Earth: 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…
Read MoreOptional 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…
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