2014–2026
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October 2026
- Some reflections on “Prosthetic Bodies: The Human, the Human-Like, and the Monstrous”
- Who really believes in magic?
September 2026
- ‘Hear My Story: On Laziness and Productivity’- A Creative Writing Workshop
- Being Judged as Lazy: What Participants Shared in Our First Community Workshop
- Where Medicine Meets Ethics
August 2026
June 2026
- The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.
- What do we mean by equity in global health?
May 2026
April 2026
- Community Iftar
- Some reflections on Elena Conis’ lecture “Contextualising the Modern Era of Vaccination”
March 2026
February 2026
- ‘It’s Physical, Not Intellectual’: The Ethics of Correcting Assumptions About Disability
- New Book: Protecting Minds – The Right Against Mental Interference
- Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of the Global Campaign Against Female Genital Cutting
- Mental Health Chatbots: on Truth and Bullshit
- A Visit to the Bentham Project at University College London (UCL)
January 2026
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December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
August 2025
July 2025
- Practically Prompted #3: VPNs Top the App Charts After UK Age-Checks Kick In: What Does “Protecting Children” Justify?
- Practically Prompted #2 – Regulating the Regulators: Europe’s New AI ‘Code of Practice’ and the Ethics of Voluntary Compliance
- Congratulations to ‘IDEA’ in Leeds!
- 2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture – a summary
June 2025
- Practically Prompted #1: Should We Screen the Womb? Ethical Questions Raised by the New Miscarriage-Risk Test
- Practically Prompted: Introducing an experiment in LLM-generated blog posts
- Ethics in the Age of AI
- Press Replay on Ethics: How AI Debate Panels Surface Hidden Value-Trade-Offs
- On plans to extend use of chemical castration for sex offenders in England
May 2025
April 2025
- Dire Wolves and Deep Prompts: Language Models in Applied Ethics
- Uterus Transplants – Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Mexican Context
- Practical Ethics Schools Day 2025
- ‘Global health’: a problematic concept?
- Justifying Exclusion From Public Sport
March 2025
- Bridging the Gaps: How Language Models Can Connect Ethics, Science, and Policy
- Bring Back Shame: Does the Ethical Value of Shame Justify Shaming?
- The Duty to Have Courage: Developing the Theory of Epistemic Injustice
- Silencing Queer Signals: How Cultural Misuse Prevents the Expression of Queerness
- The Doctor Will Speak as You Prefer? How AI Could Personalize Medical Communication
- How Does Social Media Pose a Threat to Autonomy?
- Promises and Consent: The Moral Permissibility of Accepting a Promise to Perform an Act That Requires Contemporaneous Consent
- National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics
- Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective
February 2025
- Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones
- Iatrogenic to AI-trogenic Harm: Nonmaleficence in AI healthcare
January 2025
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December 2024
- Assisted dying: what we might learn from experience of other controversial decisions in medicine
- Cross-post: Roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities?”
November 2024
- The “Terminally Ill Adults Bill” in England and Wales: Which questions are relevant, and which ones are not?
- Court rules that patients have a right to disbelieve doctors
- Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves?
- What are the Ethics of Sending a Person to a Country They are not From?
October 2024
- (Bio)technology and what makes us human
- Declaration of Helsinki turns 60 – how this foundational document of medical ethics has stood the test of time
- Guest Post: Must Antinatalists Be Pessimists?
- Friend AI: Personal Enhancement or Uninvited Company?
- Launch of the Uehiro Oxford Institute
September 2024
- Are psychedelic Experiences Intrinsically Valuable?
- Humanising the Global Response to MPox: Lessons from COVID-19 and the Humanities?
- Trampolining Whilst Pregnant And Women’s Autonomy
August 2024
- Humanizing Chatbots Is Hard To Resist — But Why?
- PRESS RELEASE: Oxford-led Study Calls for End to “Medically Unnecessary” Intersex Surgeries
- Paternalistic AI: The Case of Aged Care
- NEW PUBLICATION: AI Morality
- Philosophy in Prison: Some Thoughts, and Doubts, About the Role of Philosophy
July 2024
- Reducing the Power of Childless Cat Ladies?
- Should Evangelicals Support IVF?
- Can We Make Life Choices Rationally?
- Building A World People Can Use
- Should There be Total Divestment From All Arms Companies?
- Consenting to or Requesting Medical Care?
- Guest Post: AI Alignment or Human Alignment?
- Caution With Chatbots? Generative AI in Healthcare
June 2024
- Philosophy in Prison
- The Fruits of Moral Disagreement: Conversations and Questions from the Inaugural Ethox-Uehiro Workshop on Moral Disagreement
- Event Summary: Peter Singer on Disagreement
- Dreaming of the End of the World
May 2024
- Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance
- 2024 Annual Uehiro Lectures: Professor Elizabeth Harman
- Practical Ethics Schools Day 2024
- Moral AI And How We Get There with Prof Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Book Launch: Responsibility and Healthcare
- Would You Survive Brain Twinning?
- (Bio)technologies, human identity, and the Medical Humanities
April 2024
March 2024
- Truthful Misinformation
- Social Media Platforms as Digital Slot Machines
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Moral Importance of Low Welfare Species
- Event Summary: Thomas Hurka’s 2023 Uehiro Lectures
- 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?
- National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: When Eating Meat is OK: A Defence of Benign Carnivorism
- Announcing the Winners and Runners Up in the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- 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?
- National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Undisclosed Conversational AIs: A Threat to Users’ Autonomy
- Announcement of the Finalists of the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Why a US State Court Ruling on the Rights of Children Before Birth is Unjust
- Objective Morality
February 2024
- Cross Post: What’s wrong with lying to a chatbot?
- Cross Post: Spectator TV – Should the government ban smoking? With Kate Andrews and Dominic Wilkinson
January 2024
- AI Authorship: Responsibility is Not Required
- Political Campaigning, Microtargeting, and the Right to Information
- Cross Post: Should A Health Professional Be Disciplined For Reporting An Illegal Abortion?
- Expertise and Autonomy in Medical Decision Making
- Is There a Duty to Vote?
- Cross Post: Nudging for Better Beliefs
- Medical assistance in dying: what are we talking about?
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December 2023
- Outsourcing Without Fear?
- Cross Post: Brainpower: Use it or Lose it?
- Event Summary: Morality and Personality
November 2023
- 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
- On Grief and Griefbots
- Is Animal Liberation Speciesist?
October 2023
- Cross-post: Fairness and Freedom in Public Health Policy – On the need for a Humanities-based approach to public health policy
- Playing the Game of Faces with AI
- Guest Post: Oppenheimer – Not The Morality Of The bomb
- The Language of Freedom in Public Health: the Case of the Smoking Ban
- More Demoralizing
- Banning Cigarettes, Paternalism, Liberty and Harm: Clearing the Smoke
- Why I Don’t Have Pronouns In My Bio.
