X-Message-Number: 18832 From: "D Pizer" <> References: <> Subject: Re: paper Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:17:43 -0500 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Gereboff" <> To: <> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 7:28 PM Subject: paper > Dear Dave, > > I apologize for my first email response to your proposal . I had misread > it and read cryonics instead of cloning. I had a chance to read over > your piece now and like the ideas a lot. I have some real thoughts about > what you should do to make a first class piece. Maybe we can talk > tomorrow briefly during the class break and then you can take an extra > week or two to polish it up. OK, I was going to print it out and take it to class, but now I will try to stop by the library before class anc get a copy of Tooley's book. I can stop by class a little early and see if you have time, and if not, we can talk over the break, and/or right after class. Basically I would like you to look at some > literature on personhood for much of ends up in the argument you put > forward--i.e., human biological entities lacking certain brain based > abilities don't qualify as persons, therefore, do not have the moral > status of human persons. This sounds like what I am searching for. > See inparticular the work of Michael Tooley in his book on Abortion and > Infanticide. Just engaging his work carefully and exploring its > relevance to your paper would greatly enrich your discussion. Tooley's > writing have lead to a spate of responses and literature. Joel I would like to try that as I sometimes get my class papers published in the hard-cope life extension magazines and that is what I am trying for with the cloning paper and the cryonics paper that I will turn in at the end of the seminar. The only problem I see is time to do all this - Never enough, unless you can live forever :=) Thanks so much. David Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18832