In the United States, tens of thousands of children are conceived every year with donated gametes. When people decide to create a child with donated gametes, they’ll typically have to make a moral decision about whether the identity of the donor will be available to the resulting person. This quickly raises additional moral and even existential questions abo ... Show More
Mar 3
Catherine Elgin, "Epistemic Ecology" (MIT Press, 2025)
Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecology (MIT Press, 2025), Catherine Elgin develops a model in which individuals learn to rely on communal epistemic resources, such as ... Show More
1 h
Feb 18
John Drabinski, "So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we read his nonfiction philosophically? What can Baldwin help us understand and do now? In So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlant ... Show More
59m 4s
Feb 10
Ellen Clarke, "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for distinguishing one individual from another are inadequate for making these distinctions in general. If a starfish can literally split itself ... Show More
1h 8m
Sep 2023
Donor babies: A question of identity
For many people around the world, donation of sperm or an egg can be the difference between becoming parents and not. But while this donation can make their dream of parenthood come true, what are the considerations for the end result, the child themselves? Donation and IVF can h ... Show More
27m 15s
Nov 2021
Faire un don d'ovocytes était une évidence, un besoin viscéral
Si aujourd’hui la PMA est un sujet relativement abordé, celui du don de gamètes reste silencié, encore plus lorsque l'on est une femme. On fait parler ceux qui reçoivent des ovocytes, mais entend-on parler de ceux et celles qui décident de donner ? Et connaît-on vraiment le parco ... Show More
26m 7s
Sep 2022
#261: God Loves Romance. He Created it. Sunsets, Flowers, Music, a Kiss--All His Idea! Our Sexually Confused Culture Needs to Hear This Story.
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/791723/open_sms">Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message”</a></p><p>Saint Augustine said, "to fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him the ... Show More
37m 3s