David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our
obligations to people who do not yet exist. Our actions sometimes have an effect not only on …

The nonidentity problem raises questions regarding the obligations we think we have in
respect of people who, by our own acts, are caused both to exist and to have existences that …

A theory of intergenerational justice consists in the study of the moral and political status of
the relations between present and past or future people, more specifically, of the obligations …

Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT s) have the potential to allow prospective
parents who are at risk of passing on debilitating or even life‐threatening mitochondrial …

In this paper, I offer a prolegomenon to the philosophy of harm reduction. I begin with an
overview of the philosophical literature on both harm and harm reduction, and a brief …

Over the past decades, public trust in medical professionals has steadily declined. This
decline of trust and its replacement by ever tighter regulations is increasingly frustrating …

This paper aims at answering some of the objections to the NIP's criticism of the idea of
rights of future persons. Those objections usually adopt different perspectives depending on …

Has the time come to put to bed the concept of a harm threshold when discussing the ethics
of reproductive decision making and the legal limits that should be placed upon it? In this …

When attempting to determine which of our acts affect future generations and which affect
the identities of those who make up such generations, accounts of personal identity that …

More than some other fields of ethics, climate ethics is related to pressing real-world
problems. Climate ethicists have a responsibility to be precise about the status of the …