Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Arguing About Guns by C’zar Bernstein
This essay, by Oxford graduate student C’zar Bernstein, is one of the six shortlisted essays in the graduate category of the inaugural Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Arguing About Guns In this paper, I’ll argue, first…
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Is prohibition of breast implants a good way to undermine harmful and unequal social norms? by Jessica Laimann
This essay, by Oxford graduate student Jessica Laimann, is one of the two finalists in the graduate category of the inaugural Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Jessica will be presenting this paper, along with three other finalists, …
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Can a Contractarian Rationally Donate to Charity? by Benedict Hardwick.
This essay, by Oxford undergraduate student Benedict Hardwick, is one of the four shortlisted essays in the undergraduate category of the inaugural Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Can a Contractarian Rationally Donate to Charity? …
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Shortlisted Graduate and Undergraduate Essays
The Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics was announced on this blog on the 26th November 2014. By the 25th January a large number of high quality essays had been submitted and the judges had a difficult time narrowing the field down to …
Read MoreIs there a middle ground in being pro-choice?
For a long time, Ann Furedi (chief executive of bpas) has been advocating women’s right to choose regarding their pregnancies. She is quite radical with regard to this pro-choice principle. For example, she questioned the 24-week limit of a…
Read MoreHow to Be Free: Objectification and the Noumenal World An Impression of Neil Levy’s First Leverhulme Lecture
Y Lim When I was a medical student and doctor, there were a few legendary teachers at the Alfred Hospital. The greatest of these was a general physician called Y Lim. He was the Sherlock Holmes of bedside clinicians. He would take groups of…
Read MoreOn holding ethicists to higher moral standards and the value of moral inconsistency
A few weeks ago, Adela Cortina, one of the most important moral philosophers in Spain, was interviewed on the journal El País. “This should be the easiest interview in the world,” said the journalist by way of introduction. Adela Cortina as…
Read MoreDoes religion deserve a place in secular medicine?
By Brian D. Earp The latest issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics is out, and in it, Professor Nigel Biggar—an Oxford theologian—argues that “religion” should have a place in secular medicine (click here for a link to the article). Some pe…
Read MoreHumans are un-made by social media
‘Technology has made life different, but not necessarily more stressful’, says a recent article in the New York Times, summarising the findings of a study by researchers at the Pew Research Center and Rutgers University. It is often thought…
Read MoreWhere there’s a will there’s a way: Enhancing motivation
by Hannah Maslen, Julian Savulescu and Carin Hunt A study examining pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement found that participants’ subjective enjoyment of various memory and problem-solving tasks was significantly greater when they had taken…
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