Emergent personhood: reply to critics

Nancy S Jecker^{1

2

3}, Caesar Alimsinya Atuire^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA nsjecker@uw.edu.
² African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
³ Centre for Bioethics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁴ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
⁵ Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana.

Nancy S Jecker et al. J Med Ethics. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 26;51(4):255-256.

doi: 10.1136/jme-2025-110842.

Nancy S Jecker^{1

2

3}, Caesar Alimsinya Atuire^{4

5}

¹ Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA nsjecker@uw.edu.
² African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
³ Centre for Bioethics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁴ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.
⁵ Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana.

No abstract available

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Status; Personhood; Persons; Philosophy.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.