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Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)
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Abstract
- A discussion of the arguments against animalism, as given by those of anti-animalist persuasion and defended by the principal animalists (with a focus on Eric Olson), with a critique.
Research Methodology
- Follow this Link1 for a generic statement of how I intend to pursue each Chapter.
- The method is broken down into 16, possibly iterative, stages, some of which have sub-stages.
- Follow this Link2 for my progress dashboard on these tasks.
Chapter Introduction
- There is effectively a 1-1-match between this Chapter and the Note Animalism – Objections3, though I imagine that this Chapter will be more focussed and less exploratory than that Note.
- The main objections are those of incredulity to the Animalist claim that “matters of psychology are irrelevant to personal identity”, when most philosophers have – and still do – think it’s constitutive of it, though – as I’ve said previously and often – this is to confuse What Matters4 to us with What we Are5.
- Then we have the Brain Transplant Intuition6 – that we go with our brains. It is very difficult to resist this intuition – for reasons I’ve given under Psychological Continuity - Forward7, though Eric Olson8 insists that the Animalist must deny it as a brain isn’t an Organism9.
- Then, there are awkward pathological cases where it’s not clear quite what the animalist should say. I’ve collected these under the Note on Dicephalus10.
- Finally, there’s the question of what’s going on during Pregnancy11, which Animalists have allegedly failed to address. Is the Fetus12 a part of the mother? If so, we’d have a case of Fission13 at birth. Traditionalists would deny this, so the problem ‘goes away’, but it needs to be considered carefully from the actual biology (covered in the previous Note and those on Zygotes14 and Embryos15).
- I’ve also included the topic of Abortion16 as part of this Chapter, though it’s maybe either misplaced, or not sufficiently relevant.
Links to Notes
- Animalism17. Excluded18
- Arguments against Animalism19
- Pregnancy20
- Dicephalus25
Main Text
- For now, just see the Note Animalism – Objections26.
- To be supplied27.
Concluding Remarks
- Having now discussed the arguments against Animalism, we now in our next Chapter28 turn to the arguments against the Constitution View.
- This is work in progress29.
Links to Books / Papers to be Addressed30
- This section attempts to derive the readings lists automatically from those of the underlying Notes, but removing duplicated references. The list is divided into:-
- I’ve not been overly careful to segregate the reading-list of this Chapter from that of Chapter 633. I will address the segregation in due course. There will, in any case, be some overlap.
- Many aspects of these papers will need to be either ignored or reserved for other chapters.
Works on this topic that I’ve actually read34, include the following:-
- Arguments against Animalism35
- Dicephalus & Conjoined Twins36:
- "Buchanan (Rachael) - The battle to separate Safa and Marwa", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wikipedia - Craniopagus Twins", 2017, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Big-Tent Metaphysics", 2008, Write-Up Note37, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Response to Eric Olson", 2008, Write-Up Note38, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Belshaw (Christopher) - My Beginnings", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism (SEP)", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan), Ed. - The Lives of Human Animals", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Garrett (Brian) - Animalism and Reductionism", 1998, Annotations
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Madden (Rory) - Human Persistence", 2016, Internal PDF Link
- "Markosian (Ned) - Three Problems for Olson's Account of Personal Identity", 2008, Write-Up Note39, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Marshall (Richard) & Olson (Eric) - Eric T. Olson: The Philosopher with No Hands", 2014, External Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: A Current Controversy", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie", 2001, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - Arguments Against Animalism: Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'", 2001, Write-Up Note40, Annotations, No Abstract
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Corpse Problem", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - On Parfit's View That We Are Not Human Beings", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Replies to Baker, Markosian & Zimmerman", 2008, Write-Up Note41, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - The Person and the Corpse", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric), Etc. - Abstracta Special Issue on 'The Human Animal'", 2008
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Self, Body, and Coincidence", 1999, Annotations
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Personal Identity and Brain Transplants", 1991, Annotations
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Some Objections to Animalism", 2003
- "Snowdon (Paul) - The Self and Personal Identity", 2009, Write-Up Note42
- "Unger (Peter) - The Survival of the Sentient", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Problems for Animalism", 2008, Write-Up Note43, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Pregnancy44:
- "Finn (Suki) - Bun or bump?", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kingma (Elselijn) - Lady Parts: The Metaphysics of Pregnancy", 2018, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Kingma (Elselijn) - Were You Part of Your Mother?", 2019, Annotations
- Pregnancy45
- Aeon:
- "Horn (Claire) - The history of the incubator makes a sideshow of mothering", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Isaac (Sasha) - Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation?", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Brody (Baruch) - Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life: Introduction", 1975
- "Kazez (Jean) - The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children", 2017
- "Kingma (Elselijn) - BUMP: Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy (B1)", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Ludwig (Arnold) - How do we Know who we are? Prologue", 1997
- "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", 1997
- Abortion46
- Aeon:
- No items to list.
