David Jensen

Prenatal parental designing of children and the problem of acceptance

Emerging medical technology makes increasingly likely the possibility of “designer babies:” children with traits that parents can select or modify prenatally.
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy.

Birth, Meaningful Viability, and Abortion

I argue that meaningful viability is a more warranted demarcation, and thus, late-term abortion, as defined, is morally impermissible.
Journal of Medical Ethics. 2015. 41: 460-463.

Representing the Agent through Second-Order States

I argue that representing the agent's participation by means of second-order states is bound to fail because it misrepresents what an agent is doing when acting in the full-blooded sense. Philosophical Psychology. 2013. 26.1: 67-88

Kant and a Problem of Motivation

For Kant, the primary problem is not whether moral judgments can motivate a rational agent but whether there are any genuine moral principles underlying our moral judgments in the first place.
Journal of Value Inquiry. 2012. 46.1: 83-96.

Decisions, Moral Status, and the Early Fetus

One cannot sidestep the question of moral status as an independent question to be settled in order to make a rational decision about aborting an early fetus.
Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics. Fall2011, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p155-163. 9p.