David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. He provides a critical survey of solutions to the problem that have been proposed, and concludes by developing an unorthodox alternative solution, one that differs fundamentally from virtually every other approach.
David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. He provides a critical survey of solutions to the problem that have been proposed, and concludes by developing an unorthodox alternative solution, one that differs fundamentally from virtually every other approach.
David Boonin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Boonin is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue (CUP, 1994), A Defense of Abortion (CUP, 2003), The Problem of Punishment (CUP, 2008), Should Race Matter? (CUP, 2011), Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal Even if the Fetus is a Person (OUP, 2019), and Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm (OUP, 2019) as well as a number of articles on such subjects as animal rights, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and our moral obligations to past and future generations. He is also the editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy (Palgrave 2018), the co-author and co-editor, with his colleague Graham Oddie, of the popular textbook What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics (OUP, 2009 (second edition)), and the current Editor of Public Affairs Quarterly.
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Preface 1: Five Plausible Premises and One Implausible Conclusion 2: Rejecting the First Premise 3: Rejecting the Second Premise 4: Rejecting the Third Premise 5: Rejecting the Fourth Premise 6: Rejecting the Fifth Premise 7: Accepting the Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
Preface 1: Five Plausible Premises and One Implausible Conclusion 2: Rejecting the First Premise 3: Rejecting the Second Premise 4: Rejecting the Third Premise 5: Rejecting the Fourth Premise 6: Rejecting the Fifth Premise 7: Accepting the Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
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