Announcement: 2nd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Finalists and Honourable Mentions
The 2nd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics was announced on this blog on the 11th November 2015. By the 25th January 2016 a large number of high quality essays had been submitted and the judges had a difficult time narrowing th…
Read MoreResponse to Fergus Peace
Author: Neil Levy, Leverhulme Visiting Professor Podcasts of Prof Levy’s Leverhulme Lectures can be found here: http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/HT16_LL_LEVY1.mp3 and http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/HT16_LL_LEVY2.mp3 Fe…
Read MoreWhy it matters if people are racist: A Response to Neil Levy’s Leverhulme Lectures
Author: Fergus Peace, BPhil student, University of Oxford Podcasts of Prof. Levy’s Leverhulme lectures are available here: http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/HT16_LL_LEVY1.mp3 and http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/HT16_LL_L…
Read MoreVideo Series: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Artificial Intelligence
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University and Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow) plans to develop a computer system (and a phone app) that will help us gain knowledge about human moral judgment and that will make moral judgment better…
Read MoreDoes the desire to punish have any place in modern justice?
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…
Read MoreThe Allure of Donald Trump
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 …
Read MoreUsing birth control to combat Zika virus could affect future generations
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 …
Read MoreA jobless world—dystopia or utopia?
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…
Read MoreWhat is the relationship between science and morality?
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…
Read MoreThe unbearable asymmetry of bullshit
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 …
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