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The Non‐Identity Problem

Derek Parfit

In Reasons and Persons. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (1984)

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Ethical and Legal Issues in Enhancement Research on Human Subjects.Maxwell J. Mehlman, Jessica W. Berg, Eric T. Juengst & Eric Kodish - 2011 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (1):30--45.details The United States, along with other nations and international organizations, has developed an elaborate system of ethical norms and legal rules to govern biomedical research using human subjects. These policies govern research that might provide direct health benefits to participants and research in which there is no prospect for participant health benefits. There has been little discussion, however, about how well these rules would apply to research designed to improve participants’ capabilities or characteristics beyond the goal of good health. When (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
All you need is [somebody’s] love “third-party reproduction” and the existential density of biological affinity.Diogo Morais Sarmento Madureira - 2024 - Monash Bioethics Review 42 (2):234-259.details What is the true significance of biological kinship? During the last decades, it seemed to be uncontroversial that abandoned and even adopted people feel the negative impact of biological parents’ absence throughout life in several ways (Miller et al. 2000; Keyes, Margaret A., Anu Sharma, Irene J Elkins, and William G. Iacono, Matt McGue. 2008. The Mental Health of US Adolescents Adopted in Infancy. Archive Pediatric Adolescense Medicine 162(5): 419–425.). However, in the case of people conceived via “third-party reproduction”, especially (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Responsibility for Future Climate Justice: The Direct Responsibility to Mitigate Structural Injustice for Future Generations.Daan Keij & Boris Robert van Meurs - 2023 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (4):642-657.details In this article we argue that duties towards future generations are situated on the collective level and that they should be understood in terms of collective responsibility for structural injustice. In the context of climate change, it seems self‐evident that our moral duties pertain not only to the current generation but to future generations as well. However, conceptualizing this leads to the non‐identity problem: future persons cannot be harmed by present‐day choices because they would not have existed if other choices (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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