Most people in the UK would like the option of being heavily sedated, having a general anaesthestic or to having euthanasia, if they were dying, according to Oxford research published today in the medical journal PLOS One. Professor Dominic…

In this new Thinking Out Loud interview, Katrien Devolder talks to philosopher Dr Josh Milburn (Sheffield) about whether we should (and can) feed our  cat or dog a vegan diet. There are plenty of good reasons to avoid products from factory …

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 ca…

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 Univer…

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 univers…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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.