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Professor Deryck Beyleveld's Outputs (4)

The Foundational Role of the Principal of Instrumental Reason in Gewirth’s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency: A Response to Andrew Chitty. (2009)
Journal Article
Beyleveld, D., & Bos, G. (2009). The Foundational Role of the Principal of Instrumental Reason in Gewirth’s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency: A Response to Andrew Chitty. King's Law Journal, 20(1), 1-20

The legal idealism associated with the 'Sheffield School' rests on Gewirth's argument for the dialectical necessity of the 'PGC,' in which an interim derivation is the dialectically necessity for agents to claim the 'generic rights' for themselves. A... Read More about The Foundational Role of the Principal of Instrumental Reason in Gewirth’s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency: A Response to Andrew Chitty..

The Regulation of Hybrids and Chimeras in the UK (2009)
Book Chapter
Beyleveld, D., Finnegan, T., & Pattinson, S. D. (2009). The Regulation of Hybrids and Chimeras in the UK. In J. Taupitz, & M. Weschka (Eds.), Chimbrids : chimeras and hybrids in comparative European and international research : scientific, ethical, philosophical and legal aspects (603-825). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93869-9_25

In this report, we will, for the most part, sidestep discussion of how “chimeras” and “hybrids” are to be defined and distinguished, by simply focusing on the UK’s regulation of the activities that CHIMBRIDS has identified as its concern. These are a... Read More about The Regulation of Hybrids and Chimeras in the UK.