The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People

ISBN-13: 9780198866855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str.

David Boonin

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Throughout this careful examination, Boonin employs thoughtful case studies and thought experiments that serve to engage the reader in the analysis. The result is a book that is likely to put this philosophical quandary to rest ... Essential.

O autorze

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.