Benevolence/beneficence;
altruistic humanism; suicide/euthanasia; other matters of life and
death; happiness; and the social philosophy of Bertrand Russell
[Article] "Bertrand Russell on Fear: A Prolegomena," Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly, Number 132, 2007, forthcoming
[Reprint]
"Altruistic Promethean Humanism," Promethean Love. Tim Madigan, ed.,
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006, 191-203. Originally published in
Free Inquiry 14:4 (1994), 43-47.
[Political Position Paper] "
Death With Dignity," Chelsea Reform Democratic Club,
www.crdcnyc.org, 1 page, 2003
[Article]
"
Right to Life and the Use of Violence,"
Sidney Hook Reconsidered,
Matthew J. Cotter, ed., Amherst, Prometheus Books, 2004,161-168, 2004
[Article]
"
Beneficence,"
Encyclopedia of Ethics 2nd Edition, Lawrence
& Charlotte Becker, Co-editors, New York and London:
Routledge, 2001, 128-133
[Article] "
Euthanasia,"
Encyclopedia of Ethics 2nd Edition, Lawrence & Charlotte
Becker,Co-editors, New York and London: Routledge, 2001, 492- 498
[Article]
"
Life and Death,"
Encyclopedia of Ethics 2nd Edition,
Lawrence & Charlotte Becker, Co-editors, New York and London:
Routledge, 2001, 993-1000
[Article] "
Wisdom and the Axiom of Futility,"
The Philosophical Forum 32:1, 2001, 73-93
[Note] "
Commitment to Overriding Values," Symposium on Humanist Manifesto II,
The Humanist 58:6 (1998), 29-30
[Book Note] Ramendra Nath,
The Ethical Philosophy of Bertrand Russell,
Ethics 106:1(1995), 224
[Essay] "
Russell and the Happy Life,"
Free Inquiry 15:4(Fall 1995), 43
[Essay]
"
The Nature of Promethean Ethics,"
Newsletter of the Centre for
Applied Ethics (Hong Kong) 3:1 (May 1995), 2-5. Reprinted in
The
Humanist, January/February 1996, 45
[Chapter] "
Caring Love
and Liberty: Some Questions," [revision of the 1992 article]
The Nature and
Pursuit of Love: The Philosophy of Irving Singer on
Love, David Goicoechea, ed., Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books,
1995, 221-228
[Chapter] "
Singer's Idealization of
Love: A Postscript,"
The Nature and Pursuit of Love:
The Philosophy of Irving Singer on Love, David Goicoechea, ed.,
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995, 229-235
[Article] "
Promethean Altruistic Humanism,"
Free Inquiry 14:4(1994), 43-47
[Article]
"
Gandhi on Love: A Reply to Ian M. Harris,"
The Acorn: The
Journal of the Gandhi-King Society 8:1 (1993), 24-26
[Article] "
Russell and the Attainment of Happiness,"
Humanist in Canada 105 (1993), 9-13. Reprint of 1984 paper.
[Article] "
Bertrand Russellís Characterization of Benevolent Love,"
Russell 12:2 (1992-93), 116-134
[Book Review] "
Russell Was Not Buddha,"
Russell 12:2(1992-93), 224
[Article]
"
Altruistic Humanism and Voluntary Beneficent Euthanasia,"
Issues
in Law & Medicine 8:3 (1992), 331-341
[Note] "
Epistemological Igtheism,"
Free Inquiry, 12:2 (Spring 1992), 60**
[Article] "
Having a Meaningful vs. a Meaningless Life,"
The Humanist 52 (Nov/Dec 1992), 39-41
[Article] "
Dignity and the Good Life,"
The Humanist 52 (Sept/Oct 1992), 40
[Article] "
Humanism and Caring for Others,"
The Humanist 52 (July/August 1992), 48
[Article] "
Life and Death,"
Encyclopedia of Ethics, Lawrence Becker, Editor, NY: Garland, 1992, 721-728
[Article] "
Euthanasia,"
Encyclopedia of Ethics, Lawrence Becker, Editor, NY: Garland, 1992, 335-339
[Article]
"
Humanism and the Justification of Belief: A Reply to
Benjamin, Swanson, and Zamulinski," (abridged version),
Free Inquiry
12:1 (1992), 56-57
[Article] "
Caring Love and Liberty: Some Questions,"
Free Inquiry 12:2 (1992), 49-51, 54
[Chapter]
"
Towards Understanding the Pragmatics of Absolute Pacifism,"
In the
