I am teaching the Philosophy of Sex and Love in the Fall 2018 term. I was motivated to construct a course that would speak to the philosophical dimensions of concerns that people actually have. Although love and sex are two areas where we might suspect that philosophers attend (more than usual) to embodied experience, twentieth century philosophizing on love and sex remains very abstract (read this review of the philosophy of love as an indication of this point). Philosophy, as I … [Read more...]
Zombie fiction and normalizing abortion
In this post, I examine how abortion language functions in M. R. Carey's 2014 zombie novel The Girl with All the Gifts. I devoured (heh, heh) most of the novel last week on an airplane. One of the things that struck me was how a group of children--not quite human, and not quite zombie--were referred to as "frigging little abortions." This post will be as spoiler-free as possible. Some of you may want to read the book, which I enthusiatically recommend. Or, you may want to see the film, which … [Read more...]