Stanislaw Kaminski Memorial Lectures 2022
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Prof. David Hershenov
University at Buffalo
Personal Identity and Bioethics
May 9-13, 2022
also available online
bit.ly/2022_kaminski_memorial_lectures
The course will examine three questions at the intersection of personal identity and bioethics. Is the human animal identical to the human person? When during a pregnancy does there emerge a subject of harm? To what extent can the mindless and minimally minded be harmed by their deaths?
30 Hour Course, 2 ECTS Points
9-12 AM, ROOM C220 | Also available online
Questions should be directed to
tomasz.lach@kul.pl
Readings:
- Jeff McMahan. 2002. "The Ethics of Killing" Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford University Press. "The Embodied Mind Account" pp. 66-94.
- Michael Tooley. 1983. Abortion and Infanticide. Part II. Chapter 5 "The Concept of a Person." 87-164
- Derek Parfit. 2012. "We Are Not Human Beings." Philosophy. 87:1. 5-28.
- David Hershenov. 2021. "Thinking Animals or Thinking Brains?" Acta Analytica. 36, 11-24
- David Hershenov and Adam Taylor. 2017. "Personal Identity and the Possibility of Autonomy." Dialectica. 71:2. 155–179.
- Michael Tooley. 1972. "Abortion and Infanticide" Philosophy and Public Affairs. 2:1, 37-65.
- Don Marquis. 1989. "Why Abortion is Immoral." Journal of Philosophy. 86:4, 183-202
- Jeff McMahan, 2002. The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. "The Time-Relative Interest Account" 165-174; 232-240. "Potential" 302-329. "Abortion and Infanticide" 338-345.
- David Hershenov and Rose Hershenov. 2017. "The Potential of Potentiality Arguments" in J. Eberl Ed. Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics. Springer Press. 35-52.
- David Hershenov and Rose Hershenov. 2017. "If Abortion then Infanticide." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 38:5, 387-409.
Kaminski Lectures Syllabus
McMahan Readings are from the
Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life
Monday May 9:
McMahan “Are We Human Organisms” pp 24-39
Tuesday May 10
McMahan “The Psychological Account” pp. 39-66
Wednesday May 11
McMahan “The Embodied Mind Account” pp. 66-94
Recommended: Olson “An Argument for Animalism” pp. 1-21
Thursday May 12
Hershenov “Thinking Animals or Thinking Brains”
Recommended: Parfit “We Are Not Human Beings”
Friday May 13
McMahan “The Time Relative Interests Account” pp. 165-174
Hershenov “Health, Harm, and Potential: The Interests of the Mindless & Minimally Minded” 2-27
Recommended: Marquis: “Abortion and Death” pp. 11-33
- Hershenov - 'Health, Harm, and Potential - The Interests of the Mindless and Minimally Minded'.pdf
- Hershenov - Thinking Animals or Thinking Brains.pdf
- Marquis - Abortion and Death - Critique of TRIA.pdf
- McMahan - Are We Human Organisms.pdf
- McMahan - The Embodied Mind.pdf
- McMahan - The Psychological Account.pdf
- McMahan - The Time-Relative Interest Account.pdf
- Olson - An Argument for Animalism.pdf
- Parfit - Why we are not Human Being.pdf
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