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6. Kulesa, Ryan and Alberto Giubilini. “Conscientious Refusal or Conscientious Provision: We Can’t have Both.” Bioethics (forthcoming).

5. Kulesa, Ryan. “The Doing/Allowing Distinction in the Divine Context.” Religious Studies (forthcoming).

4. Kulesa, Ryan. 2023. “The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion.” Utilitas 35(3): 218-228. pdf

3.   Kulesa, Ryan. “Kantian Conscientious Objection: A reply to Kennett.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (forthcoming). pdf 

2. Kulesa, Ryan. 2022. “A Defense of Conscientious Objection: Why Health is Integral to the Permissibility of Medical Refusals.” Bioethics 36(1): 54-62. pdf

1. Kulesa, Ryan. 2021. “Preemption and a Counterfactual Analysis of Divine Causation.”International Journal for Philosophy of Religion89(2): 125-134. pdf

Work in Progress

“Revising Objections to the Moral Relevance of Potential”

In my paper, “The Counterfactual Argument Against Abortion,” I argue that individuals who would be persons in the absence of being prevented from having those properties constitutive of personhood have a very high moral status.  In this paper, I show how this position is not vulnerable to common objections to the moral relevance of potential personhood.

“Infidelity and the Casual View of Sex” with Derek Estes

In this paper, we argue that the casual view of sex cannot explain why sexual infidelity is worse than other kinds of promise breaking.