Faculty

Ethics Fellows

Jason Altilio

Steven Birnbaum

Mike Collins

E-mail: mike9943@gmail.com

Mike Collins is a doctoral student in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He completed his Masters degree in 2007 and is now working on his dissertation. It will explore the nature of mental representation by analyzing the representational properties of states of human and animal nervous systems invoked in neuroethological explanations of intelligent behavior. In addition to his role as an Ethics Fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mike holds a Gilleece Fellowship at the Graduate Center and teaches Philosophy at William Paterson University. He is the winner of the 2007 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Student Paper Competition for a paper entitled "Reevaluating the Dead Donor Rule". Mike also has several years experience as an Emergency Department Medical Technician at Clara Maass Medical Center, providing a broad perspective on issues in medical ethics, as this position has given him the opportunity to engage these topics not only from an academic angle but also in the actual clinical setting.

Amanda Favia

Lily Frank

After graduating with a B.A. from Smith College in 2004 having studied philosophy and economics, Lily Frank joined the Ph.D. program at the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2005. She also teaches both introductory ethics and philosophy courses at Queens College as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. Lily's interests are wide ranging in the fields of ethical theory, applied ethics and social and political philosophy. Within the field of bioethics, her central areas of investigation are the just distribution of health care, particularly on the global scale, the ethics of medical research on vulnerable populations, the abortion debate, the ethical issues related to assisted reproduction, specifically surrogate motherhood, environmental ethics and the moral status of non-human animals. Outside of bioethics, she is working in feminist ethics and the ethics of care; two specific issues she is working on right now are the application of justice to the structure of the family and the development of an ethics of care as applied to the international sphere. Lily is also considering questions concerning the collective rights and responsibilities of social, ethnic, political or religious groups. Finally, she is studying ethics and international affairs, specifically the theory of cosmopolitanism and "the capabilities" theory of Sen and Nussbaum as applied to issues of global poverty.

Bioethics