Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization and doctors’ conscientious commitment to provide abortion
Alberto Giubilini, University of Oxford Udo Schuklenk, Queen’s University Francesca Minerva, University of Milan Julian Savulescu, National University of Singapore and University of Oxford (reposted from the Journal of Medical Ethic…
Read MoreIs Authenticity Coherent?
By Neil Levy Authenticity is a widely espoused ideal; often under that name but also under other labels. People take pride in being individuals, set apart from the crowd, in not following the herd, in thinking for themselves. To be accused …
Read MoreThe Authentic Liar
Written by Muriel Leuenberger A modified version of this post is forthcoming in Think edited by Stephen Law. Authenticity is a popular ideal. Particularly in the western world, authenticity has developed into a prevailing ideal since…
Read MoreGuest Cross Post: Extremism And The Sensible Centre
Written by Tony Coady , Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University, Honorary Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford. There are a plethora …
Read MoreMummification and Moral Blindness
By Charles Foster Image: The Great Sphinx and Pyramids of Gizeh (Giza), 17 July 1839, by David Roberts: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Words are powerful. When a word is outlawed, the prohibition tends to chill or shut down debate in …
Read MoreStoicism as a Foundational Component of Ethics and Existentialism
Provided my eyes are not withdrawn from that spectacle, of which they never tire; provided I may look upon the sun and the moon and gaze at the other planets; provided I may trace their risings and settings, their periods and the causes of …
Read MoreGuest Post: Body Shaming is Unacceptable, Even if Directed at Vile People. An Intersex Critique of “Small Dick Energy”
Guest post by Morgan Carpenter, bioethicist; co-founder and executive director, Intersex Human Rights Australia; Magda Rakita co-founder and executive director, Fundacja Interakcja (Poland), and co-chair, OII Europe; and Bo Laurent, founder…
Read MoreThe New Relevance of Rationing
By Ben Davies Decisions about how to allocate healthcare resources can be divided, somewhat crudely, into macro– and micro-level choices. Roughly speaking, macro-choices are policy choices, often made outside any clinical setting, e.g…
Read MoreMoral Psychology at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Written by Joanna Demaree-Cotton This last Michaelmas term marked the inaugural series of lab meetings for the Uehiro Centre’s BioXPhi lab (https://moralpsychlab.web.ox.ac.uk). Co-directed by myself and Dr. Brian Earp, the lab brings…
Read MoreGuest Post: It has become possible to use cutting-edge AI language models to generate convincing high school and undergraduate essays. Here’s why that matters
Written by: Julian Koplin & Joshua Hatherley, Monash University ChatGPT is a variant of the GPT-3 language model developed by OpenAI. It is designed to generate human-like text in response to prompts given by users. As with any language…
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