The Moral Monster of Female Genital Mutilation

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I watched my brother get it, you know, his 14 years younger than me. David Summers, I watched him have a tiny little bit of his penis get cut off. And it just wasn't like, I don't know, it just didn't seem like that big a deal. Like a rabbi did it. He was making jokes as he did it. What it signals to me is that there's probably a lot of these things like that, that when you take them out of their socially embedded context, they seem barbaric and crazy. But within that context, it just seems run of the mill. So I'm not defending. I can tell you that if some baby mama calls

David and Tamler break down a recent classic in the philosophy of mind: "The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark and David Chalmers. What is boundary of your mind? Is it contained with your body, or does it extend to the external environment--to your laptop, notebook, smartphone and more? Is this a purely terminological question, or one with practical and moral significance? And what is the role of intuition in providing an answer? Plus, Dave shares an email alerting him to the psychological trauma of male circumcision along with an exciting all-natural method for restoring the foreskin (that was stolen from us as infants).

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