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3Abigail Levin repliesHastings Center Report 54 (3): 61-62. 2024.This letter responds to the letter “The Open Donor View and Procreative Beneficence,” by Daniel Groll, in the same, May‐June 2024, issue of the Hastings Center Report.
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8What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children?Hastings Center Report 54 (2): 34-43. 2024.I consider the question of what moral obligations prospective parents owe to their future children. It is taken as an almost axiomatic premise of a wide range of philosophical arguments that prospective parents have a moral obligation to take such steps as ensuring their own financial stability or waiting until they are emotionally mature before conceiving. This is because it is assumed that parents have a moral obligation to lay the groundwork for their children's lives to go well. While at fir…Read more
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8This paper addresses the killing of Freya the Walrus by the Norwegian fishing authorities in August 2022. Freya became famous for sunbathing on boats in the marina in the Oslo fjord, but she was soon euthanized in the name of public safety. Her death caused international outrage, and the aim of our paper is to demonstrate using philosophical argument why her death was unjust. We examine her plight through frameworks developed by animal ethicists involving co-sovereignty, capability, and individu…Read more
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1894The Cost of Free Speech: Pornography, Hate Speech, and Their Challenge to LiberalismPalgrave-Macmillan. 2010.The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal state ought to depart from neutrality to meet this challenge.
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Ian MacMullen, Faith In Schools? Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (4): 282-284. 2008.
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14Jessica Spector, ed. Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate about the Sex Industry Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (4): 300-302. 2007.
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1231Zoo Animals as Specimens, Zoo Animals as FriendsEnvironmental Philosophy 12 (1): 21-44. 2015.The international protest surrounding the Copenhagen Zoo’s recent decision to kill a healthy giraffe in the name of population management reveals a deep moral tension between contemporary zoological display practices—which induce zoo-goers to view certain animals as individuals, quasi-persons, or friends—and the traditional objectives of zoos, which ask us only to view animals as specimens. I argue that these zoological display practices give rise to moral obligations on the part of zoos to thei…Read more
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3Andrew Mason, Levelling the Playing Field: The Idea of Equal Opportunity and Its Place in Egalitarian Thought Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 52-54. 2008.
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4699Pornography, Hate Speech, and Their Challenge to Dworkin's Egalitarian LiberalismPublic Affairs Quarterly 23 (4): 357-373. 2009.Contemporary egalitarian liberals—unlike their classical counterparts—have lived through many contentious events where the right to freedom of expression has been tested to its limits—the Skokie, Illinois, skinhead marches, hate speech incidents on college campuses, Internet pornography and hate speech sites, Holocaust deniers, and cross-burners, to name just a few. Despite this contemporary tumult, freedom of expression has been nearly unanimously affirmed in both the U.S. jurisprudence and phi…Read more
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