Books & Articles

Books

2020 Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement. Routledge Press. (synopsis of book)
2015 Philosophy, Politics & Economics (with Geoff Brennan, Mike Munger, and Geoff S-M). Oxford University Press.

Articles

Public Goods and Public Policy

Forthcoming Can Liberalism Last? Demographic demise and the future of liberalism (with Filipe Faria)
2020 The Egalitarian Fallacy: Are group differences compatible with political liberalism? (with Bo Winegard)
2017 Trust, Trade, and Moral Progress. Social Philosophy and Policy
2015 Public Goods and Government Action. Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
2014 Social Norms, the Invisible Hand, and the Law (with Geoff Brennan)
2014 Public Goods and Procreation. Monash Bioethics Review

Eugenics and Genetic Enhancement

2021 Can 'Eugenics' Be Defended? (with W Veit, Peter Singer, Nick Agar, Diana Fleischman, Francesca Minerva)
2021 Race, Eugenics, and the Holocaust. In Bioethics and the Holocaust.
2020 Great Minds Think Different: Preserving cognitive diversity in an age of gene editing (with Chris Gyngell and Julian Savulescu)
2020 Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: How individual prosperity depends on group traits. (with Garett Jones)
2018 Defending Eugenics: From cryptic choice to conscious selection. Monash Bioethics Review

Public Health and Antibiotic Resistance

2021 What is Public Health? Public Choice (special issue on the political economy of pandemics).
2020 Intensive Animal Agriculture and Human Health. In Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics.
2020 The Future of Phage: Ethical challenges of treating bacterial infections with phage viruses. Public Health Ethics
2020 Antibiotics and Animal Agriculture: The need for global collective action. In Ethics and Drug Resistance.
2019 Compensation for Cures: Why we should pay for participation in challenge trials (with Julian Savulescu).
2018 Ethics, Antibiotics, and Public Policy. Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy.
2015 What’s wrong with Factory Farming? Public Health Ethics.
2014 What is an Epidemic? Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
2013 Collective Action and Individual Choice. Journal of Medical Ethics

Book Reviews

2020 Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Science and Public Policy. The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy.
2018 Genetic Ethics, by Colin Farrelly. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2018 Pharmaceutical Freedom, by Jessica Flanigan. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2016 Markets without Limits, by Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2013 The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism, by Mark White. The Independent Review.
2013 Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project, by Michael Hauskeller. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Recent Essays

2021 Polygenic Scores and Embryo Selection (with Diana Fleischman). Genetic Literacy Project.
2020 Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Humanity. Areo Magazine.
2020 Dodging Darwin: Race, Evolution, and the Hereditarian Hypothesis (with Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard).

Research links

Co-authors

Geoffrey Brennan

Julian Savulescu

Christopher Gyngell

Diana Fleischman

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