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Elephants, Personhood, and Moral Status

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2023
This essay uses the lens of moral status to explore the question of whether elephants ought to count as persons under the law. After distinguishing descriptive, moral, and legal concepts of personhood, the author argues that elephants are (descriptively) at least "borderline persons," justifying an attribution of full moral status and, thereby, a solid
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The Moral Status of Fetuses in Russia

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1997
Starting bioethics in Russia we were motivated with the idea of the democratization of our society on a basic micro-social level. The country was swift enough to take several important steps in this direction on the macro-social level, i.e., to adopt a new constitution with guarantees of human rights and rights of ownership of private property, to ...
P, Tichtchenko, B, Yudin
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Embryo Loss and Moral Status

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, 2023
Abstract There is a significant debate over the moral status of human embryos. This debate has important implications for practices like abortion and IVF. Some argue that embryos have the same moral status as infants, children, and adults.
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Consciousness and Moral Status of Animals

2021
Consciousness is the basis for granting moral status, but it is ephemeral and elusive. Both the ontological and epistemic dimension of consciousness cause hard problems for modern science and the philosophy of mind. On the one hand, consciousness is subjective, and includes conscious states with a phenomenal or qualitative character – “qualia”.
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Monist, 1973
1 We will be concerned with both the moral status of abortion, which for our purposes we may define as the act that a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another person to terminate, her pregnancy, and the legal status that is appropriate for this act. I will argue that, while it is not possible to produce a satisfactory defense of a
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The Moral Status of the Corporation

Business Ethics Quarterly, 1992
Corporate moral agency is an important philosophical issue with significant implications for corporate law scholarship. While some legal scholars have recognized the significance of this issue for the analysis of corporate law, legal scholars generally have yet to give it the kind of attention and thorough examination it deserves.
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The moral status of post-persons

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2012
Nicholas Agar argues that it is possible, and even likely, that radically enhanced human beings will turn out to be ‘post-persons’, that is, beings with a moral status higher than that of mere persons such as us.1 This would mean that they will be morally justified in sacrificing our lives and well-being not merely in cases of emergency, but also in ...
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Divisibility and the Moral Status of Embryos

Bioethics, 2001
The phenomenon of twinning in early fetal development has become a popular source for doubt regarding the ascription of moral status to early embryos. In this paper, the possible moral basis for such a line of reasoning is critically analysed with sceptical results. Three different versions of the argument from twinning are considered, all of which are
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Non-Human Moral Status: Problems with Phenomenal Consciousness

AJOB Neuroscience, 2023
Joshua Shepherd
exaly  

The Status of Morality.

The Philosophical Review, 1986
David O. Brink, Thomas Carson
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