Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics:In It To Win It: Is Prize-giving Bad for Philosophy? Written by Rebecca Buxton
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the Graduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Rebecca Buxton INTRODUCTORY REMARKS We live in a culture of prize-giving. The Nob…
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Global Warming & Vegetarianism: What should I do, when what I do makes no difference? By Fergus Peace
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the Graduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Fergus Peace The Problem of Cumulative Impact In large, integrated societies, som…
Read MoreAre Incentives Corrupting? The Case of Paying People to be Healthy.
Written by Dr Rebecca Brown Financial incentives are commonplace in everyday life. As tools of states, corporations and individuals, they enable the ‘tweaking’ of motivations in ways more desirable to the incentiviser. A parent may pay her …
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Prostitution: You Can’t Have Your Cake and Sell It*. Written by Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the Graduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette Abstract: I offer a new** argument for the …
Read MoreNudges and Reasoning
Back in what now seems like a previous age, when David Cameron was prime minister, there was quite a lot of attention paid to his so-called ‘nudge unit’. Nudges, named after Thaler and Sunstein’s well-known book, are ways of getting people …
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Ethical Dilemma of Youth Politics, written by Andreas Masvie
This essay was the runner up in the undergraduate category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford Student, Andreas Masvie The West in general, and perhaps Europe in particular, tend to ce…
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should we completely ban “political bots”? Written by Jonas Haeg
This essay was the runner up in the Graduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Jonas Haeg Introduction This paper concerns the ethics of a relatively new and rising trend i…
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Is Sex With Robots Rape? Written by Romy Eskens
This essay was the winner in the Graduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Romy Eskens On The Permissibility of Consentless Sex With Robots Recent movies and TV-series, su…
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Secondary Intentions in Euthanasia, written by Isabel Canfield
This essay received an Honourable Mention in the Undergraduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Isabel Canfield The debate about the moral permissibility of euthanasia is …
Read MoreOxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What Makes Discrimination Wrong? Written by Paul de Font-Reaulx
This essay was the winner in the Undergraduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Paul de Font-Reaulx What makes discrimination wrong? Most of us intuitively take dis…
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