Sixteen Days
Barry
Smith and Berit
Brogaard
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy , 28 (2003), 45-78.
Abstract:
When does a human being begin to
exist? We argue that it is possible, through a combination of biological fact
and philosophical analysis, to provide a definitive answer to this question. We
lay down a set of conditions for being a human being, and we determine when, in
the course of normal fetal development, these conditions are first satisfied.
Issues dealt with along the way include: modes of substance-formation,
twinning, the nature of the intra-uterine environment, and the nature of the
relation between fetus and mother.
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Assessing Ontologies:
The
Question of Human Origins and Its Ethical Significance
Daniel Cohnitz
and Barry Smith
Preprint version of a paper published in
E. Runggaldier and C. Kanzian
(eds.), Persons: Persons - An Interdisciplinary Approach, Vienna: öbv&hpt,
2003, 243–59.
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