David M. Adams

David M. Adams

Professor, Academic Department, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Advising

Philosophy (Law and Society Option) majors whose last names start with A-G

Recent Scholarly Activities

  • Works in progress: “Moral Conformism, Clinical Ethics, and Resolving Normative Controversy.”
  • “Justifying Ethical Expertise,”  American Journal of Bioethics, forthcoming.
  • “Are Hospital Ethicists Experts? Taking Ethical Expertise Seriously,” in Jamie Watson & Laura Guidry-Grimes (eds.)  Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives(Dordrecht: Springer; 2018): 207-225.
  • “Clinical Ethics Consultation and Physician Assisted Suicide,” In Jukka Varelius and Michael Cholbi (eds.)   New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Dordrecht: Springer; 2015).
  • “Belief and Death: Capital Punishment and the Competence-For-Execution Requirement,”  Criminal Law and Philosophy 2014. DOI 10.1007/s11572-014-9293-6.     
  • “Ethics Expertise and Moral Authority: Is There A Difference?,”  American Journal of Bioethics vol. 13 (2) 2013: 27-28.
  • “Investigational Drugs and the Desperately Ill,”  APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine vol. 20 (1) 2012: 6-11.
  • Philosophical Problems in the Law, Fifth Edition (Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage.; 2012)