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Embryos and StemCell Research", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Brody (Baruch) - Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life: Epilogue", 1975
- "Carter (William) - Do Zygotes Become People?", 1982, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Conee (Earl) - Reply to Timothy Chappell", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "DeGrazia (David) - Human Identity and Bioethics: Introduction", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Feldman (Fred) - Abortion and the Failure to Conceive", 1992
- "Glover (Jonathan) - Causing Death and Saving Lives", 1986, Footnote47
- "Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death: Preface", 2006
- "Mulgan (Tim) - Critical Notice of Jeff McMahan's The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Rodger (Daniel), Blackshaw (Bruce P.) & Wilcox (Clinton) - Why arguments against infanticide remain convincing", 2018, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Moral Issues at the Beginning of Life, Part I: Killing", 2009
- "Singer (Peter) - Rethinking Life & Death: Prologue", 1994
- "Tollefsen (Christopher) - Abortion and the Human Animal", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Velleman (David) - Beyond Price: Essays on Life and Death - Introduction", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Embryos48
- General:
- "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - Embryos and Final Causes", 1990, No Abstract
- "Kazez (Jean) - Life Doesn't Begin at Conception", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Embryos, Souls, and the Fourth Dimension", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Fetuses49
- Aeon:
- No items to list.
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons", 2000, Write-Up Note50, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - What Am I?", 1999, Write-Up Note51, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote52
- "Francescotti (Robert) - Fetuses, corpses and the psychological approach to personal identity", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Kazez (Jean) - The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children", 2017
- "Kingma (Elselijn) - BUMP: Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy (B2)", 2016, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Koch (Christof) - When Does Consciousness Arise in Human Babies?", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus?", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus? (Human Animal)", 1999
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics - Introduction", 2009
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Wilkes (Kathleen) - Infants and Foetuses", 2003
- Zygote53
- General:
- "Anscombe (G.E.M.) - Were You a Zygote?", 1982
- "Wilson (Jack) - Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities", 1999, Annotations
- Dicephalus54
- Dicephalus & Conjoined Twins55:
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism, Dicephalus, and Borderline Cases", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism and its Implications", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity", 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Liao (S. Matthew) - The Organism View Defended", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
A further reading list might start with:-
- Arguments against Animalism56
- Dicephalus & Conjoined Twins57:
- "Campbell (Tim) & McMahan (Jeff) - Animalism and the Varieties of Conjoined Twinning", 2016
- "Olson (Eric) - The Metaphysical Implications of Conjoined Twining", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Stone (James L.) & Goodrich (James T.) - The craniopagus malformation: classification and implications for surgical separation", 2006, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Ayer (A.J.) - The Meaning of Life", 1991, No Abstract
- "Bailey (Andrew M.) - The Elimination Argument", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Berglund (Stefan) - Animalism", 1995
- "Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: Introduction", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Braine (David) - The Human Person: Animal and Spirit", 1993
- "Ferner (Adam) - Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Olson's Embryo Problem", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - The Death of a Person", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - The Problematic Role of ‘Irreversibility’ in the Definition of Death", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hudson (Hud) - I am Not an Animal!", 2007
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Subjects of Experience", 1996
- "Madden (Rory) - Thinking Parts", 2016, Internal PDF Link
