JORDAN MacKENZIE

Research
Published Work
In Progress/Under Review
"Survivor Guilt," Philosophical Studies. (forthcoming).
(with Michael Zhao). Pre-print.
Book Review of Michael Cholbi's Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Ethics. (forthcoming).
"Self-Distrust, Strategic Self-Deception and Oppression"
The Moral Psychology of Trust, eds. M. Alfano, D. Collins, and I.V. Javonovic. (forthcoming). Pre-print.
"Self-Deception as a Moral Failure"
The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(2) (2022):402-21.
"Caring By Lying"
Bioethics, 35(9) (2021): 877-833.
"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.
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
"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 (2021).
"Knowing Yourself and Being Worth Knowing"
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(2) (2018): 243-261.
"Genetic Information, the Principle of Rescue, and Special Obligations" (with S. Matthew Liao)
Hastings Center Report, 48(3) (2018): 18-19.
"Agent-Regret and the Social Practice of Moral Luck"
Res Philosophica, 94(1) (2017): 95-117.
A paper on the moral badness of humorlessness
A paper on grief and practical fidelity (with Michael Cholbi)
A paper on end of life caregiving and moral distress
A paper on Kant's duty of self-knowledge
A paper on epistemic self-respect
A paper on Taylor Swift, love, novelty and tradition