MENTAL & BEHAVIOURAL INFLUENCE
'An Intuitive, Abductive Argument for a Right Against Mental Interference’, published online, forthcoming in print in Journal of Ethics.
‘Do AI systems Allow Online Advertisers to Control Others?’, in Edmonds D (ed), AI Morality (Oxford University Press USA, 2024), with G De Marco.
‘Wrongful Rational Persuasion Online’, published online, forthcoming in print in Philosophy & Technology, with T Mitchell.
‘Neural Implants and the TRICK to Autonomy’, forthcoming in LaFollette (ed) Ethics in Practice, 6th edition (Wiley Blackwell), with M Kiener.
'What Makes a Medical Intervention Invasive: A Reply to Commentaries', forthcoming in Journal of Medical Ethics, with G De Marco, J Simons, and L Forsberg
‘What Makes a Medical Intervention Invasive?’, forthcoming in Journal of Medical Ethics, with G De Marco*, J Simons*, and L Forsberg (* joint first authors).
'Right to Mental Integrity and Neurotechnologies: Implications of the Extended Mind Thesis', published online, forthcoming in print in Journal of Medical Ethics, doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-109645, with V Tesink, L Forsberg, S Ligthart, G Meynen.
'On the Relative Intrusiveness of Physical and Chemical Restraints', AJOB Neuroscience, 2024, 15:1, 26-28, with De Marco G, Forsberg L, and Savulescu J.
'Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility', Ergo, 2023; 10(5): doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.4635, with G De Marco.
‘The Moral Permissibility of Perspective-Taking Interventions’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 27 (3):337-352 (2024), with H Read.
'Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights’', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2023), 1-21, with Ligthart S et al.
‘(When) Is Adblocking Wrong?’, in Véliz C (ed), Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2023).
‘Rethinking the Right to Freedom of Thought: A Multidisciplinary Perspective’, Human Rights Law Review, 2022; 22(4): 1-14, with Ligthart S, Bublitz C, Forsberg L, and Meynen G.
'If Nudges Treat Their Targets as Rational Agents, Nonconsensual Neurointerventions Can Too', Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, published online 2022, doi:10.1007/s10677-022-10285-w.
‘The Mere Substitution Defence of Nudging Works for Neurointerventions Too’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, published online 2022, doi:10.1111/japp.12568.
‘Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity’ in D Van Toor, S Ligthart, T Kooijmans, T Douglas, G Meynen (eds), Neurolaw: Ways forward for Neuroscience, Justice & Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), with L Forsberg.
‘Persuasive Technologies and the Right to Mental Liberty: The ‘Smart’ Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders’, in M Ienca, O Pollicino, L Liguori, R Andorno, E Stefanini (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2022), with S Ligthart, and G Meynen.
‘From Bodily Rights to Personal Rights’, in A von Anauld, K von der Decken, M Susi (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights: Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
'Neural and Environmental Modulation of Motivation: What's the Moral Difference?', in D Birks and T Douglas (eds) Treatment for Crime (Oxford University Press, 2018). [publisher website]
‘Two Ways to Frustrate a Desire’, Journal of Value Inquiry 2017; 51(3): 417-434, with D Birks.
CRIME PREDICTION
'Criteria for Assessing AI-Based Sentencing Algorithms: A Reply to Ryberg', published online, forthcoming in print in Philosophy & Technology.
‘Learning to Discriminate: The Perfect Proxy Problem in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing’ commissioned for J Roberts, J Ryberg (eds), Principled Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming), with B Davies.
‘Forensic Brain-Reading and Mental Privacy in European Human Rights Law: Foundations and Challenges’, forthcoming in Neuroethics, published online 2020, with S Ligthart, C Bublitz, T Kooijmans and G Meynen [journal version].
‘Is Preventive Detention Morally Worse than Quarantine?’, in JW de Keijser, JV Roberts, and J Ryberg (eds) Predictive Sentencing: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (Hart Publishing, 2019). [publisher website]
'Biomarkers for the Rich and Dangerous: Why We Ought to Extend Bioprediction and Bioprevention to White-Collar Crime', Criminal Law and Philosophy 2019; 13(3): 479-497, with H Zohny, J Savulescu.
'Risk Assessment Tools in Criminal Justice and Forensic Psychiatry: The Need for Better Data', European Psychiatry 2017; 42: 134-7, with J Pugh, I Singh, J Savulescu, S Fazel. [journal version]
NEUROINTERVENTIONS IN CRIME PREVENTION
‘Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: On the Scope of the Moral Right to Bodily Integrity’, Neuroethics 16, 26 (2023), with V Tesink, L Forsberg, S Ligthart & G Meynen.
