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Abortion and Infanticide: a Radical Libertarian Defence [PDF]
, 2021 1. First there is an outline of the libertarian approach taken here. 2. On the assumption of personhood, it is explained how there need be no overall inflicted harm and no proactive killing with abortion and infanticide.
Lester, J. C.
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Autonomous Systems as Legal Agents: Directly by the Recognition of Personhood or Indirectly by the Alchemy of Algorithmic Entities [PDF]
, 1999 The clinical manifestations of platelet dense (δ) granule defects are easy bruising, as well as epistaxis and bleeding after delivery, tooth extractions and surgical procedures.
Fagerberg, I. +2 more
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Groups with Minds of Their Own Making [PDF]
, 2019 According Philip Pettit, suitably organised groups not only possess ‘minds of their own’ but can also ‘make up their minds’ and 'speak for themselves'--where these two capacities enable them to perform as conversable subjects or 'persons'.
Townsend, Leo
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 What I propose in the present article are some theoretical adjustments for a more coherent answer to the legal “status question” of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
Diana Mădălina Mocanu
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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]
, 2018 In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin +12 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Parks are people too, my friend. So quipped an August 2016 headline making reference at once to Mitt Romney’s flip commentary on corporations and to recent developments in New Zealand law enabling landscapes to be named as legal persons—that is, as entities possessing juridical rights akin to those of corporations.
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Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest for Personhood of Shudras
Caste, 2021 Anti-caste traditions in India work to understand and examine the idea of personhood which the majority in India is deprived of by virtue of being born in the lower rungs of the caste hierarchy. This paper examines the historical continuity in Brahminism
Snehashish Das
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The Social Nature of Individual Self-Identity: Akan and Narrative Conceptions of Personhood [PDF]
, 2015 Marya Schechtman has given us reasons to think that there are different questions that compose personal identity. On the one hand, there is the question of reidentification, which concerns what makes a person the same person through different time-slices.
Barnes, Corey L.
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Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory
Acta Universitatis Carolinae. IuridicaThis article presents a critique of the Orthodox View of legal personhood, which traditionally aligns personhood with the capacity to hold rights and duties.
Zsófia Folková
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Narrative Ethics and Vulnerability: Kristeva and Ricoeur on Interdependence
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2013 The character and extent of disabilities, especially cognitive disability, have posed significance problems for existing moral theories. Certain philosophers have even questioned the moral personhood of people with disabilities and have argued that ...
Elizabeth Purcell
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