In early 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Ari Ne'eman to the National Council on Disability (NCD), along with seven other people. Unlike the other nominees (and all others …
Free Speech is a philosophical treatment of a topic which is of immense importance to all of us. Writing with great clarity, wit, and genuine concern, Alan Haworth situates the main …
S Vehmas - Disability & society, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
'Bioutilitarianism', which is a position presented by the well-known utilitarian philosophers Helga Kuhse, James Rachels and Peter Singer, views the potential existence of infants with …
JA Laing - Journal of medical ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
Alberto Giubilini and Francesco Minerva's recent infanticide proposal is predicated on their personism and actualism. According to these related ideas, human beings achieve their …
JA Laing - Human lives: Critical essays on consequentialist …, 1997 - Springer
Abstract The dictum of Publilius Syrus expresses a central idea of traditional morality. When we say an action is gravely wrong because it betrays the innocent, we assume that morality …
The paper has to do with Peter Singer's statement 'A German Attack on Applied Ethics', and particularly with the claim that those who protested against his speaking at conferences in …
Disability remains one of the most marginalized considerations within urban planning and social justice research and practice. Disability affords planning the critical conceptual lens of …
Both opponents and proponents of Singer's right to speak about euthanasia have concentrated on the tenability of his claims. They have ignored the question of what …
The claimed replaceability of infants is a key element of recent utilitarian justifications of infanticide. Proponents admit to being puzzled about exactly the right way to present this …