Professor Neil Levy, visiting Leverhulme Lecturer, University of Oxford, has recently published a provocative essay at Aeon online magazine: Human beings are a punitive species. Perhaps because we are social animals, and require the coopera…

The primary season is now well underway, and the Trump bandwagon continues to gather pace. Like most observers, I thought it would run out of steam well before this stage. Trump delights in the kinds of vicious attacks and stupidities that …

Written by Simon Beard Research Fellow in Philosophy, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford This is a cross post of an article which originally appeared in The Conversation. In a recent article, Oxford University’s director of …

There is no telling what machines might be able to do in the not very distant future. It is humbling to realise how wrong we have been in the past at predicting the limits of machine capabilities. We once thought that it would never be poss…

Quick announcement: A podcast interview between Brian D. Earp (a.k.a. myself) and J. J. Chipchase for Naturalistic Philosophy has just been released: we talk about the relationship between science and morality, the is/ought distinction, fre…

By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) Introduction Science and medicine have done a lot for the world. Diseases have been eradicated, rockets have been sent to the moon, and convincing, causal explanations have been given for a whole range of …

Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University and Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow) argues that a group can be responsible for its actions even if no individual from within that group is responsible for those actions.

Albert Barqué-Duran Department of Psychology CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON A runaway trolley is approaching a fork in the tracks. If the trolley is allowed to run on its current track, a work crew of five will be killed. If the driver steers the t…

The 2nd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception HT16 Week 7, Wednesday 2nd March, 4.00 – 5.50 pm. The Presentation will be held in Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School (corner of Catte St and Broad St…

Written by Professor Julian Savulescu and Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong This is a cross-post of an article which was originally published in The Conversation Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which aims not only to…