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    Why Inconsistency Arguments Matter.Joshua Shaw - 2021 - The New Bioethics 28 (1):40-53.
    Abortion opponents are sometimes accused of having inconsistent beliefs, actions, and/or priorities. If they were consistent, they would regard spontaneous abortions to be a greater moral tragedy,...
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  2. Philosophy of humor.Joshua Shaw - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (2):112-126.
    Humor is a surprisingly understudied topic in philosophy. However, there has been a flurry of interest in the subject over the past few decades. This article outlines the major theories of humor. It argues for the need for more publications on humor by philosophers. More specifically, it suggests that humor may not be a well-understood phenomenon by questioning a widespread consensus in recent publications – namely, that humor can be detached from laughter. It is argued that this consensus relies on (...)
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    The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills.Joshua Shaw - 2022 - Bioethics 36 (8):858-864.
    Recently, several states in the United States have sought to adopt more restrictive abortion policies. Most have tried to enact “heartbeat bills” that prohibit most abortions once a fetal heartbeat becomes detectable. This article explores this question: Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible? I argue that they are not. There are at least four problems with them. First, heartbeat bills rely on a problematic understanding of human death. Second, they contradict and even undermine the leading arguments in ethics against abortion. Third, (...)
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    Surplus Embryos and Abortion.Joshua Shaw - 2023 - Social Theory and Practice 49 (2):363-384.
    Several states have recently adopted more restrictive abortion policies yet permit fertility clinics to create surplus IVF embryos. This essay examines this issue: Is it morally inconsistent to prohibit abortion yet permit surplus embryos to be used in fertility medicine? I consider various arguments that try to reconcile this tension. None succeed. Either one holds that embryos have full moral status, and opposes both abortion and surplus embryos, or one denies that embryos have full moral status, which would permit surplus (...)
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    The Spatio-Legal Production of Bodies Through the Legal Fiction of Death.Joshua David Michael Shaw - 2021 - Law and Critique 32 (1):69-90.
    Definitions of death are often referred to as legal fictions since brain death was conceived in the mid-twentieth century. Reference to legal fiction is generally paired with bioethicists’ concern that it facilitates post-mortem tissue donation and the health system generally, by determining death earlier on the continuum of dying and availing more viable tissue and therapeutic resources for others. The author argues that spatio-legal theory, drawing from legal geography, can account for the heterogeneity of effects that the fiction has in (...)
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    Procreative responsibilities and the parental obligation objection.Joshua Shaw - 2022 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 43 (2):111-125.
    This essay presents a challenge to the parental obligation objection. This objection is usually made by abortion opponents who argue that because child support laws hold men postnatally responsible for children they helped bring into existence, women too have prenatal parental responsibilities that should prevent them from ending pregnancies through abortions. My essay draws on recent publications in bioethics that distinguish procreative from parental responsibilities. This distinction was originally developed to clarify the duties of third-party participants in assisted reproduction. However, (...)
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    Regulating assisted reproduction: Discrimination and the right to privacy.Joshua Shaw - 2019 - Clinical Ethics 14 (2):87-93.
    Advances in fertility medicine have led some ethicists to call for stricter regulations on assisted reproduction. One counterargument is that such restrictions are unfair, for they impose far more...
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    Gratitude, Self-Assessment, and Moral Community.Joshua Shaw - 2013 - Journal of Value Inquiry 47 (4):407-423.
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    Selecting for Disabilities: Selection Versus Modification.Joshua Shaw - 2018 - The New Bioethics 24 (1):44-56.
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    Artificial Wombs, Surplus Embryos, and Parent-Friendly IVF.Joshua Shaw - 2024 - Philosophy and Technology 37 (2):1-19.
    There has been considerable discussion about the impact artificial womb technology may have on debates in reproductive ethics. Much of it has focused on abortion. Some ethicists have also proposed, however, that artificial wombs will lead to more embryo adoption, and, in doing so, that they will eliminate an alleged moral tension between opposing most abortions based on a full moral status view of fetuses/embryos but not opposing the use of surplus embryos in fertility medicine. This article evaluates this argument, (...)
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  11. Why Does Feminism Matter To Aesthetics?Joshua Shaw - 2005 - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 2 (1):1-11.
    Peter Lamarque recently reported on current trends in aesthetics in the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics. Noticeably absent from his list, however, is the emergence and acceptance of feminist approaches in aesthetics, especially among analytic philosophers. Yet feminism is an important movement, one that should have been included among those he discusses. Indeed, my goal is to convince you that feminism should have made it onto Lamarque’s list. Rather than criticize him, however, I want to use his oversight to ask why (...)
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    Is It a Wonderful Life? Frank Capra and Objective List Theories of Worth.Joshua Shaw - 2023 - Film-Philosophy 27 (2):240-261.
    Aaron Smuts argues that the holiday film It's a Wonderful Life should be understood as both an illustration and a cinematic vindication of objective list theories of worth. This article argues that he is right about the first point but wrong about the second. It's a Wonderful Life is an excellent illustration of objective list theories. However, it also exposes a problem for them – their susceptibility to sceptical anxieties about whether we can know if our lives are worth living. (...)