Interest of Peace: A Spectrum of Philosophic Views, edited by
Kenneth H. Klein and Joseph C. Kunkel, Longwood Academic, 1990,
227-236
[Article] "
Skepticism and Happiness,"
Free Inquiry 10:3 (1990), 40-42
[Note] "
Happiness and Love,"
New Age News, Spring/Summer, 1990, 6
[Note] "
Brink, Russell, and Rational Love,"
Bertrand Russell Newsletter 6 (November 1989), 3
[Article]
"
Prospective Wisdom and Euthanasia," in
Building a World Community:
Humanism in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Paul Kurtz,
Prometheus,1989, 305-309
[Note] "
Wisdom, Death, and the Quality of Life,"
Free Inquiry 8:3 (Summer 1988), 19
[Review Essay] "
Euthanasia and the Quality of Life,"
Journal of Pain Management 2:1 (1987), 53-55
[Article]
"
Russell on the Utility of Religion: Copleston's Critique,"
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22 (1987), 69-79
[Article] "
Russell's Happiness Paradox,"
Russell 7:1 (1987),86-88
[Chapter]
"
Moral Arguments For and Against Maximally Treating Defective Newborns,"
Euthanasia and the Newborn, Richard C. McMillan et al.,
Reidel, 1987, 233-252
[Book Review]
L.W. Sumner's Abortion and Moral Theory,
International Studies in Philosophy 18:3 (1986), 101-102
[Review Essay] "
The Functions of Monogamous Marriage,"
Russell 5:2(1985-86), 162-168
[Editorial] "
Abortion and the Ideal of Tolerance,"
Free Inquiry 5:1(Winter 1984/1985), 6
[Book
Review] Alan H. Goldman's
The Moral Foundations of Professional
Studies,
International Studies in Philosophy 16:1 (1984), 109-111
[Article]
"
Bertrand Russell and the Attainability of Happiness,"
International
Studies in Philosophy 16:3 (1984), 109-111. Reprinted in
the
Humanist in Canada 105 (1993), 9-13
[Note] "
The Rationality of Suicide,"
Bertrand Russell Society Newsletter #41 (February 1984), 17
[Chapter]
"
Is Human Life Itself a Value?"
Sidney Hook: Philosopher of Democracy
and Humanism, P. Kurtz, ed., Prometheus, 1983,189-192
[Book Rev] W.L. McBride's
Social Theory at a Crossroads,
International Studies in Philosophy 15:2 (1983), 97-98
[Correspondence]
Reply to Professors Noel Smith and William Fink on Abortion.
Free Inquiry 3:4 (1983), 42
[Note] "
Abortion as a Mixed Good,"
Free Inquiry 3:1(l982/83), 42
[Correspondence] "
Bertrand Russell Speaks,"
Humanist, Jan/Feb 1982
[Article]
"The Right to Life as the Primary Moral Rule."
Tenth Interamerican
Congress of Philosophy, Florida State University, 1981, 17 page mimeo.
Abstract in
Abstracts of Papers from the Tenth Interamerican Congress
of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University,
1982, 68.
[Book Rev] William Conklin's
In Defense of Fundamental Rights,
Ethics, Jan 1982, 390
[Article] "
Meaning of Life and Happiness,"
Dialectics and Humanism 8:4 (1981), 39-43
[Reply to Tibor Machan] "
Egoism,"
Free Inquiry 2:1(1981), 39
[Article] "
Infanticide: A Reply to Leslie Fiedler,"
The Journal of American Culture 14:4 (1981), 679-80
[Article] "
Meaning of Life and Belief in God,"
Free Inquiry 1:2(1981),10, 35
[With Paul Kurtz] "A Secular Humanist Declaration,"
Free Inquiry 1:1(1980/1981), 3-7
[Article] "
Morality Without Religion,"
Free Inquiry 1:1(1980/1981), 28, 30
[Chapter]
"
On Suffering," and "A Reply to Paul Kurtz [on the Nature of Humanism]"
Humanistic Ethics, ed. by M. Storer, Prometheus, 1980, 173-178,
178, respectively
[Book Rev]
David Lyon's Rights,
Universal Human Rights (now the
Human Rights Quarterly) 2:2 (1980), 99-100
[Discussion]
"
Comment on Konstantin Kolenda's Globalism vs. Consensual Pluralism,"
Humanistic Ethics, ed. by Morris Storer, Buffalo,
Prometheus,1980,119-120
[Article] "
Kindliness: Some Classic Views,"
Journal of Medical Ethics 5:1 (1979), 35-37
[Chapter]
"
The Voluntary Ending of Life and Meaningless Existence," in
