Human Capacities and Moral Status
Many debates about the moral status of things—for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals—eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question—for example, their capacities to feel pain
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 108 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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HUMAN CAPACITIES AND MORAL STATUS by RUSSELL DISILVESTRO California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA
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Russell DiSilvestro Department of Philosophy California State University Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento CA 95819 Mendocino Hall 3016 USA [email protected]
ISSN 0376-7418 ISBN 978-90-481-8536-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8537-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8537-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920978 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For Gabriel Not here but not forgotten
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank several groups of people, without whom the writing of this book would have been much more difficult, if not impossible. First, three of my philosophy professors from my time as an M. A. student at Biola University: J. P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae, whose 2000 book Body and Soul persuaded and motivated me to develop the main ideas of this book, and Garry DeWeese, whose friendship and advice the last 10 years have been instrumental in bringing these ideas to print. Second, a number of people helped an earlier draft of this book take shape as my doctoral dissertation at Bowling Green State University. My dissertation committee at Bowling Green State University generously gave their time and effort in various ways to help the dissertation come together: R. G. Frey, Fred Miller, Loren Lomasky, Michael Tooley, and Younghee Kim. The members of Fred Miller’s dissertation reading group gave me helpful feedback on each part of the dissertation over a period of several months: Pete Cellelo, Kathy Erbeznik, Leanne Kent, Nico Maloberti, Chris Metivier, John Milliken, Jonatha
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