Stephen Napier is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, specializing in clinical bioethics and epistemology. He was a post-doctoral fellow in clinical and research ethics for two years in a tertiary care center, after which he held a full-time position with an IRB specializing in the review of pediatric research. He has published two monographs: Virtue epistemology: Motivation and knowledge (2008), and more recently, Uncertain Bioethics: Moral Risk and Human Dignity (2020).
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Justified Killing
Stephen Napier
This project argues that arguments for the permissibility of killing—specifically, arguments in favor of abortion and euthanasia—fail to justify their conclusions. At best, these arguments form a merely coherent network, but ultimately evince a circular pattern of justification. This book traces the two principal arguments made in support of permissible abortion: arguments based on a time-relative interest account of wrongdoing; and arguments based on the non-personhood of what is killed....
