Research
Publications
- “Developing Equitable and Mutually Beneficial Virtual Community-Engaged Learning Opportunities,” with Casey Knifsend, Metropolitan Universities Journal (forthcoming)
- “Academic Internships in Philosophy,” Teaching Philosophy 45(4) (2022).
- “Service Learning in Philosophical Ethics,” Teaching Ethics 20(1/2)(2021): 91-112
- “Should Undocumented Immigrants Have Access to Public Benefits,” Social Philosophy Today 35 (2019): 41-58.
- “Political Refugees and Economic Migrants,” in Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship, eds. Kelly Oliver, Lisa Madura, and Sabeen Ahmed (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).
- DiSilvestro, R., Choe-Smith, C., Houk, T., S. Ayala-Lopz, “The road to HEAVEN is paved with good intentions: Transplanting heads, manipulating selves, and reassigning genders,” American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 8(4): 223-225 (2017). .
- DiSilvestro, R., Choe-Smith, C., Houk, T., I Just Wanna Get My Self, or My Story, Back Again: Narrative Identity, Neurosurgical Intervention, and the Temporary Change Argument, American Journal of Bioethics (2017).
- “Confronting Ethical Permissibility in Animal Research: Rejecting a Common Assumption and Extending a Principle of Justice,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, special issue, eds. Beauchamp, T., Gluck, J., and Ferdowsian, H. (invited article, April 2014).
- “Extending Human Research Protections to Nonhuman Animals: The Belmont Report and a Principled Approach” with Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., in The Politics of Species, Lanjouw, A. and Corbey, R. (Cambridge University Press, September 2013).
- “Just International Normative Structure,” Public Reason, vol. 4, nos. 1-2, December 2012.
Selected Recent Presentations
- "COVID-19 Vaccinations and Global Public Health," Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Seminar (online), Stanford University School of Medicine, November 2021.
- "Undocumented Immigrants and Public Benefits," Leadership Ethics Guest Lecture (online), University of Richmond, October 2021.
- “Immigration, Sanctuary, and Civil Disobedience,” 78th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 2020 (accepted, but conference canceled due to COVID-19).
- “Philosophy Internships,” Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO), San Diego, California, June 2020 (accepted, but conference canceled due to COVID-19).
- “A Tale of Two Cities: Immigration, Sanctuary, and Law Enforcement,” 36th International Social Philosophy Conference, University of San Francisco, California, July 2019.
- “The Human Rights of Political Refugees,” American Philosophical Association, Central Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, March 2017.
- “The State, Race, Privacy, and Equality: A Rights-Based Approach to Racial-Profiling,” AMINTAPHIL Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 2016.
- “The Plausibility of Legitimacy as a Motivating Reason for Enforcing International Human Rights Law,” Midwest Political Science Association 2016 Conference, April 2016
- “Universal Human Rights as a Limit on the Legitimate Exercise of Political Authority,” 8th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 2014.
- “An Analysis of Equality: Respecting Women and Respecting Cultural Diversity,” 31st International Social Philosophy Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, July 2014.
- “Animal Rights and Animal Experimentation,” Invited Guest Speaker, Center for Practical and Professional Ethics, California State University, Sacramento, California, October 2013.
- “Justice without Violence: Analyzing Alternatives to Force,” Justice: Violence and Forgiveness Conference, International Political Science Association, Research Committee on Political Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2013.