Research Interests for Gopal Sreenivasan

Gopal Sreenivasan (Ph.D. 1993, UC Berkeley) joined the Duke faculty in 2008.  His primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy.  Within those fields, he is interested in many areas, including moral psychology and bioethics.   

RECENT PUBLICATIONS  

• "A plea for moral deference," Ethics & Politics 27(2) (2015):  41-59.
• "Health care and human rights:  Against the split duty gambit," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (forthcoming).
• "Character education and the rearguard of situationism."  In W. Sinnott-Armstrong and C. Miller (eds.) Moral Psychology, volume V:  Virtue and Happiness (MIT, forthcoming).
• "Taking international legality seriously: A methodology for human rights."  In A. Etinson (ed.)  Human Rights: Moral or Political? (Oxford, forthcoming). With Allen Buchanan.
• "HESC and equitable residues," American Journal of Bioethics 15(3) (2015): 54-55.
• "Justice, Inequality, and Health," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2014).
• "Equality, opportunity, ambiguity," Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2014): 82-92.

The links on this page connect to page proofs.  For published versions of articles, see my CV (below), although those links may require a subscription.

Keywords:

Bioethical Issues, Clinical Trials as Topic, Delivery of Health Care, Ethical Theory, Free trade, Health, Health Expenditures, Health Priorities, Health Services, Health Services Accessibility, Health Status, Income, International Cooperation, Policy Making, Resource Allocation, Social Class, State Medicine, Therapeutic Human Experimentation, Uncompensated Care, World Health

Recent Publications

1. Sreenivasan, G, Virtue and its moral psychology, Analytic Philosophy, vol. 66 no. 3 (September, 2025), pp. 472-492 [doi] [abs]
2. Sreenivasan, G, Introduction, Analytic Philosophy, vol. 66 no. 3 (September, 2025), pp. 440-442 [doi]
3. Sreenivasan, G, LEGAL HUMAN RIGHTS, AS DISTINCT FROM MORAL ONES, in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights (January, 2025), pp. 38-49 [doi] [abs]
4. Sreenivasan, G, Three concepts of legitimacy, in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10 (April, 2024), pp. 1-27 [doi]
5. Sreenivasan, G, Courage, Consistency, and Other Conundra, Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol. 18 no. 1 (April, 2024), pp. 281-296 [doi] [abs]