tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83104506677556375192024-03-13T21:01:15.076-05:00 Jean KazezJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger1090125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-46660006757171755932018-11-08T12:03:00.003-06:002018-11-08T12:03:29.520-06:00Getting Meaning Out of CollegePowerpoint for a talk I'm giving at TAMU (Commerce) on Nov. 9 2018.Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-26135180664329918172018-08-18T11:13:00.000-05:002018-08-18T12:27:52.224-05:00The Investment View of Parental Rights
Reading Joseph Millum's book, The Moral Foundations of Parenthood, I find myself feeling a lot of admiration for the book's intricacy and clarity, but also find myself in maximal disagreement. Chapter Two, on the acquisition of parental rights, is especially unconvincing. Millum proposes an "investment" account: you become a moral parent, a person with certain rights over a child, by doing workJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-46561160247470963152018-06-12T07:50:00.004-05:002018-06-12T07:50:38.003-05:00The Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early MotherhoodI'm presenting a paper at a conference on pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood next week at the University of Southampton. Looking forward to all the talks and topics! Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-91986408730297957362018-02-07T16:53:00.001-06:002018-02-08T09:56:34.141-06:00Nussbaum and Levmore on AgingMy review is here.Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-615201407359160292017-12-13T14:33:00.001-06:002017-12-13T14:50:59.276-06:00The Books We ReviewedLately I've been seeing "best books of 2017" lists online, including five best philosophy books. I can't see making this sort of list, since my reading habits are way too idiosyncratic. However, I can tell you what we reviewed in The Philosophers' Magazine this year. I'll also tell you the philosophy book I most enjoyed reading this year.
Justin E. H. Smith, The Philosopher: Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-20423643373294376312017-12-04T18:30:00.001-06:002017-12-04T18:35:13.788-06:00Metaphysics Isn't EthicsI'm puzzled that in the literature on the nature of sex, gender, race, etc., there are so few philosophers who take a biological realist stance. Maybe this is a function of who is drawn to these topics. The biological realists might be among those not drawn. So you don't find many biological realists working on sex, gender, and race for the same reason you don't find many people who Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-18488092894938738522017-11-16T10:31:00.002-06:002017-11-16T10:53:36.091-06:00Modest Social ConstructionLately I've been reading about "social construction"—what do people really mean when they say race or gender or anything else is socially constructed? Talking about categories being socially constructed often seems to me to be a very misleading shorthand for a bunch of other things. What we often really want to say is that there is a certain phenomenon out in the world, but people think Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-44237399387770616642017-11-01T10:15:00.004-05:002017-11-01T12:33:16.651-05:00New Books in PhilosophyI enjoyed having the chance to talk about my new book with Bob Talisse on the podcast New Books in philosophy! Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-58943615951145675062017-11-01T06:00:00.000-05:002017-11-01T12:32:54.213-05:00Historical CategoriesTrans, by Rogers Brubaker, is a great book for those wanting to think about parallels between being transgender and being transracial. Brubaker thinks being transracial is more of a thing than you might think (he has some fascinating examples that go beyond the Rachel Dolezal case), and he thinks it's illuminating to think about the two phenomena in parallel. I recommend the book.
Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-16680211271090148372017-08-31T10:23:00.000-05:002017-08-31T10:24:02.095-05:00New Posts at Psychology TodayThis one's about when the obligations of a parent stop.
This one's about whether parents give their children "the gift of life."
Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-45269685547745138722017-08-19T13:00:00.005-05:002017-08-19T13:00:46.874-05:00Are you a philosophical parent?Take the quiz, here.Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-87449031327804267532017-08-17T06:44:00.001-05:002017-08-17T06:44:13.072-05:00Keeping TrackMy first blog post at Psychology Today. Is it wrong to use Find-My-iPhone to track your kids?Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-73750711680713613932017-08-16T17:36:00.004-05:002017-08-16T17:38:51.195-05:00Think with Krys Boyd (podcast)
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 looked like twins.
Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-23597729706877065562017-08-14T07:56:00.001-05:002017-08-14T12:04:25.089-05:00More About Gene Editing
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 brother wouldn't have existed. I went along with this assumption about existence in my last post on the subject, but only for the sake of argument. It's actually quite debatable.
Suppose parents do want to avoid having a child with a gene for a Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-21020537008046102302017-08-13T13:37:00.002-05:002017-08-13T13:37:50.979-05:00Radio Interview, Time ChangeThey're wisely devoting Monday's show to the events in Virginia, so I'll be on Wednesday at 1:00 instead of Monday.Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-1269243029146419922017-08-12T10:19:00.002-05:002017-08-12T10:40:54.150-05:00Radio InterviewI'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.Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-44206144002698243952017-08-11T11:13:00.004-05:002017-08-12T16:29:48.921-05:00Reviews of The Philosophical ParentNice 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 Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-56243949513861515212017-08-10T11:32:00.000-05:002017-08-14T08:00:23.197-05:00Worrying about CRISPRScientists 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 goingJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-73101630494546711542017-08-09T10:54:00.002-05:002017-08-09T10:54:58.595-05:00Why Conservatives Should Support Obamacare's Individual MandateI've become a contributor to The Prindle Post. My first contribution is here.Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-13495035988577090892017-08-05T12:06:00.003-05:002017-08-06T09:45:38.864-05:00The Page 99 TestMy 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 Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-85370891954356712582017-08-05T11:59:00.001-05:002017-08-12T16:29:07.659-05:00"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 Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-82328647541030859462017-08-04T08:45:00.002-05:002017-08-04T08:46:25.360-05:00Goodreads GiveawayEnter the giveaway for my book!
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Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-66715744459474242412017-07-31T11:20:00.003-05:002017-07-31T11:26:19.816-05:00The 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 ofJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-36404938719279181342017-07-29T07:44:00.002-05:002017-07-29T07:44:38.916-05:00I Don't Recommend ParenthoodIn which I recommend visiting Iceland, but don't recommend visiting the land of parenthood. At the Oxford University Press blog today. Fun fact: "I don't recommend" doesn't mean "I recommend not"!Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-89231661341715652412017-07-27T14:01:00.001-05:002017-07-27T14:06:17.759-05:00I get mailI'm still receiving email about my op-ed in the Dallas Morning News yesterday. There have been about 30 friendly, supportive messages. Wouldn't it be nice if the other 5 were friendly but in disagreement? But no, what I've received from critics is all tirade, no reasoning. It's as if they were deliberately trying to give me data to support my final hypothesis--that the Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com0