Abstract
Marquis’ future-like-ours argument against the morality of abortion assumes animalism—a family of theories according to which we are animals. Such an assumption is theoretically useful for various reasons, e.g., because it provides the theoretical underpinning for a reply to the contraception-abstinence objection. However, the connection between the future-like-ours argument and one popular version of animalism can prove lethal to the former, or so I argue in this paper.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 317-332 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Ethics |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 29 Jun 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
Keywords
- Abortion
- Identity
- Personal Ontology
- Future-like-ours Arguments
- Personal identity
- Biological Individuality
- Metaphysics
- Applied Ethics
- Future-like-ours argument
- Biological individuality
- Animalism
- Personal ontology