Ivars Neiders

• Dr. phil.
• Researcher at University of Latvia

The Welfare-Funded Sex Doula Programme is a proposed sexual needs service that advances the sexual citizenship of disabled people by providing specially trained ‘sex doulas’ to meet the various, often complex, sexual needs of disabled people. Conceived as providing disabled individuals with practical sexual support services, the role of the sex dou...

The collection of papers “Philosophical Anthropology II” is the second volume of papers in philosophical anthropology that contains papers written by members of the Department of Humanities at Rīga Stradiņš University. The collection consists of a foreword and ten chapters. Each chapter addresses its individual topic. The collection is oriented to...

This article responds to Ezio Di Nucci’s recent publication on the demoralisation of sex and continues to defend the practical focus of the Sex Doula Programme and the sexual citizenship of disabled people against Di Nucci’s meta-ethical debate over the metaphysical status of sex rights. We emphasis that our programme, a work of praxis, is targeted...

Sexual citizenship is a fundamental human right. This fact (as we have elsewhere shown) is not at question in this debate [1-5]. It has also been well established 1 that a significant number of disabled people 2 have little-to-no access to their sexu-ality and are, thusly, precluded from an important aspect of the human condition. Our goal is to ad...

When a terminally ill patient kills herself, using a drug prescribed by a physician for this purpose, in bioethical literature this would be described as a case of physician-assisted suicide. This would also be a case of suicide according to the standard account of suicide in the philosophical literature. However, in recent years, some authors have...

The Human Condition is neither a well-defined nor well-described concept-nevertheless , it is generally agreed that human sexuality is a fundamental and constituent part of it. For most able-bodied persons, accessing and expressing one's sexuality is a (relatively) trouble-free process. However, many disabled persons experience difficulty in access...

This open access collection brings together a team of leading scholars and rising stars to consider what experimental philosophy of medicine is and can be. While experimental philosophy of science is an established field, attempts to tackle issues in philosophy of medicine from an experimental angle are still surprisingly scarce. A team of interdis...

A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a dominant tendency to rely on a rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which behaviors violate the rule. This tendency varied markedly across ( k = 15) countries, owing to variation in the impact of moral appraisals on judgments of rule violation. Compared with laypeople, legal experts were more inc...

A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a widespread tendency to rely on a rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which acts violate the rule. This tendency’s strength varied markedly across (k = 15) field sites, owing to cultural variation in the impact of moral appraisals on judgments of rule violation. Compared to laypeople, legal exper...

Several authors in bioethics literature have expressed the view that a whole brain conception of death is philosophically indefensible. If they are right, what are the alternatives? Some authors have suggested that we should go back to the old cardiopulmonary criterion of death and abandon the so-called Dead Donor Rule. Others argue for a pluralist...

In his paper “The challenge of brain death for the sanctity of life ethic”, Peter Singer advocates two options for dealing with death criteria in a way that is compatible with efficient organ transplantation policy. He suggests that we should either (a) redefine death as cortical death or (b) go back to the old cardiopulmonary criterion and scrap t...

Since Latvia regained independence on 4 May 1990, the field of bioethics has undergone substantial change in terms of legislation, education, ethical review and academic research. For instance, Latvia has signed a Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention) in 1997, then ratified it and it came into force in 2010. It also signed...

Many prominent bioethicists have recently raised the question of the possibility of moral status enhancement. In this paper I discuss the arguments advanced by Nicholas Agar for the possible existence of the post- persons. I argue that in spite of the many limitations and shortcomings of Agar’s account, there are no conclusive reasons to rule out t...

Many prominent bioethicists have recently raised the question of the possibility of moral status enhancement. In this paper I discuss the arguments advanced by Nicholas Agar for the possible existence of the postpersons. I argue that in spite of the many limitations and shortcomings of Agar’s account, there are no conclusive reasons to rule out the...

is article deals with concerns related to truth-telling in interaction between the doctor and the dying patient, exploring such issues as connicting duties of veracity and non-maleecence, truthfulness and deception, and reasons behind physicians' decisions either to withhold or to disclose information about patients' diagnoses and prognoses. It foc...