nancy A. Stanlick.
    Given the rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media there is a need for better understanding the ethical and social implications of digital media. The effects of digital media have significant ethical implications which are easy to overlook, given the embeddedness of the digital in our everyday lives. _Understanding Digital Ethics_ offers a philosophically grounded consideration of digital ethics and: Defines and critically evaluates the impact of digital ethics on society Examines ethical concerns and issues, using (...)
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  30. Empathic Perspective-Taking and Ethical Decision-Making in Engineering Ethics Education.Andrew Brightman, Johannes Strobel, Jonathan Beever & Justin Hess - 2016 - In Diane P. Michelfelder, Byron Newberry & Qin Zhu (eds.), Philosophy and Engineering: Exploring Boundaries, Expanding Connections. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
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    “Darwin und die englische Moral”: The Moral Consequences of Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory. [REVIEW]Jonathan Beever & Morten Tønnessen - 2013 - Biosemiotics 6 (3):437-447.
    Uexküll’s 1917 critique of what he calls the “English morality”, written during World War I, points the contemporary reader toward important implications of the translation of descriptive scientific models to normative ethical theories. A key figure motivating biosemiotics, Uexküll presents here a darker side: one where his Umwelt theory seems to motivate a bio-cultural hierarchy of value and worth, where some human beings are worth more than others precisely because of the constraints of their Umwelten. The first English translation of (...)
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  32. All Things in Mind: Panpsychist Elements in Spinoza, Deleuze, and Peirce. [REVIEW]Jonathan Beever & Vernon Cisney - 2013 - Biosemiotics 6 (3):351-365.
    Benedict de Spinoza, C.S. Peirce, and Gilles Deleuze delineate a trajectory through the history of ideas in the dialogue about the potentials and limitations of panpsychism, the view that world is fundamentally made up of mind. As a parallel trajectory to the panpsychism debate in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology, this approach can inform and enrich the discussion of the role and scope of mind in the natural world. The philosophies of mind developed by Deleuze and Peirce are (...)
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    Book Review: The Ethics of Species. [REVIEW]Jonathan Beever - 2013 - Environmental Values 22 (6):792-794.
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