Bibframe Work

Selections from the Phaedo / Plato

Selections from Meditations on first philosophy / Rene Descartes

Selections from Personal identity : the dualist theory / Richard Swinburne

Selections from Summa theologiae / St. Thomas Aquinas

Terra es animata : on having a life / Gilbert Meilaender

An argument for animalism / Eric T. Olson

Selection from An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke

The unimportance of identity / Derek Parfit

Persons / P.F. Strawson

Real selves : persons as a substantial kind / E.J. Lowe

The ontological status of persons / Lynne Rudder Baker

Selections from part III of Mind, self, and society from the standpoint of a social behaviorist / G.H. Mead

The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man / Clifford Geertz

Selection from Personal being / Rom Harre

Selection from Dementia reconsidered : the person comes first / Tom Kitwood

Freedom of the will and the concept of a person / Harry G. Frankfurt

Jewish perspectives on abortion / Aaron L. Mackler

When do people begin? / Germain Grisez

Thomism and the beginning of personhood / Jason T. Eberl

Individuals, humans, and persons : the issue of moral status / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer

On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren

Ethics and embryos / Nicola Poplawski and Grant Gillett

When does a person begin? / Lynne Rudder Baker

The biophilosophical basis of whole-brain death / James L. Bernat

The definition of death in Jewish law / Fred Rosner

An unfounded diagnosis : revisiting the medical and metaphysical justifications of "brain death" / David A. Jones

St. Thomas on the beginning and ending of human life / William A. Wallace

The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death / Robert M. Veatch

Against the stream : comments on the definition and redefinition of death / Hans Jonas

Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green and Daniel Wikler

On the definition of death / John P. Lizza

Selection from Controversies in the determination of death : a white paper / President's Council on Bioethics