Samuel Director,Christopher Freiman
Samuel Director
In response to the spread of COVID-19, governments across the world, with very few exceptions, have enacted sweeping restrictive lockdown policies that impede citizens' freedom to move, work, and assemble. This paper critically responds to ...
Tommy Ness,Linda Barclay
Tommy Ness
This article develops a detailed, empirically driven analysis of the nature of the transition costs incurred in becoming disabled. Our analysis of the complex nature of these costs supports the claim that it can be wrong to cause disability...
On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance View [0.03%]
关于基本平等的辩护问题：自然法与实体观视角
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
While most theorists agree with the claim that human beings have high and equal moral standing, there are strong disagreements about how to justify this claim. These disagreements arise because there are different ways of managing the diffi...
Peter M Koch
Peter M Koch
In clinical ethics, there remains a great deal of uncertainty regarding the appropriateness of attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for certain patients. Although the issue continues to receive ample attention and various framewor...
Łukasz Dominiak,Igor Wysocki
Łukasz Dominiak
In "Evictionism and Libertarianism," published in this journal, Walter Block defends the view that, although the fetus is a human being with all the rights to its body, it may nonetheless be evicted from the woman's body as a trespasser, pr...
Alex R Gillham
Alex R Gillham
Hendricks' The Impairment Argument (TIA) claims that it is immoral to impair a fetus by causing it to have fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Since aborting a fetus impairs it to a greater degree than causing it to have FAS, then abortion is als...
Inconsistency between the Circulatory and the Brain Criteria of Death in the Uniform Determination of Death Act [0.03%]
《统一死亡判定法》中循环标准和脑死亡标准的不一致性
Alberto Molina-Pérez,James L Bernat,Anne Dalle Ave
Alberto Molina-Pérez
The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) provides that "an individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, incl...
Sam Baron,Sara Linton,Maureen A O&#x;Malley
Sam Baron
Despite their centrality to medicine, drugs are not easily defined. We introduce two desiderata for a basic definition of medical drugs. It should: (a) capture everything considered to be a drug in medical contexts and (b) rule out anything...
Is Death Irreversible? [0.03%]
死亡能逆转吗？
Nada Gligorov
Nada Gligorov
There are currently two legally established criteria for death: the irreversible cessation of circulation and respiration and the irreversible cessation of neurologic function. Recently, there have been technological developments that could...
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System [0.03%]
没有生存的记忆：个人身份和上行网状激活系统
Lukas J Meier
Lukas J Meier
Lockean views of personal identity maintain that we are essentially persons who persist diachronically by virtue of being psychologically continuous with our former selves. In this article, I present a novel objection to this variant of psy...