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Fiona Woollard
Researcher at University of Southampton
Publications - 32
Citations - 305
Fiona Woollard is an academic researcher from University of Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Harm & Doctrine. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 29 publications receiving 243 citations. Previous affiliations of Fiona Woollard include University of Sheffield & University of Reading.
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Doing vs. Allowing Harm
TL;DR: In this article, the nature and moral significance of the difference between doing and allowing harm is discussed and discussed in the context of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on the Difference between Doing and allowing Harm.
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Doing and Allowing Harm
TL;DR: Woollard argues that the principle of doing and allowing is best understood as a principle that protects us from harmful imposition such protection against imposition is necessary for morality to recognize anything as genuinely belonging to a person, even that person's own body As morality must recognize each person's body as belonging to her, the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing should be accepted as discussed by the authors.
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Have we solved the non-identity problem?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider attempts to solve the Non-Identity Problem by denying that to harm someone an agent must make them worse off, and they argue that such responses provide a partial solution to the NIPP.
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The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing I: Analysis of the Doing/Allowing Distinction
TL;DR: A critical overview of the literature on the distinction between doing and allowing can be found in this paper, where the authors explore some of the most prominent attempts to analyse this distinction: Philippa Foot's sequence account, Quinn's action/action account, and counterfactual test accounts put forward by Shelly Kagan and Jonathan Bennett.
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If This Is My Body … : A Defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend the notion of doing harm is harder to justify than merely allowing harm, and argue that a thing does not genuinely belong to a person unless he has special authority over it.