Bøker av David (Professor of Philosophy Boonin

Boonin discusses a variety of cases where someone says yes to having sex under conditions that make it unclear whether their saying yes should count as the kind of consent that makes it okay to have sex with them. These include problematic cases involving coercion, deception, incompetence, and manipulation.

It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if that person is dead. David Boonin explains the puzzle of posthumous harm and examines its ethical implications for such issues as posthumous organ removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves, and posthumous punishment.

Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends the claim that even if the fetus is a person with the same right to life you and I have, abortion should still be legal, and most current restrictions on abortion should be abolished.