" This book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of killing in cases in which the
metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among the …

Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating
the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant's ethics …

A natural illusion gets in the way of thinking clearly about our duties to future people. In
particular, it leads to confusion about the so-called Non-Identity Problem discussed by Derek …

Shrage argues that Roe v Wade's regulatory scheme of a six-month time span for abortion
on demand polarized the public and obscured alternatives with potentially broader support …

The lifetime of tungsten cathodes used in plasma spray torches is limited by processes
leading to a loss of cathode material. It was reported in the literature that the mechanism of …

Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in
contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical theories to social policy has been …

In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but
also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning …

Sažetak Since the dawn of medicine, medical rights and ethics have always been one of
mankind's concerns. In any civilisation, attention paid to medical laws and ethics depends …

In this issue of the journal Mark Brown has offered a new argument against my potential
future of value theory. I argue that even though the premises of this new argument are far …

This essay explicates and evaluates the roles that fetal metaphysics and moral status play in
Rosalind Hursthouse's abortion ethics. It is motivated by Hursthouse's puzzling claim in her …