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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…