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Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D.

Director; Professor
Department of Health Care Ethics

Courses Taught

HCE 6310: Health Care Ethics in the Catholic Tradition; HCE 6010: Philosophical Methods in Health Care Ethics; HCE 3050: Bioethics in Popular Culture; HCE 1700: Death, Disability, Disease, and the Meaning of Life

Education

  • B.A. in philosophy and Spanish from the University of San Diego
  • M.A. in philosophy from Arizona State University
  • Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University

Research Interests

Beginning-of-life issues, end-of-life care, biotechnology and human enhancement, healthcare allocation, philosophy of human nature, and Thomism.

Publications and Media Placements

Selected Publications 

Books

  • Eberl, J.T., The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).
  • Eberl, J.T., ed., Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics (Springer, 2017).

Journal Articles

  • Eberl, J.T., “Who Wants to Live Forever? Transhumanist Immortality and Christian Eternity” Christian Bioethics 31:2 (2025).
  • Brummett, Abram and Eberl, J.T., “The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 34:1 (2024): 36-48.
  • Brummett, Abram and Eberl, J.T., “The Many Metaphysical Commitments of Secular Clinical Ethics: Expanding the Argument for a Moral–Metaphysical Proceduralism” Bioethics 36:7 (2022): 783-793.
  • Eberl, J.T., “Disability, Enhancement, and Flourishing” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 47:5 (2022): 597-611.

Book Chapters

  • Eberl, J.T., and Bedford, Elliott, “Managing Spiritual Issues in Religiously Affiliated Health Systems” Medical Professionalism: Theory, Education, and Practice, ed. Thomas D. Harter and Gia Merlo (Oxford University Press, 2024).
  • Eberl, J.T., and Romero, Miguel, “The Tree of Life: Aquinas, Disability, and Transhumanism” Bioenhancement Technologies and the Vulnerable Body, ed. Devan Stahl (Baylor University Press, 2023).

 

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • American Catholic Philosophical Association
  • American Philosophical Association
  • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
  • Association of Bioethics Program Directors
  • International Association of Catholic Bioethics
  • Society of Christian Ethics