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Boonin, David

Professor

Positions

• Professor, Philosophy

Research Areas

• Ethics
• Law and Society
• Reproductive Rights

Research

research overview

• Professor Boonin's research focuses on the application of philosophical reasoning to issues in applied ethics such as abortion, punishment, obligations to past generations, obligations to future generations, specific issues relating to race (e.g., affirmative action, reparations for historical injustices, hate speech restrictions), issues involving sexual consent, and issues in the ethics of artificial intelligence.

keywords

• applied ethics

Publications

selected publications

• book

  • Dead Wrong The Ethics of Posthumous Harm 2019
  • Beyond Roe Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person 2019
  • The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People 2014
  • Should Race Matter? 2011
  • What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics.  Ed. Boonin, David.  2010
  • The Problem of Punishment 2008
  • The Problem of Punishment Preface 2008
  • A Defense of Abortion 2003
  • Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue 1994

• chapter

  • Other Solutions.  155-212. 2008
  • The Appeal to Necessity.  213-275. 2008
  • The Consequentialist Solution.  37-84. 2008
  • The Retributivist Solution.  85-154. 2008

• journal article

  • Discrimination and Disrespect.  Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy. 240-245. 2017
  • The Limits of Kindness.  Journal of Moral Philosophy. 244-247. 2017
  • Reductio ad Absurdum Objections and the Dis-Integration Argument against Merely Instrumental Sex.  Journal of Social Philosophy. 233-249. 2013
  • Ayn Rand and the Problem of Punishment.  Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies. 58-67. 2013
  • Better to Be.  South African Journal of Philosophy. 10-25. 2012
  • How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem.  Public Affairs Quarterly. 127-157. 2008
  • Robbing PETA to Pay Paul: Do Animal Rights Include Reproductive Rights? 2003
  • How to argue against active euthanasia..  Journal of Applied Philosophy. 157-168. 2000
  • Moral status: Obligations to persons and other living things.  Bioethics. 81-84. 1999
  • Same‐Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement.  Journal of Social Philosophy. 251-259. 1999
  • A Defense of ’A Defense of Abortion’: On the Responsibility Objection to Thomson’s Argument.  Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy. 286-313. 1997
  • Against the Golden Rule Argument Against Abortion.  Journal of Applied Philosophy. 187-197. 1997
  • Death Comes for the Violinist: On Two Objections to Thomson�s Defense of Abortion.  Social Theory and Practice. 329-364. 1997
  • Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Two Paradoxes About Duties to Future Generations.  Philosophy & Public Affairs. 267-307. 1996
  • Contractarianism Gone Wild: Carruthers and the Moral Status of Animals.  39-48. 1994
  • Reply to Robinson.  52-54. 1994
  • A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing.  175-195. 1993
  • Parsimony Made Simple: Rosenfeld and Harrison on Animal Pain.  137-140. 1993
  • The Vegetarian Savage.  Environmental Ethics. 75-84. 1993

editor of

• book

  • What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics 2010

Background

education and training

• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 1992
• B.A., Yale University 1986

awards and honors

• Kayden Book Award, conferred by College of Arts and Sciences, 2008
• Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty, conferred by Academic Affairs, 2007
• Eaton Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement, conferred by Center for Humanities and the Arts, 2007
• Summer Stipends Awards, conferred by National Endowment for the Humanities, 2001

International Activities

geographic focus

• Iceland  Country

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ORCID iD

• http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-9935