Holly M. Smith | curriculum vitae Professor II Contact Information Office: Davison Hall 101B Email: Phone: (732) 932-9861 x101 Office Hours: Monday: 2:20 PM - 3:10 PM Thursday: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM By Appointment

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Education

B.A., Wellesley College; M.A. and Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan

Speciality

Normative Ethics, Meta-ethics, Issues of Moral Responsibility, Biomedical Ethics

Research

I am currently working on a book manuscript exploring issues raised by attempts to structure moral systems so they can be used in guiding decisions by moral agents who often labor under cognitive limitations.

Selected Publications

"David Lyons on Utilitarian Generalization," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 26 (October, 1974), pp. 77-94. "Dated Rightness and Moral Imperfection," The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXXV (October, 1976), pp. 449-487. "David Lewis' Semantics for Deontic Logic," Mind, Vol. LXXXVI (April, 1977) pp. 242-248. "The Collective Interpretation of Utilitarian Generalization," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 34 (August, 1978), pp. 207-211. "Doing the Best One Can," in Values and Morals, eds. Alvin Goldman and Jaegwon Kim (Reidel, 1978), pp. 186-214. "Rawls and Utilitarianism," in John Rawls' Theory of Social Justice, eds. Gene Blocker and Elizabeth Smith (Ohio University Press, 1980), pp.346-394. "Amniocentesis for Sex Selection," in Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine, ed. Marc Basson (New York: Alan R. Liss, 1980), pp. 81-94. "Killing, Letting Die, and Euthanasia," Analysis, Vol. 40 (October 1980), p. 224. "Two Concepts of Democracy," in Ethical Issues in Government, ed. Norman Bowie (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), pp. 68-82. "Compensating Injured Research Subjects," in President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical Research, Compensating for Research Injuries, Volume Two: Appendices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington (1982), pp. 19-39. "Intercourse and Moral Responsibility for the Fetus," in Abortion and the Status of the Fetus, Volume XIII of the series, "Philosophy of Medicine," eds. William B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Englehardt, Stuart Spicker, and Daniel H. Winship (Dordrecht, Holland/Boston, Massachusetts: D. Reidel, 1983), pp. 229-245. "Culpable Ignorance," The Philosophical Review, Vol. XCII (October, 1983), pp. 543-571. -Selected as one of the ten best articles to appear in print in 1983; reprinted in Volume VI of The Philosopher's Annual (eds., P. Athay, P. Grim, and C.J. Martin. (Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1985.) "Legal Requirements for Notification," in Ethics in Emergency Medicine, eds. K. Iserson, A. Sanders, D. Mathieu, and A. Buchanan (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins,1986), pp. 92-97. Reprinted in Second Edition, 1995. "Moral Realism, Moral Conflict, and Compound Acts", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXXIII, #6 (June 1986), 341-345. "Making Moral Decisions," Nous, Vol. XXII, #1 (March 1988), pp. 89-108. "Two-Tier Moral Codes," Social Philosophy & Policy, Vol. 7, (Autumn 1989), pp. 112-132. -Reprinted in Ellen F. Paul, Fred D. Miller, and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Foundations of Moral and Political Philosophy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 112-132. "Deciding How To Decide: Is There a Regress Problem?" in Michael Bacharach and Susan Hurley, eds., Essays in the Foundations of Decision Theory (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Inc. 1991), pp. 194-219. "Varieties of Moral Worth and Moral Credit," in Ethics, Vol. 101 (January 1991), pp. 279-303. "Deriving Morality from Rationality," in Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement, ed., Peter Vallentyne (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 229-253. -Reprinted in John Heil, ed., Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest: Essays Honoring Mark Carl Overvold (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993), pp. 71-96. "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?" in James Thomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 6 (Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1992), pp. 73-96. "Fetal-Maternal Conflicts," in In Harm's Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg, edited by Allen Buchanan and Jules Coleman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 324-343. "A Paradox of Promising," in The Philosophical Review, Vol. 106, No. 2 (April 1997; appeared 1998]), pp. 153-196. Lead article.