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. December 20, 2017 at 12:06 am 0

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JDRox on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

I haven’t done a deep dive, but some quick research suggests that some people argue that (at least some human) tumors are non-human organisms (https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/07/26/are-cancers-newly-evolved-species/),
Tarik Gim on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Thanks, this was quite helpful. I think I got the central point wrong and you helpfully contextualized it by drawing on the point about safe […]
Wes McMichael on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Hi Tarik, I assumed that a dictionary definition wouldn't be particularly helpful, since they merely track the different ways in which people use terms rather […]
Tarik Gim on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Wes, why can't we just go by the dictionary definition of 'organism': "an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form"? That seems to exclude tumors.
Wes McMichael on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Also, for what it's worth, embryology really screws with my intuitions about several biological concepts. When I think of, say, a 23-week gestated fetus, it […]
Wes McMichael on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Hi JDRox and Tarik, I honestly didn't anticipate controversy over defining tumors as human organisms (I couldn't imagine defining them in any other way), so my […]
Tarik Gim on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Interesting thought. But when I look up what a teratoma is, I don't find it being described as a human organism. It seems that it's
JDRox on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Can you say something more about why you think teratomas are human organisms? I don't think that description is typical in medicine or science, for
Wes McMichael on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

This arguments seems to hang a lot on our ideas associated with the term "being." If I replace it with the term "organism" in your […]
Wes McMichael on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

I'm missing the question-begging. It seems to me that both Barrett and Harman likely agree with the statement "many people don’t see early fetuses as […]
Moti Gorin on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

One might also argue that whether a fetus has moral status depends on who determines what kind of future it will have, and then argue […]
Owen Schaefer on Recent Commentary from Philosophers on Abortion and the Supreme Court

Harman's full view of moral status of fetuses isn't presented in the Daily News piece - indeed, her view is IMHO one of the most […]

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