The 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception HT24 Week 9, Tuesday 12th March, 5:30pm – 7:45pm.
We are pleased to announce the four finalists of the 10th National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and to invite you to attend the final where they will present their entries. Two finalists have been selected from each category to present their ideas to an audience and respond to a short Q&A as the final round in the competition.
The Presentation will be held in the Seminar Room, Faculty of Philosophy, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford OX2 6HT, starting at 5:30pm, followed by a drinks reception until 7:45 pm in the Colin Matthew Room.
All are welcome to attend the final and are warmly invited to join the finalists for a drinks reception after the event. Please sign up by the 10th March at: https://bookwhen.com/uehiro/e/ev-s2uy-20240312173000
If you are unable to join the event in person, the presentation section will be presented as a hybrid zoom webinar. To register in advance for this webinar sign in here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0lUmPtTwSCeayZ8N8jS_fA
Please book now and support the next generation of Practical Ethicists.
Undergraduate Finalists
Ayesha Chakravarti: Feminist in the streets, sadomasochist in the sheets: Are you morally aligning yourself with women’s subordination if you engage in consensually inegalitarian sexual relationships?
Wyatt Radzin: How to Say Things With Acts: Consumption as Language.
Graduate Finalists
Jakob Lohmar: The Moral Importance of Low Welfare Species
Theodore Naylor: Do Living-Wills Have Autonomous Authority When Applied to Patients in Advanced Stages of Dementia?
The following essays have been awarded an Honourable Mention:
Undergraduate:
David Logan: When Eating Meat is OK: A Defence of Benign Carnivorism
Gabriel McWilliams: To What Extent Has Aristotle’s Conception of a Virtuous Character Remained Relevant in the Face of Situationist Criticism?
Graduate:
Alexander (Sasha) Arridge: In Defence of Defensive Prejudice: Why We Should Believe That Men Are Trash
Esther Braun: Should We Prohibit Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques for Treating Infertility?
Beatrice Marchegiani: Undisclosed Conversational AIs: A Threat to Users’ Autonomy