The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People

by Boonin, David

• ISBN13: 9780199682935
• ISBN10: 0199682933
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191505485
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

David Boonin is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of Colorado. He received his BA from Yale University, and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at Georgetown University (1992-94) and Tulane University (1994-98) before taking up his current position in 1998. He also held a visiting position for a semester as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006. Boonin is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue (CUP, 1994), A Defense of Abortion (CUP, 2003), The Problem of Punishment (CUP, 2008), and Should Race Matter? (CUP, 2011), as well as articles on such subjects as animal rights, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and our moral obligations to future generations. He is also the co-author and co-editor, with his colleague Graham Oddie, of the popular textbook What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics (OUP, 2009 [second edition]).