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Theories of Personhood

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Identity, Personhood and the Law

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This chapter continues to explore the concept of personhood. It considers the use of the concept in the bioethical literature and provides a critique of the two leading conceptions of personhood: those relying on mental capabilities and those relying on membership of the human species.

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  1. Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Charles Foster

  2. Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Jonathan Herring

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Foster, C., Herring, J. (2017). Theories of Personhood. In: Identity, Personhood and the Law. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53459-6_2

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