You can find part 1 of this article here. This article will continue looking at Kate Greasley’s critique of the book, Embryo, by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen. In Part 2, I will explain certain parts of her books and offer critiques as I go. Ghosts in the Machine? Greasley explains that, "George and Tollefsen believe that their task here is to refute the dualist conception of persons–the view that 'we' are ghostly substances inhabiting human machines… This is because of what they take dualism to imply about the conditions for persisting identity. If 'we' are basically immaterial substances, it seems that we would come and go from our human bodies, and, consequently, that we are not identical with those bodies." (1) This part is actually accurate. As I showed in part 1, they are trying to refute dualism, or the idea that we are something other than our bodies. Moreover, they also claim that if we are some immaterial substance of the person kind, that inhabits our bodies, it would open up…

Part 2 has been published and can be read here. Introduction Kate Greasley released a book in 2017 called Arguments About Abortion. Coming in at 267 pages, it is dense, packed with her own arguments, summaries of other authors' points, and her responses. Her belief is that abortion can only be morally justified if the unborn are not persons. It would be hard to do her whole book justice in one review.  Instead, I wanted to look at one section of her book where she heavily engages with Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen’s book, Embryo, which strives to show that the unborn are persons with a right to life. That section of Greasley’s book can be broken into two parts. First she critiques their argument for personhood essentialism. Second, she interacts with their critiques of dualism.  There is a lot of information to cover so I will respond to her in two articles. In both articles, I will ask two questions:  1. Does she represent George and Tollefsen fairly?  2. Do Greasley’s rebuttals…

In this book, his goal to untangle the knots that surround the abortion issue so that he can expose abortion for what it truly is: murder.