September 2023
- Climate Change, Planetary Health and the Deep Significance of the Anthropocene
- Guest Post: Nothing if not family?
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
- Stay Clear of the Door
- Resisting Nudges
- Video Interview: Introducing Academic Visitor Prof Antonio Diéguez Lucena
- Horror, Fear and Trust in a Neonatal Unit
- ‘Naming and Shaming: Responding to Lookism’
- Guest Post: High Risk, Low Reward: A Challenge to the Astronomical Value of Existential Risk Mitigation
- The Daft Discussion of Dangerous Dogs
May 2023
- Perceptual Diversity and Philosophical Belief
- From Experience to Insight – the Personal Dimension of Philosophy
- Video Interview: Introducing Academic Visitor Dr María de Jesús Medina Arellano
- Book Launch: Pandemic Ethics: From Covid-19 to Disease X
April 2023
- In Praise of Unthinking National Religion
- Cross Post: Dutch Government to Expand Euthanasia Law to Include Children Aged One to 12 – An Ethicist’s View
- It is not about AI, it is about humans
- ChatGPT Has a Sexual Harassment Problem
March 2023
- How Brain-to-Brain Interfaces Will Make Things Difficult for Us
- Video Interview: Introducing Dr Emma Dore Horgan
- Prof Matthias Braun discussing the value of academic collaboration
- Video Interview: Introducing Oxford Uehiro Centre’s Academic Visitor, Prof Dr Matthias Braun
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Turning up the Hedonic Treadmill: Is It Morally Impermissible for Parents to Give Their Children a Luxurious Standard of Living?
- Why Actions Matter: The Case for Fluid Moral Status
- Do we have an Obligation to Diversify our Media Consumption ?
- Announcing the Winners and Runners Up in the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Should Social Media Companies Use Artificial Intelligence to Automate Content Moderation on their Platforms and, if so, Under What Conditions?
- Cross Post: Why Government Budgets are Exercises in Distributing Life and Death as Much as Fiscal Calculations
- How Confucian Harmony Can Help Us Deal with Echo Chambers
- Why Preventing Predation Can Be a Morally Right Cause for Effective Altruism?
- Ethical Biological Naturalism and the Case Against Moral Status for AIs
- Healthcare Allocation for Limited Budgets
- Honesty and Public Health Communication: Part 2
- National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Ambiguous Ethicality of Applause: Ethnography’s Uncomfortable Challenge to the Ethical Subject
- National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What is Wrong With Stating Slurs?
February 2023
- Announcement: Finalists of the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation
- Who Gets to Be a Person?
- Demoralizing Ethics
- Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization and doctors’ conscientious commitment to provide abortion
- Is Authenticity Coherent?
- The Authentic Liar
- Guest Cross Post: Extremism And The Sensible Centre
January 2023
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December 2022
- Moral Psychology at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
- Guest 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
- Crosspost: Impostor syndrome and pretense
- Cross Post: Halving Subsidised Psychology Appoints is a Grave Mistake—Young Australians Will Bear a Significant Burden
- Abortion in Wonderland
- Simulate Your True Self
- There Is No Such Thing As A Purely Logical Argument
- The Non-Rationality of Radical Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
November 2022
- Nudges and Incomplete Preferences
- Guest Post: Could Laboratory Created Brains in the Future have Moral Status?
- The Football World Cup in Qatar
- Cross Post: When Can You Refuse to Rescue?
- One year of DefaultVeg at the Uehiro Centre
October 2022
- Does Moral Ignorance Excuse?
- Brain Cells, Slime Mould, and Sentience Semantics
- Announcement: National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Now Open For Entries
- What is the Most Important Question in Ethics?
- New issue of the Journal of Practical Ethics – Volume 10 Issue 1
September 2022
- Are We Heading Towards a Post-Responsibility Era? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Morality
- Fracking and the Precautionary Principle
- Guest Post: Dear Robots, We Are Sorry
- Protecting Children or Policing Gender?
- Reflective Equilibrium in a Turbulent Lake: AI Generated Art and The Future of Artists
- Guest Post: The Ethics of the Insulted—Salman Rushdie’s Case
- In Defense of Obfuscation
August 2022
- The Moral Elephant in the Room – Patient Morality in Psychiatry
- We Need To Have A Conversation About “We Need To Have A Conversation”
- The Weaponization of Bullshit
- Awareness of a Nudge is not Required for Resistance of a Nudge
- Video Interview: Prof Erica Charters on when does (or did) the Covid-19 pandemic end?
- We Should Regulate Politicians’ Public Statements Like Advertisements
- First synthetic embryos: the scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions
- Video Interview: Prof Peter Railton, AI and moral obligations
- Press release: Battersbee appeal at European Court declined
- Sex and Punishment: How Old Do You Have to Be?
- Press release: Battersbee final* appeal rejected
July 2022
- Epistemic Diligence and Honesty
- Event Summary: Hope in Healthcare – a talk by Professor Steve Clarke
- Can You Really Do More than What Duty Requires?
- The Morality of Sending Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
- The Homeric Power of Advance Directives
June 2022
- Press Release: Court of Appeal decision in Dance & Battersbee (respondents/appellants) v Barts Health NHS Trust
- Track Thyself? Personal Information Technology and the Ethics of Self-knowledge
- Should Parents be Able to Decline Consent for Brain Death Testing in a Child?
- Archie Battersbee: How the Court Reached its Conclusion
- Cross Post: Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view
- Healthcare Ethics Has a Gap…
- Can a Character in an Autobiographical Novel Review the Book in Which She Appears? On the Ethics of Literary Criticism
- Peter Railton’s Uehiro Lectures 2022
May 2022
- Google it, Mate.
- Cross Post: Tech firms are making computer chips with human cells – is it ethical?
- Returning To Personhood: On The Ethical Significance Of Paradoxical Lucidity In Late-Stage Dementia
- The Right To Tweet
- Abortion, Democracy, and Erring on the Side of Freedom
- Hang Onto Your Soul
April 2022
- Video Interview: Is Vaccine Nationalism Justified?
- 2022 Uehiro Lectures : Ethics and AI, Peter Railton. In Person and Hybrid
- Guest Post: The Ethics of Wimbledon’s Ban on Russian players
- AI and the Transition Paradox
- Rethinking ‘Higher’ and ‘Lower’ Pleasures
- New Publication: ‘Overriding Adolescent Refusals of Treatment’
- No, Plant-Based Meals Do Not Undermine Freedom of Choice
- Just War, Economics, and Corporate Boycotting: A Review of Dr. Ted Lechterman’s 2022 St. Cross Special Ethics Seminar
- Slaps VS Jokes at the Oscars
- Robert Audi on Moral Creditworthiness and Moral Obligation
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: When Money Can’t Buy Happiness: Does Our Duty to Assist the Needy Require Us to Befriend the Lonely?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why Don’t We Just Let The Wise Rule?!
