Podcast appearances and mentions of Don Marquis

Continuing on Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" (1971), plus Don Marquis' "Why Abortion is Immoral" (1989) and a summary of Mary Anne Warren's "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" (1973), which we'll continue next week in part three with Jenny Hansen. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion.

This week, I speak with my occasional co-host, Rachel Tillman about Don Marquis's Archy & Mehitabel, a series of narrative poems written by a cockroach.

In this episode, arguments for the moral status of abortion are discussed. Recently, debate over the permissibility of abortion has taken center stage in politics. And so, in an effort to promote philosophical thought in relation to this debate, I survey some pieces that one may want to reference in holding their case —whether it be pro-choice, or anti-abortion. To accomplish this, particular essays written by Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Don Marquis, are presented and evaluated. This podcast is showing two papers that directly combat each other, and an article that extends the argument of one of those essays in order to critique and strengthen it.

Welcome to April 16, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate unlikely poets and eggstraordinary breakfast.  There have been many strange and eccentric poets over the centuries, but none quite like Archy the Cockroach. This little guy was the reincarnation of a nameless poet who found his way into the office of newspaper columnist Don Marquis. One night, Archy started writing poetry by jumping from key to key on the typewriter there. All of his poems are written in lowercase because he couldn't push the shift key and the letter keys at the same time. If you're not impressed by poetry from a bug who can write, there are literally millions of other poets to check out during National Poetry Month. Human, insect, or otherwise.  It has been said that “Eggs Benedict” was named for Pope Benedict XIII, who requested the dish often. Then there's the story of Mrs. LeGrand Benedict who couldn't decide what to order while dining at Delmonicos in New York. The chef came up with a similar recipe and claims to have named it after her. Finally there's Lemuel Benedict, a Wall Street Broker who ordered buttered toast, two poached eggs, bacon and hollandaise sauce. Apparently, it was such a winning combination that it went on the menu at the Waldorf hotel, which begs the question, which Benedict came first? On National Eggs Benedict Day, there's no need to quibble. Enjoy this dish that is fit for anyone with eggstraordinary taste. I'm Anna Devere and I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the Gwartney team talks about two different thought experiments brought up by Dr. Justin Clarke on Abortion. These thought experiments run through the first and second half of the show. The team then analyzes each of the arguments brought up by the experiment to see which one is better in comparison. The first thought experiment is Judith Jarvis Thomson's, A Defence of Abortion. The second one is Don Marquis's, Why Abortion is Immoral. Enjoy the show! LInk: https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm = Judith Jarvis Thomson's, A Defence of Abortion https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil215/Marquis.pdf = Don Marquis's, Why Abortion is Immoral Timeline: The Arguments- 1:45 Jarvis Thompson- 7:15 No Requirement to Val- 11:30 Brain 'EM- 15:00 Burden Changing Your Morality- 17:10 Abortion is Immoral?- 21:10 Deprived of a Valuable Future!- 26:35 When Does the Clock Start?- 30:00 Self Defense or No?- 35:10 Val the violinist pt. 2- 47:05 Quote of the Cast: I have a button, if I push it, you die. - Peter Jacobsen

You know Archy the cockroach from all those old Scholastic books about 'Insects Do the Strangest Things' where they were desperate to think of a famous cockroach to name check. Archy and his pal Mehitabel, the slutty cat, were characters created by newspaper columnist Don Marquis in 1906. Many collections of Archy and Mehitabel stories were illustrated by George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat. And that's enough excuse to watch the very 70s Archy and Mehitabel adaptation, Shinbone Alley!

