Name three things that only persons can do, according to Paske?Ĥ. As Paske understands the notion of being a person, could there be persons who are not members of our species? Explain.ģ. As Paske understands the notion of being a person, is every member of our species a person? Explain.Ģ.
How does that general lesson apply to abortion, according to Marquis? What is the general lesson that Marquis extracts from these cases?ģ. What, according to Boonin and Oddie, are three uncontroversial cases that Marquis begins with.Ģ. They describe Marquis' argument as one such argument. According to Boonin and Oddie, arguments from "inference to the best explanation" extract a general lesson from some uncontroversial cases and then apply that lesson to a controversial case. Boonin and Oddie, section 4.3 from their Introduction, pp.What do you think Marquis might mean by 'prima facie wrong'? On what claim does Tooley base his rejection of the anti-abortion position?ġ0. Does Marquis think that his position on abortion commits him to the claim that contraception is wrong?ĩ. Why does Marquis think the desire account is mistaken?Ĩ. What is the desire account of the wrongness of killing, what does it imply about the morality of abortion, and why?ħ. What does Marquis' theory of the wrongness of killing imply about killing children and infants, and why?Ħ. According to Marquis, why would it be wrong for me to kill you?ĥ. According to Marquis, in order to resolve the abortion controversy, what do we need an account of?Ĥ. The purpose of Marquis' essay is to develop a general argument for the claim that _. According to Marquis, what do most philosophers affiliated with secular institutions of higher education believe about the anti-abortion position?Ģ. Marquis, "Why Abortion Is Immoral," pp.This will help you immensely on the quizzes.
Keep them in mind as you are doing the reading, and write down in your reading notes the answers to them.
Unless otherwise noted, page numbers are to Boonin and Oddie's What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics.īelow each entry are the "reading questions" for that reading.