Selections from the Phaedo / Plato
Selections from Meditations on first philosophy / Rene Descartes
Selections from Personal identity : the dualist theory / Richard Swinburne
Selections from Summa theologiae / St. Thomas Aquinas
Terra es animata : on having a life / Gilbert Meilaender
An argument for animalism / Eric T. Olson
Selection from An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke
The unimportance of identity / Derek Parfit
Persons / P.F. Strawson
Real selves : persons as a substantial kind / E.J. Lowe
The ontological status of persons / Lynne Rudder Baker
Selections from part III of Mind, self, and society from the standpoint of a social behaviorist / G.H. Mead
The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man / Clifford Geertz
Selection from Personal being / Rom Harre
Selection from Dementia reconsidered : the person comes first / Tom Kitwood
Freedom of the will and the concept of a person / Harry G. Frankfurt
Jewish perspectives on abortion / Aaron L. Mackler
When do people begin? / Germain Grisez
Thomism and the beginning of personhood / Jason T. Eberl
Individuals, humans, and persons : the issue of moral status / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer
On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren
Ethics and embryos / Nicola Poplawski and Grant Gillett
When does a person begin? / Lynne Rudder Baker
The biophilosophical basis of whole-brain death / James L. Bernat
The definition of death in Jewish law / Fred Rosner
An unfounded diagnosis : revisiting the medical and metaphysical justifications of "brain death" / David A. Jones
St. Thomas on the beginning and ending of human life / William A. Wallace
The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death / Robert M. Veatch
Against the stream : comments on the definition and redefinition of death / Hans Jonas
Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green and Daniel Wikler
On the definition of death / John P. Lizza
Selection from Controversies in the determination of death : a white paper / President's Council on Bioethics.