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Accountability and Intervening Agency: An Asymmetry between Upstream and Downstream Actors [PDF]
, 2016 Suppose someone (P1) does something that is wrongful only in virtue of the risk that it will enable another person (P2) to commit a wrongdoing. Suppose further that P1’s conduct does indeed turn out to enable P2’s wrongdoing.
Bazargan-Forward, Saba
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REC, Drosophila MCM8, drives formation of meiotic crossovers.
PLoS Genetics, 2005 Crossovers ensure the accurate segregation of homologous chromosomes from one another during meiosis. Here, we describe the identity and function of the Drosophila melanogaster gene recombination defective (rec), which is required for most meiotic ...
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Against the impairment argument: A reply to Hendricks [PDF]
, 2020 In an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because: (a) it is wrong to impair a fetus to the nth degree, such as causing the fetus to ...
Räsänen, Joona
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Evaluating the Revisionist Critique of Just War Theory [PDF]
, 2017 Modern analytical just war theory starts with Michael Walzer's defense of key tenets of the laws of war in his Just and Unjust Wars. Walzer advocates noncombatant immunity, proportionality, and combatant equality: combatants in war must target only ...
Lazar, Seth
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State legitimacy and self-defence [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I outline a theory of legitimacy that grounds the state’s right to rule on a natural duty not to harm others. I argue that by refusing to enter the state, anarchists expose those living next to them to the dangers of the state of nature ...
Renzo, Massimo
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Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]
, 2018 Recent decades have witnessed the rise of chefs to a position of cultural prominence. This rise has coincided with increased consciousness of ethical issues pertaining to food, particularly as they concern animals.
Lamey, Andy, Sharpless, Ike
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Jeff McMahan (2009). Killing in war [PDF]
, 2009 Book review of Jeff McMahan, Killing in war. UK: Oxford Unuversity Press, 2009.
Steinhoff, UB
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, 2018 Many of us think we have agent-centred options to act suboptimally. Some of these involve favouring our own interests. Others involve sacrificing them. In this paper, I explore three different ways to accommodate agent-centred options in a criterion of ...
Lazar, Seth
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Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
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War and Moral Consistency [PDF]
, 2020 Provides an opinionated overview of some recent debates within the ethics of ...
Parry, Jonathan
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