Rethinking Moral Status Steve Clarke

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• ISBN 10: 0192646419
• ISBN 13: 9780192646415
• Author: Steve Clarke

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 to machines 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 these beings.

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 moral status. This volume explores such responses, and provides a forum for philosophical reflection about ordinary presuppositions and intuitions about moral status.

Table contents:

1:Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status, Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu
Section I. The Idea of Moral Status
2:Suffering and Moral Status, Jeff McMahan
3:An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status, David DeGrazia
4:The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects, Josh Shepherd
5:Moral Status, Person-Affectingness, and Parfit’s No-Difference View, F.M. Kamm
6:The Ever Conscious View and The Contingency of Moral Status, Elizabeth Harman
7:Moral Status and Moral Significance, Ingmar Persson
8:Moral Recognition and the Limits of Impartialist Ethics: On Androids, Sentience and Personhood, Udo Schuklenk
9:Is Moral Status Good for You?, Thomas Douglas
Section II. Specific Issues about Moral Status
10:Toward a Theory of Moral Status Inclusive of Nonhuman Animals: Pig Brains in a Vat, Cows versus Chickens, and Human-Nonhuman Chimeras, Ruth Faden, Tom Beauchamp, Alan Regenberg, and Debra Mathews
11:Revisiting Inexorable Moral Confusion About the Moral Status of Human-Nonhuman Chimeras, Jason Robert and Françoise Baylis
12:Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons: Species Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements, Sarah Chan
13:The Weak Connection between Moral Status and Legal Status, Ben Sachs
14:How the Moral Community Evolves, Russell Powell, Irina Mikhalevich and Allen Buchanan
15:Moral Status of Brain Organoids, Julian Koplin, Olivia Carter, and Julian Savulescu
16:How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve?, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer
17:Monkeys and Moral Machines, David R. Lawrence and John Harris
18:Sharing the World with Digital Minds, Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom

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