Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among
roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents …

In Strategic Justice, Peter Vanderschraaf argues that justice can be properly understood as
a body of special social conventions. The idea that justice is at bottom conventional has …

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law
of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law …

Subjects of ectogenesis—human beings that are developing in artificial wombs (AWs)—
share the same moral status as newborns. To demonstrate this, I defend two claims. First …

Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define
this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of …

Some arguments for moral vegetarianism proceed by appealing to widely held beliefs about
the immorality of causing unjustified pain. Combined with the claim that meat is not needed …

Opponents of abortion are often described as 'inconsistent'(hypocrites) in terms of their
beliefs, actions and/or priorities. They are alleged to do too little to combat spontaneous …

Critics of industrial animal agriculture (also known as “factory” farming) have argued that its
practices are cruel, inhumane, or otherwise degrading to animals. These arguments …

Recently, debate over whether health care providers should have a protected right to
conscientiously refuse to offer legal health care services—such as abortion, elective …

A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …