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Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap: A Critique of Kingma

2022-09-12

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Abstract Elselijn Kingma argues that, in cases of mammalian placental pregnancy, the foster (roughly, the post-implantation embryo/foetus) is part of the gravida (the pregnant organism). But she does not consider the possibility of proper overlap. I show that this generates a number of serious problems for her argument and trace the oversight to a quite general issue within the literature on biological individuali...

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Literature Corpus work: 12fabd80-8073-5a3a-8909-b930cf2baa18
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqac044

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