Benefit, disability and the non-identity problem

Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 24-43

  Lillehammer, Hallvard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230273931     Document Type: Chapter

References (38)

1. D. Parfit (1984) Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press);
2. J. Woodward (1986) 'The Non-Identity Problem', Ethics, 96.
3. A. Buchanan, D. W. Brock, N. Daniels and D. Wikler (2000) From Chance to Choice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
4. J. Glover (2001) 'Future People, Disability and Screening', in J. Harris (ed.), Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
5. cf. Parfit, (1982) 'Future Generations:Further Problems', Philosophy and Public Affairs II, pp. 127-8;
6. Woodward, 'The Non-Identity Problem'
7. Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 388.
8. Parfit, Reasons and Persons;
9. Buchanan et al., From Chance to Choice;
10. J. McMahan (2001), 'Wrongful Life: Paradoxes in the Morality of Causing People to Exist', in J. Harris, Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
11. Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 360.
12. Buchanan et al., From Chance to Choice Genetics & Justice, p. 249.
13. Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 361.
14. Cf. Buchanan et al., From Chance to Choice;
15. McMahan, 'Wrongful Life'.
16. Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 433;
17. quoted in McMahan, 'Wrongful Life', p. 466.
18. Parfit, Reasons and Persons.
19. D. Parfit (1986) 'Comments', Ethics, 96, pp. 854-62.
20. R. M. Adams (1972) 'Must God Create the Best?' Philosophical Review 81, pp. 329ff.
21. Adams uses this case to argue against a principle he formulates as follows: 'It is wrong to bring into existence, knowingly, a being less excellent than one could have brought into existence' (p. 329).
22. A similar case is criticized in D. Parfit (1982) 'Future Generations: Further Problems', Philosophy and Public Affairs 11, pp. 127-8.
23. Adams, 'Must God Create the Best?', p. 330.
24. L. Mundy (2002) 'A World of Their Own', Washington Post, 31 March, p. W22;
25. H. Lillehammer (2003) 'Who Needs Bioethicists?', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, pp. 131-44).
26. cf. J. Bennett (1994) The Act Itself (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
27. Cf. G. S. Kavka (1982) 'The Paradox of Future Individuals', Philosophy and Public Affairs 11, pp. 110-11.
28. Adams, 'Must God Create the Best?', p. 326
29. Cf. Mundy, 'A World of their Own'.
30. Cf. Buchanan et al., From Chance to Choice, pp. 281-5.
31. Glover (2001) 'Future People, Disability and Screening', p. 438.
32. Parfit, Reasons and Persons.
33. See note 8 above.
34. McMahan, 'Wrongful Life', p. 456.
35. Kavka, 'The Paradox of Future Individuals', pp. 93-112.
36. McMahan, 'Wrongful Life', p. 458.
37. Buchanan et al., From Chance to Choice, p. 283.
38. Cf. R. Kumar (2003) 'Who Can Be Wronged?' Philosophy and Public Affairs 31.