Books And Other Publications

Causing Death and Saving Lives (1977)

This book has three central thrusts. The first is an attempt to provide a new model for thinking about the moral wrongness of killing. It sets out to...

Choosing Children: Genes, Disability and Design

This book, based on the Uehiro Lectures I gave at Oxford, returns more than twenty years later, to the genetic choices discussed in What Sort of...

Humanity, a Moral History of the Twentieth Century (London, 1999 and New Haven, 2000)

It is a bit staggering how easily most of us accept the cruelty and killings that fill so much of the news bulletins. Humanity started out with the...

I: The Philosophy and Psychology of Personal Identity (1988)

This book relates work in neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry to questions about what a person is and the nature of a person’s unity across...

Responsibility (1970)

This book argues that determinism may well be true, and tries to work out an account of freedom and responsibility compatible with determinism and...

Some other publications

Fertility and the Family, 1989. A report to the European Commission by a working party I chaired on assisted reproduction. It discussed donor...

What Sort of People Should There Be? (1984)

This was the first philosophical book on the ethics of genetic choices, and (in its second half) the first book on what is now called “neuroethics”:...