JORDAN MacKENZIE
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Research
Published Work
In Progress/Under Review
"Just Humor Me: Humorlessness and Mutual Recognition," The Philosophical Quarterly. (forthcoming).
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"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Self-Knowledge," The Monist. (forthcoming). Pre-print.
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"Caregiving and Role Conflict Distress," Clinical Ethics. (2024). Pre-print.
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"Giving the Terminally Ill Access to Euthanasia isn't Discriminatory: A Response to Reed," Journal of Medical Ethics. (2024). Pre-print.
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"Survivor Guilt," Philosophical Studies, 180(9) (2023):1-20.
(with Michael Zhao). Pre-print. Published Version.
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Book Review of Michael Cholbi's Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Ethics. (2023). Published Version.
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"Self-Distrust, Strategic Self-Deception and Oppression"
The Moral Psychology of Trust, eds. M. Alfano, D. Collins, and I.V. Javonovic. (2023). Pre-print.
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"Self-Deception as a Moral Failure"
The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(2) (2022):402-21.
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"Caring By Lying"
Bioethics, 35(9) (2021): 877-833.
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"We Should Widen Access to Physician-Assisted Death" (with Adam Lerner)
Journal of Moral Philosophy, 19(2) (2021): 139-169.
*I published an op-ed based on this article in the Halifax Chronicle during Canada's debate about expanded medical aid in dying access. You can view it here.
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Book Review of Krista K. Thomason's Naked: The Dark Side of Shame
Ethics, 130(2) (2020): 267-271.
*selected by PEA Soup for an Ethics Review Forum discussion
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"Does Pediatric Hand Transplantation Undermine a Child's Right to an Open Future?" (with Gennaro Selvaggi and Paolo Sassu)
Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, 55 (2020).
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"Knowing Yourself and Being Worth Knowing"
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(2) (2018): 243-261.
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"Genetic Information, the Principle of Rescue, and Special Obligations" (with S. Matthew Liao)
Hastings Center Report, 48(3) (2018): 18-19.
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"Agent-Regret and the Social Practice of Moral Luck"
Res Philosophica, 94(1) (2017): 95-117.
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A paper on grief and practical fidelity (with Michael Cholbi, under review)
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A paper on relational obligations as hypothetical imperatives (under review)
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A paper on AI, existential angst, and valuing (under review)
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A paper on the self-regarding obligation literature(s)
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A paper on humor, political polarization, and double-binds
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A paper on Daniel Muñoz's What We Owe to Each Other
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A paper on Taylor Swift, love, novelty and tradition (promised to an edited collection on Taylor Swift)