** We're talking about abortion in this episode, and occasionally we mention sexual abuse and violence. Nothing graphic, we promise. But some listeners may find what follows distressing. Be safe. **We're weighing up the arguments of the Pro Choice and Pro Life movements. Perhaps we can convince you that the case against abortion - the pro-life case - isn't as dumb and mean as it's often portrayed to be, and nor does it depend on religious dogma.This episode is sponsored by Zondervan's new book The Global Church: The First Eight Centuries by Donald Fairbairn.LINKS Read Judith Jarvis Johnson's groundbreaking article about abortion, where she offered the violinist thought experiment as a way to illustrate bodily autonomy: A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Autumn, 1971), pp 47-66.  Get to know our guest, Professor Margaret Somerville.Read Somerville's book that first introduced her to John, The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit Say hi to our guest, Dr Emma Wood. Here's some more info on Professor Michael Tooley, Emma mentions as we speak with her. He wrote a very influential book called Abortion and Infanticide in the 1980s, where he argues that an entity can't possess a right to life unless it has the capacity to desire its continued existence.  Here's the article called 'Reasons why women have induced abortions: a synthesis of findings from 14 countries', published in the journal, Contraception, in 2017. And here are the statistics on numbers of abortions worldwide, from the Guttmacher Institute Here's some more on Professor Peter Singer's argument in favour of abortion: "When a woman has an abortion, the fetus is alive, and it is undoubtedly human – in the sense that it is a member of the species homo sapiens. It isn't a dog or a chimpanzee ... But mere membership of our species doesn't settle the moral issue of whether it is wrong to end a life. As long as the abortion is carried out at less than 20 weeks of gestation – as almost all abortions are – the brain of the fetus has not developed to the point of making consciousness possible." He goes on: "Admittedly, birth is in some ways an arbitrary place to draw the line at which killing the developing human life ceases to be permissible, and instead becomes murder ... A prematurely born infant may be less developed than a late-term fetus. But the criminal law needs clear dividing lines and, in normal circumstances, birth is the best we have." Here's Don Marquis' article that we spend a lot of time on in the second half of this episode: "Why Abortion is Immoral", in the Journal of Philosophy vol.86, no.4 (April 1989), pages 183-202: "The claim that the primary wrong-making feature of a killing is the loss to the victim of the value of its future has obvious consequences for the ethics of abortion. The future of a standard fetus includes a set of experiences, projects, activities, and such which are identical with the futures of adult human beings and are identical with the futures of young children. Since the reason that is sufficient to explain why it is wrong to kill human beings after the time of birth is a reason that also applies to fetuses, it follows that abortion is prima facie seriously morally wrong." Here's a link to the full New York Times podcast 'The Argument' episode called 'Why the Anti-Abortion Side Will Lose, Even if it Wins' (if you don't have a NYT subscription, just look it up on your podcast app - it was published on April 14, 2021.  Watch Paxton Smith's speech from her Texas high school graduation here. Read this article in The Economist called 'Texas's new proposal shows why abortion law is a mess in America', re: the so-called Texan "heartbeat bill".  Here's more on the Mississippi case that will come before the Supreme Court and challenge Roe v Wade, from the New York Times. Producer Kaley found this article really interesting while researching this episode: The epic political battle over the legacy of the suffragettes, in The Atlantic which explores why both sides of the abortion debate see themselves as inheritors of the early women's movement.  Read the paper by economists Janet L Yellen and George Akerlof called 'An analysis of out-of-wedlock childbearing in the United States', Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996, which carried this quote (among lots of other interesting insights): “By making the birth of the child the physical choice of the mother, the sexual revolution has made marriage and child support a social choice of the father.”

Philosophy professor Jamie Lombardi joins Ben to talk about "heartbeat bills" and other current threats to abortion rights, and to revisit the arguments in classic papers on the subject by Don Marquis ("Why Abortion is Immoral"), Judith Jarvis Thomson ("A Defense of Abortion"), and Margaret Olivia Little ("Abortion, Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate"). Jamie is starting a chapter of Corrupt the Youth (https://corrupttheyouth.weebly.com/) at her college and raising money for Garden State Equality (https://gardenstateequality.rallybound.org/JamieLombardi).Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want!Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get a bonus episode every Thursday, access to the Discord server, a “Sopranos” Recap Bonus Episode every month with Mike Recine, Nando Vila, and Wosny Lambre, a monthly Discord Movie Night, and "Discord Office Hours" (regularly scheduled group voice chats).Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgisLike, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben's channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAAVisit benburgis.com

Tim Burkhardt returns for a talk on Don Marquis's essay, "Why Abortion is Immoral." This famous philosophy paper argues that abortion is, except in unusual circumstances, seriously morally wrong. Tim has since earned his Ph.D from Duke University, having successfully defended his dissertation on Epicureanism. He is now the Scholar in Residence at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at UC Boulder.