- The End Of The Egg?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Terra Nullius, Populus Sine Terra: Who May Settle Antarctica?
March 2022
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: How Should Career Choice Ethics Address Ignorance-Related Harms?
- The ABC of Responsible AI
- Cross Post: Western Pharma Companies Should Supply Only Essential Medicines to Russia
- Announcement: Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School, 15 – 15 July 2022
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why We Should Negatively Discount the Well-Being of Future Generations
- Parliament Psychedelic
- Exercise, Population Health and Paternalism
- Announcing the Winners and Runners Up in the 8th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Video Interview: Julian Savulescu on the Selective Restriction of Liberty During the Pandemic
- The Aliens Are Coming
- Three Observations about Justifying AI
February 2022
- Video Interview: Should We Vaccinate Young Children Against COVID?
- Your eyes will be discontinued: what are the long-term responsibilities for implants?
- Should Vaccination Status Affect ICU Admission?
- What is a party?
- Cross Post: Is This the End of the Road for Vaccine Mandates in Healthcare?
- Impersonality and Non-identity: A Response to Bramble
- Spiderman and the Meaning of Hope
January 2022
- Social Media and the Loss of Knowledge
- Cross Post: Vaccine Mandates For Healthcare Workers Should Be Scrapped – Omicron Has Changed The Game
- Guest Post: No, We Don’t Owe It To The Animals to Eat Them
- Decoupling, Contextualising and Rationality
- Cross Post: Pig’s Heart Transplant: Was David Bennett the Right Person to Receive Groundbreaking Surgery?
- Philosophical Fiddling While the World Burns: Second Movement
- Was Djokovic Unethically Blamed and Shamed?
- Cognitive snobbery: The Unacceptable Bias in Favour of the Conscious
- Are Public Health Institutions Honest?
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December 2021
- Head to Head: the ethics of vaccine passports and COVID passes
- Are Electoral Pacts Undemocratic?
- Shaming unvaccinated people has to stop. We’ve turned into an angry mob and it’s getting ugly
- Putting your Philosophical House in Order
- Cross Post: Why the UK Shouldn’t Introduce Mandatory COVID Vaccination
- Omicron Travel Restrictions Are Not Ethically Justified
- Cross Post: Omicron: Better To Be Safe (And Quick) Than Sorry
- Writing Is Not That Easy: Grammarly As Affordance.
November 2021
- Event Summary: Vaccine Policies and Challenge Trials: The Ethics of Relative Risk in Public Health
- Mandatory Vaccination Should Be Selective, Not General
- Cross Post: Selective lockdowns can be ethically justifiable – here’s why
- Cross post: Why COVID passes are not discriminatory (in the way you think they are)
- How we got into this mess, and the way out
- NHS and Care Home Mandates Should Take Account of Natural Immunity to COVID
- Cross Post: Should You Stop Wearing A Mask Just Because the Law Gives You Permission To Do So?
October 2021
- Who Cares?
- Paying for the Flu Vaccine
- Hedonism, the Experience Machine, and Virtual Reality
- Oxford Uehiro Centre Goes DefaultVeg
- Responsibility and Victim-Blaming
September 2021
- Ethics of Vaccine Passports
- The Morality of Carbon Border Taxes
- The double ethical mistake of vaccinating children against COVID-19
- Philosophical Fiddling While the World Burns
August 2021
- We Should Vaccinate Children in High-income Countries Against COVID-19, Too
- Judgebot.exe Has Encountered a Problem and Can No Longer Serve
- In Praise of ‘Casual’ Friendship
- Would Extinction be so Bad?
- Healthcare, Responsibility, and Golden Opportunities
- The end of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Homelessness as a moral cost to the housed
July 2021
- COVID: Media Must Rise Above Pitting Scientists Against Each other – Dealing With the Pandemic Requires Nuance
- Might Going to Space Morally Enhance Billionaires?
- What If Stones Have Souls?
- COVID: Why We Should Stop Testing in Schools
- Is a Publication Boycott of Chinese Science a Justifiable Response to Human Rights Violations Perpetrated by Chinese Doctors and Scientists?
June 2021
- Compromising On the Right Not to Know?
- Urgency, Delayed Decision-making and Ethics in the Court of Protection
- Cancelling Books
- Mandatory Vaccination for Care Workers: Pro and Con
- No jab, no job? Vaccination requirements for care home staff
- Care home staff vaccination – press release
- Post-Normal Challenges of Covid
- ‘Waiver or Understanding? A Dilemma for Autonomists about Informed Consent’
- Video Series: Factory Farms are Breeding Grounds for Pandemics
- Guest Post: Frances Kamm- Harms, Wrongs, and Meaning in a Pandemic
- Pfizer Jab Approved for Children, but First Other People need to be Vaccinated
- Phobias, Paternalism and the Prevention of Home Birth
May 2021
- Press Release: ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation
- Special St Cross Seminar summary of Maureen Kelley’s: Fighting Diseases of Poverty Through Research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
- Imposter Syndrome And Environmental Sampling
- Is Life-Sustaining Treatment Being Lawfully Withdrawn From Patients In Prolonged Disorders Of Consciousness? Nobody Seems To Know
- Stowaway, Self-Defense, and the Sheriff Case
- Ambient Intelligence
- Cross Post: Vaccine passports: why they are good for society
- A Juror’s Guide to Going Rogue
- Crosspost: Immunity Passports: A Debate Between Jay Bhattacharya and Alberto Giubilini
- Lockdown Erodes Agency
April 2021
- Vaccine Nationalism: Striking the balance
- Cross Post: End-of-Life Care: People Should Have the Option of General Anaesthesia as They Die
- Making Universities (Even) More Unfair
- Cross Post: COVID: Is it OK to manipulate people into getting vaccinated?
- General Anaesthesia in End of Life Care – GAEL.
- Press Release: Medical and ethical experts say ‘make general anaesthesia more widely available for dying patients’
- Cross-Post: The Moral Status of Human-Monkey Chimeras
- Crosspost: Learning to live with COVID – the tough choices ahead
- Daunte Wright: Policing and Accountability
- Nonconsensual Neurointerventions and Expressed Disrespect: a Dilemma
- The Neuroscience of a Life Well-lived: New St Cross Ethics Seminar
- Mandating COVID-19 Vaccination for Children
March 2021
- It’s Only a Game
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: May the Use of Violent Civil Disobedience Be Justified as a Response to Institutional Racism?
