Time-relative interests and abortion

Journal of Moral Philosophy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 242-256

  Liao, S Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; Foetus; Infanticide; Killing; Time relative interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 64249158756     PISSN: 17404681     EISSN: 17455243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740468107079268     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. See, e.g., J. Rachels, The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 6
2. D. Marquis, 'Why Abortion is Immoral', Journal of Philosophy 86 (1989), pp. 183-203, at p. 189
3. J. Broome, Weighing Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
4. J. McMahan, The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 80, 170-74, 183-88
5. McMahan, Ethics of Killing, pp. 267-362
6. D. DeGrazia, Human Identity and Bioethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 279-94
7. D. DeGrazia, 'Identity, Killing, and the Boundaries of Our Existence', Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (2003), pp. 413-42
8. DeGrazia, Human Identity and Bioethics, p. 288
9. J.J. Thomson, 'A Defense of Abortion', Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1971), pp. 47-66, at pp. 48-49
10. See, e.g., DeGrazia, 'Identity, Killing, and the Boundaries of Our Existence'
11. P. Singer, Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics (New York: St. Martin's, 1994)
12. A defence of this view can be found in E. Olson, The Human Animal: Personal Identity without Psychology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
13. See, e.g., Olson, The Human Animal
14. Singer, Rethinking Life and Death, p. 94
15. See S. Matthew Liao, 'The Organism View Defended', The Monist 89.3 (2006)
16. See Broome, Weighing Lives, pp. 249-51 for this point
17. For a good discussion of these two cases along the lines I am suggesting, see McMahan, Ethics of Killing, pp. 443-50
18. I defend this in Liao, 'The Organism View Defended'
19. J. Korein, 'Ontogenesis of the Brain in the Human Organism: Definitions of Life and Death of the Human Being and Person', Advances in Bioethics 2 (1997), pp. 1-74
20. Defenders of the higher-brain criterion include M.B. Green and D. Wilder, 'Brain Death and Personal Identity', Philosophy and Public Affairs 9 (1980), pp. 105-33
21. R.M. Veatch, 'Whole-brain, Neocortical, and Higher Brain Related Concepts', in R. Zaner (ed.), Death: Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988), pp. 171-86
22. Rachels, The End of Life, pp. 42-43