Elselijn Kingma (University of Southampton), Suki Finn (University of Southampton)
Kingma (forthcoming) tentatively argues that fetuses are not merely inside the pregnant organism, but part of it. This raises questions about the status of fetuses and pregnant mammals as individuals. To answer them I compare pregnancy to two other biological phenomena that pose questions for individuality: symbiosis and clonal reproduction. I then defend a positive proposal: we should view the pregnant organism as having a high degree of biological individuality. But it is less of an individual than the non-pregnant mammal.
