We have had, and are in for, an interesting few weeks. Last week I finished my studies for 2009 with my Legal Ethics exam and enrolled to complete the final two papers of my LLB (bachelor of law) in 2010. This week Matt handed in his final piece of assessment for his post graduate diploma […]
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November 19th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Filia Day · Law Studies · Teaching Diploma · TV Shows
Auckland STAANZ Conference: Eschatology and Pneumatology UPDATED
November 18th, 2009 10 Comments
The Systematic Theology Association in Aotearoa New Zealand (STAANZ ) are this week holding a conference in Auckland focusing on eschatology and pneumatology. What: STAANZ Conference on Eschatology and Pneumatology When: Thursday 19 November – Friday 20 November 9:00am-5:30 pm Where: Ponsonby Baptist Church, 43 Jervois Rd, Auckland Cost: $15 Pre-conference prayer will be held […]
Tags: Eschatology · Ethics · Feticide · Kenneth Einar Himma · Pneumatology · STAANZ · Theology
MandM to hit Wellington: Speaking at the All for Life Workshop
October 2nd, 2009 10 Comments
Matt and I are having a weekend in Wellington. On Saturday 28 November we’re speaking at the All for Life Workshop; we’ll be giving a “how to” critique the common philosophical arguments for abortion rights by highlighting the flaws in the reasoning and turning the logic back on itself. Also speaking are Brendan Malone, Bob […]
Tags: All for Life Workshop · Bloggers Drinks · Feticide · Wellington
Dr Glenn Peoples on Abortion, Morality and Law
July 27th, 2009 2 Comments
Canterbury student group Prolife UC have organised for Dr Glenn Peoples to deliver some free public lectures at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch on Abortion, Morality and Law. Thursday 30th July 7.30 pm“Chasing the Justificatory Goalpost: Public Justification and Religious Beliefs” There is a broad political tradition that we are a part of that […]
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Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Part II
July 16th, 2009 Comments Off on Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Part II
In Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Part I, I noted that a defender of the permissibility of feticide, who does not also want to endorse infanticide and who defends the sentience criterion, must “identify a reason for holding that the potential of a human brain is morally relevant after” the fetus acquires […]
Tags: Abortion · David Boonin · Don Marquis · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · Sentience
Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Part I
July 15th, 2009 3 Comments
This two-part series was originally published as: Matthew Flannagan “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique” Ethics and Medicine – An International Journal of Bioethics Vol 25:2 (Summer 2009) 95-106. It is reproduced on this blog with permission. Abstract Defenders of the permissibility of feticide commonly argue that killing an organism is not homicide […]
Tags: Abortion · David Boonin · Don Marquis · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · Sentience
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
During, Sherwin & Hutchison on Backstreet Abortion
November 21st, 2009 6 Comments
Recently Madeleine was on a TV panel discussion regarding the issue of abortion and parental notification/consent which will go to air in the next week. During the ensuing dialogue Dr Paul Hutchinson, National Party Member of Parliament for Hunua, specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and former member of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, raised the famous […]
Tags: Abortion · Backstreet Abortion · Feticide · Paul Hutchison · Susan Sherwin · Wayne Facer · Zoe During