Lindsey Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 6350748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5795-0478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Is the Harm in Addiction? Autonomy, Vulnerability, and the Case for Harm Reduction Drug Policy
Successful drugs policy must be driven by thoughtful principle and intergovernmental consensus, not by departmental or legal inertia, nor by public (mis)conceptions about drug use. Perhaps the most pressing choice for drugs policymakers at present is between harm reduction and abstinence approaches to drugs policy. To choose between these two approaches, we need to know addiction's normative status: is having an addiction a misfortune or a harm i…
Parental obligation and compelled caesarean section
Whether it is morally permissible to compel women to undergo a caesarean section is a topic of longstanding debate. Despite plenty of arguments against the moral permissibility of a forced caesarean section, the question keeps cropping up. This paper seeks to scrutinise a particular moral argument in favour of compulsion: the appeal to parental obligation. We present what we take to be a distillation of the basic form of this argument. We then ar…
Miscarriage and Person‐Denying
I am going to argue that grief in miscarriage tells against person-denying arguments for the permissibility of abortion.1 By “person-denying argument,” I mean arguments for the permissibility of abortion that rely centrally on the claim that the foetus lacks moral status. When I say that it “tells against,” what I mean is that we should take grief responses to miscarriage as defeasible evidence against the soundness of such arguments. In “Creatio…
Miscarriage and Person‐Denying
I am going to argue that grief in miscarriage tells against person-denying arguments for the permissibility of abortion.1 By “person-denying argument,” I mean arguments for the permissibility of abortion that rely centrally on the claim that the foetus lacks moral status. When I say that it “tells against,” what I mean is that we should take grief responses to miscarriage as defeasible evidence against the soundness of such arguments. In “Creatio…
Miscarriage and Person‐Denying
I am going to argue that grief in miscarriage tells against person-denying arguments for the permissibility of abortion.1 By “person-denying argument,” I mean arguments for the permissibility of abortion that rely centrally on the claim that the foetus lacks moral status. When I say that it “tells against,” what I mean is that we should take grief responses to miscarriage as defeasible evidence against the soundness of such arguments. In “Creatio…
Parental obligation and compelled caesarean section
Whether it is morally permissible to compel women to undergo a caesarean section is a topic of longstanding debate. Despite plenty of arguments against the moral permissibility of a forced caesarean section, the question keeps cropping up. This paper seeks to scrutinise a particular moral argument in favour of compulsion: the appeal to parental obligation. We present what we take to be a distillation of the basic form of this argument. We then ar…
What Is the Harm in Addiction? Autonomy, Vulnerability, and the Case for Harm Reduction Drug Policy
Successful drugs policy must be driven by thoughtful principle and intergovernmental consensus, not by departmental or legal inertia, nor by public (mis)conceptions about drug use. Perhaps the most pressing choice for drugs policymakers at present is between harm reduction and abstinence approaches to drugs policy. To choose between these two approaches, we need to know addiction's normative status: is having an addiction a misfortune or a harm i…
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abstinence (1 work) · Addiction (1 work)