Pregnancy - rethinking popular assumptions

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Pregnancy – rethinking

popular assumptions

A philosophical re-examination of pregnancy has challenged certain prevailing

assumptions. is could have important consequences for some of the legal and

moral issues that surround pregnancy.

Metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that deals with the

fundamental nature of reality and touches on concepts such as

being and identity, has spent surprisingly little time examining

the phenomenon of pregnancy.

“Pregnancy hasn’t been completely ignored by philosophers,”

notes BUMP (Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy)

project principal investigator Elselijn Kingma, associate professor

in philosophy at the University of Southampton in the United

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