Human Capacities and Moral Status

INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE: YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK: CAPACITIES, HUMAN ORGANISMS, AND PERSONS1. The Adventure of Ronald Reagan's Brain2. What Are Humans?3. What Is Serious Moral Status?4. What Are Typical Human Capacities?5. What Are Persons?6. What Are We?CHAPTER TWO: ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, I CAN DO ALSO: HUMANS, OUR CAPACITIES, AND THE POWERS WE SHARE1. How to Compare Capacities Between Individuals2. A Temporary Change Argument About What We Are3. The Capacities of Undeveloped Human Organisms4. The Capacities of Damaged and Disabled Human OrganismsCHAPTER THREE: THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN: WHY CAPACITIES MUST MATTER MORALLY1. A Temporary Change Argument About What Matters Morally2. Moral Status and the Past3. Moral Status and the Future4. Why Not Stop at the First-Order Capacity?5. Actual, Continuing Subjects of Experience6. Capacities and the Original Position7. Capacities and the Capabilities ApproachCHAPTER FOUR: LITTLE PEOPLE: HIGHER-ORDER CAPACITIES AND THE ARGUMENT FROM POTENTIAL1. The Dreaded Argument from Potential2. Not Every Cell is Sacred3. Potential Presidents and Potential PersonsCHAPTER FIVE: NOT JUST DAMAGED GOODS: HIGHER-ORDER CAPACITIES AND THE ARGUMENT FROM MARGINAL CASES1. The Dreaded Argument from Marginal Cases2. Tooley's Cat, Boonin's Spider, McMahan's Dog, and Balaam's Ass3. How Not to Be a SpeciesistCHAPTER SIX: OLD OBJECTIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS: CAPACITIES AND MORAL STATUS AT THE VERY BORDERS OF HUMAN LIFE1. Does the Temporary Change Argument Prove Too Much?2. The Corpse Problem3. Solving the Corpse Problem4. Are Active Capacities Preferable to Passive?5. Drawing Lines Near Altered Nuclear Transfer and AnencephalyBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX