Keywords: bioethics, artificial intelligence
Publications: Over 80 sole-authored articles and 6 books. Work has been translated into German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
Research: Current research agenda proceeds along several tracks that intersect at points: political bioethics; political challenges of artificial intelligence; and human rights as social science, not theology or metaphysics.
SOLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
• Gregg, B. 2025, forthcoming. Indigeneity as Social Construct and Political Tool: Critique and Reconstruction of a Contested Identity. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Gregg, B. 2022. Creating Human Nature: The Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering. New York: Cambridge University Press.
† cf. blog. 2022. Should We Modify Future Persons – and Our Entire Species – Genetically? in Fifteen Eighty Four, Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2022/10/should-we-modify-future-persons-and-our-entire-species-genetically/
† cf. article. 2022. Life & Letters Magazine:
† cf. podcast. 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTY7xYAoaEY
• Gregg, B. 2016. The Human Rights State: Justice Within and Beyond Sovereign Nations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Focus of special issue (2017) International Journal of Human Rights, 21(3), “A Realistic Utopia: Critical Analyses of The Human Rights State.” Subject of international symposium (2016), Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden, April.
• Gregg, B. 2012. Human Rights as Social Construction. New York: Cambridge University Press. Among Cambridge University Press’ top ten bestsellers in political theory, 2012. Interviewed on PBS station KLRU, 2012. On the syllabus of the honors bachelor’s degree curriculum in Politics, Psychology and Sociology Tripos (PPS) at Cambridge University. First hardcover printing sold out seven months after publication; second printing, sold out August 2012; two additional printings of hardcover; paperback edition published 2013. Podcast 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTY7xYAoaEY
BOOK-MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS
• Code and Conscience: AI, Human Genetic Engineering, and the Political Future of Humanity
SOLE-AUTHORED, PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS as of 2016
• Gregg, B. 2025, forthcoming. The Human Genome as Knowledge Commons: Governance through Mutual-Benefit Participatory Democracy, in D. Gindis and P. Kuchař, eds. Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gregg, B. 2024, forthcoming. Human Genetic Engineering: Biotic Justice in the Anthropocene? In M. Goldstein, M. Costello, S. Elias, eds. Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, 2nd Edition. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
• Gregg, B. 2024. Bioethics Should Not Seek to Reflect Public Opinion. American Journal of Bioethics 24 (9):43-45.
• Gregg, B. 2024.Vitoria’s Cosmopolitan Potential Realized: Human Nature and Human Rights via Social Construction, Not Natural Law. Deusto Journal of Human Rights / Revista Deusto de Derechos Humanos [Spain], No. 13 (2024):149-182.
• Gregg, B. 2024. How to Evaluate an Individual’s Decision Whether to Vaccinate During a Pandemic: Better by a Knowledge Commons than by Luck Egalitarianism. American Journal of Bioethics 24 (7):101–103.
• Gregg, B. 2024. Might the Bioethical Principle of Individual Decisional Autonomy Have a Politically Liberalizing Effect on Soft Authoritarian Communities? Politics and the Life Sciences. 43 (1):132-151.
• Gregg, B. 2023. AI-Based Solutions Can Threaten Physicians’ Ethical Obligations Only If Allowed to Do So. American Journal of Bioethics 23 (9):84-86.
• Gregg, B. 2023. Genetic Engineering Revolution. In N. Wallenhorst and C. Wulf, eds. Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans Between Heritage and Future. London, Berlin, New York: Springer-Nature:505-510.
• Gregg, B. 2023. Imperfect Methods for Imperfect Democracies: Toward Increasing Public Participation in Gene Editing Debates. American Journal of Bioethics 23 (7):77-79.
• Gregg, B. 2023. Artificial Consciousness Is Unlikely to Possess a Moral Capacity. AJOB Neuroscience 14 (2):79-81.
• Gregg, B. 2022. The Person-Affecting/Identity-Affecting Distinction Between Forms of Human Germline Genome Editing Is Useless in Practical Ethics. American Journal of Bioethics 22 (9):49-51.
