Defaults, status quo, and disagreements about sex
Scott Alexander has a thoughtful piece about who gets to set the default in disagreements about what is reasonable. He describes a couple therapy session where one member is bored with his sex life and goes kinky clubbing, to the anger of h…
Read MoreVideo Interview with Professor Jeff McMahon on Increasing Airstrikes in Syria — The Ethics of War
In the first of a series of video interviews by Dr Katrien Devolder hosted by the Practical Ethics in the News blog, Jeff McMahan discusses the war in Syria. In the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks, the US and France increased the numb…
Read MoreEngineering a Consensus: Edit Embryos for Research, Not Reproduction
Written by Dr Chris Gyngell, Dr Tom Douglas and Professor Julian Savulescu A crucial international summit on gene editing continues today in Washington DC. Organised by the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, the …
Read MoreThe Ethics of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes and Gene-Drive Technology
Written by Jonathan Pugh This is an unedited version of a paper by Dr Pugh which was originally published on The Conversation: please see here to read the original article In a startling development in ‘gene-drive’ technology, a team of res…
Read MorePodcast: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation
Dr Jonathan Pugh’s St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on 12 November 2015 is now available at http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/MT15_STX_Pugh.mp3 Speaker: Dr Jonathan Pugh Although a central tenet of medical ethics holds that it is permi…
Read MoreHow much would you pay to live an extra year?
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford @Neonatalethics Medical science continues to push at the boundaries of life and death with new drugs and technologies that can extend life or improve health. But these advances come at a cost. And tha…
Read MoreLoebel Lecture 3 of 3: What is the upshot?
Lecture 3 Audio [MP3] | YouTube link [MP4] Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Longwall Street, Oxford 5 November 2015, 6-8pm
Read MoreLecture 2 of 3: Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry
Lecture 2 Audio [MP3] | YouTube link [MP4] Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Longwall Street, Oxford 4 November 2015, 6-8pm
Read MoreLoebel Lectures and Workshop, Michaelmas Term 2015, Lecture 1 of 3: Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human
The 2015 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy were delivered by Professor Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as Harvard University Distinguished…
Read MoreDoping: Russian Cheats or a Failed System?
A stunning report from a WADA Commission, led by former head of WADA Dick Pound has made a series of allegations against Russian athletes and authorities, including that 1400 samples were deliberately destroyed ahead of a visit by WADA. It …
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