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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should Feminists Endorse a Universal Basic Income?
This essay was the joint runner up in the graduate category of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford student Rebecca L Clark 1 Introduction A UBI is a regularly remitted, non-means-tested cash grant which is given to every individual with no conditions attached.[1] Within these constraints, UBI
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Ethics, iBlastoids, and Brain Organoids: Time to Revise Antiquated Laws and Processes
Written by Julian Savulescu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Wellcome Centre for Ethics, University of Oxford Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Jose Polo and his team at Monash University have successfully reprogrammed human adult cells (fibroblasts – skin cells) to form “iBlastoids”. These are structures which are like early human
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why, If At All, Is It Unethical For Universities To Prioritise Applicants Related To Their Alumni?
This essay was the runner up in the undergraduate category of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford student Tanae Rao Introduction Most notably in the United States, some prestigious universities[1] consider whether or not a student is closely related to one or more alumni when evaluating her
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Suspending The Astra-Zeneca Vaccine and The Ethics of Precaution
By Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson, and Julian Savulescu The authors are working on the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project – @PandemicEthics_. This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of UKRI’s Covid-19 funding. All authors are affiliated to the University of Oxford. Summary Points Preliminary Reviews suggest that the number
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Cross Post: COVID vaccines: is it wrong to jump the queue?
Written by Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Sabrina Bracher/Shutterstock In the UK, an Oxford city councillor has been suspended after mentioning on social media that she had received a COVID vaccination from a private doctor. Meanwhile, media reports
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Against Making a Difference
This essay was the winning entry in the undergraduate category of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford student Imogen Rivers I. The Complacency Argument Some of the most serious wrongs are produced collectively. Can individuals bear moral responsibility for such outcomes? Suggestively, it’s been argued that “all
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Ethics Doesn’t Rule, OK?
By Charles Foster Ethics and law are different. Or they should be. Law has the power to coerce. That is a frightening power. There should be as little law as possible. But there should be more ethics than there is. The boundary between the two domains is not absolute. Clinicians are probably more frightened of
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Seminar Recordings: The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived
Audio and Video recordings of Professor Morten L. Kringlebach (Aarhus University, Denmark; University of Oxford) online St Cross Seminar (21 January 2021) are now available.
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Oxford Uehiro Centre Prize in Practical Ethics: ‘Rational Departure’: What Does Stoicism Reveal About Contemporary Attitudes Towards Suicide?
This essay received an honourable mention in the undergraduate category. Written by Ed Lamb, St. Anne’s College Abstract The Stoics’ approach to suicide appears to differ remarkably from our own. By contrasting these two views, I will explore why a difference in circumstances, epistemic claims, and value ascribed to life itself provides justification for our believing