Rethinking Moral Status

1: Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu: Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status Section I. The Idea of Moral Status 2: Jeff McMahan: Suffering and Moral Status 3: David DeGrazia: An Interest-Based Model of Moral Status 4: Josh Shepherd: The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects 5: F.M. Kamm: Moral Status, Person-Affectingness, and Parfit's No-Difference View 6: Elizabeth Harman: The Ever Conscious View and The Contingency of Moral Status 7: Ingmar Persson: Moral Status and Moral Significance 8: Udo Schuklenk: Moral Recognition and the Limits of Impartialist Ethics: On Androids, Sentience and Personhood 9: Thomas Douglas: Is Moral Status Good for You? Section II. Specific Issues about Moral Status 10: Ruth Faden, Tom Beauchamp, Alan Regenberg, and Debra Mathews: Toward a Theory of Moral Status Inclusive of Nonhuman Animals: Pig Brains in a Vat, Cows versus Chickens, and Human-Nonhuman Chimeras 11: Jason Robert and Françoise Baylis: Revisiting Inexorable Moral Confusion About the Moral Status of Human-Nonhuman Chimeras 12: Sarah Chan: Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons: Species Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements 13: Ben Sachs: The Weak Connection between Moral Status and Legal Status 14: Russell Powell, Irina Mikhalevich and Allen Buchanan: How the Moral Community Evolves 15: Julian Koplin, Olivia Carter, and Julian Savulescu: Moral Status of Brain Organoids 16: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer: How Much Moral Status Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Achieve? 17: David R. Lawrence and John Harris: Monkeys and Moral Machines 18: Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom: Sharing the World with Digital Minds