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Stephen Napier 
Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos 
A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments

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“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 rigorous analysis of contemporary pro-choice arguments.”
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Table of Content

 Introduction: What are Persons? What is Valuable?
     Stephen Napier


Part 1. Philosophical Considerations


 I was Once a Fetus: That is Why Abortion is Wrong   
Alexander Pruss


 Brain Life and the Argument from Potential: Affirming the Ontological Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses,
 Jason T. Eberl and Brandon P. Brown


The Human Being, a Person of Substance: A Response to Dean Stretton,  Francis J. Beckwith


The Concept of Person in Bioethics,  Anselm Winfried Müller


 Abortion and Virtue Ethics Mathew Lu


 Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism, and Moral Status,  David Hershenov


 The Christian Hypothesis,  David W. Fagerberg


 Fetal Interests, Fetal Persons, and Human Goods,  Christopher Tollefsen


Part 2. Scientific Considerations


 Fetal Pains and Fetal Brains,  A.A. Howsepian


 A Biological Definition of the Human Embryo,
 Maureen L. Condic


Part 3. Perspectives from Law and Political Philosophy


 Public Reason and Abortion Revisited,  David Thunder


Sexual Markets and the Law,  Helen M. Alvaré


Index


 

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 286 ● ISBN 9789400716025 ● File size 2.9 MB ● Editor Stephen Napier ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2444954 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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