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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Let’s suppose, entirely hypothetically and for the sake of argument, that Brexit is a disaster for the UK. Let’s suppose that sterling crashes; that foreign travel is punishingly expensive and that, if you can afford to go abroad, you’re a …

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…

By James Williams (@WilliamsJames_) Note: This is a cross-post with Quillette magazine. While ‘interrobang’ sounds like a technique Donald Trump might add to the Guantanamo Bay playbook, it in fact refers to a punctuation mark: a disused ma…

Guest Post by Philipp Kellmeyer Imagine you had epilepsy and, despite taking a daily cocktail of several anti-epileptic drugs, still suffered several seizures per week, some minor, some resulting in bruises and other injuries. The source of…

HBO’s new show Westworld has been getting a lot of attention. As the AV Club pointed out, it was HBO’s highest-rated premiere since ‘the good True Detective’ (i.e., since season one). The first episode involved a robot with human-like intel…