August 19, 2020: Listen To The Podcast Ikthos,
2020
Duquesne University
August 19, 2020: Listen To The Podcast Ikthos, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Listen to the Podcast Ikthos“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
August 13, 2020: How Can The Sacred Be Regained?,
2020
Duquesne University
August 13, 2020: How Can The Sacred Be Regained?, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “How Can the Sacred be Regained?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
N.Y.’S James Is Right To Go After The Nra For Fraud And Malfeasance. Seeking To Dissolve It Is A Step Too Far.,
2020
Duquesne University
N.Y.’S James Is Right To Go After The Nra For Fraud And Malfeasance. Seeking To Dissolve It Is A Step Too Far., Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
August 11, 2020: First They Came For The Nra,
2020
Duquesne University
August 11, 2020: First They Came For The Nra, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “First They Came for the NRA“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
August 7, 2020: Latitia James's Tyranny,
2020
Duquesne University
August 7, 2020: Latitia James's Tyranny, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “ Latitia James's Tyranny“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
August 5, 2020: The Power Of Prayer,
2020
Duquesne University
August 5, 2020: The Power Of Prayer, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Power of Prayer“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
The Property Species: Mine, Yours, And The Human Mind,
2020
Chapman University
The Property Species: Mine, Yours, And The Human Mind, Bart J. Wilson
Economics Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"Arguing that neither the sciences nor the humanities synthesizes a full account of property, the book offers a cross-disciplinary compromise that is sure to be controversial: Property is a universal and uniquely human custom. Integrating cognitive linguistics with philosophy of property and a fresh look at property disputes in the common law, the book makes the case that symbolic-thinking humans locate the meaning of property within a thing. That is, all human beings and only human beings have property in things, and at its core, property rests on custom, not rights. Such an alternative to conventional thinking contends that the …
July 29, 2020: Gop Meddling With The Courts,
2020
Duquesne University
July 29, 2020: Gop Meddling With The Courts, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “GOP Meddling with the Courts“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
In Harrisburg And D.C., The Gop Meddling With Our Courts Is A Threat To Democracy,
2020
Duquesne University
In Harrisburg And D.C., The Gop Meddling With Our Courts Is A Threat To Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
From The Tree Of Knowledge And The Golem Of Prague To Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes,
2020
Edith Cowan University
From The Tree Of Knowledge And The Golem Of Prague To Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes, Nachshon Goltz, John Zeleznikow, Tracey Dowdeswell
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
This article discusses the regulation of artificial intelligence from a Jewish perspective, with an emphasis on the regulation of machine learning and its application to autonomous vehicles and machine learning. Through the Biblical story of Adam and Eve as well as Golem legends from Jewish folklore, we derive several basic principles that underlie a Jewish perspective on the moral and legal personhood of robots and other artificially intelligent agents. We argue that religious ethics in general, and Jewish ethics in particular, show us that the dangers of granting moral personhood to robots and in particular to autonomous vehicles lie not …
July 26, 2020: No Federal Police Power,
2020
Duquesne University
July 26, 2020: No Federal Police Power, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No Federal Police Power“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 15, 2020: For The Sake Of Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare,
2020
Duquesne University
July 15, 2020: For The Sake Of Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “For the Sake of Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 24, 2020: No Federal Police Power,
2020
Duquesne University
July 24, 2020: No Federal Police Power, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “No Federal Police Power“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 19, 2020: Trump Threatens University Tax Exempt Status,
2020
Duquesne University
July 19, 2020: Trump Threatens University Tax Exempt Status, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Trump Threatens University Tax Exempt Status“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
If We’Re Serious About Protecting Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare,
2020
Duquesne University
If We’Re Serious About Protecting Religious Liberty, We Need Universal Healthcare, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
July 14, 2020: The Fantasyland Of American Public Discourse,
2020
Duquesne University
July 14, 2020: The Fantasyland Of American Public Discourse, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “The Fantasyland of American Public Discourse“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 4, 2020: Happy Fourth Of July,
2020
Duquesne University
July 4, 2020: Happy Fourth Of July, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Happy Fourth of July“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Are We Witnessing The Death Of Reason And Truth In American Public Life?,
2020
Duquesne University
Are We Witnessing The Death Of Reason And Truth In American Public Life?, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Choosing Affordable Health Insurance,
2020
University of Denver
Choosing Affordable Health Insurance, Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The Affordable Care Act ("ACA") made health insurance accessible to many. Yet unaffordable insurance still abounds. This Article proposes a strategy for improving affordability that enables health insurance purchasers to choose, within reasonable limits, which treatments their insurance covers. After critiquing recently proposed strategies for improving affordability and reviewing past legal scholarship on content choice in health insurance, this Article introduces the "Affordable Choices" framework. This framework regulates choice in four ways. First, health plans should only exclude treatments whose merits are subject to reasonable disagreement among patients and physicians. Second, plans should appeal to purchasers' health-related values- values about …
July 1, 2020: Originalism Is Dead,
2020
Duquesne University
July 1, 2020: Originalism Is Dead, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Originalism Is Dead“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
