Agnes Callard: evaluation

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…Exactly. [laughs] I don’t believe that if you haven’t had the experience of parenting yourself, that means you’re necessarily missing something. I can’t know that, but I do think that philosophy has . . . There are many aspects of the human experience that are undertheorized by philosophers — parenting, but not just parenting, but a whole range of phenomena that go with it. Basically, a lot of the ethics of sexuality or something — there are bits of that that have been addressed, but there’s a lot of it that hasn’t. I don’t know that any philosopher before me has ever asked that question that you asked me. I asked in my book, “What does one say to infertile couples?” “What is the ethics of how you deal with people who are infertile?” That’s an important ethical question. I think that, as far as I can tell, it isn’t a question people have asked before. I do think it’s an important area of human life that hasn’t been sufficiently theorized. Maybe you’re right that, were we to do so better, that would affect our theory in other areas. Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Is he a philosopher? If so, is he a Cartesian?…

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