I, Julian Savulescu, have had the privilege to engage with Reinhard Merkel for over a
decade. He is one of the major thinkers on bioethics of our time. I remember we had a …

The neurosciences not only challenge assumptions about the mind's place in the natural
world but also urge us to reconsider its role in the normative world. Based on mind-brain …

Recently, certain research results of the neurosciences have been interpreted as a severe
challenge to some of the most central concepts of moral and legal philosophy, ie the …

Until recently, appeals to human dignity played a part in ethical theory most prominently in
the work of Immanuel Kant. They also play a part in law, notably in the Preamble to the …

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University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law the Cambridge Core …

Many states recognize a legal right to bodily integrity, understood as a right against
significant, nonconsensual interference with one's body. Recently, some have called for the …

In this chapter I first present various possible formulations of the cognitive component,
drawing on the history of the insanity defense in various legal systems. I then pass to the …

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Unlike Mark Twain's death, publication of this book is a welcome event. McMahan deals with
most of the problems in bioethics concerning death. Abortion and infanticide receive a …

Andrea Ott through numerous examples that Western-style human rights declarations are
inconsistent with one another. Some claim to hold inherent human dignity as primary …