Matthew McCabe
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
E-mail: mmccabe2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782
Office: Smith 114
Education
- B.A., University of California - Santa Barbara, 1992
- M.A., California State University - Long Beach, 1995
- Ph.D., University of Maryland - College Park, 2001. Dissertation Title: Ethical Caring and the Physician-Patient Relationship: A Dual Defense of a Virtue Ethics of Care
Office Hours
MWF 1:30-3:20
Research and Teaching Interests
BioMedical Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Business Ethics, Professional Ethics, Global Ethics, Ethical Theory, Virtue Ethics, Feminist Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social-Political Philosophy, and Metaethics.
Conference Presentations and Publications
"In Defense of Ethically Caring Physicians"
- Revised draft presented at the 4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics, Cardiff University, UK, 6/06
- Presented at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Twelfth Annual Meeting, North Carolina, 2/03.
- Presented at the Western Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 4/03.
"Ethical Caring, Medical Paternalism, and Respect for Autonomy"
- Presented at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, 2/04.
- Presented at the Western Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, 4/04.
"The Identity of the Second Law of Thermodynamics" (Co-author: Dr. Paul Tang)
- Presented at the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, Italy, 8/95.
Book Review of Physician Assisted Suicide: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue.
- The Social Science Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall 2004.
Works in Progress
- "In Defense of Ethically Caring Physicians"
- "Ethical Caring, Medical Paternalism, and Respect for Autonomy"
- "The Physician-Patient Relationship: An Aretaic Formulation"
- "The Admirable Patient"
- "Admirable Dishonesty? A Virtue Ethics of Care Perspective"
- Virtue Ethical Caring in Medical Practice