Areas of specialization include metaphysics, bioethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of law and ethics, and philosophy of medicine.

Metaphysics

• "Evaluating Hylomorphism as a Hybrid Account of Personal Identity" Quaestiones Disputatae Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2020.
• "Thinking Animals or Thinking Brains?" Acta Analytica (Forthcoming 2021)
• "Identity Matters" The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics ed. Manson, N. and Barnard, R. Continuum International Group. 2010.
• "Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity?" Mind. 114:453, January 2005, 31-59.
• "Organisms and Their Bodies." Mind. 2009, 118:70. 803-809.
• "Four-Dimensional Animalism" Essays on Animalism Anthology eds. Paul Snowdon and Stephan Blatti. Oxford University Press. 2016.
• “Personal Identity and the Possibility of Autonomy.” with Adam Taylor. Dialectica. 2017, 71:2, 155-179.
• "Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity." Philosophy. 79, 2004, pp. 445-472.
• "Persons as Proper Parts of Organisms." Theoria. 71:1, 2005, 29-37.
• "Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers?" American Philosophical Quarterly. 50:2, April 2013, 203-208.protecting-persons.docx
• "Shoemaker's Problem of Too Many Thinkers." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 80, 2007, 225-36.
• "Problems with a Constitution Account of Persons." Dialogue. 48:2. 2009, 291-312.
• "Protecting Persons from Animal Bites: The Ontological Significance of Persons.” Philosophia (forthcoming 2020).
• "Lowe's Defense of Constitution and the Principle of Weak Extensionality." Ratio. 21:2, June 2008, 168-181.
• "The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation." International Philosophical Quarterly. 47:2:186, June 2007, 181-85.
• "Soulless Organisms? Hylomorphism vs. Animalism." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2011.
• "A Hylomorphic Account of Thought Experiments Concerning Personal Identity." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 82:3. 2008. 481-502.
• "Olson's Embryo Problem." Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 80:4, December 2002, 502-511.
• "Vague Existence Implies Vague Identity" Vague Objects and Vague Identity ed. Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad, Springer. 2014.
• "The Thesis of Vague Objects and Unger's Problem of the Many." Philosophical Papers. 30:1, March 2001, 47-57.
• "Can There Be Spatially Coincident Entities of the Same Kind?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 31:1, March 2003, 1-22.
• "Scattered Artifacts." The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 40:2, 2002, 211-126.
• “Can We Survive our Deaths?” in a volume entitled “Exploring Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives." Forthcoming, 2019.
• “Why Transhumanists Can’t Survive the Death of Their Bodies.” Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health, Special Issue on Personhood and Science in the 21st Century, Forthcoming.

Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine

• "Abortion Pills: Killing or Letting  Die "  Christian Bioethics, 2021.
• "Is it Coherent to be Merely Personally Opposed to Abortion?" National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 2020.
• "Do Division Puzzles Provide A Reason To Doubt That Your Organism Was Ever A Zygote?" Public Affairs Quarterly, 2020.
• “Why Psychological Accounts of Personal Identity Can Accept a Brain Death Criterion and Biological Definition of Death.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Forthcoming.
• “Conscientious Objection or an Internal Morality of Medicine?” Christian Bioethics, Forthcoming.
• "Self-Ownership, Relational Dignity, and Organ Sales" Bioethics. 2018.
• "Health, Moral Status, and a Minimal Speciesism" Res Philosophica. 2018.
• “Pathocentric Medicine and a Moderate Internal Morality of Medicine” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Forthcoming.
• "The Death of a Person." The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31:1. April 2006, 107-20.
• "The Problematic Role of 'Irreversibility' in the Definition of Death." Bioethics. 17:1, February 2003, 89-100.
• “Death, Persons, and Sparse Ontologies: The Problem of Too Many Dying Thinkers” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine. Forthcoming.
• "A More Palatable Epicureanism." American Philosophical Quarterly, 44:2, April 2007, 171-180.
• “A Naturalist Response to Kingma’s Critique of Naturalist Accounts of Disease” Forthcoming, 2020.
• “Death, Dignity, and Moral Status” 2016 University Faculty for Life Annual Conference Proceedings. Ed Fr. Koterski. 2017, pp. 119-142.
• "Death, Dignity and Degradation." Public Affairs Quarterly, 21:1, 2007, 21-36.
• “The Potential of Potentiality Arguments” with Rose Hershenov in J. Eberl Ed. Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics. Springer Press. 2017 pp. 35-52
• "What Must Pro-Lifers Believe about the Moral Status of Embryos?" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Forthcoming, 2020.
• “If Abortion then Infanticide.” with Rose Hershenov. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 2017, 38:5 pp 287-409.
• “Health, Interests, and Equality”. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 2017, 38:5 417-419
• "Morally Relevant Potential" with Rose Hershenov. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2014.
• “Health, Harm and Potential” with Rose Hershenov. Southwest Philosophy Review, 32: 1 January 2016.
• "Abortions and Distortions: An Analysis of Morally Irrelevant Factors in Thomson's Violinist Thought Experiment." Social Theory and Practice. 27:1, January 2001, 129-148.
• “If a Fetus is a Part of the Mother’s Body, then Three Popular Abortion Defenses Fail on Purely Conceptual Grounds”. Life and Learning Conference Proceedings 2018. Forthcoming
• "Explaining the Psychological Appeal of Viability as a Cutoff Point." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. 6:4, Winter 2006, 681-686.
• "How a Hylomorphic Metaphysics Constrains the Abortion Debate." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. 5:4, 2005, 751-764.
• "Fission and Confusion." Christian Bioethics. 12:3, December 2006, 237-254.
• "Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism and Moral Status." Persons, Moral Worth and Embryos: A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments from Philosophy, Law and Science ed. Steve Napier. Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics Center. 2011. 125-144.
• “How Not to Defend the Unborn” with Phil Reed, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Forthcoming.
• “Dualism, Panpsychism, and the Moral Status of Brainless Embryos” with Adam Taylor. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health. Special Issue on Personal Identity and Bioethics. Forthcoming.
• "An Argument for Limited Human Cloning." Public Affairs Quarterly. 14:3, July 2000, 245-258. Reprinted in What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics, ed. Boonin, D. and Odie, G. Oxford University Press, 2004, 688-693.
• "Misunderstanding the Moral Equivalence of Killing and Letting Die." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:2, Summer 2008, 239-245.
• "Why Consent May Not Be Needed For Organ Procurement." (with Jim Delaney). Target Article. American Journal of Bioethics. 9:8, 2009, 3-10.
• "Response to Seven Critics." (with Jim Delaney) American Journal of Bioethics. 9:8, 2009.
• "The Metaphysical Foundations for a More Liberal Organ Procurement Policy." (with Jim Delaney) Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Special Issue on Personal Identity and Bioethics. 2010.
• "Mandatory Autopsies and Organ Conscriptions" (with Jim Delaney) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 19:4, 2009, 367-391.
• "Animals, Persons and Bioethics." Earlier versions published in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, 8:1, 2008, 8-11 and Proceedings of the Creighton Society: The Philosophical Association of New York. October 2008.
• "Perdure and Murder " American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 2011.
• Thomistic Principles and Bioethics by Jason Eberl. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:1, Spring 2008, 191-194. (Book Review)
• Human Identity and Bioethics by David Degrazia National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:4, Winter 2008. (Book Review)

Philosophy of Religion

• “The Fairness of Hell” - Ratio (Forthcoming) 
• “Health as the Key to Fairness in a Divinely Determined World.” Religious Studies. (Forthcoming(.
• "The Metaphysical Problem of Intermittent Existence and the Possibility of Resurrection." Faith and Philosophy. 20:1, January 2003, 24-36.
• "Van Inwagen, Zimmerman and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection." Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. 38, December 2002, 451-469.
• “Purgatory” with Rose Hershenov. Eds Benjamin Matheson and Yujin Nagasana. Palgrave McMillan Handbook on the Afterlife. 2017, pp. 35-52
• "Personal Identity and Purgatory." Religious Stuidies: an International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion. 42, December 2006, 439-451.
• “Can Ordinary Materialists be Autonomous?” With Adam Taylor. Philosophia Christi. 2016 18:2 pp. 385-405
• "Split Brains: No Headache for Soul Theorists" with Adam Taylor. Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 2014.
• “Anscombe on Embryos and Human Beings” in Anscombe and The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Neumann Press. Eds. John Mizzoni, Philip Pegan, Geoffrey Karabin.. 2016. pp. 143-160.
• “Prussian Reproduction, Proper Function, and Infertile Marriages” Annals of Philosophy. Special Issue on Alex Pruss’s One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics. with response by Pruss. 2015, 63:3, 128-141.
• Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Souls by Nancy Murphy Religious Studies, 43:2, June 2007, 237-242. (Book Review).
  
  

Philosophy of Law and Ethics

• "Restitution and Revenge." Journal of Philosophy. 96:2, February 1999, 79-94.
• "Restitution and Punishment." New Perspectives on the Ethics of Punishment. eds. Jesper Ryberg, Angelo Corlett Palmgrave. MacMillian Press. Forthcoming.
• "Why Must Punishment Be Unusual As Well As Cruel to Be Unconstitutional?" Public Affairs Quarterly. 16:1, January 2002, 77-98.
• "Punishing Attempted Crimes Less Severely than Successes." The Journal of Value Inquiry. 34:4, December 2000, 479-489.
• "A Puzzle about the Demands of Morality." Philosophical Studies. 107:3, February 2002, 275-290.
• "Two Epistemic Accounts for Deliberative Democracy." Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association. 37:2, April 2005, 216-234.
• “Identity and Freedom” with Adam Taylor. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3:1. 2015.