Regulatory Consent Decrees: An Argument for Deference to Agency Interpretations

At the Potter’s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency

Consider a potter throwing a vessel on the wheel (Fig. 2.1). Think of the complex ways brain, body, wheel and clay relate and interact with one another throughout the different stages of this activity and try to imagine some of the resources (physical, mental or biological) needed for the enaction of this creative process. Focus, for instance, on the first minutes of action when the potter atte...

In Deference to Reference

This dissertation consists in three separate papers. The topic of Iln Deference to Refernnts' is the semantic structure of belief reports of the form 'A believes that pl. I argue that no existing theory of these sentences satisfactorily accounts for anaphoric relations among expressions inside and outside of the embedded complement sentences. I propose a new account of belief reports, which ass...

Children's agency, interests, and medical consent.

In this paper I argue that reference to a developmental account of agency can help explain, and in cases also alter, our current practices when it comes to the non-consensual medical treatment of children. It does this through its explanation of how stages of development impact the types of interests we have.

Against the informed consent argument for surgeon report cards

Decrees for Damages in New Jersey

It is not the purpose of this article to discuss all the situations in which damages are awarded by the New Jersey Court of Chancery, for all the decisions stem from one general rule, namely, that whenever a court of equity has once acquired jurisdiction of a cause, it will retain such cause in order to do full and complete justice between the parties with respect to the subject-matter. This ru...