Metaphysics and the morality of abortion

Mind 108 (432):619-646 (1999)
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Abstract

Conclusions about the morality of abortion have been thought to receive some support from metaphysical doctrines about persons. The paper studies four instances in which philosophers have sought to draw such morals from metaphysics. It argues that in each instance the metaphysics makes no moral difference, and the manner of failure seems indicative of a general epistemic irrelevance of metaphysics to the moral issue.

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Earl Conee
University of Rochester

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