Rethinking Moral Status

Scientific and technological advancements have allowed us to create beings that blur the distinctions between human, non-human animal, and non-biological beings, which challenge our assumptions about moral status. This volume explores our responses to these challenges and reflects on ordinary presup...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Clarke, Steve, editor (editor), Zohny, Hazem, editor, Savulescu, Julian, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2021.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820243106719
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  • 1: Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu: Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral StatusSection I. The Idea of Moral Status2: Jeff McMahan: Suffering and Moral Status3: David DeGrazia: An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status4: Josh Shepherd: The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects5: F.M. Kamm: Moral Status, Person-Affectingness, and Parfit's No-Difference View6: Elizabeth Harman: The Ever Conscious View and The Contingency of Moral Status7: Ingmar Persson: Moral Status and Moral Significance8: Udo Schuklenk: Moral Recognition and the Limits of Impartialist Ethics: On Androids, Sentience and Personhood9: Thomas Douglas: Is Moral Status Good for You?Section II. Specific Issues about Moral Status10: Ruth Faden, Tom Beauchamp, Alan Regenberg, and Debra Mathews: Toward a Theory of Moral Status Inclusive of Nonhuman Animals: Pig Brains in a Vat, Cows versus Chickens, and Human-Nonhuman Chimeras11: Jason Robert and Françoise Baylis: Revisiting Inexorable Moral Confusion About the Moral Status of Human-Nonhuman Chimeras12: Sarah Chan: Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons: Species Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements13: Ben Sachs: The Weak Connection between Moral Status and Legal Status14: Russell Powell, Irina Mikhalevich and Allen Buchanan: How the Moral Community Evolves15: Julian Koplin, Olivia Carter, and Julian Savulescu: Moral Status of Brain Organoids16: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer: How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve?17: David R. Lawrence and John Harris: Monkeys and Moral Machines18: Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom: Sharing the World with Digital Minds.