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Kant’s Moral Theory Meets Evolutionary Theory [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
This paper delves into the intersection between Kant’s moral theory and evolutionary perspectives on personhood. It explores how Kant’s emphasis on rationality in moral agency aligns with evolutionary studies on the development of moral behaviors.
Alireza Mansouri
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Analysis of the intrinsic value of life in the context of synthetic biology

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
The ongoing advancements in synthetic biology, employing either “bottom-up” or “top-down” approaches to construct synthetic life, are generating significant interest.
Yi Zhang, Yuling Chen, Bohua Liao
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The impact of socio-demographic attributes on moral judgment of Japanese population

Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2023
Several factors influence people’s ability to make moral judgments. Apart from manipulating experimental conditions, this association can be explored in terms of socio-demographic attributes such as the social status and background of individuals.
Yachun Qian, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Akira Yasumura   +2 more
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The moral status of babies

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013
In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after-birth abortion'). We ought in all consistency either to allow both or prohibit both.
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The in Vitro Embryo and the Law: The Ownership Issue and a Response to Robinson

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2020
In 2012 the Minister of Health made the Regulations Relating to the Artificial Fertilisation of Persons, which provide that the woman who intends to be made pregnant with an in vitro embryo owns such an embryo and can control the embryo's fate in ...
Donrich Thaldar
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Dogs and monsters: moral status claims in the fiction of Dean Koontz [PDF]

, 2015
This article explores conceptions of moral status in the work of American thriller author Dean Koontz. It begins by examining some of the general theories of moral status used by philosophers to determine whether particular entities have moral status ...
Smith, Stephen W.
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Menstrual cycle phase does not predict political conservatism [PDF]

, 2015
Recent authors have reported a relationship between women's fertility status, as indexed by menstrual cycle phase, and conservatism in moral, social and political values. We conducted a survey to test for the existence of a relationship between menstrual
A Faraji-Rad, A Gelman, AJ Wilcox, AJ Wilcox, B Jones, B Sommer, BA Nosek, BM Zaadstra, Cheryl McCormick, CJ Guillermo, CR Harris, CR Harris, DMT Fessler, DS Fleischman, G Saad, G Wegienka, IML Scott, Isabel M. Scott, J Chandler, J Graham, J Graham, J Haidt, J Sacher, J-C Dreher, JM Tybur, JM Tybur, JP Simmons, JPA Ioannidis, K Gildersleeve, K Gildersleeve, KM Durante, KM Durante, L Wideman, M Farage, Nicholas Pound, RJ Fehring, SW Gangestad, SW Gangestad, VJ Vitzthum, W Wood, Y Inbar, Y Inbar   +41 more
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Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the nursing moral disengagement scale

Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2023
Moral disengagement is a set of cognitive mechanisms through which a person violates his/her moral standards without losing his/her dignity. Therefore, a tool has been designed to measure moral disengagement in nurses.
Ali Mohammadpour, Hoda Salehi, Mahdi Basiri Moghaddam   +2 more
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Dimensions of Moral Status.

, 2021
In a recent theoretical paper, Birsch, Schnell & Clayton (2020) introduced a multidimensional framework of animal consciousness. In two online studies, we adopted their classification system and asked which of these dimensions contribute most to moral concern for non-human beings.
Mazor, Matan, Risoli, Arianna, Eberhardt, Anna, Fleming, Stephen M   +3 more
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