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Rethinking Moral Status (in English)
Julian Savulescu
(Illustrated by)
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Steve Clarke
(Illustrated by)
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Hazem Zohny
(Illustrated by)
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Oxford University Press, USA
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Rethinking Moral Status (in English) - Clarke, Steve ; Zohny, Hazem ; Savulescu, Julian
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Synopsis "Rethinking Moral Status (in English)"
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 tomachines 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 thesebeings. 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 moralstatus. This volume explores such responses, and provides a forum for philosophical reflection about ordinary presuppositions and intuitions about moral status.
