Announcement: Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
Graduate and undergraduate students currently enrolled at the University of Oxford in any subject are invited to enter the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics by submitting an essay of up to 2000 words on any topic relevant to practical…
Read MoreThe Dangers of Biography
By Charles Foster A friend of mine has written a brilliant and justly celebrated biography. I am worried about her, and about her readers. The biography is brilliant and engaging precisely because of the degree of rapport the author has est…
Read MoreListen Carefully
Written by Stephen Rainey, and Jason Walsh Rhetoric about free speech as under attack is an enduring point of discussion across the media. It appears on the political agenda, in various degrees of concreteness and abstraction. By some defin…
Read MoreOnline Sales and Differential Pricing.
Written by Neil Levy When it was revealed (more than a decade ago now) that Amazon was charging different consumers different prices, based on information that suggested either that they had higher incomes or a greater willingness to pay fo…
Read MoreResponse from David S. Oderberg to “Against Conscientious Objection In Health Care: A Counterdeclaration And Reply To Oderberg”
I am grateful to Prof. Savulescu and Dr Giubilini for taking the time and care to respond in detail to my Declaration in Support of Conscientious Objection in Health Care. I also thank Prof. Savulescu for giving me the opportunity to reply …
Read MoreShould vegans avoid avocados and almonds?
Avocadon’t? Nataliya Arzamasova/Shutterstock Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford A video recently doing the rounds on Facebook included a segment from the BBC comedy quiz show QI. The video asks which of avocados, almonds, melon, kiwi o…
Read MoreLecture and Book Launch: Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children – From Disagreement to Dissensus
Watch the lecture by Professors Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu at the book launch for ‘Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children’, which took place on 4 October at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford…
Read MoreAgainst Conscientious Objection In Health Care: A Counterdeclaration And Reply To Oderberg
Alberto Giubilini (Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford) and Julian Savulescu (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford) Conscientious objection in health care – that is, healthcare practitioners o…
Read MoreEvil Online and the Moral Fog
The following is based on a brief presentation at the launch of Evil Online, by Dean Cocking and Jeroen van den Hoven and published by Wiley-Blackwell, in Bendigo, Australia, on 20 September 2018. It was an honour and a pleasure to be invit…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Consciousness Hunting
By Mackenzie Graham Crosspost from Nautilus. Click here to read the full article When Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario, asked Scott Routley to imagine playing a game of tennis, any acknowledgement would hav…
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