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Human Capacities and Moral Status

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 108)

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8537-5

ISBN: 978-90-481-8536-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 30, 2010

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You Are Not What You Think: Capacities, Human Organisms, and Persons

DiSilvestro, Russell

Pages: 1 –33

[To grasp the basic argument of this book, it helps to start with a vivid example.]
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Also: Humans, Our Capacities, and the Powers We Share

DiSilvestro, Russell

Pages: 35 –64

[In this chapter, I defend the first step of the main argument: if something is human, it has a set of typical human capacities. A more precise way of putting this step is as follows: there is some set, H, of capacities, such that for any individual X, if X is human, then X has H. I defend this...
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The Only Game in Town: Why Capacities Must Matter Morally

DiSilvestro, Russell

Pages: 65 –105

[In this chapter, I defend the second step of the main argument: if something has a set of typical human capacities, it has serious moral status. The major line of reasoning in this chapter is that there are cases of human organisms that are in such a state that the only satisfactory basis for...
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Little People: Higher-Order Capacities and the Argument from Potential

DiSilvestro, Russell

Pages: 107 –142

[If the arguments of Chapters 2 and Chapters 3 are sound, then even human infants, fetuses, embryos, and zygotes have the typical human capacities that are sufficient to generate serious moral status. This conclusion was reached by arguing that, as an adult human organism undergoes temporary...
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Not Just Damaged Goods: Higher-Order Capacities and the Argument from Marginal Cases

DiSilvestro, Russell

Pages: 143 –164

[If the arguments of Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are sound, then even the most “marginal” human organisms still have the typical human capacities that are sufficient to generate serious moral status. But this makes my position vulnerable to a version of the “Argument From Marginal Cases” (AMC).]
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Old Objections and New Directions: Capacities and Moral Status at the Very Borders of Human Life

DiSilvestro, Russell

Pages: 165 –199

[In this final chapter, I would like to consider several possible objections to the view defended in the previous pages. Some of these objections will look somewhat familiar: in a sense, they are old objections, or at least new versions of old objections. Some of these objections are somewhat...

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