<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> The <i class="">Journal of Applied Philosophy</i> has recently published an article on the ethics and politics of child naming, which might be of potential interest to list subscribers. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 21.6px; font-family: Arial, 'Lucida Grande', Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Abstract: this article examines the issue of justification of government's intervention in the parental acts of child naming, a neglected topic in the recent philosophical literature. It questions the ability of some of the current theories in family ethics to respond to this problem, and argues that both permissive and restrictive theories fail to provide a plausible argument about the proper limits of government regulation of child naming practices. The article outlines an alternative solution that focuses on the child's right to authenticity and suggests that only those names that infringe upon this right invite justified state intervention.</span></h3></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The full paper can be found here: <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/japp.12231/abstract" class="">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/japp.12231/abstract</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Yael</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
--------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Dr. Yael Peled<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Language and Health<br class="">The Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities (<a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/hssaccess/trhpp/research" class="">HCALM</a>) Network<br class=""><br class="">Institute for Health and Social Policy<br class="">McGill University<br class="">Charles Meredith House <br class="">1130 Pine Avenue West<br class="">Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3<br class="">Tel.: 514-398-1236 <br class=""><br class="">Faculty of Law<br class="">McGill University<br class="">Chancellor Day Hall<br class="">3644 Peel Street<br class="">Montreal, Quebec <br class="">Canada H3A 1W9<br class="">Tel.: 514-398-6666 <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Website:<a href="http://www.peledy.com" class=""> www.peledy.com</a>
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