In this episode of the Three Bros Podcast, we discuss a YouTube video entitled, "Why Abortion Is Immoral, Don Marquis" by Let's Get Logical. We discuss the paper written by Don Marquis in 1989 as well as a rebuttal entitled "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had: A Reply to Marquis on Abortion" written by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Links to the video and papers below. "Why Abortion Is Immoral, Don Marquis" by Let's Get Logical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYWu6UWEe0 "Why Abortion is Immoral" by Don Marquis http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf "You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had: A Reply to Marquis on Abortion" by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. https://sites.duke.edu/wsa/papers/files/2011/05/Reply-to-Marquis-on-Abortion.pdf Logo by Randy Dunham @ Randydunham.com

Lost your way? Hit the self-sabotage button? Feeling doomed and minus the mojo? Heck - we hear ya and know exactly what that feels like! From non-scale victories, to motivators, and remembering your why...Anna and Clare dig deep to find the reasons to celebrate whether facing a backwards pedal gain or slow mo snail progress. Things we mention: Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary David Goggins' cookie jar Quotes from Don Marquis and Jim Rohn. Presented by Clare Freeman and Anna Mangan. Produced by ASFB Productions. This podcast is now officially sponsored by Slimming World! Please note: The info we share is based on our personal weight loss experiences. Always check with your consultant or a health care professional when following a weight loss plan.

Lost your way? Hit the self-sabotage button? Feeling doomed and minus the mojo? Heck - we hear ya and know exactly what that feels like! From non-scale victories, to motivators, and remembering your why...Anna and Clare dig deep to find the reasons to celebrate whether facing a backwards pedal gain or slow mo snail progress. Things we mention: Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary David Goggins' cookie jar Quotes from Don Marquis and Jim Rohn. Presented by Clare Freeman and Anna Mangan. Produced by ASFB Productions. This podcast is now officially sponsored by Slimming World! Please note: The info we share is based on our personal weight loss experiences. Always check with your consultant or a health care professional when following a weight loss plan.

John Gray tells the story of Archy and Mehitabel, a newspaper column created in 1916 by the US journalist Don Marquis. It chronicles the conversations between a cockroach and a cat and was a phenomenal success with a readership who "mistrusted politicians and intellectuals who talked grandly of a radiant future". John Gray reflects on the lessons for today. Producer: Adele Armstrong ,

Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer more questions from Ian McGinniss, the president of Dukes for Life at James Madison University. Questions: 01:02: What do you guys think is the distribution of pro-choice beliefs on campus? 14:20: What is your take on the Don Marquis Future of Value Argument against abortion? 58:07: Do you think there is a way to restructure the Marquis argument into one that’s more interactive? Related Links: Equipped for Life Podcast Episodes 14 and 15 on relational apologetics Don Marquis for the Journal of Philosophy: Why Abortion Is Immoral (PDF) Equipped for Life Podcast: That James Franco Video

Kyle Blanchette teaches Introduction to Philosophy and Introduction to Ethics at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, where he specifically covers the ethics of abortion. He has also written mainstream articles on the topic for publications such as the National Review and the Washington Examiner. He hosts the YouTube channel "Consistency, Please" and is finishing his PhD in philosophy (in abstentia) at the University of Rochester with concentrations in metaphysics and ethics. DISCUSSION NOTES: During the discussion, Kyle was speaking extemporaneously and followed-up via email to clarify the following point: "I may have mistakenly said that [Judith Jarvis] Thomson actually endorses the claim that the fetus is a person, or has full moral status (and then argues that abortion is nevertheless morally permissible, at least sometimes). That's not quite right. She grants for the sake of argument that the fetus is a person (from conception, in fact), in order to show that this does not settle the question of whether abortion is ever morally permissible. In other words, she's trying to show that the pro-life premise that the fetus is a person (or has special/high moral status) is compatible with abortion being morally permissible--at least in some cases. But anyone who holds that (a) the fetus has special moral status, but nevertheless, (b) abortion is (at least sometimes) morally permissible, will use her line of argument." Links to articles mentioned during the discussion: “A Defense of Abortion” by Judith Jarvis Thomson - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2265091?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents “Why Abortion Is Immoral” by Don Marquis - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026961?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents MORE ABOUT KYLE BLANCHETTE: You can follow Kyle on Twitter at @Kyle_plz His YouTube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/audiophilica Examples of Kyle's writings can be found here: 'Abortion Restrictions Don't Work': A Dubious Claim - https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/abortion-restrictions-dont-work-dubious-claim/amp/ How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Pro-Life Laws - http://blog.secularprolife.org/2019/03/how-to-evaluate-effectiveness-of-pro.html No, pro-lifers are not merely pro-birth - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/no-pro-lifers-are-not-merely-pro-birth YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/pdIV1OpAUaI

