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230Baby Fae: a beastly businessJournal of Medical Ethics 11 (4): 178-183. 1985.The Baby Fae experiment has highlighted the growing trend in medicine of using animal parts in the treatment of humans. This paper raises the question of the logical and moral justification for these current practices and their proposed expansion. We argue that the Cognitive Capacity Principle establishes morally justified necessary and sufficient conditions for the use of non-human animals in medical treatments and research. Some alternative sources for medical uses are explored as well as some…Read more
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125Critical legal studies: The paradoxes of indeterminacy and nihilismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 13 (2): 145-154. 1987.
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101Negative duties, positive duties, and rightsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 581-588. 1978.
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62Honor thy father and thy mother and to thine own self be trueSouthern Journal of Philosophy 24 (2): 149-162. 1986.
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50Is Human Life Absurd? A Philosophical Inquiry into Finitude, Value, and MeaningBrill | Rodopi. 2019.Belliotti unravels the paradoxes of human existence to reveal paths for crafting meaningful, significant, valuable, even important lives. He argues that human life is not inherently absurd; examines the implications of mortality; contrasts subjective and objective meaning, and evaluates contemporary renderings of meaningful human lives.
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46Morality andin vitro fertilizationJournal of Medical Humanities 2 (1): 6-19. 1980.The question of the morality ofin vitro fertilization is examined. One of the central questions to be answered is whether the zygote loss that seems inseparable from the process is morally justified. Even when embryo transfer occurs, many zygotes which have been intentionally created are intentionally destroyed; they are used as means to the alleged benefits that others will attain.
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39Radical Politics and Nonfoundational MoralityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 29 (1): 33-51. 1989.
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38The Moral Symmetry Principle and the Duty Correspondence PrincipleJournal of Critical Analysis 7 (4): 135-142. 1979.
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36Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (1): 154-155. 2003.
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33Blood is thicker than water: Don't forsake the family jewelsPhilosophical Papers 18 (3): 265-280. 1989.(1989). BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER: DON'T FORSAKE THE FAMILY JEWELS. Philosophical Papers: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 265-280. doi: 10.1080/05568648909506323
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32Justifying law: the debate over foundations, goals, and methodsTemple University Press. 1992.Author note: Raymond A. Belliotti is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Fredonia.
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30The Grounds of Ethical Judgement (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (3): 667-669. 2005.The author accepts a conventional moral dilemma: Either we have a firm, rational foundation for our judgments about right and wrong, or we drown in a merciless sea of historical and sociological relativism. He advances and defends “new transcendental arguments” that supposedly demonstrate that we cannot rationally deny some propositions that are necessary for reasoning itself. If these propositions cannot be rejected rationally then they should be embraced as justified and true. As such, they ca…Read more
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26The Legal Philosophy of H. L. A. Hart (review)International Studies in Philosophy 24 (1): 116-117. 1992.
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23Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy (review)International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 105-107. 1990.
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22Negative Duties, Positive Duties, and RightsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 581-588. 1978.
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