‘The Normative Evaluation of Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: From Invasiveness to Human Rights’, AJOB Neuroscience 14 (1):23-25 (2023), with S Ligthart, V Tesink, L Forsberg, G Meynen.
‘The Expressivist Objection to Nonconsensual Neurocorrectives’, Criminal Law & Philosophy 2021, doi:10.1007/s11572-021-09566-9, with G De Marco.
'What is Criminal Rehabilitation?', forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy, published online 2020, with L Forsberg.
Neurolaw: Ways forward for Neuroscience, Justice & Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), edited with D Van Toor, S Ligthart, T Kooijmans, and G Meynen.
‘Technology to Prevent Criminal Behavior’, in D Edmonds (ed.), Future Morality (Oxford University Press, 2021), with G De Marco.
‘Closed-Loop Brain Devices in Offender Rehabilitation: Autonomy, Human Rights, and Accountability’, forthcoming in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, with S Ligthart, T Kooijmans, G Meynen.
'The Future of Neuroethics and the Relevance of the Law', AJOB Neuroscience 2019; 10(3): 120-121, with S Ligthart, C Bublitz, G Meynen. [journal version]
'Nonconsensual Neurocorrectives and Bodily Integrity: A Reply to Shaw and Barn', Neuroethics 2019; 12(1): 107-118. [journal version]
'The Case Against Forced Methadone Detox in US Prisons', Public Health Ethics 2019; 12(1): 89-93, with D D'Hotman, J Pugh. [journal version]
'The Negative Effects of Neurointerventions: Confusing Constitution and Causation‘, AJOB Neuroscience 2018; 9(3): 162-164, with H Zohny. [journal version]
‘Biological Interventions for Crime Prevention’, in D Birks and T Douglas (eds) Treatment for Crime (Oxford University Press, 2018), with C Chew, N Faber. [publisher website]
'Introduction', in D Birks and T Douglas (eds) Treatment for Crime (Oxford University Press, 2018), with D Birks. [publisher website]
'When Is Coercive Methadone Therapy Justified?’, Bioethics 2018; 32(7): 405-413, with D D’Hotman, J Pugh.
'Refusing to Treat Sexual Dysfunction in Sex Offenders', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2017; 26(1):143-158.
'Anti-libidinal Interventions in Sex Offenders: Medical or Correctional?', Medical Law Review 2016; 24(4): 453-473, with L Forsberg.
'Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation', Criminal Justice Ethics 2016; 35(3): 205-229, with J Pugh. [journal version]
'Taking Drugs to Help Others', in D Edmonds (ed) Philosophers Take On the World (Oxford University Press, 2016). [publisher website]
'Neurointerventions as Criminal Rehabilitation: An Ethical Review', in J Jacobs and J Jackson (eds) Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics (Routledge, 2016), with J Pugh. [publisher website]
‘Methadone for Prisoners’, The Lancet 2016; 387: 224, with D D'Hotman De Villiers, J Pugh.
'Sex Offenders Seeking Treatment for Sexual Dysfunction—Ethics, Medicine, and the Law'. Journal of Sexual Medicine 2015; 12: 1591–1600, with EA Phillips, A Rajender, AF Brandon, R Munarriz.
'Criminal Rehabilitation through Medical Intervention: Moral Liability and the Right to Bodily Integrity', Journal of Ethics 2014; 18(2): 101-122.
'Coercion, Incarceration and Chemical Castration: An Argument from Autonomy', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2013; 10(3): 395-405, with P Bonte, F Focquaert, K Devolder and S Sterckx.
GERMLINE GENOME EDITING & GENETIC SELECTION
'Gene Editing, Identity and Benefit', Philosophical Quarterly 2022, 72(2): 305-325, with K Devolder.
'Genetic Selection', in D Edmonds (ed) Ethics in the Contemporary World (Routledge, 2019). [publisher website]
‘Selecting Against Disability: The Liberal Eugenic Challenge and the Argument from Cognitive Diversity’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 2018; 35(2): 319-340, with C Gyngell. [journal version]
'The Ethics of Germline Gene Editing', Journal of Applied Philosophy 2017; 34(4): 498-513, with C Gyngell, J Savulescu.
'CRISPR: A Path Through the Thicket', Nature 2015; 527: 159–161, with DJH Mathews, S Chan, P Donovan, C Gyngell, J Harris, A Regenberg, R Lovell-Badge.
