Erik Krag
Associate Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3231
[email protected] / 618-650-2246
PhD University of Tennessee, 2012
Courses Taught:
- Philosophy 225: Contemporary Moral Issues
- Philosophy 320: Ethics
- Philosophy 321: Ethics in the Medical Community
- IS 342: Death and Dying
Research Interests:
Dr. Krag’s research interests include theories of just health distribution; distributive justice generally, especially as it relates to socialized structures of oppression; the ethics of euthanasia; the ethics of pharmaceutical marketing; and the ethics of enhancement technologies, especially as it pertains to the impact of psycho-pharmaceuticals on personal identity, freedom and moral responsibility.
Representative Publications:
"Health as Normal Function: A Weak Link in Daniels’s Theory of Just Health Distribution," Bioethics, Volume 28, Issue 8, October 2014.
"Rich White and Vulnerable: Rethinking Socialized Oppression in the Euthanasia Debate,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 4, August 2014.
"A New Timing Objection to Frankfurt Cases," Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2017.
