James Taylor

Day: Saturday, April 23Hour: 11:30 - 12:00 pmPresentation: Markets in Human Organs and the Ethics of Inducements

James Stacey Taylor is the editor of Personal Autonomy: New essays (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and the author of Stakes and Kidneys: Why markets in human body parts are morally imperative (Ashgate Press, 2005). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Social Philosophy & Policy, Public Affairs Quarterly, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Papers, Philosophia, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy, among others. He has contributed chapters to several edited collections on both ethics and action theory, and his work has been widely anthologized. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Autonomy's Realm: Identification, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics, and is starting work on a monograph on the metaphysical and ethical issues surrounding death.