Eric Vogelstein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Philosophy, Duquesne University
Bio
Dr. Eric Vogelstein is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the School of Nursing and the Department of Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 and has been at Duquesne since 2013. Dr. Vogelstein works primarily in biomedical ethics and on related topics in ethical theory.
His recent work in bioethics has focused on ethical issues in advance directives and surrogate decision-making, moral expertise and its clinical application, and the ethics of abortion. In ethical theory, Dr. Vogelstein has defended a new kind of moral sentimentalism, and a novel view of moral reasons. He has published in Philosophical Studies, Bioethics, The Journal of Ethics, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and in various edited volumes.