Platonic Humans: Can human beings be defined as featherless bipeds?

Greek Philosophers and Aristophanes
(http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ4-GreekPhilosophers.html)
Article on Diogenes and other Greek philosophers by Sanderson Beck

Non-Human Persons: Can non-humans be persons?

Can Androids Feel Pain?
(http://slashdot.org/features/99/09/19/225212.shtml)
Posting by Jon Katz on Slashdot.org

Legal Rights of Robots
(http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/LegalRightsOfRobots.htm)
Article by Robert A. Freitas arguing that self-aware robots should have rights

The Terri Schiavo Case: If Terri Schiavo was not a person, was removing the feeding tube an act of murder?

Ethics and Personhood: Some Issues in Contemporary Neurological Science and Technology
(http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/personhood.html)
Article by David L. Perry

Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading
(http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/BD/Brain.html)
Article by James J. Hughes prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death

An alternative conceptual structure for the resolution of end-of-life
(http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eroche/PVSThesis/index.html)
Thesis on the problems associated with those in a permanent vegetative state

Decisions about Death
(http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/200508--.htm)
Article by Peter Singer