- Press Release: New Tavistock Legal Ruling on Puberty Blockers
- Cross Post: There’s no Need to Pause Vaccine Rollouts When There’s a Safety Scare. Give the Public the Facts and Let Them Decide
- Press Release: Majority of UK public want choice at the end of life – survey
- Video Series: Should We Feed Our Pets a Vegan Diet?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should Feminists Endorse a Universal Basic Income?
- Ethics, iBlastoids, and Brain Organoids: Time to Revise Antiquated Laws and Processes
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why, If At All, Is It Unethical For Universities To Prioritise Applicants Related To Their Alumni?
- Suspending The Astra-Zeneca Vaccine and The Ethics of Precaution
- Cross Post: COVID vaccines: is it wrong to jump the queue?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Against Making a Difference
- Ethics Doesn’t Rule, OK?
- Seminar Recordings: The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived
- Oxford Uehiro Centre Prize in Practical Ethics: ‘Rational Departure’: What Does Stoicism Reveal About Contemporary Attitudes Towards Suicide?
- Congratulations to our Winners and Runners up in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2021
- Seminar Recordings: Towards a Plasticity of the Mind – New-ish Ethical Conundrums in Dementia Care, Treatment, and Research
- Thoughts about Final Thoughts
- Cross Post: Vaccine Passports: Four Ethical Objections, and Replies
- What Is The Justification For Keeping Lockdown In Place? Two Questions For The UK Government
- Inoculate to Imbibe? On the Pub Landlord Who Requires You to be Vaccinated against Covid
- Is it Irrational Not to Have a Plan? Should There Have Been National Guidance on Rationing in the NHS?
February 2021
- Cross-Post: Self-experimentation with vaccines
- An Ethical Review of Hotel Quarantine Policies For International Arrivals
- Announcement: Finalists of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation
- Priority Vaccination for Prison and Homeless Populations
- Video Series: How To Prevent Future Pandemics
- Crosspost: Is It Ethical To Quarantine People In Hotel Rooms?
- Cross Post: Not Recommending AstraZeneca Vaccine For The Elderly Risks The Lives Of The Most Vulnerable
- Ethics of the GameStop Short Squeeze
- Guest Post: What Is The Case For Virtual Schooling?
- The UK Should Share The Vaccine With The Other Countries – But Only After All The Vulnerable Have Been Vaccinated
- Reminder: 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics – Entries Due By Tuesday 9th February
January 2021
- The Ethics of Age-Selective Restrictions for COVID-19 Control
- Who You Really Are And Why It Matters
- Current Lockdown Is Ageist (Against The Young)
- Are Immunity Passports a Human Rights Issue?
- Ethical Considerations For The Second Phase Of Vaccine Prioritisation
- Vaccines and Ventilators: Need, Outcome or a Right to a Fair Go?
- Pandemic Ethics: Saving Lives and Replaceability
- Guest Post: Why Philosophers Should Write More Accessibly: Towards A New Kind of Epistemic (In)justice
- Lessons for Philosophers and Scientists from Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown
- PRESS RELEASE: Racial Justice Requires Ending Drug War, Say Leading Bioethicists
- This Machine Kills Viruses
- Even Though Mass Testing For COVID Isn’t Always Accurate, It Could Still Be Useful – Here’s Why
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December 2020
- Selectively Saving Christmas?
- Dementia, Pagal, or Neurocognitive Disorder: What Is In a Name?
- Consent Without Alternatives
- Climbing the Pension Mountain: A Review of Michael Otsuka’s 2020 Uehiro Centre Lecture Series
- In Defence of Pretentiousness
- Could vaccine requirements for entering pubs be wrong, while closing pubs altogether is OK?
- DNACPR Orders in a Pandemic: Misgivings and Misconceptions.
- The Libertarian Argument Is the Best Argument Against Immunity Passports. But is it good enough?
November 2020
- Mandatory Morality: When Should Moral Enhancement Be Mandatory?
- Cross post: Pandemic Ethics: Should COVID-19 Vaccines Be mandatory? Two Experts Discuss
- Refusal Redux. Revisiting Debate About Adolescent Refusal of Treatment.
- Legacies
- Antenatal Care During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Couples As Dyads
- Cross Post: Pandemic Ethics: Vaccine Distribution Ethics: Monotheism or Polytheism?
- Invertebrate Ethics
October 2020
- The Duty To Ignore Covid-19
- Guest Post: A Relentless Focus on the Given – Reviewing O. Carter Snead’s What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
- Announcement: 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Press Release: UK Approves COVID-19 Challenge Studies
- Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
- Pandemic Ethics: Should Santa Claus Deliver Christmas Presents This Year? Preparing For Our First COVID-19 Christmas
- Pandemic Ethics: Social Distancing for Animals
- COVID-19: Ethical Guidelines for the Exit Strategy
September 2020
- Coronavirus: Why I Support the World’s First COVID Vaccine Challenge Trial
- Video Series: Covid-19 Who Should Be Vaccinated First?
- Some Questions for the University of Oxford about their Covid-19 Advice
August 2020
- Video Series: Are Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps Safe?
- Must Clinical Ethics Committees Involve Patients or Families in their Meetings?
July 2020
- Pandemic Ethics: Good Reasons to Vaccinate: COVID19 Vaccine, Mandatory or Payment Model?
- Guest Post- Pandemic Ethics: Your Freedom Really Matters. So What?
- Pandemic Ethics: Testing times: An ethical framework and practical recommendations for COVID-19 testing for NHS workers
- Guest Post: Is it Wrong to Lower Your Chances of Doing What You Ought to Do?
- Video Series: Why Parental Status Matters When Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
- Pandemic Ethics: Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic [Guest Post]
June 2020
- The Urge to Destroy is Also a Creative Urge
- Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford’s Institutional Response
- The Utilitarian Truth-Seeker
- Video Series: (Un)fair Access to Covid-19 Treatment in Mexico?
- Podcast and Event Summary: New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading, presented by Professor Arthur Schafer (Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba)
May 2020
- Video Series: Which Non-Covid-19 Patients Should Get Treatment First?
- Pandemic Ethics: Utilitarianism and the Lockdown
- We’re All Vitalists Now
- Pandemic Ethics: Compulsory treatment or vaccination versus quarantine
- Contact-tracing apps and the future COVID-19 vaccination should be compulsory. Social, technological, and pharmacological immunisation
- Announcement: Online Short Courses Open. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Neuroethics
- Forced Medical Feeding
- Following the Science Without Forgetting Values
April 2020
- Video Series: Do Health and Social Care Workers Have a Moral Obligation to Keep Working if they Lack Protective Equipment?
- Interview Series: Do Health and Social Care Workers Have a Moral Obligation to Keep Working if they Lack Protective Equipment?
