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Announcement of the Finalists of the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics

by admin
March 7, 2024March 7, 2024

The 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception HT24 Week 9, Tuesday 12th March, 5:30pm – 7:45pm. We are pleased to announce the four finalists of the 10th National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and to invite you to attend the final where they will present their entries.… Read More »Announcement of the Finalists of the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics

Announcement: Finalists of the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation

by admin
February 22, 2023

We are pleased to announce the four finalists for the National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2023 and to invite you to attend the final where they will present their entries. Two finalists have been selected from each category to present their ideas to an audience and respond to a short Q&A as the final round in the competition.

The Presentation will be held on Tuesday 14th March from 5:30pm in the Lecture Room, Faculty of Philosophy, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford OX2 6HT, followed by a drinks reception until 7:45 pm in the Colin Matthew Room.

All are welcome to attend the final and are warmly invited to join the finalists for a drinks reception after the event. Please sign up by the 12^th March at: https://bookwhen.com/uehiro/e/ev-sqat-20230314173000

If you are unable to join the event in person, the presentation section will be presented as a hybrid zoom webinar. To register in advance for this webinar sign in here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2FEbKuvyRCiu59Wa4soa0w

Please book now and support the next generation of Practical Ethicists.

Festival of Arguments

by Liz Sanders
March 5, 2020March 11, 2020

by Liz Sanders

We have reluctantly taken the decision to postpone this year’s Festival of Arguments. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope you will understand our decision in light of the uncertainty arising from recent global events. We hope to be able to record one or two of the events without an audience, and we will make these available as soon as possible. We also hope to rearrange some of these events in the future, and details will be posted on the website in due course.

Join the Oxford Uehiro Centre and colleagues from across Oxford in exploring how to think critically about life in this first public festival of practical ethics. The Festival of Arguments is free to take part in, and focusses on exploring today’s most pressing ethical dilemmas. Join us for talks, debates, walks, cafés, book launches, readings and more!

The full event listing and booking system is available here.

We look forward to seeing you at our events! If you have any questions or comments in the meantime please contact liz.sanders@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Things I’ve learned (so far) about how to do practical ethics

by Brian D. Earp
March 31, 2014November 24, 2021

By Brian D. Earp

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Things I’ve learned (so far) about how to do practical ethics

I had the opportunity, a few months back, to look through some old poems I’d written in high school. Some, I thought, were pretty good. Others I remembered thinking were good when I wrote them, but now they seem embarrassingly bad: pseudo-profound, full of clichés, marked by empty rhetoric instead of meaningful content. I’ve had a similar experience today with my collection of articles here at the Practical Ethics blog. And Oh, the things I have learned!

Here are just a few of the lessons that have altered my thinking, or otherwise informed my views about “doing” practical ethics — particularly in a public-engagement context — since my very first blog post appeared in 2011: