"The New Hume Debate" is the first book to discuss the topic of whether Hume is a skeptic or a skeptical realist. It includes essays by philosophers and Hume scholars such as Barry Stroud and Galen Strawson.
I am Professor of Philosophy and Healthcare Ethics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), Boston. I grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, and studied philosophy at Haverford College, the University of Oxford (UK), and Rutgers University.
My published work explores the philosophy of medicine and bioethics, including research ethics, as well as early modern philosophy and the philosophy of education. My book Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine was published by MIT Press in 2004. I chair the Institutional Review Board at MCPHS and have served on IRBs at Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and at Bryn Mawr College. I have been an investigator on two federally-funded projects examining ethics in the practice of community-based research.
I have held faculty appointments at Kalamazoo College and Bryn Mawr College and have been affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and a public policy think tank. I have provided expert bioethics commentary for Channel 6 Boston (ABC), for Comcast Cablevision and for regional newspapers. I also serve as a bioethics consultant for E4-Eclipse Ethics Education Enterprises, a bioethics start-up specializing in innovative ethics training for education and industry.
For several years I have served as a consultant and speaker for the cosmetics and personal products industry. My work in this area has focused on identifying ethical liability in research practices, especially involving human research participants.
At MCPHS I teach philosophy and bioethics to students taking degrees such as a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD), a master's degree in physician assistant studies, or a BS in health psychology. I am also Vice-chair of the Medical Humanities Interest Group, an interdisciplinary research incubator.
