Bohumín (-Czech, German: Oderberg, Polish: Bogumin) is a city in the Czech Republic near the border with Poland. Situated on the Oder river, Bohumín has 23,078 inhabitants (2005) and is located in the KarvináOkres of the Moravian-Silesian Region. During the Middle Ages, the town was a lordship in Upper Silesia. The Oder (or Odra) River (German: Oder, Polish/Czech: Odra, Ancient Latin: Viadua, Viadrus, Medieval Latin: Odera, Oddera) is a river in Central Europe (mostly in Poland). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location of Karviná in the Czech Republic Karviná is a city in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. ... Slovakia is subdivided into 8 kraje (singular - kraj, usually translated as regions, but actually meaning rather county), each of which is named after their principal city. ... Moravian-Silesian Region (in Czech Moravskoslezský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) of the Czech Republic, located it the north-eastern part of its hitorical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the historical region of Silesia. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... A lord is a male who has power and authority. ... Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny ÅšlÄ…sk, German: Oberschlesien, Czech: Hornà Slezsko) is the south-eastern part of Silesia, a historical and geographical region of Poland (Opole Voivodship and Silesian Voivodship) and of the Czech Republic (Silesian-Moravian Region). ...
David S. Oderberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK.
He is the author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time, Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach, Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach, and numerous articles in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and related subjects.
A diverse group of contributors reflect on the philosophical legacy of Fred Sommers and his efforts to revive and refashion traditional Aristotelian logic for a post-Fregean world.
Oderberg addresses everything from Michael Tooley's arguments about gradual and continuous change, to twinning and totipotency, to cloning machines, to Judith Jarvis Thompson's arguments in her famous 1971 article about the violinist with a kidney disorder.
First of all, Oderberg does a good job of presenting the feebleness and irrelevance of most of the popular arguments for the permissibility of abortion and euthanasia, as well as the radical principles which lie behind those arguments which one finds openly expressed by such fringe figures as Peter Singer and Michael Tooley.
With regard to euthanasia and capital punishment, Oderberg does a good job of exposing the hypocrisy underlying the "brain-death" criterion and the baselessness of the "consistent life ethic" which fails to draw the obvious distinction between guilty and innocent lives.
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