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Gerald Dworkin
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<h2 id="early-life-and-education">Early life and education</h2> <p>Dworkin earned his <a href="/facts/Ph.D./paJumdN8">Ph.D.</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a> in 1966.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>Dworkin has also taught at <a href="/facts/Harvard/Lhy9L1cx">Harvard</a>, <a href="/facts/MIT/Xk49vNA8">MIT</a>, and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Illinois/gusw7HoS">University of Illinois</a>, <a href="/facts/Chicago/yPMokrXH">Chicago</a>. He has been a visiting Fellow of <a href="/facts/All_Souls_College/Hk1AXUAI">All Souls College</a> (Oxford), the <a href="/facts/Australian_National_University/fqzCfrdp">Australian National University</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Hastings_Center/QyLSM8tY">Hastings Center</a>. He was the Centennial Visiting Professor at the <a href="/facts/London_School_of_Economics/L8SkGefj">London School of Economics</a>. In 2006, he was a Distinguished Visitor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he gave a series of lectures on <a href="/facts/Paternalism/QuGtQF9n">paternalism</a>. </p><p>Dworkin's main areas of research include the nature and justification of <a href="/facts/Autonomy/5ne4C7N8">autonomy</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> paternalism in the criminal law,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> and the issue of which acts may legitimately be criminalized by the state.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Most recently he has been working on the ethics of lying and deception. An article in <i>The New York Times</i> "Are these 10 Lies Justified?" which listed lies he thought permissible and asked for readers to respond if they disagreed received more than 10,000 responses. His most recent publication is on whether, and how, deception interferes with autonomy. It will appear in the Routledge Handbook on Autonomy (ed. <a href="/facts/Ben_Colburn/YyyPel7R">Ben Colburn</a>). </p><p>One of Dworkin's books is a defense of <a href="/facts/Assisted_suicide/5g1L0wQy">physician-assisted suicide</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> In it, he argues that doctors who approve of withdrawing patients from life support at their request, or administering pain-relief medication that is foreseen to kill the patient, or who approve of terminal sedation, are inconsistent if they condemn physician-assisted suicide. This book has been published in <a href="/facts/Spanish_language/95BgYNfv">Spanish</a>- and <a href="/facts/Korean_language/dmNnRxAA">Korean</a>-language editions. </p><p>In 1976 Dworkin published, along with <a href="/facts/Ned_Block/kv2sDpEF">N.J. Block</a>, an anthology critical of IQ research titled <i>The IQ Controversy: Critical Readings.</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>He has published two e-books <i>Philosophy: A Commonplace Book</i>, Vols. 1 and 2, which are collections of aphorisms, jokes, witty comments on philosophy, and other interesting quotations. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Paternalism". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2020. <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paternalism/#MoraVsWelfPate" target="_blank">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paternalism/#MoraVsWelfPate</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Gerald B. Dworkin". University of California, Davis. 6 February 2023. <a href="http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/gerald" target="_blank">http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/gerald</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>G. Dworkin, The Theory and Practice of Autonomy, Cambridge University Press, 1988 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>G. Dworkin, "Paternalism", The Monist, 1972 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Morality, Harm, and the Law, Westview Press, 1984 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Dworkin, Frey and Bok, Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide: For and Against, Cambridge University Press, 1998. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Block, N.J., and Gerald Dworkin, eds. The IQ Controversy: Critical Readings. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1976". Science, Technology, & Human Values. 3 (1): 53. January 1978. doi:10.1177/016224397800300113. ISSN 0738-2618. S2CID 220880200. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>