- Pandemic Ethics: Extreme Altruism in a Pandemic
- Pandemic Ethics: Key Workers Have a Stronger Claim to Compensation and Hazard Pay for Working During The COVID-19 Pandemic Than The Armed Forces Do When on Deployment
- Pandemic Ethics: Why Lock Down of the Elderly is Not Ageist and Why Levelling Down Equality is Wrong
- Guest Post: Pandemic Ethics. Social Justice Demands Mass Surveillance: Social Distancing, Contact Tracing and COVID-19
- National Ethics Framework For Use in Acute Paediatric Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Video Series: Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse for Women?
- Maximising Ventilators: Some Ethical Complications
- Guest Post: Pandemic Ethics-Earthquakes, Infections, and Consent
- Video Series: Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- The Perfect Protocol? Ethics Guidelines in a Pandemic
- Cross Post: Boris Johnson Will Be Receiving The Same Special Treatment Other Patients Do In NHS Intensive Care
- Why You Should Not (Be Allowed To) Have That Picnic in the Park, Even if it Does Not Make a Difference
- Video Interview: What Caused the Coronavirus Pandemic – with Peter Singer
March 2020
- What is Your Gender? A Friendly Guide to the Public Debate
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: An Account of Attitudinal Duties Towards Injustice
- The Coronavirus: Signs of Hope?
- Video Series: Trailer for Interviews on Ethical Questions Raised by the Corona Crisis
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What, if Anything, is Wrong About Algorithmic Administration?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: If Doctors Could Administer a Treatment That Would Move a Patient From a Vegetative State to a Minimally Conscious One, Should They Do So?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Can it be Wrong For Victims to Report Crimes?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Can Science Ethically Make Use Of Data Which Was Gathered By Unethical Means?
- Pandemic Ethics: Is it right to cut corners in the search for a coronavirus cure?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why Is Virtual Wrongdoing Morally Disquieting, Insofar As It Is?
- Cross Post: Flouting Quarantine
- Pandemic Ethics: Covid-19 Shows Just How Much of Ethics Depends on (Good) Data
- Pandemic Ethics: Who gets the ventilator in the coronavirus pandemic? These are the ethical approaches to allocating medical care
- Politics, Ethics, and Shutting Down in the Face of Covid-19
- Congratulations to our Winners and Runners up in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2020
- Cross Post: Coronavirus: The Conversation We Should Have With Our Loved Ones Now – Leading Medic
- Pandemic ethics: Never again – will we make Covid-19 a warning shot or a dud?
- Coronavirus: Dark Clouds, But Some Silver Linings?
- Pandemic Ethics: Infectious Pathogen Control Measures and Moral Philosophy
- Pandemic Ethics: How Much Risk Should Social Care Workers and Their Families Be Expected to Take?
- Festival of Arguments
- Pandemic Ethics: the Unilateralist Curse and Covid-19, or Why You Should Stay Home
February 2020
- Cross Post: Climate change: How do I cope with inevitable decline?
- Pandemic Ethics: Should Frontline Doctors and Nurses Get Preferential Treatment?
- Pandemic Ethics – Resources 2020
- Dr Neil Armstrong – Why is Mental Healthcare so Ethically Confusing
- Assessing and Respecting Sentience After Brexit
- Heritable Human Genome Editing Can Cure or Prevent Diseases
- The Right Not to Know and the Obligation to Know
- Responsibility, Healthcare, and Harshness
- Ecological Rationality: When Is Bias A Good Thing?
- Why Epistemologists Should Sniff
January 2020
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December 2019
- Announcement: New Issue of the Journal of Practical Ethics Available Open Access
- Mutilation or Enhancement? What is Morally at Stake in Body Alterations
- Lying About Santa: The Sequel
- Human Genetic Enhancement Might Soon Be Possible – But Where Do We Draw the Line?
November 2019
- Cross Post: Is Virtue Signalling a Perversion of Morality?
- When the State Distrusts Individuals Based Purely on their Nationality
- Rewarding what matters: Status in academic ethics
- Be Excellent: How Ancient Virtues can Guide our Responses to the Climate Crisis
- Hornless Cattle – Is Gene Editing The Best Solution?
- Pub Bores and Politics
- The Good Place, the Bad Place, and the Ugly Consequences
- Bad Ads And Stereotypes
- Interview with Julian Savulescu on Genetic Selection and Enhancement
- Panpsychism and Moral Status
- Video Interview: Peter Singer on The Global Kidney Exchange Programme
October 2019
- Journalistic Ethics and the Mandy Rice-Davies Principle
- Lifesaving Treatment for Babies Born at 22 weeks Doesn’t Mean Abortion Law Should Change.
- Announcement: Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Cross Post: Privacy is a Collective Concern: When We Tell Companies About Ourselves, We Give Away Details About Others, Too.
- Mr Broccoli Versus Piers Morgan: Hypocrisy and Environmental Action
- The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction
- Elizabeth Anderson’s Uehiro Lectures: Lecture 3 – Communicating Moral Concern Beyond Blaming and Shaming
- Prof. Elizabeth Anderson’s Uehiro Lectures: Lecture 2 Summary – “Improving Political Discourse (1): Re-learning how to talk about facts across group identities”
- Elizabeth Anderson’s Uehiro Lecture Summary: “Can We Talk – Communicating Moral Concern In An Era of Polarized Politics” – Lecture 1: What Has Gone Wrong?
- A Sad Victory
- An Ambitious Vision for Bioethics – Some Reflections on Professor Jing-Bao Nie’s St Cross Seminar
- Diet, Changing Desires, and Dementia
- Tafida Raqeeb and Charlie’s Law
- Press Release: Tafida Raqeeb: Right Outcome, Wrong Reasons
- Guest Post: Introducing Charlie’s Law, Bambos Charalambous MP (Labour, Enfield Southgate)
- Press Release: Tafida Raqeeb
- Cross Post: Is Mandatory Vaccination the Best Way to Tackle Falling Rates of Childhood Immunisation?
September 2019
- The Doctor-Knows-Best NHS Foundation Trust: a Business Proposal for the Health Secretary
- Lies
- Video Interview: Jesper Ryberg on Neurointerventions, Crime and Punishment
- Press Release: Tafida Raqeeb, International Disagreement and Controversial Decisions About Life Support
- The Ethics of Social Prescribing: An Overview
August 2019
- Conscientious Objection, Professional Discretionary Space, and Good Medicine
- Religion, War and Terrorism
- Planting Trees, Search Engines, and Climate Change
- Japan to Allow Human-Animal Hybrids to be Brought to Term
- Making Ourselves Better
- What the People Really Want: Narrow Mandates in Politics
- Press Release: Tafida Raqeeb, Medical Ethics, and Difficult Decisions
July 2019
- Puberty-Blocking Drugs: The Difficulties of Conducting Ethical Research
- A Proposal for Addressing Language Inequality in Academia
- Criticising Stigma Whilst Reinforcing it: the Case of the Response to CRUK’s Anti-Obesity Campaign
- Doing More Harm Than Good? Should the Police Always Investigate Non-recent Child Sexual Abuse Cases?
