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ing about things the time magazine author really has things all wrong pgd which is already available is the technology that could potentially have made the author s little brother not exist but that horse is already out of the barn crispr cas9 would have given his parents the option of having his little brother but protecting him or her from the disease he was born with if that s the right way to look at it the same people can be born despite gene editing then gene editing starts to look not just permissible in certain cases but possibly even obligatory suppose you knew your child might be born with a serious heart defect and you also knew you could check in advance whether he or she had the relevant gene and you could eliminate it certainly if there was a drug that would fix the heart defect and you could take it during pregnancy it would be fair to say you should take it it s really not clear why gene editing is different ok there are a bunch of other puzzles here having to do with who winds up being born if either pgd or gene editing is used but i ll save that for another day 4 comments labels parenthood 8 13 17 radio interview time change they re wisely devoting monday s show to the events in virginia so i ll be on wednesday at 1 00 instead of monday no comments 8 12 17 radio interview i m going to be interviewed on think with krys boyd kera 90 1 monday august 14 at 1 00 listen on the radio or here no comments 8 11 17 reviews of the philosophical parent nice review from library journal library journal 08 01 2017 kazez philosophy southern methodist univ the weight of things begins by summing up the relationship between parenting and philosophy perfectly when she writes having children turns every parent and parent to be into a philosopher for this reviewer the parent of two small children that claim is as valid the questions that arise for parents and would be parents are numerous and cover a wide range of topics such as is there anything special about having a child to should parents reinforce gender kazez helps with finding answers or at least showing the complexity of these questions by arranging the topics chronologically by stages of parenting and looking at them through the lens of different philosophical views and parenting experience most importantly these chapters are also short and can be read individually so that parents can focus on topics of interest and actually finish reading them verdict kazez s combination of philosophy and parenting experience makes this work recommended for parents who are searching for answers to meaningful questions surrounding child rearing scott duimstra capital area dist lib lansing mi there s also this publisher s weekly review which i appreciate but i disagree with what the reviewer says about my decision not to cover abortion publishers weekly 06 05 2017 philosophy professor kazez animalkind what we owe to animals uses a mix of philosophical proofs and science to explore a mix of theoretical and practical parenting questions questions in the former category include whether babies are lucky to be born and what parents are for questions in the latter include whether to circumcise or vaccinate and whether to raise children with religious beliefs she appeals to new parents innate sense of logic and ethics as alternatives to parenting experts kazez grounds her ideas in the aristotelian perspective that a biological child is another self but separate in order to understand parents intense identification with their children and the obligations conferred by this unique relationship she picks and chooses her controversies carefully for example she explores the idea of when personhood begins while opting out of any discussion of abortion because in her words her intended reader is deliberately pregnant and eager to become a parent but then dives into equally irrelevant questions regarding adoption and population control sections about how we treat our children later in life fit more into the parent as philosopher mode kazez promises though her conclusions are far from groundbreaking soon to be parents will find thinking through her arguments a good way to engage their minds beyond the immediate practicalities of child rearing july important clarification the intended reader of the whole book is not deliberately pregnant and eager to become a parent different chapters focus on imaginary readers at different stages of becoming and being parents in chapter 1 for example the imaginary reader just wants a child whether through procreation or adoption so adoption is relevant there and discussed in chapters 2 3 the imaginary reader wants a child but worries about whether it s right or wrong to have one given various worries including worries about population so overpopulation is relevant to the imaginary reader there in chapter 5 the chapter this reviewer is quoting from i do start with the conceit that the reader is finally pregnant and eager to have a child the chapter is about the developing zygote embryo fetus and when it begins to be the individual who will later be born abortion could have had some relevance here for people who want to be parents but want to end a particular pregnancy but the literature on the ethics of abortion is vast and complex this didn t seem like the place to get into it no comments 8 10 17 worrying about crispr scientists have developed a new technology crispr cas9 for editing genes in day old human embryos the technology explained here with terrific graphics was used to edit out a gene that leads to a severe heart detect though the embryos were then discarded we won t be using this technology to create genetically modified people until there has been a lot more research there s also going to have to be an ethical and legal debate is there something worrisome about editing an embryo s genes there might be but we need to be careful to have the right worries it s very easy to have worries that just don t make sense take this time magazine op ed by joel michael reynolds the title says it all gene editing might mean my brother would ve never existed his brother jason had muscle eye brain disease and had muscular dystrophy cerebral palsy severe nearsightedness hydrocephalus and intellectual disability jason was lovely and beloved and so reynolds questions a technology that would prevent jason from ever existing it s no fun criticizing someone who reveals love and grief in the way reynolds does but this worry about a specific person not existing is the wrong worry to have there are many things we do to control who is born that are either neutral or mandatory but would alter who exists picture the debate that went on before contraceptives were available an opponent of legalizing contraceptives could look at his unplanned little brother and say that if his parents had had access to contraceptive technology the boy wouldn t have existed that fact surely has no weight at all however much it may be painful to imagine a world without a specific person imagine a woman being told by her dermatologist not to conceive a child while she s taking accutane because accutane causes abnormalities she ignores this advice and conceives a child with some abnormalities should she really feel good about her choice because without it her child wouldn t have been born we are simply confused when we object to an action or practice because if opted for this lovely and beloved child wouldn t have been born at the