Archie Battersbee: How the Court Reached its Conclusion
Mother of Archie Battersbee, Hollie Dance, outside the high court in London, England. PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford London’s high court has heard the tragic case of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, who …
Read MoreCross Post: Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view
Written by Benjamin Curtis, Nottingham Trent University and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Shutterstock LaMDA is Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, has claimed it is sen…
Read MoreHealthcare Ethics Has a Gap…
By Ben Davies Last month, the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported on a healthcare crisis in the country. If you live in the UK, you may have already had an inkling of this crisis from personal experience. But if you don’t live here, and partic…
Read MoreCan a Character in an Autobiographical Novel Review the Book in Which She Appears? On the Ethics of Literary Criticism
Written by Mette Leonard Høeg The common intuition in literary criticism, in art criticism in general and in the public cultural sphere is that it is wrong to engage in criticism of a work if you have a personal relation to its author. The …
Read MorePeter Railton’s Uehiro Lectures 2022
Written by Maximilian Kiener Professor Peter Railton, from the University of Michigan, delivered the 2022 Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics. In a series of three consecutive presentations entitled ‘Ethics and Artificial Intelligence’ Rail…
Read MoreGoogle it, Mate.
Written by Neil Levy There’s just been an election in Australia. In elections nowadays, politicians attempt to portray themselves as one of us, or at least as someone who is in touch with ‘us’ (whoever ‘we’ are). Hence the (apparently disas…
Read MoreCross Post: Tech firms are making computer chips with human cells – is it ethical?
Written by Julian Savulescu, Chris Gyngell, Tsutomu Sawai Cross-posted with The Conversation Shutterstock Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford; Christopher Gyngell, The University of Melbourne, and Tsutomu Sawai, Hiroshima University The …
Read MoreReturning To Personhood: On The Ethical Significance Of Paradoxical Lucidity In Late-Stage Dementia
By David M Lyreskog About Dementia Dementia is a class of medical conditions which typically impair our cognitive abilities and significantly alter our emotional and personal lives. The absolute majority of dementia cases – approximately 70…
Read MoreThe Right To Tweet
By Doug McConnell On January 6th, 2021 Trump was locked out his Twitter account for 12 hours after describing the people who stormed the US Capitol as “patriots”. A few days later, his account was permanently suspended after further tweets …
Read MoreAbortion, Democracy, and Erring on the Side of Freedom
by Alberto Giubilini (crosspost: this article appeared with a different title in iaiNews) The leaked draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice’ Samuel Alito foreshadows the overturn of the 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling. Roe vs Wade grounded women’s …
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