- Four Lessons from the Covert Separation and Study of Triplets
- Responsibility Over Time And Across Agents
June 2019
May 2019
- The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel
- Guest Post: How Should We Evaluate Deaths?
- Withdrawing Life Support: Only One Person’s View Matters
- Regulating The Untapped Trove Of Brain Data
- Shamima Begum and the Public Good
- Cross Post: Ten Ethical Flaws in the Caster Semenya Decision on Intersex in Sport
- Caster Semenya, What’s Next?
- Arbitrariness as an Ethical Criticism
- In Praise Of Dementia
- Press Release: In Defence of Intersex Athletes
April 2019
- Neurointerventions, Disrespectful Messages, and the Right to be Listened to
- Should Religious Homophobia be a Firing Offence?
- Should Meat Be Excluded From the UK’s Value Added Tax?
- Medical Nihilism: When A Dose Of Scepticism Can Be Healthy
March 2019
- The Re-Greening of Abraham
- ‘Now Is Not The Time’: Is It Wrong To Engage In Political Debate Following A Tragedy?
- The Gulf Between Japanese and English Google Image Search
- Entitlement
- The Ethics of Gently Electrifying Prisoners’ Brains
- Harmful Choices and Vaccine Refusal
- Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Do Jurors Have a Moral Obligation to Avoid Deadlock?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Question: Can soldiers justify killing some as a means to influence the decisions of others?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?: A Case for a Samaritan Rescue Principle
- Announcement: Winners of the 5th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Video Interview: Alberto Giubilini on the Ethics of Vaccination
- Cross Post: Why No-Platforming is Sometimes a Justifiable Position
February 2019
- Angela Smith’s Funny Tinge.
- Announcement: Final Presentation for the 5th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Take Back Control? Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries
January 2019
- Better Living Through Neurotechnology
- Separation Anxiety – Should Treatment be Imposed for Conjoined Twins?
- Press Statement: He Jiankui
- A third MRT-baby is on its way
- Cross Post: Biased Algorithms: Here’s a More Radical Approach to Creating Fairness
- Cross Post: Philosophy Can Make the Previously Unthinkable Thinkable
- Is Addiction an Expression of One’s Deep Self?
- Reversibility, Colds, and Neurosurgery
- In My Own Blood I Have Written The Things Important To Me
- Human In Vitro Gametogenesis and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
- Abortion: a Law Unto Itself
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December 2018
- Baby, It’s Cold Outside
- Should we Believe in Santa Claus?
- Hard Choices, Fredkin’s Paradox and is Ethics a Waste of Time?
- The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
- Moral Responsibility and Interventions
November 2018
- The Fundamental Ethical Flaw in Jiankui He’s Alleged Gene Editing Experiment
- Harnessing the Power of Moral Identity to Improve Morality
- Press Statement: Monstrous Gene Editing Experiment
- Cross Post: Fresh Urgency in Mapping Out Ethics of Brain Organoid Research
- Cross Post: What If Banks Were the Main Protectors of Customers’ Private Data?
- Announcement: Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- The Dangers of Biography
- Listen Carefully
October 2018
- Online Sales and Differential Pricing.
- Response from David S. Oderberg to “Against Conscientious Objection In Health Care: A Counterdeclaration And Reply To Oderberg”
- Should vegans avoid avocados and almonds?
- Lecture and Book Launch: Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children – From Disagreement to Dissensus
- Against Conscientious Objection In Health Care: A Counterdeclaration And Reply To Oderberg
- Evil Online and the Moral Fog
September 2018
August 2018
- Ethics Goes on Holiday
- Fetal Reduction in a Multiple Pregnancy: the Case of Identical Twins
- Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Law isn’t on a Slippery Slope
- Terrorist Beheadings and Other Forms of Disease Transmission
July 2018
- UK Supreme Court Decision Means Patients No Longer Forced to Live
- The Dangers Of Deferring To Doctors
- Should Gene Editing Be Compulsory?
- What’s Wrong With Simulation in Football?
- Video Interview: Richard Holton on Addiction
- The Psychology of Uncertainty, Vaccinations, and Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Was Rawls Right After All?
- Pain for Ethicists #2: Is the Cerebral Cortex Required for Pain? (Video)
- Video Interview: Richard Holton on Dementia and the Social Self
- Free Will Sceptics: We’re Not So Bad.
June 2018
- Pain for Ethicists: What is the Affective Dimension of Pain?
- Spineless Ethics
- The Utilitarian’s Guide to the FIFA World Cup
- Treating the Dead Well
- Music Streaming, Hateful Conduct and Censorship
- Gene-Editing Mosquitoes at The European Youth Event 2018
May 2018
- Utilitarian Supervillains, Moral Enhancement, and Enforced Vegetarianism
- Illness and Attitude – Richard Holton’s 3rd Uehiro Lecture
- Should Abortion be a Matter of Referendum?
- Addiction, Desire, and The Polluted Environment – Richard Holton’s 2nd Uehiro Lecture
- Coffee with Colleagues: Caffeine is a “Social” Enhancer
- Hell, Damnation, The Royal Wedding, And The Thrashing Of Schoolboys
- Video Series: Francesca Minerva on Discrimination Against Unattractive People
- Dementia and the Social Scaffold of Memory
- Why It’s Important to Test Drugs on Pregnant Women
- Announcement: Vacancy Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy
April 2018
- I Feel Pretty – Your Practical Ethics Movie Review
- Doing Good and Being Bad: The Presidents Club, Charity and Moral Licensing.
- Press Release: Alfie Evans Case
- Video Series: Tom Douglas Defends the Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders
- Should Iceland Ban Circumcision? A Legal and Ethical Analysis
- Ethical AI Kills Too: An Assement of the Lords Report on AI in the UK
- Should PREDICTED Smokers Get Transplants?
- Groundhog Day and Legal Appeals. (What if Alfie Were a Texan?)
- Mind Control, Free Will, and Jessica Jones
- What is ‘Practical’ Ethics?
- Facebook, Big Data, and the Trust of the Public
- Scrabbling for Augmentation
- Tongue Splitting, Nipple Excision, And Ear Removal: Why Prosecute The Operator But Not The Customer?
March 2018
- Guest Post: Cambridge Analytica: You Can Have My Money but Not My Vote
- Harm, Interests and Medical Treatment. Where the Supreme Court Got it Wrong…
- Guest Post: Consequentialism and Ethics? Bridging the Normative Gap.
- Cross Post: Common Sense for A.I. Is a Great Idea. But it’s Harder Than it Sounds.
