Tom Beauchamp (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Tom L. Beauchamp is an American philosopher and bioethicist. He currently serves as Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He earned his B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1963, a B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1970.Beauchamp worked on the staff of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, where he co-wrote the Belmont Report in 1978. He later joined with James Childress to write Principles in Bioethics, the first major American bioethics textbook. Beauchamp is also an expert on the philosophy of David Hume. He is the coeditor of the complete works of Hume published by Oxford University Press and together with Alexander Rosenberg is the author of Hume and the Problem of Causation, in which Hume's regularity theory of causation is defended along with a nonskeptical interpretation of Hume's arguments against induction (full text available at link below).