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Morality, Mortality: Volume II: Rights, Duties, and Status

Morality, Mortality: Volume II: Rights, Duties, and Status

F. M. Kamm

In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory.
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Zeke Kamm

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Silence is Deadly

Silence is Deadly

Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Twenty agents of the Galactic Sythesis are missing on the Silent Planet of Kamm -- the victims, it seems, of the most powerful death ray the universe has ever known.
Morality, Mortality: Death and whom to save from it

Morality, Mortality: Death and whom to save from it

Frances Myrna Kamm

Critically examining other philosophers ideas, the author of this work explores the thinking behind the distribution of scarce resources, such as transplant organs.
Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and ...

Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and ...

F.M. Kamm

I owe this example to Franklin Bruno. 13. Carlos Soto has pointed out that Kant did not think a person's continuing to exist had overriding value; one need not, and sometimes should not, do everything to save one's life, in his view. 14.
The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other ...

The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other ...

F.M. Kamm

This title comprises essays that discuss aspects of war and other conflicts in the light of nonconsequentialist ethical theory.
Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy

Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy

F. M. Kamm

Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, this book critically examines the prevalent view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible.
Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

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139. 34. F. M. Kamm, Morality, Mortality, voL 1, Death and Whom to Save from 1t ( New York: Oxford University Press, 19931, p. 20. 35. See Bernard Williams, "The Makropoulus Case, or theTedium of 1mmortality," in lames Rachels, ed., Moral ...
Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication: Joint ...

Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communication: Joint ...

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Faundez-Zanuy, M., Fierrez-Aguilar, J., Ortega-Garcia, J., Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J. : Multimodal biometric databases: an overview. IEEE Aerospace and electronic systems magazine 21(9), 29–37 (2006) 2. Martin, A., Doddington, G., Kamm, T., ...
Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissable Harm

Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissable Harm

F.M. Kamm

This is a master at work, at the height of her powers."--Shelly Kagan, Clark Professor of Philosophy, Yale University "Intricate Ethics fully justifies its title.
The Trolley Problem Mysteries

The Trolley Problem Mysteries

Frances Myrna Kamm

'The Trolley Problem Mysteries' considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to ...
Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War

Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War

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Terror, Torture, and War F. M. Kamm. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bratman, Michael. Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.) Deen, Thalif. Millennium Summit. “UN Member States Struggle to Define ...
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

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In Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives, edited by F.M. Kamm, 363–392. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kant, I. 2012. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change

Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change

Kevin Danaher

... Van de Kamp, Karri Winn, Alix Davidson, Isabel Schechter, Jenny Heins, Zakiya Harris, Emily Adler, Alesha Reardon, Amanda Dufon, Amy Garcia, Annette Kamm, Vanessa Driscoll, Cindy Warlick, Cory West, Claire Hester, Dennis Donnelly, ...

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