- Announcement: Medical Ethics Symposium on Health Care Rationing – Oxford June 20th. Registration Now Open
- If You Had to Choose, Would You Say Chimpanzees Are Persons or Things?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: When is Sex With Conjoined Twins Permissible?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Paradox of the Benefiting Samaritan
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why We Should Genetically ‘Disenhance’ Animals Used in Factory Farms
- Cutting Costs?
- Faster, Higher, Stronger…Happier? Olympic Athletes and the Philosophy of Well-Being
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: On Relational Injustice: Could Colonialism Have Been Wrong Even if it Had Introduced More Benefits Than Harms?
- Announcement: Winners of the 4th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
February 2018
- Harmless Kidney Markets
- The Psychology of Speciesism: How We Privilege Certain Animals Over Others
- Where There is Life, There is Not Always Hope. Ethics, Futility and the Alfie Evans Case
- Announcement: The 4th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception
- Neuroblame?
- Cross Post: In Defense of Offense
- Cross Post: The Discomforts of Being a Utilitarian
- Medical Treatment Disputes and the International Second Opinion
January 2018
- The ‘Killer Robots’ Are Us
- The Disunity of Utilitarian Psychology: Runaway Trolleys vs. Distant Strangers
- How Utilitarian Are You? Measure on The Oxford Utilitarianism Scale
- Partiality, Ethical Theory, and Christmas
- Cross Post: Think Twice Before Sending Facebook Your Nude Photos: The Shadow Brokers’ Disclosures Prove Privacy and Security Are Not a Zero-Sum Game
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December 2017
- New Year’s Reflection
- Bigotry and the Academic Abortion Debate
- Video Series: Larry S. Temkin on Peter Singer, Effective Altruism and Our Obligations to the Needy
- Video Series: Is AI Racist? Can We Trust it? Interview with Prof. Colin Gavaghan
- Guest Post: The Real Problem With Human Head Transplantation
November 2017
- Paddington Bear and the Evangelicals
- In Defence of Impulsivity
- Cross Post: Sacred Places and Traditions with Lea Ypi
- Video Series: John Harris Defends Gene-Editing in Human Embryos
- Super Soldiers, Civ-Mil Relations, and the 21st Century Coriolanus
- Criticisms of Ableist Language: Empirical Commitments?
- 2017 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Audio Recordings Now Available
- Pedophilia and Child Sexual Abuse Are Two Different Things — Confusing Them is Harmful to Children
- Webinar – Charlie Gard Case: Questions and Lessons
- Announcement: 4th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics is Now Open For Submissions.
- Video Series: Should We Pay People to Quit Smoking or Lose Weight?
- Womb Transplants and Child-Centred Surrogacy
- Cross Post: Friends With Unexpected Benefits – Working With Buddies Can Improve Performance
October 2017
- Vaccine Refusal Is Like Tax Evasion
- Cross Post: Machine Learning and Medical Education: Impending Conflicts in Robotic Surgery
- MSt in Practical Ethics
- Harvey Weinstein and the Ring of Gyges
- Blade Runner 2049, Parfit and Identity
- Cross Post: Sex Versus Death: Why Marriage Equality Provokes More Heated Debate Than Assisted Dying
- A Fundamental Problem with Moral Enhancement
- Flu Vaccination for Kids: a Moral Obligation?
- Judges Are Paid To Express Opinions
September 2017
- Cross Post: UK Gene Editing Breakthrough Could Land an Aussie in Jail for 15 Years: Here’s Why Our Laws Need to Catch Up
- Organ Donation: Presumed Consent and Focusing on What Matters
- Illegal Strikes and Political Obligation – What Reasons Do We Have To Obey The Law?
- ‘Being a burden’: an Illegitimate Ground For Assisted Dying
August 2017
- Talking Back to Science?
- Guest Post: Track Authorities Are Wrong To Ban Women With Naturally High Testosterone levels
- Vacancy: Researcher in Global Health Bioethics
- Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality
- What the Present Debate About Autonomous Weapons is Getting Wrong
- We are Hiring: Research Fellow in Bioethics & Research Fellow in Neuroethics
- Why Vegetarians Should Be Prepared to Bend Their Own Rules
- Animal Welfare, Reducing Meat Consumption and the Instrumental Use of Moral Reasons
July 2017
- Can We Trust Research in Science and Medicine?
- Hard lessons: learning from the Charlie Gard case
- Press Release – “The Worst Outcome” Prof Dominic Wilkinson
- Press Release – “Vale Charlie” Prof Julian Savulescu
- Medical tourism for controversial treatment options
- Cross Post: Re: Nudges in a Post-truth World
- The ethics of treatment for Charlie Gard: resources for students/media
- Cross Post: Speaking with: Julian Savulescu on the ethics of genetic modification in humans
- Burke, Briggs and Wills: Why we should not fear the judgment in Charlie Gard
- Video Series: Charlie Gard should be allowed to die, says Dominic Wilkinson
- Burke and Wills, Bowen and Gard: The English Courts, Best Interests and Justice
- Video Series: Peter Singer on the Pros and Cons of Defending Controversial Views
- Video Series: Professor Julian Savulescu argues in favour of an experimental treatment for Charlie Gard
- How Social Media Distorts Our Perceptions of Groups.
- Revised Press Statement: Gard Legal Decision Questionable on Secular Ethical Grounds
- The sad case of Charlie Gard and the rights *and wrongs* of experimental treatment
- The Moral of the Case of Charlie Gard: Give Dying Patients Experimental Treatment … Early
June 2017
- Targeted Killing and Black Boxes
- The non-identity problem of professional philosophers
- Using AI to Predict Criminal Offending: What Makes it ‘Accurate’, and What Makes it ‘Ethical’.
- Announcement: James Williams wins Innovative Thinking prize
- Guest Post: Crispr Craze and Crispr Cares
- Article Announcement:Which lives matter most? Thinking about children who are not yet born confronts us with the question of our ethical obligations to future people.
- Video Series: Peter Singer on Vegetarianism
- Cross Post: Italy has introduced mandatory vaccinations – other countries should follow its lead
- The Campaign Trail as a Carnival of Virtues
May 2017
- Agreement and disagreement about experimental treatment. The Charlie Gard Appeal
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics:In It To Win It: Is Prize-giving Bad for Philosophy? Written by Rebecca Buxton
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Global Warming & Vegetarianism: What should I do, when what I do makes no difference? By Fergus Peace
- Are Incentives Corrupting? The Case of Paying People to be Healthy.
