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Political Campaigning, Microtargeting, and the Right to Information

Written by Cristina Voinea    2024 is poised to be a challenging year, partly because of the important elections looming on the horizon – from the United States and various European countries to Russia (though, let us admit, surprises there…

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Cross Post: Should A Health Professional Be Disciplined For Reporting An Illegal Abortion?

Written by: Prof Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. There have been several high-profile cases in the last year of women in …

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Expertise and Autonomy in Medical Decision Making

Written by Rebecca Brown. This is the fourth in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This blog is based on a paper forthcoming in Episteme. The full text…

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Is There a Duty to Vote?

Written by Joseph Moore This new year is a presidential election year in my home country of the United States. And so, there is likely to be no shortage of U.S. political news and commentary surrounding candidates’ pasts, their present comm…

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Cross Post: Nudging for Better Beliefs

This is the third in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.   Written By: Oscar A. Piedrahita & Matthew Vermaire, COGITO, University of Glasgow. &…

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Medical assistance in dying: what are we talking about?

Alberto Giubilini Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics   Medical assistance in dying  – or “MAiD”,  to use the somehow infelicitous acronym – is likely to be a central topic in bioethics this year. That might not be tr…

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Outsourcing Without Fear?

This is the second in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. by Neil Levy As Adam Carter emphasises in the first post in this series, offloading cognitive …

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Cross Post: Brainpower: Use it or Lose it?

This is the first in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Written By: J Adam Carter, COGITO, University of Glasgow E-mail: adam.carter@glasgow.ac.uk &nbsp…

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Event Summary: Morality and Personality

by Roger Crisp On 2 November 2023, at one of the most well-attended (in-person and remotely) New St Cross Ethics seminars to date, Professor Predrag Cicovacki, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA…

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Event Summary: New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Should people have indefinite lifespans? Ethical and social considerations in life-extension, Professor João Pedro de Magalhães

Written by: Dr Amna Whiston   On Thursday, 16th November 2023, Professor João Pedro de Magalhães, a prominent microbiologist specialising in ageing and longevity research, gave an engaging and personable New St Cross Ethics Seminar ent…

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