Video Series: Factory Farms are Breeding Grounds for Pandemics
In this Thinking Out Loud interview with Dr Katrien Devolder (Philosophy, Oxford), Professor Aaron S. Gross (Theology and Religious Studies, San Diego) explains why factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics, and what we, as individu…
Read MoreGuest Post: Frances Kamm- Harms, Wrongs, and Meaning in a Pandemic
Written by F M Kamm This post originally appeared in The Philosophers’ Magazine When the number of people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. reached 500,000 special notice was taken of this great tragedy. As a way of helping people…
Read MorePfizer Jab Approved for Children, but First Other People need to be Vaccinated
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford; Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford, and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Moderna and Pfizer have released data suggesting that their vaccines are well tolerated in adolescents and highly effec…
Read MorePhobias, Paternalism and the Prevention of Home Birth
By Dominic Wilkinson, Cross post from the Open Justice Court of Protection blog In a case in the Court of Protection last week, a judge authorised the use of force, if necessary, to ensure that a young woman gives birth in hospital rather t…
Read MorePress Release: ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation
Response to the: ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation “The new ISSCR guidelines provide a much welcomed framework for research that many find ethically contentious. Genome editing, the creation of human gam…
Read MoreSpecial St Cross Seminar summary of Maureen Kelley’s: Fighting Diseases of Poverty Through Research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
Written By Tess Johnson You can find the video recording of Maureen Kelley’s seminar here, and the podcast here. Lately, we have heard much in the media about disease transmission in conditions of poverty, given the crisis-point COVID-19 sp…
Read MoreImposter Syndrome And Environmental Sampling
Written by Rebecca Brown Imposter syndrome has received recent, though still fairly limited, philosophical discussion. Scholars such as Katherine Hawley (and, drawing upon Hawley in a recent and excellent podcast, Rebecca Roache), amongst a…
Read MoreIs Life-Sustaining Treatment Being Lawfully Withdrawn From Patients In Prolonged Disorders Of Consciousness? Nobody Seems To Know
By Charles Foster From the time of the decision of the House of Lords in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) until the decision of the Supreme Court in An NHS Trust v Y (2018) (which I will refer to here as ‘Y”) it had been unders…
Read MoreStowaway, Self-Defense, and the Sheriff Case
Written by Hazem Zohny. You and your two fellow astronauts are on your way to Mars when you uncover a stowaway in your spaceship. His mere presence means there won’t be enough oxygen for anyone to survive the journey. You toss him out the s…
Read MoreAmbient Intelligence
Written by Stephen Rainey An excitingly futuristic world of seamless interaction with computers! A cybernetic environment that delivers what I want, when I want it! Or: A world of built on vampiric databases, fed on myopic accounts of movem…
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