Wednesday 31 August 2011

Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect

Can we sacrifice one person to save the life of another? Is the intention to kill or to save life?

Phillipa Foot writes an interesting chapter on this topic in her book Virtues, vices and other issues in Moral Philosophy. This can be found online or is available to buy from Amazon.

Peter Singer on Project Nim


Project Nim reminds us of our responsibility to the great apes

How the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky was treated was wrong, and such invasive research should be consigned to history.
In this article for the New York Times review of books blog, Peter Singer discusses his views on using chimps in research.
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