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Cross Post: Why Government Budgets are Exercises in Distributing Life and Death as Much as Fiscal Calculations
Written by Hazem Zohny, University of Oxford Sacrificial dilemmas are popular among philosophers. Should you divert a train from five people strapped to the tracks to a side-track with only one person strapped to it? What if that one person were a renowned cancer researcher? What if there were only a 70% chance the five
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Why Preventing Predation Can Be a Morally Right Cause for Effective Altruism?
This article received an honourable mention in the graduate category of the 2023 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by University of Oxford student Pablo Neira If the interests of sentient animals matter, then there are (at least pro tanto) reasons to prevent the harms they suffer. There are many different natural harms
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EthÂiÂcal BiÂoÂlogÂiÂcal NatÂuÂralÂism and the Case Against Moral StaÂtus for AIs
This article received an honourable mention in the graduate category of the 2023 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by University of Oxford student Samuel Iglesias InÂtroÂducÂtion 6.522. “There are, inÂdeed, things that canÂnot be put into words. They make themÂselves manÂiÂfest. They are what is mysÂtiÂcal”. âLudÂwig WittgenÂstein, TracÂtaÂtus LogiÂco PhiloÂsophÂicus. What
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Healthcare Allocation for Limited Budgets
By Joshua Parker and Ben Davies Like many public services, the UKâs National Health Service (NHS) is under increasing resource pressure across the service. Acute services are under strain, with every stage between dialling 999 and getting into a hospital bed taking longer. Waiting times are also up for non-urgent care: 7 million people are
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Honesty and Public Health Communication: Part 2
Written by Rebecca Brown This post is based on two recently accepted articles: Brown and de Barra âA Taxonomy of Non-Honesty in Public Health Communicationâ, and de Barra and Brown âPublic Health Communication Should be More Transparentâ. In a previous post, I discussed some of the requirements for public health institutions to count as âhonestâ.
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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Ambiguous Ethicality of Applause: Ethnographyâs Uncomfortable Challenge to the Ethical Subject
This article received an honourable mention in the graduate category of the 2023 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by University of Manchester student Thomas Long Abstract This essay presents, first and foremost, the recollections of a doctoral anthropologist as they attempt to make sense of a moment of embodied, ethical dissonance: a moment
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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons
This article received an honourable mention in the undergraduate category of the 2023 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by Tanae Rao, University of Oxford student There are some crimes, such as killing non-combatants and mutilating corpses, so vile that they are clearly impermissible even in the brutal chaos of war. Upholding human
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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What is Wrong With Stating Slurs?
This article received an honourable mention in the undergraduate category of the 2023 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by Leah O’Grady, University of Oxford This essay will argue that it is wrong to use slurs in a non-derogatory context due to the phenomena of constitutive prohibition, put forward by Alexandre and
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Announcement: Finalists of the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation
We are pleased to announce the four finalists for the National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2023 and to invite you to attend the final where they will present their entries. Two finalists have been selected from each category to present their ideas to an audience and respond to a short Q&A as the