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Making a Difference on Behalf of Animals Living in the Wild: Interview with Jeff McMahan

Relations, 2015
Jeff McMahan currently holds the prestigious White’s Chair of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. He has previously been a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University (USA). He has written extensively about theoretical and applied ethics, two of his
Catia Faria
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Reasons and Reproduction: Gene Editing and Genetic Selection. [PDF]

Am J Bioeth, 2023
Many writers in bioethics, science, and medicine contend that embryo selection is a morally better way of avoiding genetic disorders then gene editing, as the latter has risks that the former does not. We argue that one reason to use gene editing is that
McMahan J, Savulescu J.
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Entretien avec Jeff McMahan sur Jonathan Glover et l’éthique du faire-mourir [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2019
Dans le cadre de ce numéro spécial consacré à Jonathan Glover et son éthique appliquée, nous avons demandé à Jeff McMahan de revenir pour nous sur l'influence qu'exerça sur lui l'ouvrage Questions de vie ou de mort (Labor et fides, 2017), publié il y a ...
Benoît Basse
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Estatus personal en la discapacidad intelectual: considerando las capacidades cognitivas

Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética, 2018
Algunos enfoques bioéticos consideran central la racionalidad en la noción de persona. Jeff McMahan supedita la condición personal a las capacidades cognitivas, por consecuencia quien presenta discapacidad intelectual no es considerado persona.
Yordanis Enríquez Canto
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Editorial

Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2022
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Jeff McMahan, F. Minerva, P. Singer
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Philosophy and the Fight for Freedom

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023
Preview: /Aaron J. Wendland interviewed by Przemysław Bursztyka/ “What Good Is Philosophy?” took place on 17-19 March 2023, and it aimed to raise the funds required to establish a Centre for Civic Engagement at Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
Aaron J. Wendland
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Winning in war [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2015
This paper argues that there is more to victory in war than mere military victory. There are moral and economic senses of war winning also. And a broad perspective on winning in war ought to take into account these senses of winning (and losing) in war.
Corlett Angelo J.
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Eliminating both canonical and short-patch mismatch repair in Drosophila melanogaster suggests a new meiotic recombination model. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2014
In most meiotic systems, recombination is essential to form connections between homologs that ensure their accurate segregation from one another. Meiotic recombination is initiated by DNA double-strand breaks that are repaired using the homologous ...
K Nicole Crown, Susan McMahan, Jeff Sekelsky   +2 more
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Putting a number on the harm of death [PDF]

, 2019
Donors to global health programs and policymakers within national health systems have to make difficult decisions about how to allocate scarce health care resources. Principled ways to make these decisions all make some use of summary measures of health,
Millum, Joseph
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Dlaczego śmierć nie jest taka zła?

Studia Warmińskie, 2019
Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na pytanie o to, dlaczego śmierć nie jest taka zła. Autor twierdzi, że śmierć niekoniecznie musi być aż tak zła, jak to opisują Thomas Nagel czy Jeff  McMahan. Według autora śmierć nie jest absolutnym złem, nie ma też
Marcin Ferdynus
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