• Gregg, B. 2022 Political Bioethics. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (4):516–529.
• Gregg, B.2022. Regulating Genetic Engineering Guided by Human Dignity, Not Genetic Essentialism. Politics and the Life Sciences. 41 (1):60-75.
• Gregg, B. 2022. The Parameters of Possible Constitutional Interpretation, in R. Wuthnow, ed. Vocabularies of Public Life: Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure. London: Routledge:207-233. Originally published 2002.
• Gregg, B. 2021. Il contenimento di Covid-19: diritto alla privacy contro diritto alla salute pubblica [Containing COVID-19: A Right to Privacy versus a Right to Public Health]. Trans. P. Monti and C. Rebuffo. Lessico di etica pubblica [Lexicon of Public Ethics] 2021 (1): 125-163. ISSN 2039-2206.
• Gregg, B. 2021. Against Essentialism in Conceptions of Human Rights and Human Nature. Human Rights Quarterly 43:313–328.
• Gregg, B. 2021. Human Rights Require yet Contest National Sovereignty: How a Human Rights Corporation Might Help. In A. Santos Campos and S. Cadilha, eds. Sovereignty as Value. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield:215-232.
• Gregg, B. 2021. How to Oppose Authoritarian Democracy in Brazil: Human Rights as the People’s Constructions, Constitutionally Embedded, and Internal to the Community’s Self-Understanding [Como se Opor à Democracia Autoritária no Brasil]. Latin American Human Rights Studies [Brazil] 1:1-29.
• Gregg, B. 2021. Beyond Due Diligence: The Human Rights Corporation. Human Rights Review 22:65-89.
• Gregg, B. 2020. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Biotechnik: Zur normativen Einschätzung der Humangenmanipulation [On the Use and Abuse of Biotechnology: Toward a Normative Evaluation of Human Genetic Engineering]. In B. Keplinger, F. Schwanniger, eds. Optimierung des Menschen [The Genetic Optimization of the Human Being]. Innsbruck, Austria: Studienverlag:49-63.
• Gregg, B. 2020. The Human Rights State: Advancing Justice through Political Imagination. In K. Schmidt, ed. The State of Human Rights: Historical Genealogies, Political Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries:47-69. Heidelberg, Germany: Winter Verlag.
• Gregg, B. 2020. Construção Social de uma Natureza Humana Voltada para os Direitos Humanos [Social Construction of a Human Rights-Oriented Human Nature]. Trans. H. Pagliaro. Boletim Goiano de Geografia [Brazil] 40:1-24.
• Gregg, B. 2020. The Indigenous Rights State. Ratio Juris 33(1):98-116.
• Gregg, B. 2019. Against Self-Isolation as a Human Right of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America. Human Rights Review 20 (3):313-333.
• Gregg, B. 2019. Indigeneity as Social Construct and Political Tool. Human Rights Quarterly 41 (4):823–848.
• Gregg, B. 2018. How to Read for Current Developments in Human Genetics Relevant to Justice. Politics and the Life Sciences 37 (2):262-277.
• Gregg, B. 2018. The Coming Political Challenges of Artificial Intelligence. Digital Culture & Society 4 (1):157-180.
• Gregg, B. 2018. Human Genetic Engineering: Biotic Justice in the Anthropocene? In D. DellaSala and M. Goldstein, eds. Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, vol. 4:351-359. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
• Gregg, B. 2017. The Human Rights State: Theoretical Challenges, Empirical Deployments: Reply to My Critics. The International Journal of Human Rights 21 (3):359-385.
• Gregg, B. 2016. A Socially Constructed Human Right to the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples [Un constructo social de los Derechos Humanos para la autodeterminación de los pueblos indígenas]. Deusto Journal of Human Rights / Revista Deusto de Derechos Humanos [Spain] 1:105-143.
• Gregg, B. 2016. Human Rights as Metaphor for Political Community Beyond the Nation State. Critical Sociology 42 (6):897-917.
• Gregg, B. 2015. Advancing Human Rights in Post-Authoritarian Communities through Education. Journal of Human Rights Practice 7 (2):199-222.
