Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons Findi
This book has two main goals. The first is to give an account, called Variabilism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons—persons who, relative to a particular circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. The
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 107 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Nicholas Capaldi, College of Business Administration, Loyola University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey Christopher Tollefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., President Loyola University, New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Melinda A. Roberts
Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases
Melinda A. Roberts Department of Philosophy and Religion College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ USA [email protected]
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Acknowledgements
For their comments on earlier drafts of parts of this book, and the useful discussions they’ve engaged in with me regarding many of the topics I address here, I am deeply grateful to Gustaf Arrhenius, John Broome, David Enoch, Fred Feldman, Axel Gosseries, Caspar Hare, Elizabeth Harman, David Heyd, Jeff McMahan, Alan McMichael, Ingmar Persson, Peter Singer, Larry Temkin, Peter Vallentyne and David Wasserman. Of special value were the comments I received in connection with the conference on Extensions of Justice, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (June 2009).
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Contents
1 Introduction................................................................................................ 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10
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Goals................................................................................................. Organization of Book........................................................................ Inclusion, Exclusion and a Dilemma................................................ Variabilism as Middle Ground.......................................................... Variabilism and Abortion.............................
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