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Suggested reading:

Steven Pinker - How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate

Philip Ball - Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

Dick Swaab - We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's

Derek Parfit - Reasons and Persons

Thomas Nagel - Mortal Questions

David Boonin - The Non-Identity Problem & the Ethics of Future People

David Boonin - A Defense of Abortion

Bonnie Steinbock - Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob - Thinking Critically About Abortion: Why Most Abortions Aren't Wrong & Why All Abortions Should Be Legal

Ann Furedi - The Moral Case for Abortion: A Defence of Reproductive Choice

Kate Greasley - Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law

Jeff McMahan - The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life

Bonnie Steinbock and Paul T. Menzel - Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know



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