"Neglected personhood" and neglected questions: remarks on the moral significance of consciousness.
Wilkinson
Dominic
D
University of Oxford, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, Oxford, UK. dominic.wilkinson@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Kahane
Guy
G
Savulescu
Julian
J
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