'Germline Edits: Trust Ethics Review Process', Nature 2015; 520: 623, with C Gyngell, J Savulescu. [journal version]
‘Stocking the Genetic Supermarket: Reproductive Genetic Technologies and Collective Action Problems’, Bioethics 2015; 29(4): 241-250, with C Gyngell.
‘Genome Editing Technologies and Human Germline Genetic Modification: The Hinxton Group Consensus Statement’, American Journal of Bioethics 2015; 15(12): 42-47, with S Chan, P Donovan, C Gyngell, J Harris, R Lovell-Badge, DJH Mathews, A Regenberg.
‘The Moral Imperative to Continue Gene Editing Research on Human Embryos’, Protein & Cell 2015; 6(7): 476-479, with J Savulescu, J Pugh, and C Gyngell.
'Procreative Altruism: Beyond Individualism in Reproductive Selection', Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2013; 38(4): 400-419, with K Devolder.
‘Procreative Beneficence and In Vitro Gametogenesis’, Monash Bioethics Review 2012; 30(2): 29-48, with H Bourne and J Savulescu.
'Resisting Sparrow's Sexy Reductio: Selection Principles and the Social Good', American Journal of Bioethics 2010; 10(7): 16-18, with R Powell, K Devolder, P Stafforini and S Rippon. [journal version]
RECTIFYING WRONGS
'Punishing Wrongs from the Distant Past', Law and Philosophy 2019; 38(4): 335-358.
'Should Institutions Prioritize Rectification over Aid?', Philosophical Quarterly 2010; 60(241): 698-717.
'Medical Injury Compensation: Beyond 'No-Fault'', Medical Law Review 2009; 17(1): 30-51. [journal version]
MORAL STATUS
‘Is Moral Status Good for You?’, Clarke S, Zohny H, Savulescu J (eds), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford University Press, 2021).
'Human Enhancement and Supra-Personal Moral Status', Philosophical Studies 2013; 162(3): 473-497.
'The Harms of Status Enhancement Could Be Compensated or Outweighed: A Response to Agar', Journal of Medical Ethics 2013; 39(2): 75-76. [journal version]
'Self-Serving Bias and the Structure of Moral Status', Journal of Medical Ethics 2012; 31(3): 141-142. [journal version]
PARTIALITY
'Parental Partiality and Future Children', Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 2019; 15(1): 1-18.
'Parental Partiality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage', Philosophical Studies 2015; 172(10): 2735-2756.
‘Substituted Judgment, Procreative Beneficence, and the Ashley Treatment’, Journal of Medical Ethics 2015; 41(9): 721-722.
DESERT
'Enhancement & Desert', Politics, Philosophy & Economics 2019; 18(1): 3-22.
'The Relationship Between Effort and Moral Worth: Three Amendments to Sorensen’s Model', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2014; 17(2): 325-334.
MORAL ENHANCEMENT
‘How Moral Bioenhancement Affects Perceived Praiseworthiness’, Bioethics, 2024, 38:129–137, with S Lucas and N Faber.
‘Moral Enhancement’, in Routledge Enclyclopedia of Philosophy (Taylor and Francis, 2021), with L Forsberg. [publisher website]
'Moral Neuroenhancement', in S Johnson and K Rommelfanger (eds) Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics (Routledge, 2017), with BD Earp, J Savulescu.
'The Morality of Moral Neuroenhancement', in J Clausen and N Levy (eds) Handbook of Neuroethics (Springer, 2015). [publisher website]
‘Response to Commentaries', in A Akabayashi (ed) The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues (Oxford University Press, 2014), with J Savulescu, I Persson. [publisher website]
‘Autonomy and the Ethics of Biological Behaviour Modification’, in A Akabayashi (ed) The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues (Oxford University Press, 2014), with J Savulescu, I Persson. [publisher website]
'Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth', Neuroethics 2014; 7(1): 75-91.
‘Disease, Normality and Current Pharmacological Moral Modification’, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 2014; 21(2): 135-7, with N Levy, T Douglas, G Kahane, S Terbeck, P Cowen, M Hewstone, J Savulescu. [journal version]
'Are You Morally Modified? The Moral Effects of Widely Used Pharmaceuticals', Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 2014; 21(2): 111-125, with N Levy, G Kahane, S Terbeck, PJ Cowen, M Hewstone, J Savelescu. [journal version]
'Moral Bioenhancement, Freedom and Reasoning', Journal of Medical Ethics 2014; 40(6): 359-360.
