University of Utah

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Assistant Professor

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James Tabery, PhD MA, is an assistant professor of Philosophy and a member of the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah. He received his PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science as well as his MA from the Center for Bioethics in 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh. His interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of science and bioethics: debates over causation in the nature-nurture debate and the ethical implications of those debates, scientific explanations of psychopathy and the legal implications of understanding the causes of bad behavior when it comes to attributions of responsibility and punishment, epistemological considerations in the design of human experiments and the implications for the ethical oversight of research on humans. He has published articles in a range of scientific, philosophy of science, and bioethics journals, such as Philosophy of Science, Biology and Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of the History of Biology, International Journal of Epidemiology, and Development and Psychopathology.

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