Background
Dworkin, Gerald was born on December 27, 1937 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and Miriam (Halbfinger) Dworkin.
(This important new book develops a new concept of autonom...)
This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. Professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of autonomy and used the concept to analyze various practical moral issues such as proxy consent in the medical context, paternalism, and entrapment by law enforcement officials.
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philosopher university professor
Dworkin, Gerald was born on December 27, 1937 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and Miriam (Halbfinger) Dworkin.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1959; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1966.
He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Dworkin has also taught at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has been a visiting Fellow of All Souls College (Oxford), the Australian National University, and the Hastings Center.
He was the Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
In 2006, he was a Distinguished Visitor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he gave a series of lectures on paternalism. Dworkin"s main areas of research include the nature and justification of autonomy, paternalism in the criminal law, and the issue of which acts may legitimately be criminalized by the state.
One of Dworkin"s books is a defense of physician-assisted suicide. In it, he argues that doctors who approve of withdrawing patients from life support at their request, or administering pain-relief medication that is foreseen to kill the patient, or who approve of terminal sedation, are inconsistent if they condemn physician-assisted suicide.
This book has been published in Spanishand Korean-language editions.
He has published an e-book, Philosophy: A Commonplace Book, which is a collection of aphorisms, jokes, witty comments on philosophy, and other interesting quotations.
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Married Joan Ellen Shapiro, April 23, 1960. Children: Lisa, Julie.