Additional Materials

Materials, Presentations, Etc.

Cross Plains Public Library (10/11/17): Animal Ethics, the Horse-Human Connection, and Unbranded (61MB, PDF)
Max-Planck-Insitute for Molecular Biomedicine/Institute for Medical Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine (10/20/10): Ethically Evaluating Research Involving the Engraftment of Human Neural Stem Cells into Nonhuman Primates
09/18/09: Nonhuman Primate Research at UW: A Response to Rick Bogle
Iowa State University (03/23/07): Ethical Considerations in a Market-Driven University
PowerPoint Slides: Streiffer – Academic Freedom and AIRs (Expanded ISU Keynote).pdf
Isthmus Society Panel (12/06/06): Stem Cells, Embryos, and Ethics: Is There a Way Forward?
PowerPoint Slides: Streiffer – Evaluating the Argument for Altered Nuclear Transfer PPT Slides (Revised).pdf
Handout: Streiffer – Evaluating the Argument for Altered Nuclear Transfer Handout (Revised).pdf
National Academy of Sciences (11/07/06): Emerging Issues in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
PowerPoint Slides (slightly revised): Streiffer – NAS Chimeras PPT Slides.pdf
Audio Recording of Presentation and Q & A: Streiffer – NAS Chimeras Audio.mp3 (25 MB)

Streiffer – Stem Cells and Cloning: presentation for Datex-Ohmeda. Discusses the science and potential benefits of human embryonic stem cell (hES cell) research, the pro-life argument against it, the question of the moral status of the fetus, a variety of attempts to argue in favor of hES cell research consistently with the pro-life view of the moral status of the fetus, the relationship between hES cell research and therapeutic cloning, and briefly summarizes the recent work (now known to be fraudulent) by South Korean scientists Woo Suk Hwang and Shin Yong Moon, who were the first to claim the succesful cloning of a human being and the extraction hES cell from the resulting embryo.
Streiffer on HES Cells.ppt: “What’s All the Brouhaha about Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research?” Presented for the Wisconsin Idea-Exploration in the Sciences Series. Download the file by right-clicking on the link and selecting “Save Target As”. Once on your hard drive, double-click it to open it (you will need Microsoft PowerPoint to view it.). Although it will prompt you for a password when you try to open it, just click the “Read-Only” button to bypass the password request.
Streiffer on HES Cells95.ppt: Same as above, saved in PowerPoint 95, 97-2000 format.
Ethics and Wild Rice: An analysis of Ojibwa objections to wild rice genomics work taking place at the University of Minnesota.

Sampler (pdf): Contains samples of cover letters, my C. V., and other useful items for grads going on the market.

On Frege’s definition of ‘x is an ancestor of y in the f-sequence’
On Frege’s argument that arithmetic is not a posteriori
On Frege’s argument that names have both a sense and a referent
On how is it possible, according to Russell, to know that P without knowing P
On Russell and Ramsey on truth bearers
On Wittgenstein on meaning and mental images
On Chapter 3 of Goodman’s Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
On Moore’s “A Defense of Common Sense”
A handout for the above note
On Austin’s discussion in “Sense and Sensibilia” of Ayer
On Smart’s “Sensations and Brain Processes”
On civil disobedience and the scienists at Los Alamos
On health care technology and ethics
Half of a talk I gave with Tony Gray on just war theory
On Judy Thomson’s half of Moral Relativism & Moral Objectivity
On Ch. 8 “Relativism” and Appendix on Williams, in Scanlon’s What We Owe To Each Other
Handout on Rachel’s “Active and Passive Euthanasia”
On utilitarian versus Kantian ethics for med students’ noon lectures