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Not Just Damaged Goods: Higher-Order Capacities and the Argument from Marginal Cases
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Not Just Damaged Goods: Higher-Order Capacities and the Argument from Marginal Cases

Russell DiSilvestro
Human Capacities and Moral Status, pp.143-164
Philosophy and Medicine, Springer Netherlands
01/30/2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8537-5_5
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12741/rep:5657

Abstract

Natural Kind Moral Status Thought Experiment Modal Boundary Human Organism
If the arguments of 10.1007/978-90-481-8537-5_2 and 10.1007/978-90-481-8537-5_3 are sound, then even the most “marginal” human organisms still have the typical human capacities that are sufficient to generate serious moral status. But this makes my position vulnerable to a version of the “Argument From Marginal Cases” (AMC).

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