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Pro-Choice Thought Experiment: The Burning IVF Lab

October 9, 2013/22 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

Dean Stretton imagines a case in which an emergency arises and a person is faced with the choice of rescuing ten frozen human embryos or five adult patients. Since virtually everyone would choose to save the adult patients rather than the embryos, this indicates that the patients have a higher moral status than the frozen […]

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What is Wrong With Abortion? A Philosophical Case

June 11, 2013/8 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

[Today’s post by guest author Prayson Daniel is part of our paid blogging program.] Is it possible to make a case for the prima facie wrongness of killing a human foetus that does not depend on theological premises? In 1989 atheist philosopher Donald Marquis introduced a philosophical case for immorality of abortion that neither depended […]

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A Critique of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion, Part IV

June 3, 2013/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

For part one of this series, go here. For part two, this is the place to be. And for part three, mosey on over this way. So far Thomson’s essay has suffered from many critical errors. None of her analogies have helped establish that a woman has a right to abort for any reason, except […]

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A Critique of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion, Part III

May 1, 2013/24 Comments/in Bodily Rights, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

For part one of this series, go here. For part two of this series, go here. Section 4. Is abortion unjust killing? Thomson begins this section by considering that “in the most ordinary sort of case, to deprive someone of what he has a right to is to treat him unjustly.”  She illustrates this with […]

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A Critique of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion, Part II

April 1, 2013/4 Comments/in Bodily Rights, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

For part one of this series, click here. Section 1. The “extreme” pro-life view. [1] I agree with Thomson that the view that abortion is impermissible even to save the mother’s life is an extreme pro-life view. I believe that abortions are justified if the mother’s life is in immediate jeopardy. [2] She does wonder […]

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A Critique of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion, Part I

March 13, 2013/5 Comments/in Bodily Rights, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

Probably the most famous argument against the pro-life position is Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Violinist Analogy, in which you are attached, against your will, to a famous unconscious violinist to prevent his dying from a kidney ailment. I have already responded to the violinist analogy in previous articles. But within the original essay where the violinist […]

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On Personhood

January 9, 2013/6 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

It’s an uncontroversial fact of science that the preborn conceived of a human male and human female are human beings (biologically) from fertilization. But does this mean that just because they’re human beings we can’t kill them? There are times when it’s almost universally accepted that it’s acceptable to kill a human being, such as […]

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How do we form opinions?

January 4, 2013/7 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by admin

[Today’s post is reprinted from “Yeah, but…”] Philosophers have proposed, and studies have suggested, that people form opinions based on their emotions first, and after the opinion is formed they find a way to rationalize it. Emotion —> Opinion! —> Rationalization We may like to believe we first carefully think about the logic behind ideas, then form our opinions, and then let our […]

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A Future of Value

January 3, 2013/22 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

In my previous article, I examined the argument against abortion that I consider to be the strongest, the Substance View. This argument, by philosopher Don Marquis, is also a very strong argument and, when used in tandem with the Substance View, offers a very powerful cumulative case against abortion.This argument comes from Marquis’ 1989 article […]

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Philosophy in the abortion issue: part two

December 5, 2012/41 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

[Today’s post is part of a series by SPL member Clinton Wilcox. Read part one here.] Now that we’ve learned what goes into making an argument, let’s talk about how to respond to an argument. First, a bit about why philosophy is necessary. Philosophy is all around us. Why are you an Atheist/Christian/Buddhist/etc.? That can […]

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