- "Moran (Alexander P.) - Animalism and the Thinking Parts Problem", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Noller (Jorg) - Beyond Animalism and Constitutionalism: The Person as A Form of Life", Undated, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Human Atoms", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - The Remnant-Person Problem", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - The Role of the Brainstem in Personal Identity", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Animals", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Brains", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? What Now?", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Parfit (Derek) - We Are Not Human Beings", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons", 2003
- "Puhl (Klaus) - Review of Klaus Petrus's 'On Human Persons'", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Reid (Mark D.) - A Case in Which Two Persons Exist in One Animal", 2016
- "Shoemaker (David) - The Stony Metaphysical Heart of Animalism", 2016, Internal PDF Link
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Animalism and the Unity of Consciousness", 2014
- "Snowdon (Paul) - Multiple Personality Disorder", 2014
- "Toner (Patrick) - Hylemorphic animalism", 2011, Internal PDF Link
- "Tzinman (Rina) - Memory, Organisms and the Circle of Life", 2018, Internal PDF Link
- Pregnancy58:
- "Damschen (Gregor), Gomez-Lobo (Alfonso) & Schonecker (Dieter) - Sixteen Days? A Reply to B. Smith and B. Brogaard on the Beginning of Human Individuals", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Gomez-Lobo (Alfonso) - Sortals and Human Beginnings", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Oderberg (David) - The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited", 2008, Internal PDF Link
- "Smith (Barry) & Brogaard (Berit) - Sixteen Days", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Pregnancy59
- General:
- "Davis (Michael) - Fetuses, Famous Violinists, and the Right to Continued Aid", 1983, Internal PDF Link
- "English (Jane) - Abortion and the Concept of a Person", 1975
- "Forrester (Mary) - Problems and Persons: Introduction", 1996
- "Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death", 2006, Footnote60
- "Lyerly (Anne Drapkin), Little (Margaret Olivia), Etc. - Risk and the pregnant body", 2009, Internal PDF Link
- "Profet (Margie) - Pregnancy sickness as adaptation: A deterrent to maternal ingestion of teratogens", 1992, Footnote61
- "Scott (Rosamund) - The Pregnant Woman and the Good Samaritan: Can a Woman have a Duty to Undergo a Caesarean Section?", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Sidzinska (Maja) - Not One, Not Two: Toward an Ontology of Pregnancy", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Smith (Barry) & Varzi (Achille) - Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Smith (Barry) & Varzi (Achille) - The Niche", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- Abortion62
- General:
- "Baird (Robert M.) & Rosenbaum (Stuart E.), Eds. - The Ethics of Abortion: Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice", 2001
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Does a Person Begin?", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Beckwith (Francis J.) - Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Beckwith (Francis J.) - Potentials and burdens: a reply to Giubilini and Minerva", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Boonin (David) - A Defense of Abortion", 2003
- "Brill (H. Skott) - The Future-Like-Ours Argument, Personal Identity, and the Twinning Dilemma", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Brody (Baruch) - Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life : a Philosophical View", 1975
- "Camosy (Charles) - Concern for our vulnerable prenatal and neonatal children: a brief reply to Giubilini and Minerva", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - The Relevance of Metaphysics to Bioethics: A Reply to Earl Conee", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Conee (Earl) - Metaphysics and the morality of abortion", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "DeGrazia (David) - Identity, Killing, and the Boundaries of Our Existence", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "DeGrazia (David) - Prenatal Identity: Genetic Interventions, Reproductive Choices", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Diamond (James J.) - Abortion, Animation, and Biological Hominization", 1975, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Engelhardt (H. Tristram) - The Ontology of Abortion", 1974, Internal PDF Link
- "Feinberg (Joel) - Abortion", 1980
- "Forrester (Mary) - Persons, Animals, and Fetuses: Summary", 1996
- "Forrester (Mary) - The Central Feature of Personhood", 1996
- "Giubilini (Alberto) & Minerva (Francesca) - After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Giubilini (Alberto) & Minerva (Francesca) - Clarifications on the moral status of newborns and the normative implications", 2013, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Grobstein (Clifford) - Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures", 1990
