Abortion and the moral significance of merely possible persons [electronic resource] : finding middle ground in hard cases / Melinda A. Roberts.
"This book has two main goals. The first is to give an account, called Variablism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons -- persons who, relative to a particular circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. The second is to use Variablism to illumi...
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| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg ; New York :
Springer Verlag,
2010.
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| Series: | Philosophy and medicine ;
v. 107. |
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Table of Contents:
- Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons; Chapter 3: The Abortion Paradox; Chapter 4: Three More Arguments Against Early Abortion; Chapter 5: Abortion and Variabilism; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Appendix A : Otherwise Plausible Permissibility Theory + Variabilism.