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October 2026

  1. Some reflections on “Prosthetic Bodies: The Human, the Human-Like, and the Monstrous”
  2. Who really believes in magic?

September 2026

  1. ‘Hear My Story: On Laziness and Productivity’- A Creative Writing Workshop
  2. Being Judged as Lazy: What Participants Shared in Our First Community Workshop
  3. Where Medicine Meets Ethics

August 2026

  1. 2026 Uehiro Lectures: Miranda Fricker on Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills

June 2026

  1. The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.
  2. What do we mean by equity in global health?

May 2026

  1. Human Identity and Biotechnologies: special issue just published
  2. When Should we Argue?

April 2026

  1. Community Iftar
  2. Some reflections on Elena Conis’ lecture “Contextualising the Modern Era of Vaccination”

March 2026

  1. Can Pornography be Feminist in a Mass Market Economy?
  2. Is Prostitution Just a Job?

February 2026

  1. ‘It’s Physical, Not Intellectual’: The Ethics of Correcting Assumptions About Disability
  2. New Book: Protecting Minds – The Right Against Mental Interference
  3. Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of the Global Campaign Against Female Genital Cutting
  4. Mental Health Chatbots: on Truth and Bullshit
  5. A Visit to the Bentham Project at University College London (UCL)

January 2026

  1. Helping Museums Think About The Ethics of Cultural Restitution: Introducing The Decision Aid for the Restitution of Cultural Artefacts (DARCA)
  2. The MSt in Practical Ethics at Oxford University – Apply Before January 28!

December 2025

  1. Celebrating Women in Ethics #WiE
  2. National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics

November 2025

  1. Equity in Global Health: reflections from the Humanities
  2. ‘Happy Birthday to E-Uni-Well’

October 2025

  1. When Slowing Down Creates Value
  2. UOI’s First Anniversary!

August 2025

  1. Practically prompted #4: Carnival, Cameras, and Consent: The Ethics of Live Facial Recognition at Notting Hill

July 2025

  1. Practically Prompted #3: VPNs Top the App Charts After UK Age-Checks Kick In: What Does “Protecting Children” Justify?
  2. Practically Prompted #2 – Regulating the Regulators: Europe’s New AI ‘Code of Practice’ and the Ethics of Voluntary Compliance
  3. Congratulations to ‘IDEA’ in Leeds!
  4. 2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture – a summary

June 2025

  1. Practically Prompted #1: Should We Screen the Womb? Ethical Questions Raised by the New Miscarriage-Risk Test
  2. Practically Prompted: Introducing an experiment in LLM-generated blog posts
  3. Ethics in the Age of AI
  4. Press Replay on Ethics: How AI Debate Panels Surface Hidden Value-Trade-Offs
  5. On plans to extend use of chemical castration for sex offenders in England

May 2025

  1. Profiting from Misery: Is There Something Different About Healthcare Data?

April 2025

  1. Dire Wolves and Deep Prompts: Language Models in Applied Ethics
  2. Uterus Transplants – Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Mexican Context
  3. Practical Ethics Schools Day 2025
  4. ‘Global health’: a problematic concept?
  5. Justifying Exclusion From Public Sport

March 2025

  1. Bridging the Gaps: How Language Models Can Connect Ethics, Science, and Policy
  2. Bring Back Shame: Does the Ethical Value of Shame Justify Shaming?
  3. The Duty to Have Courage: Developing the Theory of Epistemic Injustice
  4. Silencing Queer Signals: How Cultural Misuse Prevents the Expression of Queerness
  5. The Doctor Will Speak as You Prefer? How AI Could Personalize Medical Communication
  6. How Does Social Media Pose a Threat to Autonomy?
  7. Promises and Consent: The Moral Permissibility of Accepting a Promise to Perform an Act That Requires Contemporaneous Consent
  8. National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics
  9. Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective

February 2025

  1. Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones
  2. Iatrogenic to AI-trogenic Harm: Nonmaleficence in AI healthcare

January 2025

  1. Stop asking if remote workers are lazy – Focus on Directing Effort Effectively
  2. Collective Responsibility and collective meeting of needs, and the question of Land redistribution in Zimbabwe

December 2024

  1. Assisted dying: what we might learn from experience of other controversial decisions in medicine
  2. Cross-post: Roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities?”

November 2024

  1. The “Terminally Ill Adults Bill” in England and Wales: Which questions are relevant, and which ones are not?
  2. Court rules that patients have a right to disbelieve doctors
  3. Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves?
  4. What are the Ethics of Sending a Person to a Country They are not From?