The Dying
Human, A. de Vries & A. Carmi, eds., Turtledove, 1978, 253-261
[Article]
"
Karen Quinlan: Human Rights and Wrongful Killing,"
Connecticut
Medicine (1978), 579-583 . Reprinted in Bioethics and Human
Rights,B. & E. Bandman, eds., Little, Brown, 1978,121-128
[Review Essay] "
Ecology and the Ethics of Accommodation,"
The Humanist (July/August 1978), 47-48
[Chapter]
"
Euthanasia and the Right to Life,"
Philosophical Medical Ethics:
Its Nature and Significance, S .F. Spicker and H. T. Englehardt,
Jr., eds., Reidel, 1977, 73-84
[Discussion] "Comments on
Human Rights, Fetal Research, and Experimentation," in
Human Tissue for
In Vitro Research, Carol Schiller, ed., Rockville,Maryland: The Tissue
Culture Association, 1977, 124, 145, 146, 151
[Reply] "
Life and Death in the U.S.A.,"
Encounter (April1976), 92
[Review Essay] "
Democracy and Social Reform,"
The Humanist (May/June 1976), 36-37
[Note] "On Death, Dying and the Karen Quinlan Cases,"
The Humanist (Jan/Feb 1976),16
[Chapter]
"
Voluntary Beneficent Euthanasia," in
Beneficent Euthanasia,
l975, 130-141. Reprinted in
Philosophy and the Human Condition,
T. Beauchamp, W. Blackstone, & J. Feinberg, eds., Prentice-Hall,
1980, 292-298 and in
Readings in Society, Ethics, and the Life
Sciences, New York: The Hastings Center, 1978, 1979, 1980, and
1981
[Review Essay] "
Joseph Fletcher: Prophet of the New Great Hope,"
The Humanist (May/June 1975), 36
[Article] "
Beneficent Euthanasia,"
The Humanist (July/August, 1974), 9-11
[Review Essay] "
Values of Mysticism,"
The Humanist (Sept/Oct 1974), 41-42
[Principal Author] "
A Plea for Beneficent Euthanasia,"
The Humanist, July/August 1974, 415
[Note] "
Is a Fetus Human?"
The Humanist 32:3(l973), 8
[Correspondence] A Reply to Ann Stewart (on abortion).
Dissent (Winter 1973), 128
[Chapter]
"
The Sanctity of Life Principle,"
Humanistic Perspectives in
Medical Ethics, Maurice Vischer, ed., Prometheus, 1972,
39-61. Reprinted in
The Morality of Killing,1974, 3-23
[Article]
"
Abortion and the Slippery Slope,"
Dissent (Fall 1972),741-743.
Reprinted in
The Morality of Killing, 1974, 46-50. Also reprinted
in the
Annual Editions Readings in Social Problems l973-1974, Guilford,
Connecticut, 1973, 120-1220
[Article] "
Understanding the
Case for Beneficent Euthanasia," Science, Medicine, and Man 1:2
(1973), 111-121, Reprinted in
The Morality of Killing, 1974,
92-110
[Correspondence] "A Reply to Dean L. Schaffer (on abortion laws),"
The New York Times, June 28, 1972
[Book
Rev] Robert Hoffman's
Language, Minds, and Knowledge, Philosophy
& Phenomenological Research 32:2 (1972), 282-283
[Article]
"
Abortion and the Argument from Innocence,"
Inquiry 14:1-2(1971),
147-151. Reprinted in
The Problem of Abortion, J. Feinberg,
ed., Wadsworth,1973, 28-32 and also in
The Morality of
Killing, 1974, 39-45
[Article] "
Austin on Vagueness,"
The Journal of Critical Analysis 3:1 (l971), 17-23
[Article] "
The Term 'Human Being,'"
Names 19:3 (1971),221-22
[Book
Rev] J.T. Saunders and D.F. Henze's
The Private Language
Problem, Philosophy & Phemenological Research 29:4 (1969), 610
[Article]
"
Vague Words,"
1968 International Conference on General
Semantics, ed. M. Elwood, Lakeville, Conn.:Institute of General
Semantics, 1969, 17p mimeo
[Article] "
Bertrand Russell on Vagueness,"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 47:1 (1969), 31- 41
[Article] "
Ought God Be in Webster's Third?"
Names 16:2 (l968),134-135
[Article]
"
The Word 'Mercy' and the Problem of Euthanasia,"
The American
Rationalist 9:10 (1965), 5-7. Reprinted in The Morality of
Killing,1974, 71-76
[Article] "
The Unanimity Argument and the Mystics,"
The Hibbert Journal 58:230 (1960), 268-275
