Aleksy Tarasenko-Struc, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor; Director, Medical Humanities Program
Department of Philosophy

Professor Tarasenko-Struc’s research lies in ethics (particularly bioethics), social philosophy, and their intersection. In bioethics, his work concerns the dehumanizing aspects of wrongful clinical practices, as well as the scope of justified paternalism in medicine and the nature of decisional capacity. Recent publications in this area include "Do Suicide Attempters Have a Right Not to Be Stabilized in an Emergency?", Hastings Center Report (2024), and "The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization", Journal for Bioethical Inquiry (2024). In ethics more broadly, he is interested in understanding the moral and psychological profile of dehumanization in its various forms. Recent publications on this topic include "Animalization", forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly; "Humanism: A Reconsideration", Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2023); and "Objectification and Domination", Ergo (2021).