Optional whether to give, therefore optional where to give?
You might think that if it’s not wrong not to donate to charity, then it’s not wrong to give to whatever particular charity you choose (as long as no harm is done). I’m going to argue against this view. Very often, it is wrong to give to …
Read MoreShould we criminalise robotic rape and robotic child sexual abuse? Maybe
Guest Post by John Danaher (@JohnDanaher) This article is being cross-posted at Philosophical Disquisitions I recently published an unusual article. At least, I think it is unusual. It imagines a future in which sophisticated sex robots are…
Read MorePhilosophy and animal experimentation: Animal ethics workshop with Christine Korsgaard.
By Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics On the 3rd December, as part of the Uehiro lecture series, the Centre for Practical Ethics held a workshop on Animal Ethics at the Oxford Martin School.* The workshop included first a short summar…
Read MorePregnancy discrimination: Indirect discrimination against women? (JPE 2(2))
Guest Post by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Professor Lippert-Rasmussen’s paper on indirect discrimination is part of the latest issue of the JPE December 3, 2014, the US Supreme Court held its first hearing on the case of a former UPS dri…
Read MoreDiscriminating happiness. Journal of Practical Ethics 2(2) is out!
by Dominic Wilkinson, Managing editor JPE, @Neonatalethics The latest issue of the journal is out this week: Valerie Tiberius examines the relevance of different theories of wellbeing for the important practical task of providing life-advic…
Read MoreHelping Friends
Guest post: Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota. Read the related paper: How Theories of Well-being Can Help Us Help in the latest issue of the Journal of Practical Ethics. I have a friend I’ll call Liam who is ruining his life. Liam…
Read MoreBeing Angry at Zoella – What Moral Outrage Tells About Us
If you are like me you did not know who Zoe Sugg – known as Zoella – was before she published the fastest selling debut novel ever, “Girl Online”. Since then, I learned that Sugg is a video blogger on YouTube, publishing tips about beauty a…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Humor
Clinton Cards recently apologized for a Christmas card listing “10 reasons why Santa Claus must live on a Council Estate” (sample reasons: “He only works once a year”; “He drinks alcohol during working hours”). Predictably, some people prof…
Read MoreDisability and Minimally Decent Samaritanism
This week, The Court of Appeal in the UK ruled that bus companies are not legally required to force parents with buggies to make way for wheelchair users in designated bays on vehicles. This ruling overturned a 2013 County Court judgement …
Read MoreWhere are you from? What is it worth?
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine posted a New York Times article on Facebook, where the author, Lev Golinklin, shared his difficulties with coming to terms with where he was from: “Well, technically I’m from the Russian-speaking regi…
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