'Moral Enhancement via Direct Emotion Modulation: A Reply to John Harris', Bioethics 2013; 27(3): 160-168.
'Moral Enhancement', Journal of Applied Philosophy 2008; 25(3): 228-245. [Portuguese translation][German translation]
BIOENHANCEMENT
‘Why Is Cognitive Enhancement Deemed Unacceptable? The Role of Fairness, Deservingness, and Hollow Achievements', Frontiers in Psychology 2016; 7: 232, with NS Faber, J Savulescu.
'Cognitive Enhancement and Motivation Enhancement: An Empirical Comparison of Intuitive Judgments', American Journal of Bioethics - Neuroscience 2015; 6(1): 18-20, with NS Faber, F Heise, M Hewstone.
'The Regulation of Cognitive Enhancement Devices: Refining Maslen et al.'s Model', Journal of Law and the Biosciences 2015; 2(3): 754-767, with H Maslen, R C Kadosh, N Levy, J Savulescu.
'Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation: A Regulatory Model', Journal of Medical Ethics 2015; 41(5): 413-414, with H Maslen, R Cohen Kadosh, N Levy, J Savulescu.
‘The Harms of Enhancement and the Conclusive Reasons View’, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2015; 24(1) (Special Issue on Enhancement): 23-36.
'Enhancement and Civic Virtue', Social Theory and Practice 2014; 40(3): 499-527, with W Jefferson, G Kahane, J Savulescu.
‘The Regulation of Cognitive Enhancement Devices: Extending the Medical Model’, Journal of Law and the Biosciences 2014; 1(1): 68-93, with H Maslen, R Cohen Kadosh, N Levy, J Savulescu.
'Enhancement, Biomedical', in H LaFollette, ed, International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
'Regulation of Devices for Cognitive Enhancement', The Lancet 2013; 382(9896): 938–39, with H Maslen, J Savulescu, N Levy and R Cohen Kadosh.
'Enhancement in Sport, and Enhancement outside Sport', Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 2007; 1(1): Article 2.
PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS
'Compulsory Medical Intervention versus External Constraint in Pandemic Control', forthcoming in Journal of Medical Ethics, published online 2020, with L Forsberg and J Pugh.
'Infection Control for Third-Party Benefit: Lessons from Criminal Justice', Monash Bioethics Review 2020; 38(1): 17-30.
'Impartiality and Infectious Disease: Prioritising Individuals versus the Collective in Antibiotic Prescription', AJOB Empirical Bioethics 2019; 10(1): 63-69, with B Dao, A Giubilini, J Savulescu, M Selgelid, NS Faber.
'Asbestos Neglect: Why Asbestos Exposure Deserves Greater Policy Attention’, Health Policy 2019; 123(5): 516-519, with L Van den Borre. [published version]
'The Moral Obligation to Be Vaccinated: Utilitarianism, Contractualism, and Collective Easy Rescue', Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2018; 21(4): 547-560, with A Giubilini and J Savulescu.
'Influenza Vaccination Strategies Should Target Children', Public Health Ethics 2018; 11(2): 221-234, with B Bambery, MJ Selgelid, H Maslen, A Giubilini, AJ Pollard, and J Savulescu.
‘Quarantine, Isolation, and the Duty of Easy Rescue in Public Health’, Developing World Bioethics 2018; 18(2): 182-189, with A Giubilini, H Maslen, and J Savulescu.
‘Liberty, Fairness, and the “Contribution Model” for Nonmedical Vaccine Exemption Policies: A Reply to Navin and Largent’, Public Health Ethics 2017; 10(3), 235-240 with A Giubilini, and J Savulescu. [journal version]
'Taxing Meat: Taking Responsibility for One's Contribution to Environmental Resistance', Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 2017; 30(2): 179-198, with A Giubilini, P Birkl, J Savulescu, and H Maslen.
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY & THE DUAL USE DILEMMA
'The Unilateralist's Curse and the Principle of Conformity', Social Epistemology 2016; 30(4): 350-371, with N Bostrom and A Sandberg.
'The Dual-Use Problem, Scientific Isolationism, and the Division of Moral Labour', special inaugural Springer issue of Monash Bioethics Review 2014; 32(1): 86-105
‘Is the Creation of Artificial Life Morally Significant?’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2013; 44(4.B): 688-696, with R Powell and J Savulescu.
'Biosecurity and the Division of Cognitive Labour', Journal of Medical Ethics 2013; 39(4): 193-194.