time that we re choosing the action or practice there are millions of possible children who could come into existence and there s nothing that says that the one who actually will be born should be born reynolds is concerned that jason be born but also that people like jason be born he gives us this description of jason s life to convince us that that he wasn t worse off than other children he lived past his first year thanks to marvels of modern medicine a shunt surgery to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid building up around his brain took six attempts but the seventh succeeded aside from those surgeries complications and intermittent illnesses due to a less than robust immune system jason was healthy healthy and happy very happy his smile could light up a room yet that didn t stop people from thi nking that his disability made him w orse off this reminds me of the old joke aside from that how was the play mrs lincoln i don t see how a string of surgeries complications and illness in someone who evidently died before the age of two leaves very much to be good it s not ableist but just realistic to think jason was worse off than other babies reynolds chocks it up to ableism that many parents would like to avoid having a baby like jason but even he seems to admit there are health problems that ought to be avoided we who are often still unable to distinguish between positive world creating forms of disability and negative world destroying forms between deafness short stature or certain types of neurodiversity and chronic pain tay sachs or alzheimer s it is with great responsibility that we as a society balance along the tightrope of biomedical progress i don t know about putting muscle eye brain disease in the positive world creating list as if babies could creatively construct their own distinctive way of life and identity in the manner that some people with deafness and short stature say that they do the heart problem that was eliminated by the crispr research also doesn t seem to belong on the positive world creating list so what s the right worry to have i do think gene editing could lead to far too much choosiness in prospective parents too much constructing of the preferred child and too little receptiveness it could be over used i don t think there s a good coherent reason to think it should never be used 4 comments labels parenthood 8 9 17 why conservatives should support obamacare s individual mandate i ve become a contributor to the prindle post my first contribution is here 3 comments 8 5 17 the page 99 test my book is featured today at the page 99 test i narrowly missed having to talk about a blank page page 98 is one of those blanks you get when a chapter ends on an odd numbered page does page 99 reveal something about the whole book yes i think it does it reveals the way the book is scenario driven instead of abstract and some of the book s main themes and issues thank you marshal zeringue for the invitation no comments motherhood isn t sacrifice it s selfishness this new york times op ed by karen rinaldi has generated a huge number of comments a lot of them negative goes to show that the way you say something is all important here s one of the more provocative paragraphs motherhood is not a sacrifice but a privilege one that many of us choose selfishly at its most atavistic procreating ensures that our genes survive into the next generation you could call this selfishness as biological imperative on a personal level when we bring into the world a being that is of us someone we will protect and love and for whom we will do everything we can to help thrive and flourish it begets the question how is this selfless selflessness implies that we have no skin in the game in motherhood we re all in privilege i have no idea why she says this it s not as if we have to apply to become parents everyone gets to become parents if they re capable but not a sacrifice makes more sense to me and selfish makes some sense but it s the wrong word i think what she was really after as a contrast with selfless is self interested when we have a child we bring into the world a being that is of us yes because my child is part of my extended identity so to speak when my child is better off i m better off when my child is worse off i m worse off it s because we ve enlarged ourself thereby including our child as part of our extended identity that caring for my child is self interested but that doesn t mean it s selfish selfish people don t enlarge themselves since the self interestedness of parenthood is really built in and not just a feature of bad parents she s off track when she writes that motherhood is a privilege again why a privilege that many of us choose selfishly but she gets back on track at the end of the op ed if we start referring to motherhood as the beautiful messy privilege that it is and to tending to our children as the most loving yet selfish thing we do perhaps we can change the biased language my mother used only when we stop talking about motherhood as sacrifice can we start talking about mothers the way that we deserve again there s the privilege talk which i find bewildering but now the selfishness no self interestedness is portrayed as built in it s not the bad mother who s selfish no self interested it s motherhood itself much better 4 comments labels parenthood 8 4 17 goodreads giveaway enter the giveaway for my book goodreads book giveaway the philosophical parent by jean kazez giveaway ends september 04 2017 see the giveaway details at goodreads enter giveaway no comments 7 31 17 the metaphysics of pregnancy i wish i d read this aeon article on the metaphysics of pregnancy on time to include the topic it raises in my book the philosophical parent suki finn asks a great question which is explored in a forthcoming article in mind by elselijn klingma is a mother a container for her fetus or is the fetus part of her they ve definitely succeeded at two things making the metaphysics of pregnancy seem fascinating and making the part view seem like at least a contender let s first list the possibilities along with some sub options i on the container model the mother contains the fetus which is a distinct entity in its own right finn aeon i would add that if the mother is a fetal container there are many kinds of containers something inside a container can be non dependent on the container like a watch in a drawer but something in a container can be completely dependent a brain in a vat needs its container containment plus connection is a possibility and surely that s the possibility most relevant to pregnancy i used to have an ipod charger that both contained the ipod and connected it to a charger it wasn t quite as cute as the one on the right ii on the parthood model the fetus is a part of the mother like a tail is part of a cat finn aeon finn is not saying the fetus is really tail like that example is just supposed to clarify what we mean by a part if a fetus is a part of its mother there are many sorts of body parts a kidney a freckle a tumor some fat some blood a hand a nose the lower half of my body they re all parts if you settle on the parthood model your next question will be what kind important clarification made by the authors the parthood model doesn t rule it out that the fetus is a human being or even a person the fetus might be a part of a human that s also a human being like the mother more on that below iii the parthood and container models are stated in ...