The New Relevance of Rationing
By Ben Davies Decisions about how to allocate healthcare resources can be divided, somewhat crudely, into macro– and micro-level choices. Roughly speaking, macro-choices are policy choices, often made outside any clinical setting, e.g…
Read MoreMoral Psychology at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Written by Joanna Demaree-Cotton This last Michaelmas term marked the inaugural series of lab meetings for the Uehiro Centre’s BioXPhi lab (https://moralpsychlab.web.ox.ac.uk). Co-directed by myself and Dr. Brian Earp, the lab brings…
Read MoreGuest Post: It has become possible to use cutting-edge AI language models to generate convincing high school and undergraduate essays. Here’s why that matters
Written by: Julian Koplin & Joshua Hatherley, Monash University ChatGPT is a variant of the GPT-3 language model developed by OpenAI. It is designed to generate human-like text in response to prompts given by users. As with any language…
Read MoreCrosspost: Impostor syndrome and pretense
Written by Neil Levy The original version of this article was published at New Work in Philosophy. It’s hard to get any sort of reliable estimates of its prevalence, but impostor syndrome seems to be very widespread. Lots of people r…
Read MoreCross Post: Halving Subsidised Psychology Appoints is a Grave Mistake—Young Australians Will Bear a Significant Burden
Written by Dr Daniel D’Hotman, DPhil student studying mental health and ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre The original version of this article was published in the Sydney Morning Herald Unprecedented times called for unprecedented measures…
Read MoreAbortion in Wonderland
By Charles Foster Image: Heidi Crowter: Copyright Don’t Screen Us Out Scene: A pub in central London John: They did something worthwhile there today, for once, didn’t they? [He motions towards the Houses of Parliam…
Read MoreSimulate Your True Self
Written by Muriel Leuenberger A modified version of this post is forthcoming in Think edited by Stephen Law. Spoiler warning: if you want to watch the movie Don’t Worry Darling, I advise you to not read this article beforehand (but definite…
Read MoreThere Is No Such Thing As A Purely Logical Argument
Written By Mette Leonard Høeg This blogpost is a prepublication draft of an article forthcoming in THINK. It is well-known that rational insight and understanding of scientific facts do not necessarily lead to psychological change and shift…
Read MoreThe Non-Rationality of Radical Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
Written by David Lyreskog The human enhancement debate has over the last few decades been concerned with ethical issues in methods for improving the physical, cognitive, or emotive states of individual people, and of the human specie…
Read MoreNudges and Incomplete Preferences
Written by Sarah Raskoff (Post is based on my recently published paper in Bioethics) Nudges are small changes in the presentation of options that make a predictable impact on people’s decisions. Proponents of nudges often claim that …
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