Title: 鈥淐ompensation for Wrongful Life鈥� Abstract: In a recent case in the UK, a 20-year-old woman with spina bifida brought an action against her mother鈥檚 physician for failing to advise her to take folic acid supplements for several months before becoming pregnant. The court ruled in the woman鈥檚 favor, accepting her claim that, had the…
Location: Teams (online only) Title: “Death, Deprivation, and Rational Regret” Abstract:聽 Is death a bad thing? According to the deprivation account, death is bad because the dead don’t get the various goods that they would have if only they were still alive. But it’s not normally a misfortune when a merely possible good doesn’t come…
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Two Puzzles About the Ethics of Divestment Abstract: Suppose you own stock in Acme Corp. and you learn that it consistently acts in seriously immoral ways. What should you do? A common answer maintains that owning stock in Acme Corp. makes you complicit in its immoral behavior and that you…
Location: Teams (online only) Title: Superogation Abstract: This paper considers the relation between supererogation and duties (also here referred to as聽obligations) from a nonconsequentialist point of view. It first considers whether supererogation may聽sometimes take precedence over positive and negative duties and how this relates to personal costs聽(including efforts) required to perform one鈥檚 duty. It then…
Title: The Permissibility of Collective Defence Agreements Abstract: Collective defence agreements (CDAs), of the sort that exist between, for example, NATO members, EU members, and African Union members, are a prime example of a prominent deterrence mechanism. They promise a degree of assistance that will make it almost impossible for an adversary to win an…
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