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Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care: a response to Tyler Tate
In a recent article, Tyler Tate argues that the suffering of children — especially children with severe cognitive impairments — should be regarded as...
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Reckoned Suffering
This chapter introduces the Buddha’s concept of suffering, by way of delineating a twofold suffering: felt-suffering and reckoned-suffering. It...
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Cultivating Organizations as Healing Spaces: A Typology for Responding to Suffering and Advancing Social Justice
Historic inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 and spotlighted by social justice movements like Black Lives Matter have reinforced the necessity and...
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Should vegans have children? A response to Räsänen
Joona Räsänen argues that vegans ought to be anti-natalists and therefore abstain from having children. More precisely, Räsänen claims that vegans...
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The Assessment and Relief of Suffering in the Shadow of MAID
The chapter explores the sufferingSuffering associated with MAIDMedical Assistance in Dying (MAID) giving special attention to assessmentAssessment...
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Should vegans have children? Examining the links between animal ethics and antinatalism
Ethical vegans and vegetarians believe that it is seriously immoral to bring into existence animals whose lives would be miserable. In this paper, I...
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Research Involving Animals
The modern view is that animals are sentient beings having intrinsic value regardless of the usefulness they may have for humans. They must be...
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Is Animal Suffering Really All That Matters? The Move from Suffering to Vegetarianism
The animal liberation movement, among other goals, seeks an end to the use of animals for food. The philosophers who started the movement agree on...
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Managing the moral expansion of medicine
Science and technology have vastly expanded the realm of medicine. The numbers of and knowledge about diseases has greatly increased, and we can help...
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Governance and Standardization in Fish Value Chains: Do They Take Care of Key Animal Welfare Issues?
This article discusses the extent to which Global Value Chain (GVC) governance may lead to animal welfare (AW) improvement and help to alleviate...
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What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism
Would the virtuous person eat animals? According to some ethicists, the answer is a resounding no, at least for the virtuous person living in an...
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Temporal uncertainty in disease diagnosis
There is a profound paradox in modern medical knowledge production: The more we know, the more we know that we (still) do not know. Nowhere is this...
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The Place of Right Livelihood in Overcoming World Inequity
When writing about Buddhism, much attention is paid to Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: Life is suffering; Suffering is caused by craving and attachment;...
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The Political Salience of Animal Protection in the Netherlands (2012–2021) and Belgium (2010–2019): What do Dutch and Belgian Political Parties Pledge on Animal Welfare and Wildlife Conservation?
The Netherlands and Belgium are European Union (EU) states with a shared border and cultural similarities. Article 13 of the EU Treaty of Lisbon...
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Suffering Poverty : Towards a Global Recognitive Justice
This paper explores the ways by which the theory of recognition, most particularly Honneth’s, can be utilized in the normative analysis of global...
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Flourishing while withering: an explication and critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenology of aging
This paper explores the process of aging from a phenomenological perspective. Supplementing the model of becoming old found in Simone de Beauvoir’s...
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Epidemics, Rebellion, and Faith
This chapter addresses various forms of contending with an existential crisis such as the epidemic along a spectrum stretching between faith and its...
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Patentability of Brain Organoids derived from iPSC– A Legal Evaluation with Interdisciplinary Aspects
Brain Organoids in their current state of development are patentable. Future brain organoids may face some challenges in this regard, which I address...
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No (true) right to die: barriers in access to physician-assisted death in case of psychiatric disease, advanced dementia or multiple geriatric syndromes in the Netherlands
Even in the Netherlands, where the practice of physician-assisted death (PAD) has been legalized for over 20 years, there is no such thing as a...
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Introduction: Punishment, Its Meaning and Justification
In this Introduction, Altman surveys some of the most important positions and debates regarding the definition of punishment and its justification....