Pregnant Thinkers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10691858
AutoresDavid Mark Kovacs (0000-0002-9890-8089, Tel Aviv University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen75
Número1
Páginas104-124
Fecha de publicación2024-11-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqad120
OpenAlexW4390099139
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas38

Do pregnant mothers have foetuses as parts? According to the ‘parthood view’, they do, while according to the ‘containment view’, they don’t. This paper raises a novel puzzle about pregnancy: If mothers have their foetuses as parts, then wherever there is a pregnant mother, there is also a smaller thinking being that has every part of the mother except for those that overlap with the foetus. This problem resembles a familiar overpopulation puzzle from the personal identity literature, known as the ‘Thinking Parts Problem’, but it's not merely a special case of that problem. Rather, the fact that late-term foetuses have a mental life of their own makes the Problem of Pregnant Thinkers, as I will call it, a sui generis and especially recalcitrant problem

Aesthetics · Biology · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Overpopulation · Population · Pregnancy · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Demography · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology