Abortion in Wonderland
By Charles Foster Image: Heidi Crowter: Copyright Don’t Screen Us Out Scene: A pub in central London John: They did something worthwhile there today, for once, didn’t they? [He motions towards the Houses of Parliam…
Read MoreSimulate Your True Self
Written by Muriel Leuenberger A modified version of this post is forthcoming in Think edited by Stephen Law. Spoiler warning: if you want to watch the movie Don’t Worry Darling, I advise you to not read this article beforehand (but definite…
Read MoreThere Is No Such Thing As A Purely Logical Argument
Written By Mette Leonard Høeg This blogpost is a prepublication draft of an article forthcoming in THINK. It is well-known that rational insight and understanding of scientific facts do not necessarily lead to psychological change and shift…
Read MoreThe Non-Rationality of Radical Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
Written by David Lyreskog The human enhancement debate has over the last few decades been concerned with ethical issues in methods for improving the physical, cognitive, or emotive states of individual people, and of the human specie…
Read MoreNudges and Incomplete Preferences
Written by Sarah Raskoff (Post is based on my recently published paper in Bioethics) Nudges are small changes in the presentation of options that make a predictable impact on people’s decisions. Proponents of nudges often claim that …
Read MoreGuest Post: Could Laboratory Created Brains in the Future have Moral Status?
Written by Dominic McGuire, DPhil Student, Queen’s College Oxford Jonathan Pugh’s interesting Practical Ethics blog of October 14th, 2022, https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2022/10/brain-cells-slime-mold-and-sentience-semantics/, …
Read MoreThe Football World Cup in Qatar
By Alberto Giubilini The forthcoming World Cup in Qatar is perhaps the most controversial in football history. Qatari social, religious, and legal norms clash with values that many people from other parts of the world hold de…
Read MoreCross Post: When Can You Refuse to Rescue?
Written by Theron Pummer This article originally appeared in the OUPBlog You can save a stranger’s life. Right now, you can open a new tab in your internet browser and donate to a charity that reliably saves the lives of people living in e…
Read MoreOne year of DefaultVeg at the Uehiro Centre
Today (1 November) is ‘world vegan day’. This is a good moment to reflect on a decision that the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics took almost exactly a year ago. In October 2021, we chose to firmly commit to a DefaultVeg approach t…
Read MoreDoes Moral Ignorance Excuse?
Written by Neil Levy Everyone agrees that ignorance of fact can excuse. If I take your suitcase thinking it was mine, and my belief that it was mine was faultless (perhaps the coach driver handed it to me, saying “this is yours”, and it loo…
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