Potentiality: metaphysical and bioethical dimensions

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE NATURE OF POTENTIALITY -- 1 Aristotle's Theory of Potentiality -- 2 Dispositions and Potentialities -- 3 The Paradoxes of Potentiality -- 4 Physical Possibility and Potentiality in Ethics -- 5 Abortion: Listening to the Middle -- PART II: POTENTIALITY AT THE BEGINNING OF LIFE -- 6 Persons with Potential -- 7 The Moral Status of Stem Cells -- 8 Potential -- 9 Abortion and the Margins of Personhood -- 10 Revisiting the Argument from Fetal Potential -- PART III: POTENTIALITY AT THE END OF LIFE -- 11 Are DCD Donors Dead? -- 12 The Irreversibility of Death: Metaphysical, Physiological, Medical or Ethical? -- 13 On the Ethical Relevance of Active versus Passive Potentiality -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.