Eli Shupe
@ebshupe
Asst Prof of Philosophy and Co-director of Medical Humanities and Bioethics @utarlington. Founder and Director of http://makephilosophy.com.
Using unclaimed bodies for medical research is a grave injustice, @ebshupe writes. wapo.st/4h7VhI6
I wrote an op-ed on the use of unclaimed bodies in medical teaching (and why it needs to stop). washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
A metaphysical interlude: Is the best of all possible worlds gunky and panpsychist? Daniel Giberman and I think that it might be! Check out our paper “Value in a Limitless World”, out now in Synthese. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
I am spending some time in Japan this summer. There is an android named Mindar giving sermons about the Heart Sutra at the Kōdai-ji temple in Kyoto.
If you're looking for the highest ethical standards for whole-body donation, here's a great resource for you. I am grateful for all the hard work and dedication of all the co-authors over the years, and the support from all members of the @AnatomyOrg. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
LEOXIV is an absolute gift to crossword constructors
Today I learned that this isn’t felicitous in American English. Sorry, but I’m done my critical period and will be going down with this syntactic ship. 🫡 🇨🇦
My paper arguing that the United States should stop using unclaimed bodies in medical teaching and research is now out in the Journal of Medical Ethics. jme.bmj.com/content/early/…
Vladimir Nabokov's note card, c. 1969 ["Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel ('Ulysses' in this case) he likes to skip 'passages and pages' so as 'to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author'"
Just arrived in balmy, heliolatrous Miami, where I am excited to spend the next couple of weeks immersing in bioethics and clinical anatomy at @umiamimedicine. I’ll be giving a Dialogues in Research Ethics talk on March 19th. Floridian philosophers, let’s connect!
Today I went birding somewhere called Dead Woman’s Lake, and I said “I bet there’s a story there.” There was, and we found the murderer’s grave.
