Announcement: Finalists of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation
Please join us in congratulating all of the finalists in the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. The 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation HT21 Week 8, Wednesday 10th March, 5pm – 6:30 …
Read MorePriority Vaccination for Prison and Homeless Populations
Written by Ben Davies Last week brought the news that an additional 1.7m people in the UK had been asked to take additional ‘shielding’ measures against COVID-19, following new modelling which considered previously ignored factors such as e…
Read MoreVideo Series: How To Prevent Future Pandemics
First interview in the new Thinking Out Loud series on ‘Animals and Pandemics’: Katrien Devolder in conversation with Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU, on how our treatment of animals increases the…
Read MoreCrosspost: Is It Ethical To Quarantine People In Hotel Rooms?
Written by Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh, The UK government announced that from February 15, British and Irish residents travelling to England from “red list” countries will have to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel f…
Read MoreCross Post: Not Recommending AstraZeneca Vaccine For The Elderly Risks The Lives Of The Most Vulnerable
Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Regulators in Europe are at odds over whether the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine should be given to the elderly. In the UK, the vaccine has been approved for use in …
Read MoreEthics of the GameStop Short Squeeze
By Doug McConnell Recently a large, loosely coordinated group of individual ‘retail investors’ have been buying up stocks that certain hedge funds had bet against (i.e. ‘shorted’). In doing so, the retail investors have driven up the price …
Read MoreGuest Post: What Is The Case For Virtual Schooling?
Written by Thomas Moller-Nielsen News that children in England were to switch to online schooling as part of the country’s third national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic was met with widespread support in the British pr…
Read MoreThe UK Should Share The Vaccine With The Other Countries – But Only After All The Vulnerable Have Been Vaccinated
Written by Alberto Giubilini, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Cross posted with The Conversation “We are all in this together”, except that we are not. One of the most widely used slogans of the pandemic migh…
Read MoreReminder: 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics – Entries Due By Tuesday 9th February
A reminder that the closing date for entries to the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics is fast approaching. Graduate and undergraduate students currently enrolled at the University of Oxford in any subject are invited to ent…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Age-Selective Restrictions for COVID-19 Control
Written by: Bridget Williams1,2, James Cameron3, James Trauer2, Ben Marais4, Romain Ragonnet2, Julian Savulescu1,3 Cross-posted with the Journal of Medical Ethics blog One of the major controversies of the COVID-19 pandemic has been disagre…
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