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Dustin Crummett

University of Washington Tacoma
Verified email at nd.edu
Cited by 137

The problem of evil and the suffering of creeping things

D Crummett - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2017 - Springer
Even philosophers of religion working on the problem of non-human animal suffering have
ignored the suffering of creatures like insects. Sensible as this seems, it's mistaken. I am not …

What if We Contain Multiple Morally Relevant Subjects?

D Crummett - Utilitas, 2022 - cambridge.org
First, I introduce the concept of a “non-agential subject,” where a non-agential subject (1)
exists within an organism and (2) has phenomenally conscious experiences in a morally …

Violinists, demandingness, and the impairment argument against abortion

D Crummett - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The 'impairment argument'against abortion developed by Perry Hendricks aims to derive the
wrongness of abortion from the wrongness of causing foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

“We are here to help each other”: religious community, divine hiddenness, and the responsibility argument

D Crummett - Faith and Philosophy, 2015 - pdcnet.org
Richard Swinburne and Travis Dumsday have defended what JL Schellenberg calls “the
responsibility argument” as a response to the problem of divine hiddenness. Schellenberg …

Human dominion and wild animal suffering

D Crummett - Religious Studies, 2022 - cambridge.org
It may be possible, now or in the future, for humans to technologically intervene to reduce
the amount of suffering experienced by wild animals. There is a debate about whether, if …

Psychophysical Harmony: A New Argument for Theism

B Cutter, D Crummett - 2022 - philpapers.org
This paper develops a new argument from consciousness to theism: the argument from
psychophysical harmony. Roughly, psychophysical harmony consists in the fact that …

Expression and Indication in Ethics and Political Philosophy

D Crummett - Res Publica, 2019 - Springer
We sometimes have reasons to perform actions due to what they would communicate.
Those who have discussed such reasons have understood what an action 'communicates' …

[BOOK][B] Applied ethics: An impartial introduction

E Jackson, T Goldschmidt, D Crummett, R Chan - 2021 - books.google.com
Applied Ethics: An Impartial Introduction prepares readers to evaluate selected classical and
contemporary problems in applied ethics in a way that does justice to their complexity …

Sufferer-centered requirements on theodicy and all-things-considered harms

D Crummett - 2017 - philpapers.org
Abstract Both Marilyn Adams and Eleonore Stump have endorsed requirements on theodicy
which, if true, imply that we can never suffer all-things-considered harms. William Hasker …

MIP does not save the impairment argument against abortion: a reply to Blackshaw and Hendricks

D Crummett - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' original 'impairment argument'against abortion relied on 'the impairment
principle'(TIP):'if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris …