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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

After our enforced time offline it is with great pleasure that we can now announce and publish the winners of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 on the Practical Ethics in the News Blog. The winner of the Undergraduate Categor…

Should neurointerventions be used to prevent crime? For example, should we use chemical castration as part of efforts to prevent re-offending in sex offenders? What about methadone treatment for heroin-dependent offenders? Would offering su…

Cross-posted from The Conversation shutterstock Francis Vergunst, Université de Montréal and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable liv…

Julian Savulescu Dominic Wilkinson’s Response A judge ruled last week that baby Charlie Gard will have his treatment withdrawn, against the wishes of his parents. His doctors argued that the rare mitochondrial disease (MDDS) he was bo…

Dominic Wilkinson Responding to Julian Savulescu The sad and difficult case of Charlie Gard, which featured in the media last week, is the latest in a series of High Court and Family court cases when parents and doctors have disagreed about…