Melinda A. Roberts
Department of Philosophy and Religion
The College of New Jersey
Bliss 112
Ewing, NJ 08628 U.S.A.
609.771.2360 or .2438
robertsm@tcnj.edu
Research interests include the structure of consequentialism, the nonidentity problem, expected value and risk, the repugnant conclusion, wrongful life and wrongful disability, abortion, the new reproductive technologies--including human reproductive cloning and supernumerary pregnancy--and other issues bearing on the obligations we have in respect of people who don't yet but will exist. Also, problems of collective harm, the two-envelope problem, the relation between moral theory and the law and the problem of indeterminacy in the law.
Presentations, talks, comments