Parental Love and Procreation

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ID4351267
AuthorsSam Shpall (0000-0001-5057-1264, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume73
Issue1
Pages206-226
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqac017
OpenAlexW4285258614
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited12

The main goal of this paper is to explore the forcefulness of the adoption challenge to procreative parenting. After framing the challenge, I consider two of the most developed attempts to respond to it, due to Luara Ferracioli and Elizabeth Brake. I argue that neither strategy is a promising way to vindicate the permissibility of procreative parenting. I then present several reasons to value procreative parenting that are underappreciated in the recent literature. Though these considerations deserve more philosophical attention, I'm agnostic about whether they are strong enough to overcome the adoption challenge. I explain why this agnosticism is reasonable, and the debate about permissibility arguably intractable, in the context of prevailing deontological assumptions structuring discussions of procreation. I conclude by arguing that an independently interesting metaethical thesis, which I call deontic fictionalism, may give us some perspective on this debate and others like it

Agnosticism · Context (archaeology · Deontic logic · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Normative · Perspective (graphical · Theism · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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