Publications

Journal Articles

The Curious Absence of Adequate Provocation Defenses in Assault Cases

Dauber, M.S. “The Curious Absense of Adequate Provocation Defenses in Assault Cases” (Forthcoming, St. John’s L. Rev.).

Bioethics And The Law: Should Courts Be Allowed To Make End Of Life Decisions? Reflections On The Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans Controversies

Dauber, M. S. “Bioethics and the law: Should courts be allowed to make end of life decisions? Reflections on the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans controversies.” Ethics, Medicine and Public Health 6 (2018): 94-104. Link.

In Defense of Moral Fictionism: Against Revisionary Moral Expressionism

Dauber, M. S. “In Defense of Moral Fictionism: Against Revisionary Moral Expressionism.” Dialogue, vol. 61, no. 1 (2018).

Mechanisms and Mind Sets: The Roles of Terminology and Patient Mind Set in Clinician Truth-Telling and Placebo Use

Dauber, Michael S. “Mechanisms and Mind Sets: The Roles of Terminology and Patient Mind Set in Clinician Truth-Telling and Placebo Use.” AJOB Neuroscience 9, no. 3 (2018): 202-204. Link.

What Role is “Pure Experience” Consciousness Supposed to Play in Medical Ethics?: Pure Experience, Moral Status, and Clinical Decisions

Dauber, M. S. “What Role is “Pure Experience” Consciousness Supposed to Play in Medical Ethics?: Pure Experience, Moral Status, and Clinical Decisions.” AJOB Neuroscience 9, no. 2 (2018): 117-119. Link.

An Analysis of New York State’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A. 2383A S. 3151)

Dauber, Michael S. “An Analysis of New York State’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A. 2383A S. 3151).” Voices in Bioethics: An Online Journal, May 3rd, 2018. Link.

When Doesn’t Potential Consciousness Matter?

Dauber, Michael S. “When Doesn’t Potential Consciousness Matter?.” AJOB Neuroscience 9, no. 1 (2018): 22-24. Link.

Animal Testing and Medical Ethics in Human Head Transplantation

Dauber, Michael S. “Animal Testing and Medical Ethics in Human Head Transplantation.” AJOB Neuroscience 8, no. 4 (2017): 212-214. Link.

Book Reviews

Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech: An Existential Theory of Speech of Speech by Marklen E. Konurbaev (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). ISBN 9783319711973.

Published with Phenomenological Reviews, 2018.

Cells Are The New Cure by Robin Smith, MD, and Max Gomez, PhD (BenBella Books, Inc., 2017). ISBN 9781944648800.

Published with Global Bioethics Initiative, August 25th, 2017.

One Child: Do We Have A Right To More? by Sarah Conly (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Published in Dialogue, April 2016.

University Academic Blogs and Professional Publications

Cosmopolitanism & Immigration

Dauber, Michael S. “Cosmopolitanism & Immigration.” Philosophy Now 135 (2019): 21-23. Link.

Social Media, Privacy, and Research: A Muddled Landscape

Published with The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, July 9th, 2018.

The Real Problem With Human Head Transplantation

Published with Practical Ethics: Ethics In The News (Oxford University’s Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics), December 4th, 2017.

Track Authorities Are Wrong To Ban Women With Naturally High Testosterone Levels

Published with Practical Ethics: Ethics In The News (Oxford University’s Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics), August 22nd, 2017.

Charlie Gard, Compassionate Use, and Single-Payer Health Care

Published July 26th, 2017, on The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum.

The Real Problem With Concierge Medicine

Published July 14th, 2017 in Becker’s Hospital Review.

Why Charlie Gard’s Case Is So Disturbing To Americans

Published July 13th, 2017 on STAT News.

Opinion: House Approves Bill That Defies Basic Standards Of Medical Ethics

Published May 24th, 2017 with The Gittenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy at Hofstra University.

Criminology and Research Ethics

Published on Ethics and Society, Social Justice Solutions, and The Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University.

The Significance of Philosophical Ethics in a Scientific World

Published on Ethics and Society.

Select Conferences and Presentations

The Ethics of Animal Research and Uncertainty in Human Head Transplantation.

Presented at the Long Island Philosophical Society Spring Conference on April 1st, 2017, and the 12th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at West Chester University, on April 22nd 2017. PDF.

Three-Parent Babies and Social Welfare

Presented at Albany Medical College, April 7th, 2017.

Facts as Determinants of Morality: How Human Action, Reason, Cognition, and Social Activity Determine What We Ought To Do

Presented at the International Conference on Morality, Moral Philosophy and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, November 2016. PDF.

Principlism: Arguing the Inclusion of Dignity and Vulnerability in Clinical Ethics Consultation

Presented for the Philosophy of Medicine Affinity Group at the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities National Meeting in Washington, DC, October 2016. Article forthcoming.

Do Professional Codes Give Us An Obligation To Enhance Ourselves?

Presented at Fordham University, March 2016, and The Long Island Philosophical Society’s Spring 2016 Conference, April 2016.

The Ethics of Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Three-Parent Babies and the Non-Identity Problem

Presented at the Bowling Green State University Conference on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies, November 2016. PDF.

Other Media

Stem Cells, Regulation, and The Unknown: How Do We Know What To Trust?

Published with Global Bioethics Initiative on October 17th, 2017.

Costa Rican Organ Trafficking and Ethical Policy: Ethics And The Expansion Of The Black Market

Published with Global Bioethics Initiative on October 10th, 2017.

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Moral Rights, Constitutional Law and Self-Determination

Published with Global Bioethics Initiative on September 24th, 2017.

Paolo Macchiarini, Fraud, and Oversight: A Case of Falsified Stem Cell Research

Published with Global Bioethics Initiative on September 6th, 2017.

CRISPR, Pigs, Organs, Ethics: Some Key Considerations

Published on August 13th with Global Bioethics Initiative.

Few Americans Plan For End-of-Life Decisions, Even If They Are Sick

Published on August 7th, 2017, with Global Bioethics Initiative.

American CRISPR Experiments and the Future of Regulation