| 书目名称 | Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos | | 副标题 | A Critical Analysis | | 编辑 | Stephen Napier | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The book offers novel arguments and explores new territory on the abortion issue..The book brings together a host of primarily analytical philosophers, public policy persons, and scientists to provide | | 丛书名称 | Philosophy and Medicine | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | “Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility of both destroying human embryos for research purposes and abortion. The present collection aims to interact critically with this consensus. Authors address various aspects of this ‘orthodoxy’. Issues discussed include: theories of personhood and in particular the role of thought experiments used in support of such theories; the notion of an intrinsic potential and the moral relevance of having one; new formulations of the virtue argument against abortion rights; four-dimensionalism and abortion; the notion of moral status and who (or what) has it; scientific accounts of what a human being is, as well as addressing empirical evidence of fetal consciousness; and analysis of the public policy implications given the epistemic status of pro-choice arguments. Given the issues discussed and that the arguments in critical focus are fairly new, the collection provides a novel, comprehensive, and r | | 出版日期 | Book 2011 | | 关键词 | Abortion; Abortion rights; Abortion – ethical aspects; Embryonic stem-cell research – ethical aspects; M | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1602-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-3659-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-1602-5Series ISSN 0376-7418 Series E-ISSN 2215-0080 | | issn_series | 0376-7418 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 |
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