Schrödinger’s fetus examined

Joona Räsänen has proposed a concept he calls Schrödinger’s Fetus as a solution to reconciling what he believes are two widely held but contradictory intuitions. I show that Elizabeth Harman’s Actual Future Principle, upon which Schrödinger’s Fetus is based, uses a more convincing account of personh...

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Autor principal: Blackshaw, Bruce P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2019
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Scientific Contribution
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7260252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31834552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09936-0
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description Joona Räsänen has proposed a concept he calls Schrödinger’s Fetus as a solution to reconciling what he believes are two widely held but contradictory intuitions. I show that Elizabeth Harman’s Actual Future Principle, upon which Schrödinger’s Fetus is based, uses a more convincing account of personhood. I also argue that both Räsänen and Harman, by embracing animalism, weaken their arguments by allowing Don Marquis’ ‘future like ours’ argument for the immorality of abortion into the frame.
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spelling pubmed-72602522020-06-08 Schrödinger’s fetus examined Blackshaw, Bruce P. Med Health Care Philos Scientific Contribution Joona Räsänen has proposed a concept he calls Schrödinger’s Fetus as a solution to reconciling what he believes are two widely held but contradictory intuitions. I show that Elizabeth Harman’s Actual Future Principle, upon which Schrödinger’s Fetus is based, uses a more convincing account of personhood. I also argue that both Räsänen and Harman, by embracing animalism, weaken their arguments by allowing Don Marquis’ ‘future like ours’ argument for the immorality of abortion into the frame. Springer Netherlands 2019-12-13 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7260252/ /pubmed/31834552 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09936-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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