- "Hall (Timothy) - Abortion, the Right to Life, and Dependence", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Hare (R.M.) - Abortion and the Golden Rule", 1975, Internal PDF Link
- "Harman (Elizabeth) - Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Hauskeller (Michael) - Reflections from a Troubled Stream: Giubilini and Minerva on 'After-Birth Abortion'", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Abortions and Distortions: An Analysis of Morally Irrelevant Factors in Thomson's Violinist Thought Experiment", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism and Moral Status", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote63
- "Hershenov (David) - Explaining the Psychological Appeal of Viability as a Cutoff Point", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - How a Hylomorphic Metaphysics Constrains the Abortion Debate", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Perdure and Murder", 1986, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote64
- "Hershenov (David) - Review of David DeGrazia’s Human Identity and Bioethics", 2008, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - Morally Relevant Potential", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - The “I’m Personally Opposed to Abortion But…” Argument", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - The Relevance of Metaphysics to the Morality of Abortion", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) & Taylor (Adam P.) - Dualism, Panpsychism, and the Bioethical Status of Brainless Embryos", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hudson (Hud) - Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts", 2001
- "Hudson (Hud) - Temporal Parts and Moral Personhood", 1999
- "Kenyon (Edwin) - The Dilemma of Abortion", 1986
- "Koritansky (Peter) - The Role of Philosophy in the Contemporary Abortion Debate.", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Laing (Jacqueline) - Infanticide: a reply to Giubilini and Minerva", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Lee (Patrick) - A Christian Philosopher’s View of Recent Directions in the Abortion Debate", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Little (Margaret Olivia) - Abortion, Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Footnote65
- "Maitzen (Stephen) - Abortion in the Original Position", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Manninen (Bertha Alvarez) - Revisiting the argument from fetal potential", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Manninen (Bertha Alvarez) - Yes, the baby should live: a pro-choice response to Giubilini and Minerva", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Marquis (Don) - Why Abortion is Immoral", 1989, Internal PDF Link
- "McGee (Andrew J.) - The moral status of babies", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "McMahan (Jeff) - Beginnings", 2002
- "Moreland (J.P.) & Rae (Scott) - The Moral & Metaphysical Status of the Unborn: Abortion and Fetal Research", 2000, No Abstract
- "Mori (Maurizio) - The Italian reaction to the Giubilini and Minerva paper", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Morowitz (Harold J.) & Trefil (James) - The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy", 1992
- "Paez (Eze) - Abortion: What We Ought to Believe - An Ontological and Normative Analysis", 2013, Internal PDF Link
- "Paez (Eze) - Are we animals? Abortion, identity and a modified Future-of-Value Account", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Pluhar (Werner S.) - Abortion and Simple Consciousness", 1977, Internal PDF Link
- "Quinn (Warren S.) - Abortion: Identity and Loss", 1984, Internal PDF Link
- "Rini (Regina) - Abortion, Ultrasound, and Moral Persuasion", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Singer (Peter) - Uncertain Beginnings", 1994
- "Singer (Peter) & Dawson (Karen) - IVF Technology and the Argument from Potential", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Singer (Peter) & Khuse (Helga) - Should the Baby Live?", 1985
- "Sterba (James P.) - Abortion, Distant Peoples, and Future Generations", 1980, Internal PDF Link
- "Surovell (Jonathan) - But for the Grace of God: Abortion and Cognitive Disability, Luck and Moral Status", 2017, Internal PDF Link
- "Thomson (Judith Jarvis) - A Defense of Abortion", 1971, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Tooley (Michael) - Abortion and Infanticide", 1983, Annotations
- "Tooley (Michael) - Abortion and Infanticide", 1972, Internal PDF Link
- "Warren (Mary Anne) - Abortion", 2000
- "Warren (Mary Anne) - Do Potential People Have Moral Rights?", 1977, Internal PDF Link
- "Warren (Mary Anne) - On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion", 1973, No Abstract
- "Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death", 2009
- Embryos66
- General:
- "Cameron (Nigel M. de S.) - Embryos and Ethics: The Warnock Report in Debate", 1987
- "CIBA Foundation - Human Embryo Research: Yes or No?", 1986, Footnote67
- "Ford (Norman) - When Did I Begin: Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science", 1988
