Jacob Derin
Biographic Data
| ID | 9679564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Derin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Derin |
| SIGNATURE | DERIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1793-7364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Where’s the Body
Much of the work in moral philosophy and the political debate on abortion has focused on when in human development personhood begins. In this article, using a variant of Derek Parfit’s view on personal identity, I instead frame the question as one of victimhood. I argue for what I call the Victim Requirement for the wrongness of killing–killing is wrong only if there is an identifiable victim. An identifiable victim is, temporally speaking, in th…
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Where’s the Body
Much of the work in moral philosophy and the political debate on abortion has focused on when in human development personhood begins. In this article, using a variant of Derek Parfit’s view on personal identity, I instead frame the question as one of victimhood. I argue for what I call the Victim Requirement for the wrongness of killing–killing is wrong only if there is an identifiable victim. An identifiable victim is, temporally speaking, in th…
Abortion (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Consciousness (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Ethics in medical practice (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Ontology (1 work) · Personal identity (1 work)