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PHL 101/ CSI/ CUNY/ Fall 2019 Final Quiz
Please Print Name: ___Michele Wolven________________________________________
If there is a choice, Choose the BEST response
1. We have spoken of the term ‘person’ or ‘personhood’ as being a human
being conceived by a human being 2. John Noonan has argued that a person becomes a person (when?) At the moment of conception 3. 3. Noonan goes through a number of distinctions that others have considered as the time during ges-
tation when a person becomes a person. One example is “viability.” Noonan then articulates the dis-
tinction, based upon the claim that the crucial philosophical meaning behind viability is (a) dependence
(b) quickening (c) unique fetal DNA (d) implantation
4. Noonan then rejects the distinction above (in 3) arguing that (a) implantation occurs much earlier (b) at that stage the fetus lacks the “form” of a person (c) that an infant is just as radically dependent on others as the fetus (
d) the attempt to draw that distinction is an instance of an ‘argument from igno-
rance’.
5. Noonan realizes he needs to bolster his argument with positive reasons regarding where he locates when a person becomes a person. He provides two main positive grounds for his view. Namely; ______when conceived by a human conceptus_____________________________ and has a human ge-
netic code
_______ 6. _____
(T/
F) Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that if a person becomes a person at the moment of concep-
tion, then it seems clear that an abortion is in fact impermissible, except when the life of the mother is threatened by the pregnancy.
7._____(
T
/F)Thomson shows, by way of the famous violinist analogy, that the conservative (pro-life) ar-
gument (such as Noonan’s) has a missing premise and it is thus invalid.
8._____
(T
/F If an argument is invalid, it is unsound
9. Thomson argues that the missing premise is (
state it/Fill-in
) fetus' right to life outweighs the mother's
right to determine what happens in and to her body. 10_____(T
/F)
Thomson claims the missing premise, once articulated, turns out to be false
11_true____If an argument has a false premise, even if it is valid, it is unsound
12_____
(T
/F) Hence, Thomson argues that the conservative argument is either invalid (thus unsound) or
it has a false premise (and thus also unsound); hence on either perspective, the conservative argument is unsound.
13._____ (
T
/G) Mary Anne Warren distinguishes persons (as rights bearers) in terms of (a)biological/genetic entities as opposed to (b)moral entities; And she argues that(b) the moral dis-
tinction is the relevant distinction to make not (a)the biological/ genetic distinction.
14.
True
_____Warren then argues that John Noonan realizes the correct distinction is the moral one (as in 1 above).
15.____(
T/
F) Warren then considers what any member of a moral community (community of per-
sons as rights bearers or moral persons) should have, (As those morally relevant features that would
allow membership into the moral community, even if not a member of the species homo sapiens)
16.Some of the morally relevant features she considers are (a) consciousness (b) reasoning (c) ca-
pacity to feel pain (d) capacity to communicate (e) none of the above (
f) all of the above 17._____
(
T/
F
) Warren then argues that one cannot be a person if one has None of these features(mentioned in 4 above). 18._____(
T
/F) Don Marquis argues for the claim that it is a sufficient condition for what makes killing wrong is that the being has a future of value
19._____ (T
/F) Marquis then argues that a fetus has a Future of Value
20._____(
T
/F) Marquis then argues that it follows that it is wrong to kill the fetus
21._____(T/
F) he argues that it is as wrong to kill a fetus as it is to kill an adult human being (i.e., as wrong as to kill us”)
22._____ (T
/F) Logically, Marquis argument is valid
23. _____(
T
/F) If 22 above is true then the logical question that remains is whether the argument is sound.
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