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Ethics for Everyday Life: Designing a Core Philosophy CourseIn Brynn Welch (ed.), The Art of Teaching, Bloomsbury. forthcoming.
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11The Problem of Choosing (For) Our ChildrenIn Jaime Ahlberg & Michael Cholbi (eds.), Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues, Routledge. 2016.
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1018It’s Complicated: What Our Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Abortion, and Miscarriage Tell Us about the Moral Status of Early FetusesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (8): 950-965. 2020.Many accounts of the morality of abortion assume that early fetuses must all have or lack moral status in virtue of developmental features that they share. Our actual attitudes toward early fetuses don’t reflect this all-or-nothing assumption: early fetuses can elicit feelings of joy, love, indifference, or distress. If we start with the assumption that our attitudes toward fetuses reflect a real difference in their moral status, then we need an account of fetal moral status that can explain tha…Read more
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661Wronging Future ChildrenErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 6. 2019.The dominant framework for addressing procreative ethics has revolved around the notion of harm, largely due to Derek Parfit’s famous non-identity problem. Focusing exclusively on the question of harm treats what procreators owe their offspring as akin to what they would owe strangers (if they owe them anything at all). Procreators, however, usually expect (and are expected) to parent the persons they create, so we cannot understand what procreators owe their offspring without also appealing to …Read more
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