In 1968, a prominent American medical journal published a short article with a bold aim: “…to define irreversible coma as a new criterion for death.” What followed was not just a technical treatise, but a radical rethinking of what it means to die. The authors outlined how a detailed neurological...
In 1968, a prominent American medical journal published a short article with a bold aim: “…to define irreversible coma as a new criterion for death.” What followed was not just a technical treatise, but a radical rethinking of what it means to die. The authors outlined how a detailed neurological...
When it comes to addressing trade offs, utilitarianism is typically considered to be the normative theory par excellence. Utilitarians are maximising consequentialists, meaning that they believe whether an act is right or wrong depends solely on its consequences and that we should choose to perform the acts that lead to...