Stephen Kershnar
Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of New York at Fredonia and an attorney. He focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. Kershnar has written on a number of topics in bioethics including abortion, affirmative action in medical schools, consent, Judeo-Christian bioethics, pedophilia, and quantifying health. Kershnar is the author of nine books, including Total Collapse: The Case Against Morality and Responsibility (2018) and Abortion, Hell, and Shooting Abortion-Doctors: Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? (2017).
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Working Groups
- Autonomy, Addiction, and Accountability
- Creation and Enhancement
- End of Life Issues
- Health, Harm, and Well-Being
Selected Publications
Stephen Kershnar, Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? Abortion, Hell, and Violence Against Abortion Doctors, Routledge (2019)
Stephen Kershnar, “Quantifying Health Across Populations,” Bioethics 30 (2016): 451-461
Stephen Kershnar, “Does the Pro-Life Position Entail the Permissibility of Assassinating Abortion-Doctors?” What’s Wrong? March 16, 2016
Stephen Kershnar, “Rights, virtue, and David Boonin’s defense of the implausible conclusion of the non-identity problem,” Science, Religion and Culture, 2 (2015): 102-107
Stephen Kershnar, “Fetuses are like Rapists: A Judith-Jarvis-Thomson-Inspired Argument on Abortion,” Reason Papers 37 (2015): 88-109