Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem

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This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations.

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Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice over Time.Seana Valentine Shiffrin
The intractability of the nonidentity problem.  (pages 3--25)David Heyd
Rights and the asymmetry between creating good and bad lives.  (pages 29--47)Ingmar Persson
Asymmetries in the morality of causing people to exist.  (pages 49--68)Jeff McMahan
Who cares about identity?  (pages 71--92)Nils Holtug
Do future persons presently have alternate possible identities?  (pages 93--114)Clark Wolf
Rule consequentialism and non-identity.  (pages 115--134)Tim Mulgan
Harming as causing harm.  (pages 137--154)Elizabeth Harman
Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions.  (pages 155--178)Bonnie Steinbock
Harming and procreating.  (pages 179--199)Matthew Hanser
The nonidentity problem and the two envelope problem: When is one act better for a person than another?  (pages 201--228)Melinda A. Roberts
Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?  (pages 230)V. Part
Reproduction, partiality, and the non-identity problem.  (pages 231--248)Hillvard Lillehammer
Two Varieties of “Better-For” Judgements.  (pages 249--263)Peter Herissone-Kelly
Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions.  (pages 265--285)David T. Wasserman
Can the Person Affecting Restriction solve the problems in population ethics?  (pages 289--314)Gustaf Arrhenius
Implications of the nonidentity problem for state regulation of reproductive liberty.  (pages 317--331)Philip G. Peters

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Doing Away with Harm.Ben Bradley - 2012 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85 (2):390-412.
Intergenerational justice.Lukas Meyer - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
The Asymmetry: A Solution.Melinda A. Roberts - 2011 - Theoria 77 (4):333-367.
An Asymmetry in the Ethics of Procreation.Melinda A. Roberts - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (11):765-776.

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