Written by Julian Savulescu and Julian Koplin  This article was first published on Pursuit. Read the original article. The 1968 classic Planet of the Apes tells the story of the Earth after a nuclear war destroys human civilisation. When th…

By Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu This work was supported by the UKRI/ AHRC funded UK Ethics Accelerator project, grant number AH/V013947/1. The UK Ethics Accelerator project can be found at https://ukpandemicethics.o…

Written by Jake Wojtowicz and Ben Davies  On April 11th, Daunte Wright was pulled over by police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Shortly afterwards, he was shot and killed by police officer Kim Potter. Police Chief Tim Gannon described this …

Written by Gabriel De Marco and Tom Douglas This essay is based on a co-authored paper recently published in Criminal Law and Philosophy Neurointerventions—interventions that modify brain states—are sometimes imposed on criminal offenders f…

Professor Morten Kringelbach (Aarhus and Oxford) recently gave a fascinating New St Cross Ethics Seminar on ‘The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived’ (YouTube; mp3).

Written by Lisa Forsberg and Anthony Skelton In many countries vaccine rollouts are now well underway. Vaccine programmes in Israel, the United Kingdom, Chile, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and the United States have been particularly succe…

Written by Stephen Rainey Footballers are increasingly prominent in speaking against social and political ills. They can draw attention to serious issues, given their public profile. If more of us followed their example, beyond supporting t…

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 Oshy Ray  The summer of 2020 saw people across the world participating in racial …

“The legal decision this morning, in the Family division of the High Court, provides important clarification. It is likely to be a relief to young people with gender dysphoria and their families. In December, the High Court found that…

Written By: Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford; Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford, and Margie Danchin, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute This article is republished from The Conversat…