YouTube interview: Shelly Kagan on Animal Ethics
Should we increase the cognitive capacities of fish if we can? If we enhanced a chimpanzee so that it had the same cognitive capacities as us, would it have exactly the same moral status as us? Is it morally preferable to kill a mouse or to…
Read MoreNew Year resolutions and tripartite human nature
Written by Charles Foster ‘I do not understand my own actions’, grumbled St. Paul. ‘For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate….I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I d…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Regulation
The New York Times just ran a fairly lengthy article that reported the use of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic drug, in a controlled experiment aimed at reducing anxiety and depression in cancer patients. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/heal…
Read MoreCross Post: Why you might want to think twice about surrendering online privacy for the sake of convenience
Written by Carissa Veliz DPhil Candidate in Philosophy, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford This article was originally published in The Conversation Just a click away once you tick this too-long-to-read privacy agreeme…
Read MoreCross Post: Liberal or conservative? Most of our beliefs shift around
Written by Prof Neil Levy, Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford This article was originally published on The Conversation What? Okay, that sounds good. Justin Lane/EPA One common reaction to the e…
Read MoreCross Post: Solomon’s frozen judgement
Written by Anders Sandberg This post was originally published on Andert II A girl dying of cancer wanted to use cryonic preservation to have a chance at being revived in the future. While supported by her mother the father disagreed; in a r…
Read MoreFunctional neo-Aristotelianism as a way to preserve moral agency: A response to Dr William Casebeer’s lecture: The Neuroscience of Moral Agency
Written by Dr Anibal Monasterio Astobiza Audio File of Dr Casebeer’s talk is available here: http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/HT17_Casebeer.mp3 Dr. William Casebeer has an unusual, but nonetheless very interesting, profe…
Read MoreCross Post: Our political beliefs predict how we feel about climate change
Written by Prof Neil Levy Originally published on The Conversation The man who called global warming a fabrication invented by the Chinese to make US manufacturing less competitive is now president-elect of the US. His followers expect him …
Read MoreGood Enough Lives – Procreative Satisficence
By Dominic Wilkinson @Neonatalethics Should parents undertake prenatal testing? Is there a moral reason to prevent disability in your future child through embryo selection? In a special Moral Philosophy Seminar yesterday evening, Pro…
Read MoreFour myths about IVF in older women
Dominic Wilkinson, @Neonatalethics Reports that a 62-year-old Spanish woman has given birth after IVF treatment have led many to question whether there should be age limits with such treatment. Lina Alvarez, a doctor in north-west Spain, is…
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