Russell DiSilvestro
Recent Courses | Recent Publications | Research Interests | Recent Papers Presented
Contact Information |
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| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Hours: |
Spring 2012: Tuesday, Thursday, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, and by appointment; and view Spring 2012 majors/minors meeting posters here and here |
| E-mail: | rdisilv@csus.edu |
| Office Phone: |
(916) 278-6766 |
Mailing |
Mendocino Hall 3016 |
Recent Courses
Please see my curriculum vitae on the left for a complete list.
- History of Ethics
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Law
- Philosophy of Religion
- Political Philosophy
- Recent Ethical Theory
Recent Publications
Please see my curriculum vitae on the left for a complete list.
Books
- Human Capacities and Moral Status. Springer's Philosophy and Medicine book series, July 2010.
Articles
- "What Does Not Budge For Any Nudge?" American Journal of Bioethics (forthcoming in February 2012).
- "Three Christian Arguments Against Germline Engineering," Christian Bioethics (forthcoming in 2012).
- "The Ghost in the Machine is the Elephant in the Room: Souls, Death, and Harm at the End of Life," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (forthcoming in 2012).
- "The Parthenotes and the Parthenon," American Journal of Bioethics 11:3 (March 2011), pp. 35-36.
- "Capacities, Hierarchies, and the Moral Status of Normal Human Infants," Journal of Value Inquiry 43 (December 2009), pp. 479-492.
- “Small-r-Republicans, Big-R-Republicans, and Government Bioethics Councils,” American Journal of Bioethics 9:2 (February 2009), pp. 57-58.
- “Reproductive Autonomy, the Non-Identity Problem, and the Non-Person Problem.” Bioethics 23:1 (January 2009), pp. 59-67.
- “Precisely Which Claim Makes Spontaneous Abortion a Scourge?” American Journal of Bioethics 8:7 (July 2008), pp. 31-33.
- “A Qualified Endorsement of Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Based on Two Widely Shared Beliefs about the Brain-Diseased Patients Such Research Might Benefit.” Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (July 2008), pp. 563-567.
- “What’s Wrong with Deliberately Proselytizing Patients?” American Journal of Bioethics 7:7 (July 2007), pp. 22-24.
- “Not Every Cell is Sacred: A Reply to Charo.” Bioethics 20:3 (June 2006), pp. 146-157.
- “Human Embryos in the Original Position?” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30:3 (June 2005), pp. 285-304.
- “A Neglected Solution to the Problem of the Metaphysical and Moral Status of the Human-Animal Chimera.” Ethics & Medicine 20:2 (Summer 2004), pp. 5-23.
Research Interests
- I work on the intersection between metaphysics and ethics, especially as it relates to contemporary bioethical issues involving the nature and moral status of human beings.
Recent Papers Presented
Please see my curriculum vitae on the left for a complete list.
"Say You're Sorry: How to Apologize and Mean It," for the 2011 Nammour Symposium, California State University-Sacramento, Sacramento, California, April 27, 2011.
- "The Ghost in the Machine is the Elephant in the Room: Souls, Death, and Harm at the End of Life," for the Spring 2010 Philosophy Department Colloquium Series at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, April 5, 2010.
- "How to Love Your Neighbors and Enemies While Speaking Out Against Them In Public," for the College of Arts and Letters Symposium, "After Prop 8: A Symposium On How Communities Deal With Controversy Over Polarizing Issues," California State University-Sacramento, Sacramento, California, October 26, 2009.
- “Liberalism and Women’s Adaptive Preferences: A Reply to Lisa Schwartzmann,” for the 2007 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, April 7, 2007.
Last updated: 01/23/2012
