Richard Dees
he/him/his
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Director, Program in Bioethics
PhD, University of Michigan, 1990
- Office Location
- 529 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4105
- Web Address
- Website
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00 am-1:00 pm, and by appointment
Research Overview
Research Interests
- Medical Ethics
- Public Health Ethics
- Social and Political Philosophy
- History of Moral and Political Philosophy
Selected Publications
Book
- Trust and Toleration, (Routledge, 2004)
Selected Articles
- “Transparent Vessels?: What Organ Donors Should be Allowed to Know about Their Recipients,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Philosophy 41 (2013): 323-32.
- with Jennifer Kwon, “The Ethics of Krabbe Newborn Screening.” Public Health Ethics 6 (2013): 114-19, with commentaries by Lannie Friedman Ross, Fiona Alice Miller, and Niels Nijsingh, 119-28.
- with Eric Singer, “KidneyMatch.com: The Ethics of Solicited Organ Donations,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 19 (2008): 141-49.
- “Better Brains, Better Selves?: The Ethics of Neuroenhancements.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (2007): 375-99. A related interview can be found in the Escapist magazine. Here I discuss the issues with 1370 Connection with Bob Smith on WXXI radio.
- "Of Socinians and Homosexuals: Trust and the Limits of Toleration," in Toleration on Trial, ed. Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, and Stephen Macedo (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), 85-109
- “’The Paradoxical Principle and Salutary Practice’: Hume on Toleration,” Hume Studies 31 (2005): 145-64.
- “Moral Ambiguity in a Black-and-White Universe,” in Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine, ed. Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl (Indianapolis: Open Court Press, 2005), 39-53.
- “Morality above Metaphysics: Friendship and Philo’s Stance in Dialogue XII. Hume Studies 28 (2002): 131-47.
- “Establishing Toleration.” Political Theory 27 (1999): 667-93.
- “Trust and Rationality of Toleration.” Noûs 32 (1998): 82-98.
- “Hume on the Characters of Virtue.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1997): 45-64.
- “Moral Conversions.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 531-50.
- "Living with Contextualism." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (1994): 243-60.
- “Liberalism in Context.” Polity 25 (1993): 565-82
- Hume and the Contexts of Politics.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1992): 219-42.