Current Projects
I am working on a book on liberty: when it is important, when it is not, and why.
I am also working on a paper to appear in the Oxford Handbook to Population Ethics.
Recent Publications
Books
One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? Oxford University Press, 2016
Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, Cambridge University Press, 2013
Articles
“Procreation Ethics,” in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, ed. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. forthcoming.
"Moral Paternalism,” Review of Behavioral Economics, forthcoming.
“Overpopulation and Individual Responsibility,” in the Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Elizabeth Finneron-Burns, Gustaf Arrhenius, and Krister Bykvist, eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“When Free Speech is False Speech,” in The Value and Limits of Academic Speech, Chris Surprenant and Don Downs, eds, Routledge, pp. 299-310, 2018
“Consequentialism, Paternalism and the Value of Liberty” in the Handbook to Paternalism, Jason Hanna and Kalle Grill, eds., Routledge, 2018
“La liberté de choix: est-elle importante?” Nudges et Normativités, Editions Hermann, (Paris) 2018 (translation of “When Freedom of Choice Doesn’t Matter,” below)
“Paternalism, Food, and Personal Freedom,” in Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, Anne Barnhill, Tyler Doggett, and Mark Budolfson, eds., Oxford University Press, 2018
“Paternalism and the Limits of Liberty,” in the Handbook of Libertarianism, Jason Brennan, David Schmidtz, and Bas van der Vossen, eds., Routledge, 2017
“Paternalism, Coercion, and the Unimportance of (some) Liberties,” Behavioral Public Policy, vol. 1 #2, pp. 207-218, 2017
“The Right to Have Children,” The Philosophers’ Magazine, November, 2016, pp. 78-82
“ A Puzzle for Paternalism: Personal Values,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 14, 2016, pp. 735-745
“When Freedom of Choice Doesn’t Matter,” La Revue Toqueville/Toqueville Review, vol. 37, #1, 2016, pp. 39-58
“The Right to Preventive Health Care,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 37, #4, August 4, 2016, pp. 307-321
“Do We Have the Right to More Than One Child?” Population and Sustainability, vol. 1, #1, , July 26, 2016
“Withdrawing, Withholding and Freedom” American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 16, #7, June 16, 2016
“The Case for Banning Cigarettes,” Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 42, # 5, 2016
"Here’s Why China’s One-Child Policy was a Good Thing,” Op-Ed, Boston Globe, Oct. 31, 2015
"Three Cheers for the Nanny State," Op-ed, New York Times, March 25, 2013
"Coercive Paternalism in Health Care: Against Freedom of Choice," Public Health Ethics, vol. 6 #3 (published on line Sept. 2013)
"Against Autonomy: Author Meets Critics: Precis," Journal of Medical Ethics, on line edition, Dec. 12, 2013
"Against Autonomy: Author Meets Critics: Response," Journal of Medical Ethics, on line edition, Feb. 14, 2014
"Contre l’Autonomie, French translation of Against Autonomy," Presses de l’Université Laval, tr. Gérald Baril, 2015
