Your eyes will be discontinued: what are the long-term responsibilities for implants?
by Anders Sandberg What do you do when your bionic eyes suddenly become unsupported and you go blind again? Eliza Strickland and Mark Harris have an excellent article in IEEE Spectrum about the problems caused when the bionics company Secon…
Read MoreShould Vaccination Status Affect ICU Admission?
By Ben Davies and Joshua Parker Intensive care units around the country are full, with a disproportionate number of patients who have not had a single COVID-19 vaccination. Doctors have been vocal in describing the emotional cost of caring …
Read MoreWhat is a party?
By Alberto Giubilini There seems to be some confusion these days around what exactly a party is. The Sue Gray report updates on the alleged (i.e. actual) parties at No.10 during lockdowns cast doubts on our certainties. For what is a…
Read MoreCross Post: Is This the End of the Road for Vaccine Mandates in Healthcare?
Written by Dominic Wilkinson, Alberto Giubilini, and Julian Savulescu The UK government recently announced a dramatic U-turn on the COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, originally scheduled to take effect on April 1 2022. Health or…
Read MoreImpersonality and Non-identity: A Response to Bramble
by Roger Crisp Consider the following case, from David Boonin: Wilma. Wilma has decided to have a baby. She goes to her doctor for a checkup and the doctor tells her that…as things now stand, if she conceives, her child will have a di…
Read MoreSpiderman and the Meaning of Hope
Written by Hazem Zohny. In Marvel’s latest ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, Peter Parker’s girlfriend MJ has a simple philosophy: “If you expect disappointment, then you can never really be disappointed.” She repeats this at various interludes in…
Read MoreSocial Media and the Loss of Knowledge
written by Neil Levy Here’s the common view of social media and its epistemic effects. Social media leads to people sequestering themselves in echo chambers, and echo chambers cause extreme and/or unjustified beliefs. When we don’t exchange…
Read MoreCross Post: Vaccine Mandates For Healthcare Workers Should Be Scrapped – Omicron Has Changed The Game
Written by Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Pugh and Julian Savulescu Time is running out for National Health Service staff in England who have not had a COVID vaccine. Doctors and nurses have until Thursday, February 3, to have their first jab.…
Read MoreGuest Post: No, We Don’t Owe It To The Animals to Eat Them
Written by Adrian Kreutz, New College, University of Oxford That eating animals constitutes a harm has by now largely leaked into public opinion. Only rarely do meat eaters deny that. Those who deny it usually do so on the grounds of an ass…
Read MoreDecoupling, Contextualising and Rationality
Written by Rebecca Brown In February 2020, just before science journalists had to start writing about covid full time, Tom Chivers wrote an article for Unherd, ‘‘Eugenics is possible’ is not the same as ‘eugenics is good’’. In it he describ…
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