Kyle Blanchette teaches Introduction to Philosophy and Introduction to Ethics at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, where he specifically covers the ethics of abortion. He has also written mainstream articles on the topic for publications such as the National Review and the Washington Examiner. He hosts the YouTube channel "Consistency, Please" and is finishing his PhD in philosophy (in abstentia) at the University of Rochester with concentrations in metaphysics and ethics. DISCUSSION NOTES: During the discussion, Kyle was speaking extemporaneously and followed-up via email to clarify the following point: "I may have mistakenly said that [Judith Jarvis] Thomson actually endorses the claim that the fetus is a person, or has full moral status (and then argues that abortion is nevertheless morally permissible, at least sometimes). That’s not quite right. She grants for the sake of argument that the fetus is a person (from conception, in fact), in order to show that this does not settle the question of whether abortion is ever morally permissible. In other words, she’s trying to show that the pro-life premise that the fetus is a person (or has special/high moral status) is compatible with abortion being morally permissible--at least in some cases. But anyone who holds that (a) the fetus has special moral status, but nevertheless, (b) abortion is (at least sometimes) morally permissible, will use her line of argument." Links to articles mentioned during the discussion: “A Defense of Abortion” by Judith Jarvis Thomson - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2265091?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents “Why Abortion Is Immoral” by Don Marquis - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026961?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents MORE ABOUT KYLE BLANCHETTE: You can follow Kyle on Twitter at @Kyle_plz His YouTube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/audiophilica Examples of Kyle's writings can be found here: 'Abortion Restrictions Don't Work': A Dubious Claim - https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/abortion-restrictions-dont-work-dubious-claim/amp/ How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Pro-Life Laws - http://blog.secularprolife.org/2019/03/how-to-evaluate-effectiveness-of-pro.html No, pro-lifers are not merely pro-birth - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/no-pro-lifers-are-not-merely-pro-birth YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/pdIV1OpAUaI

In this podcast: if you find yourself reaching the tipping point, understand it didn't have to lead to that. In most situations you were not an innocent victim. You permitted things to happen and it culminated to this point. Let me explain... “The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ” ― Don Marquis

Clinton interviews Russell DiSilvestro, a philosopher at Sacramento State University, regarding his book Human Capacities and Moral Status. They will talk about the concept of capacities, what it means to be human and have a human nature, and how all of this relates to the abortion issue. Books mentioned on the podcast: Human Capacities and Moral Status by Russell DiSilvestro Human Identity and Bioethics by David DeGrazia The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology by Eric T. Olson Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics by J.P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae Articles mentioned on the podcast: "Why Abortion is Immoral" by Don Marquis

Clinton interviews Russell DiSilvestro, a philosopher at Sacramento State University, regarding his book Human Capacities and Moral Status. They will talk about the concept of capacities, what it means to be human and have a human nature, and how all of this relates to the abortion issue. Books mentioned on the podcast: Human Capacities and Moral Status by Russell DiSilvestro Human Identity and Bioethics by David DeGrazia The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology by Eric T. Olson Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics by J.P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae Articles mentioned on the podcast: "Why Abortion is Immoral" by Don Marquis

On the 20th episode of Never Records, Ted Riederer shares more of the talented artists he recorded during his 5 week stay in new Orleans. He starts off the episode with a poem by Don Marquis and rolls right into the music. Featured music by: The Abita Stumps, The High Ground Drifters Bluegrass Band and The Creole String Beans.

