Halmos Faculty Member Selected as Issue Editor for Journal

Jeremy Weissman, Ph.D., faculty in the Department of Humanities and Politics in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS), was invited to serve as the editor for the latest issue of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, considered the flagship scholarly journal of biomedical ethics. As the issue editor, he was invited to write the introductory essay, resulting in his new peer-reviewed publication, “Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making.”

Weissman’s introduction ties the issue’s essays together around the theme of how different modes of reasoning, for example moral or empirical, often lead to vastly different conclusions on the nature of death and the appropriate orientation toward matters such as euthanasia or procuring organs from brain-dead patients. He situates these modern ethical controversies in discourse over the nature of death that trace back to the earliest strands of philosophy, focusing especially on relevant and contrasting thought from Plato and Epicurus.

Weissman’s research interests include ethics of technology, information / data ethics, applied ethics, bioethics, and social and political philosophy.

Read the full issue.

Posted 08/28/22