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\title{AMA Announcement: Thursday 1/25 1PM EST - Michael Cholbi on ethical
theory, Kant and the philosophy of death and dying}



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The mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by
Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy and Director, California Center
for Ethics and Policy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
This AMA is the second in our Spring 2018 AMA Series; you can find more
details on all of this semester's AMAs with philosophers by going to the
AMA Hub Post. You can find all of our previous AMAs over the years by
going to the AMA wiki. Professor Cholbi will be joining us on Thursday
January 25th at 1PM ET to discuss issues in ethical theory, moral
psychology, practical ethics, Kant and the philosophy of death and
dying. Hear it from him: Michael Cholbi I'm Professor of Philosophy at
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. I work and publish in a
number of area of ethics, including ethical theory, moral psychology,
practical ethics, and the history of moral philosophy. Much (though not
all) of my work has a Kantian flavor -- but do note I'm willing to take
Kant and Kantians to task when need be! (For a good overview of my work
on Kant's ethics, check out my book Understanding Kant's Ethics). Here
are some more specifics about my research: I'm perhaps best known for my
work on philosophy of death and dying, including my work on suicide and
grief. With respect to suicide, my views are complicated: I argue that
most acts of suicide violate our Kantian duty to preserve our rational
agency, but precisely because this is a self-regarding duty or duty to
self, then at a social level, individuals have an autonomy-based right
to shorten their lives, consistent with their moral obligations to
others; that medically assisted dying is not contrary to the moral norms
of medicine and that the medical profession should not monopolize access
to desirable ways of shortening our lives; that, all other things being
equal, mental health problems provide equally strong justifications for
suicide as do `physical' ailments, etc.; and that non-invasive public
health measures to prevent suicide are typically defensible. Grief is an
understudied phenomenon among philosophers. Much of my work here is
concerned with understanding how grief can makes our lives better ---
why we wouldn't find it desirable to be unable to grieve, like Meursault
in Camus' The Stranger --- despite the fact that it involves pain or
mental distress. In the book I'm writing, I propose that grief
represents an especially fruitful opportunity to know ourselves and
understand our own commitments and values more deeply. In other areas of
social ethics, I write on paternalism, defending what I call the
`rational will' conception of paternalism, wherein paternalism is wrong
because it intercedes in our powers of rational agency in various ways;
on race and criminal justice, where I argue (in a forthcoming paper in
Ethics) that racial bias in the administration of the death penalty in
the U.S. merits its de facto abolition; and on the philosophy of work
and labor, a new area of research where I'm exploring universal basic
income and notions of meaningful work. As you can tell, my work is very
diverse, both topically and methodologically. I try to integrate
empirical work from economics, legal studies, and psychiatry into my
research where appropriate. I look forward to discussing any and all of
my work with the reddit audience! Links of Interest: My Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on suicide My review of Fischer and
Mitchell-Yellin's book on near death experiences A piece on grief in
Four By Three A blog post on paternalism from LSE's The Forum AMA Please
feel free to post questions for Professor Cholbi here. He will look at
this thread before he starts and begin with some questions from here
while the initial questions in the new thread come in. Please join me in
welcoming Professor Michael Cholbi to our community!%
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