An Ethics for Maintenance?
Last Sunday, Sasago Tunnel – a major tunnel in Japan – collapsed and caused nine deaths. And, according to the latest report, Central Nippon Expressway (Nexco), the company in charge of the tunnel, might be the party to blame as…
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“Treating” homosexuality in minors: Protected free speech or child abuse?
By Brian D. Earp See Brian’s most recent previous post by clicking here. See all of Brian’s previous posts by clicking here. Follow Brian on Twitter by clicking here. “Treating” homosexuality in minors: Protected free spe…
Read MoreBrian Earp on Anti-Love Drugs
In the final Uehiro Seminar of 2012, Brian Earp provides an absorbing analysis of the science and ethics of anti-love biotechnology. You can listen to the seminar here. While some personal distress as a result of love may be an important me…
Read MoreJanet Radcliffe Richards on the past, present and future of sex: Part 3
On Wednesday last week, Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards gave the last of her three Uehiro lectures on ‘Sex in a Shifting Landscape’. (Here you can find recordings of all three lectures: 1st audio, 1st video, 2nd audio, 2nd video, 3rd aud…
Read MoreTerminator studies and the silliness heuristic
The headlines are invariably illustrated with red-eyed robot heads: “I, Revolution: Scientists To Study Possibility Of Robot Apocalypse“. “Scientists investigate chances of robots taking over“. “‘Terminat…
Read MoreCall for Applications: Academic Visitor Programme for Trinity Term 2013 (Start Date: 21 April)
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics hosts scholars and students wishing to engage in research in practical and applied ethics as academic visitors. Applications are invited three times a year and are to be submitted at least one t…
Read MorePsychopaths should not be punished
Lincoln Frias – member of the International Neuroethics Society, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (CAPES, NEPC-UFMG), Brazil. Please focus: now, imagine a cute little child with her curious big eyes, her surpr…
Read MoreThe Liverpool Care Pathway in the News: Even by the Mail’s Standards, this is Low
(Cross-posted from the Journal of Medical Ethics blog) The Liverpool Care Pathway provides a rubric for managing the care terminally ill as they approach death. A helpful pamphlet explaining what it is and what it does is available here. …
Read MoreTony Coady on Religion in the Political Sphere: Part 2, Deliberative Restraint
In his second Leverhulme Lecture on November 22nd, Professor Tony Coady focused on the issues underlying the common assertion that we ought to exclude religious arguments from deliberations in the political sphere of liberal democratic soci…
Read MoreThe best ethical ideas of the year?
Foreign Policy magazine recently released its annual list of the top 100 global thinkers of the year. The members included a wide range of activists, scientists, politicians, academics and businesspeople, but what most interested me was a …
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