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 […]
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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
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
Bloggers Drinks and Birthdays
April 3rd, 2009 Comments Off on Bloggers Drinks and Birthdays
We had a bit of a relaxed blogging day yesterday; I am now aged 36 so I’m officially old so I figured I needed a nanna nap so I didn’t read any news or blogs though I did see Whale Oil on TV3 news – something about Labour MP’s being impersonated on Twitter and then […]
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Quiet on the MandM Front
February 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Quiet on the MandM Front
A regular reader complained over the weekend that MandM has been too quiet of late – not enough posts. I had explained some of the reason for this in a comment, but I will do so here so it is not missed. Matt is away in Tauranga doing his teaching diploma for the next two […]
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A New Chapter
January 31st, 2009 17 Comments
It is official. I have lost my job; termination due to medical incapacity. This happened last week, the same day I got my news about my recovery setback, but due to the details needing to be sorted I couldn’t say anything til it was official. Yesterday was my goodbye morning tea, Matt and I cleared […]
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Recovery Update
January 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
I saw my surgeon this week and had confirmed what we expected; my recovery is outside the norm, I am not doing as well as expected. This means an extra month off work, at least, and no time frame as to when I can expect to return to work. Most people are back at work […]
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Dissecting a Great White
January 8th, 2009 6 Comments
We took the younger kids to see Madagascar 2 the other day and our youngest, Noah aged 7, loved the bit at the end where the shark came out of the ocean, gave chase snapping its teeth and ultimately fell into a live volcano. When we heard about today’s opportunity to see a dissection of […]
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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.
