Episode 21: Personhood - An Introduction (On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion - Mary Anne Warren)

Is a dolphin a person? Is an elephant? Are you? Every day, the need to understand what a person is grows. From AI to animal ethics, conversations about the morals status of certain entities rest on whether that entity is 'a person'. Today, we begin our journey into understanding what a person is. We use philosopher Mary Anne Warren's paper, 'On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion', as our starting point. We discuss her 5 criteria of personhood and what the both of us take to be the defining features of a person. This is going to be a very interesting module, the introduction to which we loved recording! Mentioned in the episode: AI Governance and Ethics - University of Oxford