Roberts, Melinda A.
Harming Future Persons
Part I. Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms
1. The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem
David Heyd
Part II. If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is
2. Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives
Ingmar Persson
3. Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist
Jeff McMahan
Part III. Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a
4. Who Cares About Identity?
Nils Holtug
5. Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities?
Clark Wolf
6. Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity
Tim Mulgan
Part IV. Is the Argument to “No Harm Done” Correct? Must an Act that
7. Harming as Causing Harm
Elizabeth Harman
8. Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions
Bonnie Steinbock
9. Harming and Procreating
Matthew Hanser
10. The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When is One Act Better for a Person than Another?
Melinda A. Roberts
Part V. Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?
11. Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem
Hallvard Lillehammer
12. Two Varieties of “Better-For” Judgements
Peter Herissone-Kelly
13. Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions
David T. Wasserman
Part VI. Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem?
14. Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?
Gustaf Arrhenius
Part VII. What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy?
15. Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty
Philip G. Peters
16. Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time
Seana Valentine Shiffrin
Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Human Genetics, Constitutional Law, Medical Law, Law Theory/Law Philosophy
- Author(s)
- Roberts, Melinda A.
- Wasserman, David T.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
- Page amount
- 386 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402056970