Rethinking Moral Status

Steve Clarke, Charles Sturt University,Hazem Zohny, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics,Julian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Steve Clarke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. He is also a Senior Research Associate in Ethics and Humanities Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of
Oxford. He has broad research interests in philosophy and bioethics.


Hazem Zohny is Research Fellow in Bioethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the goals of medicine and the ethical implications of human enhancement technologies, as well as the bioprediction of behaviour and the use of
neurointerventions for crime prevention.


Julian Savulescu has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002. He directs the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and co-directs the interdisciplinary Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. He is Visiting Professorial Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, Melbourne University, where he directs the Biomedical Ethics Research Group.

1. Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status, Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu
Section I. The Idea of Moral Status
2. Suffering and Moral Status, Jeff McMahan
3. An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status, David DeGrazia
4. The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects, Josh Shepherd
5. Moral Status, Person-Affectingness, and Parfit's No-Difference View, F.M. Kamm
6. The Ever Conscious View and The Contingency of Moral Status, Elizabeth Harman
7. Moral Status and Moral Significance, Ingmar Persson
8. Moral Recognition and the Limits of Impartialist Ethics: On Androids, Sentience and Personhood, Udo Schuklenk
9. Is Moral Status Good for You?, Thomas Douglas
Section II. Specific Issues about Moral Status
10. Toward a Theory of Moral Status Inclusive of Nonhuman Animals: Pig Brains in a Vat, Cows versus Chickens, and Human-Nonhuman Chimeras, Ruth Faden, Tom Beauchamp, Alan Regenberg, and Debra Mathews
11. Revisiting Inexorable Moral Confusion About the Moral Status of Human-Nonhuman Chimeras, Jason Robert and Fran?oise Baylis
12. Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons: Species Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements, Sarah Chan
13. The Weak Connection between Moral Status and Legal Status, Ben Sachs
14. How the Moral Community Evolves, Russell Powell, Irina Mikhalevich and Allen Buchanan
15. Moral Status of Brain Organoids, Julian Koplin, Olivia Carter, and Julian Savulescu
16. How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve?, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer
17. Monkeys and Moral Machines, David R. Lawrence and John Harris
18. Sharing the World with Digital Minds, Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom