David DeGrazia
Professor of Philosophy

Office: Phillips 524; enter through 525
Office Hours: M R 10-11, F 3-4
Phone: (202) 994-6913
Email: ddd@gwu.edu

 Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest

• Ethical Theory (AOS)
• Biomedical Ethics (AOS)
• Personal Identity Theory (AOS)
• Philosophy of Mind (AOC)
• History of Analytic Philosophy (AOC)
• History of Modern Philosophy (AOC)
• Epistemology (AOC)
• Wittgenstein (AOC)
   

Primary Courses Taught at GW

• Ethics: Theories and Applications
• Topics in Health Policy
• Analytical Philosophy
• Theory of Knowledge
• Proseminar in Philosophy
   

Books (follow links to publishers' pages)

• Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• Biomedical Ethics, 6^th ed. (coedited with Thomas A. Mappes; New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005); 5^th ed. (2001); 4^th ed. (1996)
• Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); republished in Japanese and Hungarian 
• Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

§      “The Harm of Death, Time-Relative Interests, and Abortion,” Philosophical Forum 38 (2007): 57-80

§     “Human-Animal Chimeras: Human Dignity, Moral Status, and Species Prejudice,” Metaphilosophy 38 (2007): 309-329

§      "Moral Status, Human Identity, and Early Embryos: A Critique of the President's Approach," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 34 (1) (2006): 49-57

• "Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (3) (2005)
• “Identity, Killing and the Boundaries of Our Existence,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (4) (2003)
• “Common Morality, Coherence, and the Principles of Biomedical Ethics,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 13 (3) (2003)
• “Are We Essentially Persons? Olson, Baker, and a Reply,” Philosophical Forum 33 (1) (2002)
• “Ethical Issues in Early-Intervention Clinical Trials Involving Minors at Risk for Schizophrenia,” Schizophrenia Research 51 (1) (2001)
• “Prozac, Enhancement, and Self-Creation,” Hastings Center Report 30 (2): 34-40
• “Persons, Organisms, and Death: A Philosophical Critique of the Higher-Brain Approach,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (3) (1999)
• “Advance Directives, Dementia, and ‘the Someone Else Problem’,” Bioethics 13 (5) (1999)