Bruce P Blackshaw

Bruce P Blackshaw

Department of Philosophy
Doctoral researcher

Contact details

Address
ERI Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

PhD title: A critique of psychological accounts of personhood.

Supervisors: Jeremy Williams and Heather Widdows

PhD Philosophy

Research

Given their central role in many moral theories used in abortion ethics, I intend critiquing the main psychological accounts of personhood. This includes their notions of harm and related arguments against the moral relevance of potential. I would like to examine the permissibility of infanticide under these accounts, and I also intend researching the role of moral intuition in abortion ethics. I also intend defending pro-life accounts such as the substance view.

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