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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Legal Personhood For Artificial Intelligence, Tyler Jaynes
Legal Personhood For Artificial Intelligence, Tyler Jaynes
Tyler Jaynes
Abortion And Animal Rights: Does Either Topic Lead To The Other?, Nathan M. Nobis
Abortion And Animal Rights: Does Either Topic Lead To The Other?, Nathan M. Nobis
Nathan M. Nobis, PhD
A Response To Peter Singer: The Logic Of Effective Altruism, András Miklós
A Response To Peter Singer: The Logic Of Effective Altruism, András Miklós
András Miklós
Oncofertility And The Boundaries Of Moral Reflection, Paul Lauritzen, Andrea Vicini S.J.
Oncofertility And The Boundaries Of Moral Reflection, Paul Lauritzen, Andrea Vicini S.J.
Paul Lauritzen
Advances in medical technology provide regular opportunities to explore theological reflection and magisterial teaching at the border of science and conscience. This article reflects on one such advance involving fertility preservation for cancer patients. The authors argue that ovarian tissue transplantation (OTT) poses intriguing questions for Catholic teaching and theologians about reproductive technology.
Thinking Like A Mountain: Nature, Wilderness, And The Virtue Of Humility, Paul Lauritzen
Thinking Like A Mountain: Nature, Wilderness, And The Virtue Of Humility, Paul Lauritzen
Paul Lauritzen
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Deciphering Dignity, Leslie Meltzer Henry
Deciphering Dignity, Leslie Meltzer Henry
Leslie Meltzer Henry
This commentary draws on dignity’s usage in law, ethics, and public policy to contemplate a narrow question about what the concept of dignity means in debates about human enhancement technologies. In particular, it considers arguments made by Fabrice Jotterand and other bioethicists who aim to repudiate the transhumanist claim that individuals can enhance their dignity through technological modification. The trouble with the positions on both sides of this debate is that it is extremely difficult to make normative comparisons about human and post-human dignity without first infusing dignity with particular metaphysical assumptions. To that end, the commentary offers a brief …
Public Health And The Rights Of States, András Miklós
Public Health And The Rights Of States, András Miklós
Andras Miklos
When exercising their public health powers, states claim various rights against their subjects and aliens. The paper considers whether public health considerations can help justify some of these rights, and explores some constraints on the justificatory force of public health considerations. I outline two arguments about the moral grounds for states’ rights with regard to public health. The principle of fairness emphasizes that those who benefit from public health measures ought to contribute their fair share in upholding them. Alternatively, states’ rights might be justified by a natural duty of justice to uphold and not to obstruct institutions implementing public …
The Ethical Phenomenon Of Gm-Corn: Anger, Anxiety, And Arrogance In Crossing American Borders, Jules Simon
The Ethical Phenomenon Of Gm-Corn: Anger, Anxiety, And Arrogance In Crossing American Borders, Jules Simon
Jules Simon
In terms of phenomenology, I often wonder about the relevance of what I do as a philosopher for the life of those with whom I come into contact. This ‘coming into contact’ happens for me on several levels: as one human among many, as a husband and father and son and brother, as a teacher, as a neighbor, and as country or city dweller. I remember with fondness those times in the late sultry summer months when, as a youth, I would drive with my father to this or that local farm-stand on some remote back road in the hills …
Afflicting The Comfortable: An Assessment Of The Stasis In International Bioethical Discourse, Sam Grey
Afflicting The Comfortable: An Assessment Of The Stasis In International Bioethical Discourse, Sam Grey
Sam Grey
Despite decades of clinical research being carried out in the 'developing' world, neither the socio-political and economic context of the global South, nor the nature and historical trajectory of global inequality have played a substantive role in determining the nature and extent of North-to-South bioethical obligations. Instead, context has been used to vacate obligation, shut out theories of justice, and collapse the “four principles' of bioethics” – sacrosanct in the 'developed’ world - into a singular, non-negotiable focus on autonomy as a procedurally-defined right. Proponents of a minimum-standards system of international clinical research conflate scientific, statistical, economic, and ethical issues, …
Assisted Suicide: An Interest Not A Right., Eric G. Roscoe
Assisted Suicide: An Interest Not A Right., Eric G. Roscoe
Eric G. Roscoe
This paper examines the right to privacy and its role in recent debate over the rights of terminally ill patients to receive assistance in dying. It examines the history of suicide from John Donne up to the recent Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksberg. The Court came to the proper conclusion in Glucksberg by leaving the decisions up to state legislatures because the right itself does not reach the level of a fundamentally protected right to privacy. However, in some states it does reach the level of a state created liberty interest, and in those states a legitimate argument …