Abigail Levin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Levin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Levin |
| SIGNATURE | LEVIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy, Niagara University New York, NY USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children
I consider the question of what moral obligations prospective parents owe to their future children. It is taken as an almost axiomatic premise of a wide range of philosophical arguments that prospective parents have a moral obligation to take such steps as ensuring their own financial stability or waiting until they are emotionally mature before conceiving. This is because it is assumed that parents have a moral obligation to lay the groundwork f…
Abigail Levin replies
This letter responds to the letter “The Open Donor View and Procreative Beneficence,” by Daniel Groll, in the same, May‐June 2024, issue of the Hastings Center Report
Biopolitics in the National Parks
Cecil the Lion lived in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe and was a part of an Oxford conservation study until his death by poaching, outside of Park boundaries, at the hands of an American hunter, in July 2015. Cecil’s death caused unique levels of international outrage, though wildlife poaching in general remains an all-too-ubiquitous phenomenon. This paper enquires as to why this particular death caused such outrage. I will examine this questio…
Mr. Justice William Johnson, Creative Dissenter
U NTIL the ad~ent of Justice ~liver~ endell Holmes, the mas~er_ful and magnetic figure of Chief--Justice John Marshall well-nigh overshadowed the whole field of constitutional jurisprudence.That Marshall made inestimable additions to our ideas of cooperative living at the very beginning of our democracy, and that his repu,te was well deserved, cannot be gainsaid.But one has good cause to wonder why the name of so distinguished a colleague as Will…
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Mr. Justice William Johnson, Creative Dissenter
U NTIL the ad~ent of Justice ~liver~ endell Holmes, the mas~er_ful and magnetic figure of Chief--Justice John Marshall well-nigh overshadowed the whole field of constitutional jurisprudence.That Marshall made inestimable additions to our ideas of cooperative living at the very beginning of our democracy, and that his repu,te was well deserved, cannot be gainsaid.But one has good cause to wonder why the name of so distinguished a colleague as Will…
Biopolitics in the National Parks
Cecil the Lion lived in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe and was a part of an Oxford conservation study until his death by poaching, outside of Park boundaries, at the hands of an American hunter, in July 2015. Cecil’s death caused unique levels of international outrage, though wildlife poaching in general remains an all-too-ubiquitous phenomenon. This paper enquires as to why this particular death caused such outrage. I will examine this questio…
What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children
I consider the question of what moral obligations prospective parents owe to their future children. It is taken as an almost axiomatic premise of a wide range of philosophical arguments that prospective parents have a moral obligation to take such steps as ensuring their own financial stability or waiting until they are emotionally mature before conceiving. This is because it is assumed that parents have a moral obligation to lay the groundwork f…
Abigail Levin replies
This letter responds to the letter “The Open Donor View and Procreative Beneficence,” by Daniel Groll, in the same, May‐June 2024, issue of the Hastings Center Report
Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Beneficence (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Organ Donation and Transplantation (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)