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Child Versus Childmaker

Author : Melinda A. Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847689019
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Child Versus Childmaker written by Melinda A. Roberts and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Versus Childmaker investigates a 'person-affecting' approach to ethical choice. A form of consequentialism, this approach is intended to capture the idea that agents ought both do the most good that they can and respect each person as distinct from each other. Focusing on cases in which a conflict of interest arises between 'childmakers'_parents, infertility specialists, embryologists, and others engaged in the task of bringing new people into existence_and the children they aim to create, the author considers what we today owe those who will come into existence tomorrow. Topics addressed include: what the person-affecting intuition is and how it differs from other forms of consequentialism; the consistency of the person-affecting intuition; the non-identity problem; wrongful life; and human cloning and other new reproductive technologies. This book is intended for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in philosophy, law and economics and for anyone interested in bioethics, population policy, normative theory, children's rights, constitutional privacy, or family law.

The Risk of a Lifetime

Author : Rivka Weinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695994
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Risk of a Lifetime written by Rivka Weinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original, comprehensive theory of procreative ethics explains what kind of act procreation is and when we may permissibly engage in it. In order to ascertain when the procreative risk is permissible to impose, Weinberg proposes contractualist principles to fairly attend to the interests prospective parents have in procreating and the interests future people have in a life of human flourishing. The book presents a solution to the non-identity problem as well as dilemmas regarding our liberal principles of autonomy, consent, and equality, which may seem to be in tension with our procreative practices.

What We Owe to Future People

Author : Elizabeth Finneron-Burns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197653251
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book What We Owe to Future People written by Elizabeth Finneron-Burns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we owe future people? Intergenerational ethics is of great philosophical and practical importance, given human beings' ability to affect not only the quality of life of future people, but also how many of them there will be (if any at all). This book develops a distinctly contractualist answer to this question--we need to justify our actions to them on grounds they could not reasonably reject. The book explores what future people could or could not reasonably reject in terms of intergenerational resource distribution, individual procreative decisions, optimal population size, and risk imposition.

Harming Future Persons

Author : Melinda A. Roberts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402056974
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Harming Future Persons written by Melinda A. Roberts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman 1 Purpose of this Collection What are our obligations with respect to persons who have not yet, and may not ever, come into existence? Few of us believe that we can wrong those whom we leave out of existence altogether—that is, merely possible persons. We may think as well that the directive to be “fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” 1 does not hold up to close scrutiny. How can it be wrong to decline to bring ever more people into existence? At the same time, we think we are clearly ob- gated to treat future persons—persons who don’t yet but will exist—in accordance with certain stringent standards. Bringing a person into an existence that is truly awful—not worth having—can be wrong, and so can bringing a person into an existence that is worth having when we had the alternative of bringing that same person into an existence that is substantially better. We may think as well that our obligations with respect to future persons are triggered well before the point at which those persons commence their existence. We think it would be wrong, for example, to choose today to turn the Earth of the future into a miserable place even if the victims of that choice do not yet exist.

Intergenerational Justice

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135843104
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Defending the Genetic Supermarket

Author : Colin Gavaghan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135392935
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Defending the Genetic Supermarket written by Colin Gavaghan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the technology of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and the muddled approach adopted by the UK Parliament, this volume presents a much more ethically consistent and humane system than has been managed so far by the Authority.

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 2

Author : Mark Timmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199662959
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 2 written by Mark Timmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well.

What is Intergenerational Justice?

Author : Axel Gosseries
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509525750
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book What is Intergenerational Justice? written by Axel Gosseries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap? In this book, Axel Gosseries provides a forensic examination of these issues, comparing and analyzing various views about what we owe our successors. He discusses links between justice and sustainability, and looks at the implications of the fact that our successors’ preferences are heavily influenced by what we will actually leave them and by the education they receive. He also points to how these theoretical considerations apply to real-life issues, ranging from pension reform and Brexit to biodiversity and the climate crisis. He ends by outlining how intergenerational considerations may translate into institutional design. Anyone grappling with the dilemmas of our obligations to the future, from students and scholars to policy makers and active citizens, will find this an invaluable theoretical and practical guide to this moral and political minefield.

The Existence Puzzles

Author : M. A. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197544142
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Existence Puzzles written by M. A. Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melinda A. Roberts introduces the newcomer to population ethics and investigates the key issues in a way that will be of interest to professional philosophers, economists, lawyers, and students in all those areas who seek to understand what a cogent, intuitively plausible theory of population will look like. To that end, Roberts presents five perplexing but telling existence puzzles that already are or shall soon become important parts of the population ethics literature: the Asymmetry Puzzle, the Pareto Puzzle, the Addition Puzzle, the Anonymity Puzzle, and the Better Chance Puzzle. Roberts develops solutions to the puzzles that together form a partial theory of population, a collection of principles grounded in intuition but highly sensitive to the formal demands of consistency and cogency.

Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research

Author : Clara Sabbagh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493932160
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research written by Clara Sabbagh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary justice scholars who are encouraged to present and exchange their ideas. This exchange has yielded a fruitful advance of theoretical and empirically-oriented justice research. This volume substantiates this academic legacy and the research prospects of the ISJR in the field of justice theory and research. Included are themes and topics such as the theory of the justice motive, the mapping of the multifaceted forms of justice (distributive, procedural) and justice in context-bound spheres (e.g. non-humans). It presents a comprehensive "state of the art" overview in the field of justice research theory and it puts forth an agenda for future interdisciplinary and international justice research. It is worth noting that authors in this proposed volume represent ISJR's leading scholarship. Thus, the compilation of their research within a single framework exposes potential readers to high quality academic work that embodies the past, current and future trends of justice research.