- "Ghiselin (Michael) - Embryology as History and as Law", 1997, No Abstract
- "Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - Anscombe on Embryos and Persons", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "McLaren (Ann) - Prelude to Embryogenesis", 1986
- "Simmons (Aaron) - Do Embryos Have Interests? Why Embryos Are Identical to Future Persons but Not Harmed by Death", 2012, Internal PDF Link
- "Tollefsen (Christopher) - Embryos, Individuals, and Persons: An Argument Against Embryo Creation and Research", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Warnock (Mary) - A Question of Life - The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology", 1985
- "Warnock (Mary) - Ethical challenges in embryo manipulation", 1992, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Williams (Bernard) - Types of Moral Argument Against Embryo Research", 1986
- Fetuses68
- General:
- "Anscombe (G.E.M.), Geach (Mary), Gormally (Luke), Eds. - Human Life, Action and Ethics", 2005
- "Archard (David) - Wrongful Life", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Bermudez (Jose Luis) - The Moral Significance of Birth", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Chambers (K. Lindsey) - It’s Complicated: What Our Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Abortion, and Miscarriage Tell Us about the Moral Status of Early Fetuses", 2020, Internal PDF Link
- "Chisholm (Roderick) - Coming Into Being and Passing Away: Can the Metaphysician Help?", 1989, Internal PDF Link
- "Flower (Michael J.) - Neuromaturation and the Moral Status of Human Fetal Life", 1985, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Forrester (Mary) - Persons, Animals, and Fetuses: An Essay in Practical Ethics", 1996
- "Forrester (Mary) - Should Fetuses be Extended Persons?", 1996
- "Forrester (Mary) - The Human Fetus: Introduction", 1996
- "Gallagher (Shaun) - The Moral Significance of Primitive Self-Consciousness: A Response to Bermudez", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Howsepian (Avak Albert) - Four queries concerning the metaphysics of early human embryogenesis", 2008
- "Jones (D. Gareth) - The Human Embryo: Between Oblivion and Meaningful Life", 1994, Internal PDF Link
- "Kenny (Anthony) - Life Stories: When an individual life begins - and the ethics of ending it", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Kolb (Charles E.M.) - The Proposed Human Life Statute: Abortion as Murder", 1981, Internal PDF Link
- "McInerney (Peter K.) - Does a Fetus Already Have a Future-Like-Ours", 1990, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Was I Ever a Fetus? ('New Version')", 2008, Internal PDF Link
- "Page (Edgar) - Neonates, Persons and the Right to Life", 1989, Internal PDF Link
- "Persson (Ingmar) - Harming the Non-conscious", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Stone (Jim) - Why Potentiality Matters", 1987, Internal PDF Link
- "Tooley (Michael) - Abortion", 2014, Internal PDF Link
- "Verny (Thomas), Kelly (John) - The Secret Life of the Unborn Child", 1982
- "Wreen (Michael J.) - The Standing is Slippery", 2004
- Zygote69
- General:
- "Guenin (Louis M.) - The Nonindividuation Argument Against Zygotic Personhood", 2006
- "Strong (Carson) - Preembryo Personhood - An Assessment of the President’s Council Arguments", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Tacelli (Ronald) - Were You a Zygote?", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- Dicephalus70
- Dicephalus & Conjoined Twins71:
- "Barilan (Y. Michael) - One or Two: An Examination of the Recent Case of the Conjoined Twins from Malta", 2003, Internal PDF Link
- "Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - Conjoined Twins and the Biological Account of Personal Identity", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Hershenov (David) - Problems with a Constitution Account of Persons", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Shoemaker's Problem of Too Many Thinkers", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 18:
- This Note will be excluded from the Reading List for this Chapter.
- It is included in the Reading List for Chapter 6.
Footnote 30:
- See the section on Research Methodology for what is to be done with these.
Footnote 47:
- This is a well-known and important book that I read a long time ago, but which doesn’t seem to have been referenced hitherto.
Footnote 52: Footnote 60:
- The item that my algorithms drew my attention to is the possibility of “post-mortem pregnancy”.
- This anomalous notion is motivated by the adoption of “brain death” as the legal or clinical definition of death, where the mother is deemed dead but is evidently sufficiently biologically alive to carry the fetus as far as viability.
Footnote 61:
- Doubtless of very dubious relevance, but you never know.
Footnote 63: Footnote 64: Footnote 65:
- This paper might be as well considered in the Note on Pregnancy.
Footnote 67: See, in particular,
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