‘An Expected Value Approach to the Dual-Use Problem’, in M Selgelid, B Rappert (eds.) On the Dual Uses of Science and Ethics: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (ANU Press, 2013).
'Engineering and Ethical Perspectives in Synthetic Biology', EMBO Reports 2012; 13(7): 584-590, with J Anderson, N Strelkowa, G-B Stan, J Savulescu, M Barahona and A Papachristodoulou.
'Synthetic Biology and the Ethics of Knowledge', Journal of Medical Ethics 2010; 36(11): 687- 693, with J Savulescu.
SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENTS
'Intertemporal Disagreement and Empirical Slippery Slope Arguments', Utilitas 2010; 22(2): 184-197.
ORGAN DONATION
'On the Post-Mortem Analogy and the Duty to Donate', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2009; 33(5): 456-457, with N Douglas.
'Absence of Significant Dissent Should Be Sufficient for Deceased Donor Organ Procurement in New Zealand', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2009; 33(5): 449-454, with N Douglas.
REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS
'A Conception of Genetic Parenthood', Bioethics 2019; 33(1): 54-59, with K Devolder.
'Stem Cell-Derived Gametes, Iterated In Vitro Fertilisation, and Genetic Parenthood', Journal of Medical Ethics 2014; 40: 723-4.
‘Stem Cell Research and Same-Sex Reproduction’, in M Quigley, S Chan, J Harris (eds.) Stem Cells: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics (World Scientific, 2012): 207-228, with C Harding, H Bourne and J Savulescu. [published version]
‘Australian Attitudes to Early and Late Abortion’, Medical Journal of Australia 2010; 193(1): 9-12, with L de Crespigny, DJ Wilkinson, M Textor and J Savulescu.
'Risky Business: Applying Risk/Benefit Analysis Consistently in Entertainment Ultrasound', Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2009; 34(6): 613-615, with L de Crespigny, D Wilkinson and J Savulescu.
'Destroying Unwanted Embryos in Research', EMBO Reports 2009; 10(4): 307-312, with J Savulescu.
OTHER
‘A Pragmatic Argument for an Acceptance-Refusal Asymmetry in Competence Requirements’, Journal of Medical Ethics 2022; 48 (11): 799-800. [journal version].
‘Healthcare, Responsibility and Golden Opportunities’ Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2021; doi: 10.1007/s10677-021-10208-1, with G De Marco and J Savulescu.
'Responsibility-Sensitive Healthcare Funding: Three Responses to Clavien and Hurst’s Critique', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2020; 29(2): 192-195. [published version]
'The Ethics of Creating and Using Human-Animal Chimeras', Institute for Laboratory Animal Research Journal 2019; 60(3): 434-438, with K Devolder and L Yip.
‘Philosophical Medical Ethics: More Necessary Than Ever’, Journal of Medical Ethics 2018; 44(7): 434-435, with J Savulescu and D Wilkinson.
'The Epistemic Costs of Compromise in Bioethics', Bioethics 2018; 32(2): 111-118, with K Devolder. [published version]
'Going Above and Beneath the Call of Duty: The Luck Egalitarian Claims of Healthcare Heroes, and the Accommodation of Professionally-Motivated Treatment-Refusal', Journal of Medical Ethics 2017; 43(12): 801-2.
‘Duties to Rescue: Individual, Professional and Institutional’, Journal of Medical Ethics 2016; 42(4): 207-8.
'Compensation for Geoengineering Harms and No-Fault Climate Change Compensation', The Climate Geoengineering Governance Working Papers 2014; 8: 1-23, with P-H Wong and J Savulescu.
'A Concise Argument: On the Wrongness of Killing', Journal of Medical Ethics 2013; 39(1): 1-2.
'The Concise Argument', Journal of Medical Ethics 2012; 38(5): 257.
'Consequentialism and the Death Penalty', American Journal of Bioethics 2008; 8(10): 56-58, with D Wilkinson. [journal version]
'Ethics Committees and the Legality of Research', Journal of Medical Ethics 2007; 33(12): 732-736.
THESES
Medical Means, Moral Ends: Enhancement, Fairness and Moral Motivation. DPhil Philosophy Thesis. University of Oxford: 2010. Supervisors: Julian Savulescu, Roger Crisp. Examiners: Tony Hope, Allen Buchanan.
Luck and Causation in the Distribution of Compensation. BA Philosophy Thesis. University of Oxford: 2005. Supervisor: Adam Swift.
The Accident of Accident Compensation. BMedSc Bioethics Thesis. University of Otago: 2002. Supervisor: Neil Pickering.