Is Moral Theory Perplexed by New Genetic Technology? Richard J. Arneson From Choice to Chance: Genes and the Just Society intelligently addresses difficult issues at the intersection of medical ethics and the theory of justice. The authors, Dan Brock, Allen Buchanan, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler, repeatedly emphasize their opinion that advances in genetic technology force upon us entirely ...

What’s Wrong With Pain? (August 2005) Adam Joseph Shriver, B.S., Iowa State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Gary Varner The experience of pain is something that most people are extremely familiar with. However, once we begin to examine the subject from an ethical point of view, and particularly when we examine so-called marginal cases such as nonhuman animals, we are quickly confron...

For a given family of similar shapes, what we call \unit shape" strongly analogizes the role unit circle within all circles. Within many such families present believe is naturally and intrinsically unital about their shapes. We number calculus problems related to extremal questions collections recapitulate some isoperimetric in terms close by presenting (some which are open) proffering perhaps ...

A small girl with a unique genetic syndrome lies in bed since birth. Her brain does not work. She is in a persistent vegetative state. Recurrent seizures punctuate her intractable epilepsy. She shows no meaningful interaction. Her breathing is insufficient. Upper airway obstruction, repeated aspiration events, chronic lung disease, and scoliosis make her struggle to breathe. Her parents never w...

Infertility can be an agonizing experience, especially for women. And, much of the agony has to do with luck: with how unlucky one is in being infertile, and in how much luck is involved in determining whether one can weather the storm of infertility and perhaps have a child in the end. We argue that bad luck associated with being infertile isoften bad moral uck for women. The infertile woman o...

In this paper, Anniina Leiviskä examines the moral, political, and epistemic claims of social justice movement known as “decolonizing university” from perspective Jürgen Habermas's distinction between objective normative validity respective notions truth moral rightness. challenges view, held by some representatives decolonization, that are inseparable each other suggests evaluating justificati...

Christine Korsgaard argues for the moral status of animals and our obligations to them. She grounds this obligation on the notion that we share a common identity, our animal nature, with them and that animal pain represents a public reason that binds us; nevertheless, her distinctive attempt to enlist Kantian arguments to account for our obligations to animals has a startling implication that s...

There have been various suggestions of what the criteria are for a justified conscientious refusal (eg, reasonable 2 and genuine), but none of them could be assessed with confidence. Cowley makes a case against using tribunals as a means of assessing the defensibility of physicians’ conscientious refusals, arguing that they would be a pointless bureaucratic exercise and instead supports the cur...