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85Reviving Brain Death: A Functionalist View (review)Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 10 (3): 383-392. 2013.Recently both whole brain death (WBD) and higher brain death (HBD) have come under attack. These attacks, we argue, are successful, leaving supporters of both views without a firm foundation. This state of affairs has been described as “the death of brain death.” Returning to a cardiopulmonary definition presents problems we also find unacceptable. Instead, we attempt to revive brain death by offering a novel and more coherent standard of death based on the permanent cessation of mental processi…Read more
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88Neuroethics and the Ethical Parity PrincipleNeuroethics 7 (3): 317-325. 2014.Neil Levy offers the most prominent moral principles that are specifically and exclusively designed to apply to neuroethics. His two closely related principles, labeled as versions of the ethical parity principle , are intended to resolve moral concerns about neurological modification and enhancement [1]. Though EPP is appealing and potentially illuminating, we reject the first version and substantially modify the second. Since his first principle, called EPP , is dependent on the contention tha…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of the Americas |