Both sides of the abortion debate have failed to appreciate that healthy development is the
key to understanding how potential can be morally relevant. All living beings, mindless or …

In his recent book Abortion and Unborn Human Life, Patrick Lee develops an argument for
foetal personhood based on intrinsic value. Lee argues that since the foetus is identical with …

It is very complicated to give correct answer to the question “How to define human life?”
Nowadays dilemmas consider the respect of human life from the birth to death involve not …

Let C be a causal process that normally leads to outcome E. Let A be an action that initiates
process C, and B be an action involving a minimal expenditure of energy that stops process …

A higher order potential analysis of moral status clarifies the issues that divide Human Being
Theorists who oppose embryo research from Person Theorists who favor embryo research …

According to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, objects in the microscopic
universe exist in potentia. An observer compels an electron to become real and to be …

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the
twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth …

Are embryos deserving of moral consideration in our actions? A standard view suggests that
embryos are considerable only if they have interests. One argument for embryonic interests …

In this essay, I attempt to provide answers to the following four queries concerning the
metaphysics of early human embryogenesis.(1) Following its first cellular fission, is it …