October 2024

  1. (Bio)technology and what makes us human
  2. Declaration of Helsinki turns 60 – how this foundational document of medical ethics has stood the test of time
  3. Guest Post: Must Antinatalists Be Pessimists?
  4. Friend AI: Personal Enhancement or Uninvited Company?
  5. Launch of the Uehiro Oxford Institute

September 2024

  1. Are psychedelic Experiences Intrinsically Valuable?
  2. Humanising the Global Response to MPox: Lessons from COVID-19 and the Humanities?
  3. Trampolining Whilst Pregnant And Women’s Autonomy

August 2024

  1. Humanizing Chatbots Is Hard To Resist — But Why?
  2. PRESS RELEASE: Oxford-led Study Calls for End to “Medically Unnecessary” Intersex Surgeries
  3. Paternalistic AI: The Case of Aged Care
  4. NEW PUBLICATION: AI Morality
  5. Philosophy in Prison: Some Thoughts, and Doubts, About the Role of Philosophy

July 2024

  1. Reducing the Power of Childless Cat Ladies?
  2. Should Evangelicals Support IVF?
  3. Can We Make Life Choices Rationally?
  4. Building A World People Can Use
  5. Should There be Total Divestment From All Arms Companies?
  6. Consenting to or Requesting Medical Care?
  7. Guest Post: AI Alignment or Human Alignment?
  8. Caution With Chatbots? Generative AI in Healthcare

June 2024

  1. Philosophy in Prison
  2. The Fruits of Moral Disagreement: Conversations and Questions from the Inaugural Ethox-Uehiro Workshop on Moral Disagreement
  3. Event Summary: Peter Singer on Disagreement
  4. Dreaming of the End of the World

May 2024

  1. Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance
  2. 2024 Annual Uehiro Lectures: Professor Elizabeth Harman
  3. Practical Ethics Schools Day 2024
  4. Moral AI And How We Get There with Prof Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
  5. Book Launch: Responsibility and Healthcare
  6. Would You Survive Brain Twinning?
  7. (Bio)technologies, human identity, and the Medical Humanities

April 2024

  1. Do We Need To Measure Well-Being?
  2. Quasi-Refusal and Teens

March 2024

  1. Truthful Misinformation
  2. Social Media Platforms as Digital Slot Machines
  3. Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Moral Importance of Low Welfare Species
  4. Event Summary: Thomas Hurka’s 2023 Uehiro Lectures
  5. Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Feminist in the Streets, Sadomasochist in the Sheets: Are You Morally Aligning Yourself With Women’s Subordination if You Engage in Consensually Inegalitarian Sexual Relationships?
  6. National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: When Eating Meat is OK: A Defence of Benign Carnivorism
  7. Announcing the Winners and Runners Up in the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
  8. National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: To What Extent Has Aristotle’s Conception of a Virtuous Character Remained Relevant in the Face of Situationist Criticism?
  9. National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Undisclosed Conversational AIs: A Threat to Users’ Autonomy
  10. Announcement of the Finalists of the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
  11. Why a US State Court Ruling on the Rights of Children Before Birth is Unjust
  12. Objective Morality

February 2024

  1. Cross Post: What’s wrong with lying to a chatbot?
  2. Cross Post: Spectator TV – Should the government ban smoking? With Kate Andrews and Dominic Wilkinson

January 2024

  1. AI Authorship: Responsibility is Not Required
  2. Political Campaigning, Microtargeting, and the Right to Information
  3. Cross Post: Should A Health Professional Be Disciplined For Reporting An Illegal Abortion?
  4. Expertise and Autonomy in Medical Decision Making
  5. Is There a Duty to Vote?
  6. Cross Post: Nudging for Better Beliefs
  7. Medical assistance in dying: what are we talking about?

December 2023

  1. Outsourcing Without Fear?
  2. Cross Post: Brainpower: Use it or Lose it?
  3. Event Summary: Morality and Personality

November 2023

  1. Event Summary: New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Should people have indefinite lifespans? Ethical and social considerations in life-extension, Professor João Pedro de Magalhães
  2. On Grief and Griefbots
  3. Is Animal Liberation Speciesist?

October 2023

  1. Cross-post: Fairness and Freedom in Public Health Policy – On the need for a Humanities-based approach to public health policy
  2. Playing the Game of Faces with AI
  3. Guest Post: Oppenheimer – Not The Morality Of The bomb
  4. The Language of Freedom in Public Health: the Case of the Smoking Ban
  5. More Demoralizing
  6. Banning Cigarettes, Paternalism, Liberty and Harm: Clearing the Smoke
  7. Why I Don’t Have Pronouns In My Bio.

September 2023

  1. Climate Change, Planetary Health and the Deep Significance of the Anthropocene
  2. Guest Post: Nothing if not family?

August 2023

  1. Finding Meaning in the Age of Neurocentrism – and in a Transhuman Future
  2. Well-being at Work

July 2023

  1. AI As A Writing Tool: Great Benefits, Major Pitfalls.

June 2023

  1. Stay Clear of the Door
  2. Resisting Nudges
  3. Video Interview: Introducing Academic Visitor Prof Antonio Diéguez Lucena
  4. Horror, Fear and Trust in a Neonatal Unit
  5. ‘Naming and Shaming: Responding to Lookism’
  6. Guest Post: High Risk, Low Reward: A Challenge to the Astronomical Value of Existential Risk Mitigation
  7. The Daft Discussion of Dangerous Dogs

May 2023

  1. Perceptual Diversity and Philosophical Belief
  2. From Experience to Insight – the Personal Dimension of Philosophy
  3. Video Interview: Introducing Academic Visitor Dr María de Jesús Medina Arellano
  4. Book Launch: Pandemic Ethics: From Covid-19 to Disease X

April 2023

  1. In Praise of Unthinking National Religion
  2. Cross Post: Dutch Government to Expand Euthanasia Law to Include Children Aged One to 12 – An Ethicist’s View
  3. It is not about AI, it is about humans
  4. ChatGPT Has a Sexual Harassment Problem

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