X-Message-Number: 18832
From: "D Pizer" <>
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Subject: Re: paper
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:17:43 -0500

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From: "Joel Gereboff" <>
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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

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