Sky Island UU Sunday Service May 8  Poor Archy’s Almanack One hundred years ago this spring, journalist and poet Don Marquis created Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the alley cat to fill space in a newspaper column.  Over the next twenty years, Archy and Mehitabel provided America with clear-eyed yet charitable observations about the world […]

Do you have a favorite invocation of Lovecraftian horror? Jason Colavito seems to have successfully traced many of the ideas that appear in UFO and ancient alien claims back to HP Lovecraft and other Weird Tale writers! Your thoughts? I'd like your thoughts on Thomas Ligotti's work. In "The Shadow out of Time" we see a future where mankind disappears from galactic history and Cthulhu seems absent as well. The beetles that inherit the Earth from humans do not seem to have been troubled by Cthulhu and his ilk. Might this be because humanity is assumed to have evolved defenses against Cthulhu but was destroyed in the process? There doesn't seem to be any good solution to the Arkham / Salem dichotomy, but what if Salem and Arkham were originally sister towns which were growing larger and eventually overlapped? A few decades after the witchcraft trials and because of the "bad press" Salem got from them, the people of the now abutting towns of Salem and Arkham agreed to incorporate as a single city named Arkham. Since then, some people still refer to historical Salem as "Salem" but that is no longer the name of the unified city. What made Lovecraft dislike Plato? What's up with Lovecraft and architecture? In many stories he uses the architecture of a culture or society as a metaphor for the society itself. Might the fly in "The Winged Death" have been inspired by Don Marquis' Archy, the poet cockroach? He too had to jump from key to key to type his messages. Criticism of L. Sprague de Camp's biographies of Lovecraft and Howard. Re "The Statement of Randolph Carter," was there any indication in future stories as to WHAT was down in the burial chamber? Did the Night Gaunts ever resurface in future stories? Do you think the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" could have been influenced by H. P. Lovecraft? I question your explanation that Lovecraft had to write his narrators as weak-willed sidekicks to their domineering best friends because readers wouldn't be able to sympathize with the mad scientists or demented occultists. Lovecraft was no stranger to unsympathetic --and, dare I say it, perverted -- narrators. I think there's more to the trope of intense male bonding in Lovecraft's fiction than just a narrative convenience. All the evidence, in my opinion, points to HPL being an asexual man who liked men. Do you feel that Lovecraft's true genius lies not just in his unique literary style, his aggrandizement of antiquarianism, his depiction of cosmic indifference or even in his inventive use of morphology, but his re-defining of the Greek Tragedy? I am curious if the cuttlefish might have had an influence in the image and name of Cthulhu? Might the magical conception of Wilbur Whateley be a satirical parallel to that of Jesus in the gospels? I have frequently encountered the phrase "That Which Should Not Be." Should not be what, exactly? Can you recommend any other weird fiction with an obvious Gnostic influence? And are there any other real historical religious sects, cults or movements like the Gnostics that strike you as being particularly Lovecraftian in their beliefs?

Fri, Aug 7 2009 Back in 1918, Don Marquis (famous today for his characters Archy and Mehitabel) collected a book of pieces concerning 'Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers.' Today, Hermione ponders a big question and comes up with an upward and onward solution for the future in 'The World is Getting Better.' Time: approx three minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Thur, Aug 6 2009 Back in 1918, Don Marquis (famous today for his characters Archy and Mehitabel) collected a book of pieces concerning 'Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers.' Today, we hear Hermione's entirely reasonable explanation for 'How the Swami Happened to Have Seven Wives.' Time: approx five and a half minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Wed, Aug 5 2009 Back in 1918, Don Marquis (famous today for his characters Archy and Mehitabel) collected a book of pieces concerning 'Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers.' In today's tale, Hermione reveals more than she thinks in 'Understanding, and One's Own Home.' Time: approx five minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.

Tue, Aug 4 2009 Back in 1918, Don Marquis (famous today for his characters Archy and Mehitabel) collected a book of pieces concerning 'Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers.' There really never has been such a unique and fun character such as Hermione, and we will be presenting some of her stories this week. Today's piece is called 'Sincerity in the Home.' Time: approx six minutes The Mister Ron's Basement Full Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html When in iTunes, please click on 'Subscribe' button. It's Free! Thank you.