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11/8/18
Getting Meaning Out of College
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Powerpoint for a talk I'm giving at TAMU (Commerce) on Nov. 9 2018.
8/18/18
The Investment View of Parental Rights
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Reading Joseph Millum's book, The Moral Foundations of Parenthood , I find myself feeling a lot of admiration for the book's intri...
6/12/18
The Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Motherhood
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I'm presenting a paper at a conference on pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood next week at the University of Southampton. Looking fo...
2/7/18
Nussbaum and Levmore on Aging
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My review is here.
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12/13/17
The Books We Reviewed
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Lately I've been seeing "best books of 2017" lists online, including five best philosophy books . I can't see making this...
12/4/17
Metaphysics Isn't Ethics
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I'm puzzled that in the literature on the nature of sex, gender, race, etc., there are so few philosophers who take a biological realist...
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11/16/17
Modest Social Construction
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Lately I've been reading about "social construction"—what do people really mean when they say race or gender or anything else ...
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11/1/17
New Books in Philosophy
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I enjoyed having the chance to talk about my new book with Bob Talisse on the podcast New Books in philosophy!
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Historical Categories
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Trans, by Rogers Brubaker, is a great book for those wanting to think about parallels between being transgender and being transracial. Brub...
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8/31/17
New Posts at Psychology Today
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This one's about when the obligations of a parent stop. This one's about whether parents give their children "the gift of lif...
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8/19/17
Are you a philosophical parent?
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Take the quiz, here.
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8/17/17
Keeping Track
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My first blog post at Psychology Today. Is it wrong to use Find-My-iPhone to track your kids?
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8/16/17
Think with Krys Boyd (podcast)
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Here's the podcast of my interview on KERA today . Krys Boyd and I are both big fans of using tiny post-its to mark pages! Our books ...
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8/14/17
More About Gene Editing
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I'm still thinking about that Time op-ed that objects to gene editing because, in so many words, if my parents had used it, my brot...
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8/13/17
Radio Interview, Time Change
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They're wisely devoting Monday's show to the events in Virginia, so I'll be on Wednesday at 1:00 instead of Monday.
8/12/17
Radio Interview
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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.
8/11/17
Reviews of The Philosophical Parent
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Nice review from Library Journal! Library Journal 08/01/2017 Kazez (philosophy, Southern Methodist Univ.; The Weight of Things) begin...
8/10/17
Worrying about CRISPR
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Scientists have developed a new technology, CRISPR-Cas9, for editing genes in day old human embryos. The technology ( explained here with te...
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8/9/17
Why Conservatives Should Support Obamacare's Individual Mandate
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I've become a contributor to The Prindle Post. My first contribution is here .
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8/5/17
The Page 99 Test
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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 ge...
"Motherhood Isn't Sacrifice, It's Selfishness"
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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 ...
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8/4/17
Goodreads Giveaway
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Enter the giveaway for my book! Goodreads Book Giveaway The Philosophical Parent...
7/31/17
The Metaphysics of Pregnancy
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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 Philosophic...
7/29/17
I Don't Recommend Parenthood
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In which I recommend visiting Iceland, but don't recommend visiting the land of parenthood. At the Oxford University Press blog today ...
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7/27/17
I get mail
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I'm still receiving email about my op-ed in the Dallas Morning News yesterday . There have been about 30 friendly, supportive messages....
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