Suppose a school were to set out deliberately to improve the mental and physical capacities
of its students. Suppose its stated aims were to ensure that the pupils left the school not only …

The recent Canadian forum's recommendations regarding" neurological determination of
death" claim to have determined a" Canadian definition, criteria, and minimum testing …

Many people believe that human beings begin to exist with the emergence of the 1-cell
zygote at fertilization. I present a novel argument against this belief, one based on recently …

A central claim in abortion ethics is what might be called the Harm Claim–the claim that
abortion harms the fetus. In this article, we put forward a simple and straightforward reason …

This comment argues for a continuation and increase of federal funding for embryonic stem
cell research and treatment. Embryonic stem cells are the most promising of the different …

The most closely argued and widely discussed case against abortion in the philosophical
literature today is Don Marquis's “future like ours” argument. The argument moves from an …

Stojíme na prahu jednej z najväčších revolúcií v medicíne počas celej jej doterajšej histórie.
Pred dvanástimi rokmi sa podarilo americkému vedcovi Jamesovi Thomsonovi po prvýkrát …

In his classic paper,'Why abortion is immoral', Don Marquis argues that what makes killing
an adult seriously immoral is that it deprives the victim of the valuable future he/she would …

It is sometimes argued that interruptions of the life's continuum which have the same end
result are morally equivalent. In other words, abortion and contraception are ethically …

This chapter introduces, and sets the context for, this edited volume. Some of the recent
developments and debates in stem cell science are briefly reviewed. Then an overview of …