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OverviewWhat is the moral status of humans lacking the potential for consciousness? The concept of potentiality often tips the scales in life-and-death medical decisions. Some argue that all human embryos have the potential to develop characteristics - such as consciousness, intellect, and will - that we normally associate with personhood. Individuals with total brain failure or in a persistent vegetative state are thought to lack the potential for consciousness or any other mental function. Or do they? In Potentiality John Lizza gathers classic articles alongside newly commissioned chapters from leading thinkers who analyze the nature of potentiality in bioethics, a concept central to a number of important debates. The contributors illustrate how considerations of potentiality and potential persons complicate the analysis of the moral consideration of persons at the beginning and end of life. A number of works explicitly uncover the Aristotelian background of the concept, while others explore philosophical issues about persons, dispositions, and possibility. The common assumption that potentiality is intrinsic to whatever has the potentiality is challenged by a relational view of persons, an extrinsic account of dispositions, and attention to how extrinsic factors affect realistic possibilities. Although potentiality has figured prominently in bioethical literature, it has not received a great deal of logical, semantic, and metaphysical analysis in contemporary philosophical literature. This collection will bring these thorny philosophical issues to the fore. Incorporating cutting-edge research on the topic of potentiality, this thought-provoking collection will interest bioethicists, philosophers, health care professionals, attorneys engaged in medical and health issues, and hospital and governmental committees who advise on policy and law concerning issues at the beginning and end of life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John P. Lizza (Professor and Chair, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9781421411743ISBN 10: 1421411741 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 12 April 2014 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Nature of Potentiality 1. Aristotle's Theory of Potentiality 2. Dispositions and Potentialities 3. The Paradoxes of Potentiality 4. Physical Possibility and Potentiality in Ethics 5. Abortion: Listening to the Middle Part II: Potentiality at the Beginning of Life 6. Persons with Potential 7. The Moral Status of Stem Cells 8. Potential 9. Abortion and the Margins of Personhood 10. Revisiting the Argument from Fetal Potential Part III: Potentiality at the End of Life 11. Are DCD Doners Dead? 12. The Irreversibility of Death: Metaphysical, Physiological, Medical or Ethical? 13. On the Ethical Relevance of Active versus Passive Potentiality List of Contributors IndexReviewsThis book is a very precious work that contributes vigorously to philosophical research. Springer This book is a very precious work that contributes vigorously to philosophical research. * Springer * I highly recommend this collection to anyone interested in the potentiality debate at the margins of life's beginnings and endings. * Quarterly Review of Biology * In sum, both for the richness of its content and for the challenging questions it raises, this volume offers an enjoyable reading about potentiality and its implications in debates concerning the beginning and end of life. * Medical Health Care and Philosophy * Author InformationJohn P. Lizza is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Kutztown University, author of Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of Death, and editor of Defining the Beginning and End of Life: Readings on Personal Identity and Bioethics, both published by Johns Hopkins. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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