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    Why I am still not convinced heartbeat bills are defensible.Joshua Shaw - 2023 - Bioethics 37 (3):312-313.
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  14. Must Pessimists Be Suicidal?Joshua Shaw - 2024 - Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (2):275-291.
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    An Error Theory for Misanthropy in advance.Joshua Shaw - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophical Research.
    This article defends misanthropy against what I take to be an underappreciated objection. Several recent defenders of misanthropy have held that it should be understood as involving a critical judgment of humanity based on the belief that human life is saturated with moral failings. The first half of this article identifies a problem for this view: namely, most people do not experience their lives in ways that would seem to be entailed by the misanthrope’s judgment. The second half proposes a (...)
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    Jurisgenerative Tissues: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Legal Secretions of 3D Bioprinting.Joshua D. M. Shaw & Roxanne Mykitiuk - 2023 - Law and Critique 34 (1):105-125.
    Three-dimensional ‘bioprinting’ is under development, which may produce living human organs and tissues to be surgically implanted in patients. Like tissue engineering and regenerative medicine generally, the process of bioprinting potentially disrupts experience of the human body by redefining understandings of, and becoming actualised in new practices and regimes in relation to, the body. The authors consider how these novel sociotechnical imaginaries may emerge, having regard to law’s contribution to, as well as its possible transformation by, the process of 3D (...)
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    Annotated Bibliography of Writings in Feminism and Aesthetics.Joshua Shaw - 2003 - Hypatia 18 (4):258-272.
    This is a selective annotated bibliography of publications in the area of feminist aes-thetics from 1990 to 2003. It is intended to compliment the bibliography presented by Linda Krumholz and Estella Lauter in the Spring 1990 issue of Hypatia.
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    Addressing Levinas (review).Joshua Shaw - 2005 - Symploke 13 (1):352-353.
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    Is Levinas’s Philosophy a Response to the Holocaust?Joshua Shaw - 2010 - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 18 (2):121-146.
    Some commentators have claimed that Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy should be understood as a response to the Holocaust. This study assesses that claim. It begins by clarifying what it means to call his philosophy a “response.” The bulk of the article then analyzes his essay, “Useless Suffering,” one of the few works in Levinas's philosophic oeuvre where he discusses the Holocaust. Levinas is widely read as claiming that there can be no explanation for the Holocaust—that it marks “the end of theodicy.” (...)
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    Justice in Emmanuel Levinas and John Rawls.Joshua Shaw - 2020 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (4):471-487.
    This paper draws attention to overlooked similarities between John Rawls’s and Emmanuel Levinas’s understandings of justice. Its first part provides a synopsis of each philosopher’s ideas as well t...
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    Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question (review).Joshua Shaw - 2007 - Symploke 15 (1):379-380.
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  22. Putting Ethics First: Reconsidering Emmanuel Levinas's Ethical Metaphysics.Joshua Shaw - 2004 - Dissertation, Indiana University
    My dissertation addresses a frequent criticism of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas is best known for his powerful claims about the importance of ethics. Many critics fault him, though, because he never specifies any useful, action-guiding ethical principles. Many also charge that he cannot offer any such principles. Levinas thinks there is an aspect of our encounters with other persons, one involving the responsibilities we have to them, that cannot be fully comprehended, and he criticizes philosophers for not respecting this fact. Yet (...)
     
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    (1 other version)Stephen Mulhall (2008) On Film , 2nd Edition.Joshua Shaw - 2009 - Film-Philosophy 13 (1):187-198.
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    Struggling to See the Light.Joshua Shaw - 2002 - Film-Philosophy 6 (1).
    Cathryn Vasseleu _Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty_ London: Routledge, 1997 ISBN 041514233 (hbk) 0415142741 (pbk) 157 pp.
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    The Flaw in Formalist Accounts of Circumvention Tourism.Joshua Shaw - 2022 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 50 (3):551-562.
    Circumvention tourism is a form of medical tourism that occurs when individuals travel abroad to receive treatments that are a prohibited in their home county but permitted in a destination country. This paper explores this question: Should individuals be punished by their home countries for engaging in circumvention tourism? Guido Pennings, Richard Huxtable, and I. Glenn Cohen have all argued for what I call “formalist accounts” of circumvention tourism. That is, they try to show that certain types of circumvention tourism (...)
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    The Verge of Philosophy (review).Joshua Shaw - 2008 - Symploke 16 (1-2):350-351.
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    What Do Gestational Mothers Deserve?Joshua Shaw - 2016 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (4):1031-1045.
    This paper analyzes the following question: What do women deserve, ethically speaking, when they agree to gestate a fetus on behalf of third parties? I argue for several claims. First, I argue that gestational motherhood’s moral significance has been misunderstood, an oversight I attribute to the focus in family ethics on the conditions of parenthood. Second, I use a less controversial version of James Rachels’s account of desert to argue that gestational mothers deserve a parent-like voice as well as significant (...)
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    Review of Desmond manderson (ed.), Essays on Lévinas and Law: A Mosaic[REVIEW]Joshua Shaw - 2009 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (6).
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    Review of michaël de saint cheron, Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas, 1983-1994[REVIEW]Joshua Shaw - 2011 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1).
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