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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…
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Congratulations to our Winners and Runners up in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2021
Please join us in congratulating all of the finalists in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2021, and in particular our winners, Imogen Rivers and Lily Moore-Eissenberg. As the Uk continues to be in lockdown due to the pandemic, the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics was again held as a Zoom…
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Seminar Recordings: Towards a Plasticity of the Mind – New-ish Ethical Conundrums in Dementia Care, Treatment, and Research
Audio and video recordings of David Lyreskog’s online St Cross Seminar (25 February 2021) are now available.
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Thoughts about Final Thoughts
By Neil Levy I’ve written a brief article for Aeon Magazine, on whether the regrets of the dying give us insight into what really matters. Here’s the first paragraph. How do we find out what really matters in life? One way might be to ask those who are dying. They might occupy a perspective…
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Cross Post: Vaccine Passports: Four Ethical Objections, and Replies
Written By Tom Douglas This is a (slightly modified) cross-post from The Brussels Times. Should we all be required to produce a ‘vaccine passport’—proving that we have been vaccinated against Covid-19—before being allowed to enter a cafe, travel abroad, or work in a high-risk job? Some governments are taking tentative steps in this direction. Belgium…