Bioethics

Author : Stephen Holland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745690637
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Bioethics written by Stephen Holland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar such as euthanasia, advance decisions to refuse treatment, and new reproductive technologies to the philosophical implications of recent developments in genetics, including prenatal genetic therapy, genetic enhancement and human cloning. The book is built around four crucial themes. The first is moral status: what are the implications of the moral status of human embryos or animals for our biomedical practices? The second theme life, death and killing looks at the ethics of ending, or failing to lengthen, human life. Holland then explores various questions of personal identity raised in contemporary bioethical debates. Finally, he presents and develops a version of the argument from nature which continues to be influential in bioethics in order to make sense of the objection that some biomedical innovations are unnatural. Structuring the discussions in this way creates an engaging introduction to bioethics that is an ideal textbook for students, whilst offering much to stimulate colleagues in the field. This second edition has been thoroughly and comprehensively updated to reflect the most recent advances in bioethics, and includes an entirely new chapter on the ethical treatment of patients in the minimally conscious state.

Persons, Interests, and Justice

Author : Nils Holtug
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576832
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Persons, Interests, and Justice written by Nils Holtug and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is, to live good lives. But we also have another, more impartial perspective, where we aim to balance our concern for our own welfare against a concern for the welfare of others. This is a perspective of justice. Nils Holtug examines these two perspectives and the relations between them. The first part of the book is concerned with prudence; more precisely, with what the necessary and sufficient conditions are for having a self-interest in a particular benefit. It includes discussions of the extent to which self-interest depends on preferences, personal identity, and what matters in survival. It also considers the issue of whether it can benefit (or harm) a person to come into existence and what the implications are for our theory of self-interest. A 'prudential view' is defended, according to which a person has a present self-interest in a future benefit if and only if she stands in a relation of continuous physical realization of (appropriate) psychology to the beneficiary, where the strength of the self-interest depends both on the size of the benefit and on the strength of this relation. The second part of the book concerns distributive justice and so how to distribute welfare or self-interest fulfilment over individuals. It includes discussions of welfarism, egalitarianism and prioritarianism, population ethics, the importance of personal identity and what matters for distributive justice, and the importance of all these issues for various topics in applied ethics, including the badness of death. Here, a version of prioritarianism is defended, according to which, roughly, the moral value of a benefit to an individual at a time depends on both the size of the benefit and on the individual's self-interest, at that time, in the other benefits that accrue to her at this and other times.

Environmental Rights

Author : Steve Vanderheiden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351568051
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Rights written by Steve Vanderheiden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this volume present critical viewpoints from the debate about the need to establish rights on behalf of greater environmental protection. Three main areas for developing environmental rights are surveyed, including: extensionist theories that link existing rights (for example to subsistence or territory) to threats of harm from exacerbated resource scarcity, pollution or rapid environmental change; proposals for rights to specified environmental goods or services, such as rights to a safe environment and the capacity to assimilate greenhouse gas emissions; and rights that protect the interests of parties not currently recognized as having rights, including nonhuman subjects, natural objects and future generations. This volume captures the potential for and primary challenges to the development of rights as instruments for safeguarding the planet's life-support capacities and features proposals and analyses which argue the need to create an avenue of recourse against ecological degradation, whether on behalf of human or nonhuman right holders.

The Repugnant Conclusion

Author : Jesper Ryberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402024738
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Repugnant Conclusion written by Jesper Ryberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.

Intergenerational Justice

Author : Lukas H. Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351927051
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Intergenerational Justice written by Lukas H. Meyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this volume show how relations between past, current and future generations have become a major subject of philosophical research since the 1970s. The relations between people alive today with people who may exist in the future and people now deceased, differ from relations between contemporaries and in ways that raise new conceptual, logical and substantive questions. Among the questions addressed in this volume are: what is the status of people now deceased and people who may exist in the future? Can the latter be harmed by the actions of people alive today? What duties of justice do we have towards people with whom we can neither interact nor co-operate, and can people who are indirect victims of past injustices legitimately claim compensation? Answers to these questions are relevant in a number of policy areas, most notably in issues regarding reparations for historical injustice and responding to climate change and its consequences.

Assisted Reproductive Technology

Author : Charles P. Kindregan
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590316115
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Assisted Reproductive Technology written by Charles P. Kindregan and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more people turn to assisted reproduction, the legal issues surrounding it have become increasingly complex. Beyond representing patients or clinics, numerous legal problems are arising from the technology's application. Disputes in divorce are the most common, but this technology impacts the law in other areas, including personal injury, insurance, criminal law, and estate planning. Drawing from multiple legal sources, this book presents complex information in a direct, balanced and fair manner. It includes glossary, sample forms and checklists, and bibliography.

Controversies in Feminism

Author : James P. Sterba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742507135
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Controversies in Feminism written by James P. Sterba and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism was born in controversy and it continues to flourish in controversy. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide an array of perspectives on issues including: universal values, justice and care, a feminist philosophy of science, and the relationship of biology to social theory.