CLASS College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Youngstown State University
  
Welcome to the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Youngstown State University!

 

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bnwaller AT ysu DOT edu

Ph.D., 1979, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Free will and moral responsibility (action theory), ethical theory, bioethics, criminal justice ethics, critical thinking

 

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ARTICLES (since 2001)

"The Stubborn Illusion of Moral Responsibility," in The Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, edited by Gregg Caruso (Lexington Books, 2013).

With Robyn Repko, “Informed Consent: Good Medicine, Dangerous Side Effects,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics (2008).

“Sincere Apology without Moral Responsibility,” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 33, Number 3 (July, 2007).

“Denying Responsibility without Making Excuses,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43 (2006): 81-89.

“Responsibility and Health,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Volume 14 (2005): 177-188.

“Neglected Psychological Elements of Free Will,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 11 (June 2004): 111-118.

“Comparing Psychoanalytic and Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives on Control,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 11 (June 2004).

“Empirical Free Will and the Ethics of Moral Responsibility,”The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 37 (2004): 533-542.

“Virtue Unrewarded: Morality Without Moral Responsibility,” Philosophia, Volume 31 (October 2004): 427- 447.

“The Almost Invisible Ghost in the Moral Responsibility Machine,” Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 29 (2004). 

“The Sad Truth: Optimism, Pessimism, and Pragmatism,” Ratio, Volume 16, No. 2 (June 2003): 189-197.  Reprinted in David Benatar, ed.,  Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions, 2nd Edition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2010).

“A Metacompatibilist Account of Free Will:  Making Compatibilists and Incompatibilists More Compatible,” Philosophical Studies, Volume 112, Number 2/3 (2003): 209-224. 

“The Psychological Structure of Patient Autonomy,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Volume 11 (2002): 257-65.

“Classifying and Analyzing Analogies,” Informal Logic, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2001): 199-218.

“Patient Autonomy Naturalized,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 44, Number 4 (Autumn 2001).

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