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…
Read MoreIs 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…
Read MoreCross 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. &…
Read MoreMedical 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…
Read MoreOutsourcing 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 …
Read MoreCross 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  …
Read MoreEvent 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…
Read MoreEvent 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…
Read MoreOn Grief and Griefbots
Written by Cristina Voinea This blogpost is a prepublication draft of an article forthcoming in THINK Large Language Models are all the hype right now. Amongst the things we can use them for, is the creation of digital personas, k…
Read MoreIs Animal Liberation Speciesist?
Written by Joseph Moore This year, Peter Singer published Animal Liberation Now, a significantly updated version of his 1975 animal rights classic. Both the original and revised text argue that humans should refrain from inflicting unnecess…
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