Treated like Animals, Guest Post by Christine Korsgaard
Guest Post: Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University On November 5, 2014, RT reported that Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia claimed that they were being “treated like animals.” On November 14, The Independent reported that the members of Pus…
Read MoreWhat are the ethics of using brain stimulation technologies for ‘enhancement’ in children?
New open access publication: announcement: In a recently published article, Hannah Maslen, Roi Cohen Kadosh, Julian Savulescu and I present an argument about the permissible (and not-so-permissible) uses of non-invasive brain stimulation te…
Read More“Ravines and Sugar Pills: Defending Deceptive Placebo Use” – New Open Access Publication
A placebo can be understood as a medical intervention that lacks direct specific therapeutic effects on the condition for which it has been prescribed, but which can nonetheless help to ameliorate a patient’s condition. In March 2013, a stu…
Read MoreIs it worth saving human lives at the cost of mistreating animals?
Guest Post: Emilian Mihailov, Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Univeristy of Bucharest The most persuasive argument for experimenting on animals is probably the claim that it is only through such research, that we save human lives. This d…
Read MoreBucharest – Oxford Workshop in Applied Ethics: Workshop Summary
Guest Post: Toni Gibea, University of Bucharest. The Bucharest-Oxford Workshop in Applied Ethics, which took place in Oxford on the 1st of December, brought together researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Bucharest…
Read MoreMilk Round success is tragic, culpable failure
Several times this term I’ve staggered out onto Oxford station, cramped and queasy from Cattle Class, and seen packs of sleek suits ooze out of First Class, briefcases in their hands and predatory gleams in their eyes. ‘Let’s go hunting’, o…
Read MoreEarth: Priceless
Christmas is the season when prices, costs and value are on everybody’s mind. At least when trying to estimate how much a present is worth to a friend or family member (and the value of our own happiness at their happiness): is it rea…
Read MoreMindfulness meditation and implicit bias
A recent study purports to demonstrate that mindfulness meditation techniques can reduce implicit biases. Affecting all manner of interpersonal interactions, implicit biases are unconscious attitudes or associations that influence our under…
Read MoreOn the Appropriate Place of Self-Interest in Our Actions
Guest Post by Jos Philips With Christmas and the new year fast approaching, Jos Philips reconsiders what role self-interest may legitimately play in what we are doing. Recently, a class of students of mine were discussing a well-known artic…
Read MoreShould we intervene in nature to help animals?
Guest Post by Catia Faria It is commonly believed that our obligations towards other human beings are not restricted to abstaining from harming them. We should also prevent or alleviate harmful states of affairs for other individuals…
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