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"Common-sense morality implicitly assumes that reasonably clear distinctions can be drawn between the ""full"" moral status that is usually attributed to ordinary adult humans, the partial moral status attributed to non-human animals, and the absence of moral status, which is usually ascribed to machines and other artifacts. These implicit assumptions have long been challenged, and are now coming under further scrutiny as there are beings we have recently become able to create, as well as beings that we may soon be able to create, which blur the distinctions between human, non-human animal, and non-biological beings. These beings include non-human chimeras, cyborgs, human brain organoids, post-humans, and human minds that have been uploaded into computers and onto the internet and artificial intelligence. It is far from clear what moral status we should attribute to any of these beings.There are a number of ways we could respond to the new challenges these technological developments raise: we might revise our ordinary assumptions about what is needed for a being to possess full moral status, or reject the assumption that there is a sharp distinction between full and partial moral status. This volume explores such responses, and provides a forum for philosophical reflection about ordinary presuppositions and intuitions about moral status."

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Author:   Steve Clarke (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Charles Sturt University) ,  Hazem Zohny (Research Fellow in Bioethics, Research Fellow in Bioethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) ,  Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.692kg
ISBN:  

9780192894076

ISBN 10:   0192894072
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu: Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status Section I. The Idea of Moral Status 2: Jeff McMahan: Suffering and Moral Status 3: David DeGrazia: An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status 4: Josh Shepherd: The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects 5: F.M. Kamm: Moral Status, Person-Affectingness, and Parfit's No-Difference View 6: Elizabeth Harman: The Ever Conscious View and The Contingency of Moral Status 7: Ingmar Persson: Moral Status and Moral Significance 8: Udo Schuklenk: Moral Recognition and the Limits of Impartialist Ethics: On Androids, Sentience and Personhood 9: Thomas Douglas: Is Moral Status Good for You? Section II. Specific Issues about Moral Status 10: Ruth Faden, Tom Beauchamp, Alan Regenberg, and Debra Mathews: Toward a Theory of Moral Status Inclusive of Nonhuman Animals: Pig Brains in a Vat, Cows versus Chickens, and Human-Nonhuman Chimeras 11: Jason Robert and Françoise Baylis: Revisiting Inexorable Moral Confusion About the Moral Status of Human-Nonhuman Chimeras 12: Sarah Chan: Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons: Species Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements 13: Ben Sachs: The Weak Connection between Moral Status and Legal Status 14: Russell Powell, Irina Mikhalevich and Allen Buchanan: How the Moral Community Evolves 15: Julian Koplin, Olivia Carter, and Julian Savulescu: Moral Status of Brain Organoids 16: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer: How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve? 17: David R. Lawrence and John Harris: Monkeys and Moral Machines 18: Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom: Sharing the World with Digital Minds

Reviews

This book does not simply leave open ended philosophical questions but offers a rich array of argued answers to address real problems of the immediate future relevant not only to those specifically concerned with the problem of moral status, but to moral and political philosophers and in general to anyone who wants to investigate more profoundly the relationship between technology and society. * Jacopo Morelli, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics *

Author Information

Steve Clarke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. He is also a Senior Research Associate in Ethics and Humanities Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has broad research interests in philosophy and bioethics. Hazem Zohny is Research Fellow in Bioethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the goals of medicine and the ethical implications of human enhancement technologies, as well as the bioprediction of behaviour and the use of neurointerventions for crime prevention. Julian Savulescu has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002. He directs the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and co-directs the interdisciplinary Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. He is Visiting Professorial Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, Melbourne University, where he directs the Biomedical Ethics Research Group.

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