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My first book, Responsibility & Luck: A Defense of Praise and Blame, is available for purchase in paperback, as well as for Kindle and Nook.

Does the pervasive influence of luck in life mean that people cannot be held responsible for their choices? Do people lack the control required to justify moral praise and blame? In his famous article "Moral Luck," philosopher Thomas Nagel casts doubt on our ordinary moral judgments of persons. He claims that we intuitively accept that moral responsibility requires control, yet we praise and blame people for their actions, the outcomes of those actions, and their characters – even though shaped by forces beyond their control, i.e., by luck. This is the "problem of moral luck."

In Responsibility & Luck, I argue that this attack on moral judgment rests on a faulty view of control, as well as other errors. By developing Aristotle's theory of moral responsibility, I explain the sources and limits of a person's responsibility for what he does, what he produces, and who he is. Ultimately, I show that moral judgments are not undermined by luck. In addition, this book explores the nature of moral agency and free will, the purpose of moral judgment, causation in tort and criminal law, the process of character development, and more.

Responsibility & Luck is scholarly but accessible to active-minded people interested in philosophy. You can preview the book by reading Chapter One and Chapter Three as PDFs – or by listening to my reading of Chapter One.

• Jenn's background
• Food allergies versus intolerances
• The most common food allergies
• The increase in rates of food allergies
• Jenn's introduction to food allergies: the peanut kaboom
• Diagnosing food allergies
• Food allergies in kids versus adults
• Outgrowing allergies
• Cures and treatments for food allergies
• Dealing with a diagnosis
• Managing a food allergy with a "comfort zone"
• The dangers of not carrying an epi pen
• Managing a food allergy in a toddler versus almost-teenager
• The death of Natalie Giorgi
• Epi-pen strategy
• Life sustaining food as deadly
• Allergies and the hygiene hypothesis
• The topics for Part 2

• Rational Jenn: The Big Peanut Kaboom
• NoodleFood: Coping with Life-Threatening Food Allergies
• Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE)

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