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Prostitution: You Can’t Have Your Cake and Sell It*. Written by Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette
- Nudges and Reasoning
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Ethical Dilemma of Youth Politics, written by Andreas Masvie
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should we completely ban “political bots”? Written by Jonas Haeg
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Is Sex With Robots Rape? Written by Romy Eskens
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Secondary Intentions in Euthanasia, written by Isabel Canfield
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What Makes Discrimination Wrong? Written by Paul de Font-Reaulx
- Announcement: 3rd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Video Series: Tom Douglas on Using Neurointerventions in Crime Prevention
April 2017
- Cross Post: Five ways the meat on your plate is killing the planet
- Debate: The Fiction of an Interest in Death? Justice for Charlie Gard
- Debate Response: Charlie Gard, Interests and Justice – an alternative view
- Damages and communitarianism
- Synthetic life and biodiversity
- How do medical professionals decide on treatment options for children?
- Cross Post: Why we should tax meat that contains antibiotics
- Cross Post: IAI debate, ‘Doing Right and Feeling Good’
- YouTube interview: Shelly Kagan on Animal Ethics
- New Year resolutions and tripartite human nature
- The Ethics of Regulation
March 2017
- Cross Post: Why you might want to think twice about surrendering online privacy for the sake of convenience
- Cross Post: Liberal or conservative? Most of our beliefs shift around
- Cross Post: Solomon’s frozen judgement
- Functional neo-Aristotelianism as a way to preserve moral agency: A response to Dr William Casebeer’s lecture: The Neuroscience of Moral Agency
- Cross Post: Our political beliefs predict how we feel about climate change
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October 2016
- Good Enough Lives – Procreative Satisficence
- Four myths about IVF in older women
- The bright side of Brexit
- Announcement: 3rd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- The Clickbait Candidate
- Guest Post: Mind the accountability gap: On the ethics of shared autonomy between humans and intelligent medical devices
- Consciousness, memory and value
- The goodness of being multi-planetary
- Genome editing – the key ethical issues
- Guest Post: Epigenetics: Barriers to the translation of scientific knowledge into public policies
- Cross Post: Ig Nobel Prize Winner: Why I Lived Like a Badger, an Otter, a Deer and a Swift
- Cross Post: What do sugar and climate change have in common? Misplaced scepticism of the science
September 2016
- Anybody Out There?
- DNA papers, please
- Our special treatment of patients in a vegetative state is a form of cruel and unusual punishment
- The Tale of the Ethical Neonatologist – And Why There Shouldn’t Be a Legal Right of Conscientious Objection
- Philosophers Take on The World: David Edmonds
- The Chinese pleasure room: ethics of technologically mediated interaction
- Carissa Véliz on how our privacy is threatened when we use smartphones, computers, and the internet.
- Invited Guest Post: Healthcare professionals need empathy too!
- Cross Post: We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
- Veterinarians and the best interests of animals
- Does late parenthood deprive children of grandparental love?
August 2016
- CONSENSUS STATEMENT ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN HEALTHCARE
- Abortion Should Be Decriminalised
- Should we watch the Olympics?
- Announcement: Research Fellow – Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility
July 2016
- Should Russian athletes really be banned from competing in the Rio Olympics?
- The Unfairness of Unattractiveness
- Bring Your Own Boundaries: Pokémon GO and the Challenge of Ambient Fun
- Why ‘smart drugs’ can make you less clever
- Cross Post: Women’s-Only Swimming Hours: Accommodation Is Not Discrimination
- Video: Professor Julian Savulescu speaks in the DNA Manipulation Debate at The Oxford Union
- Article Announcement: Should a human-pig chimera be treated as a person?
- Won’t Someone Think of the Children?
- In Praise of Ambivalence—“Young” Feminism, Gender Identity, and Free Speech
- Cross Post: If you can screen for brown eyes, you should be able to edit out genetic disease
June 2016
- Brexit: lessons from the law
- Cross Post: Next time you ask the doctor for some antibiotics – consider whether you’re being immoral
- Announcement: 2016 Effective Altruism Global Research Meeting Call for Abstracts
- Why is chemical castration being used on offenders in some countries?
- Three Black Teenagers
- Organ Mules
- Affirmative Action for Women in Mathematics: Fighting Discrimination with Discrimination?
- Hide your face?
- Love by design: when science meets sex, lust, attraction and attachment
May 2016
- Video Series: Dominic Wilkinson on Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
- Crosspost: Bring back the dead
- Event: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: The role of therapeutic optimism in recruitment to a clinical trial: an empirical study, presented by Dr Nina Hallowell
- Is the Zika panic over? Ethics of diagnosis and misdiagnosis
- Cross Post: How psychology can help us solve climate change
- Cross Post: Want to be popular? You’d better follow some simple moral rules
- Whose lifestyle benefits? Regulatory risk-benefit assessment of enhancement devices
- Private education: in defence of hypocrisy
April 2016
- Guest Post: Abortion, punishment and moral consistency
- The Panama Papers: How much financial privacy should the super rich be allowed to enjoy?
- Striking out? Should we ban doctors strikes?
- Guest Post: Scientists aren’t always the best people to evaluate the risks of scientific research
- Announcement: New Publication: Philosophers Take On the World
- Cross Post: Ideas for Australia: Rethinking funding and priorities in IVF – should the state pay for people to have babies?
- Video Series: Tom Douglas on Asbestos, a Serious Public Health Threat
March 2016
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Are offensive jokes more permissible if they’re funny? Written by Raphael Hogarth
- Guest Post: Should you give to beggars? Yes, you should.
- “Cognitive Enhancement: Defending the Parity Principle”, St Cross Special Ethics Seminar by Neil Levy
- Animal suffering and the pointlessness of moral philosophy
- Should Rhodes stay or should he go? On the ethics of removing controversial statues
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: “What justifies parents’ influence on their children?” written by Yutang Jin
- Shame on Sharapova? Time to Rethink the Banned List
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: “Should You Switch to an Altruistic Career?” Written by Benjamin Lange
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: “How should vegetarians actually live? A reply to Xavier Cohen.” Written by Thomas Sittler
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: “Should feminists in rich countries shift their focus to international development?” written by Carolina Flores Henrique
- Alcohol, pregnancy, experts, and evidence
- Announcement: Winners of the 2nd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics.
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: “The Justice of Punitive Wars” written by Benjamin Koons
- A Second Response to Professor Neil Levy’s Leverhulme Lectures.
February 2016
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Is Graffiti Ever Morally Permissible? written by Areti Theofilopoulou
- Naughty words What makes swear words so offensive? It’s not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should We Take Moral Advice From Our Computers? written by Mahmoud Ghanem
- Announcement: 2nd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Finalists and Honourable Mentions
- Response to Fergus Peace
- Why it matters if people are racist: A Response to Neil Levy’s Leverhulme Lectures
- Video Series: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Moral Artificial Intelligence
- Does the desire to punish have any place in modern justice?
- The Allure of Donald Trump
- Using birth control to combat Zika virus could affect future generations
- A jobless world—dystopia or utopia?
- What is the relationship between science and morality?
- The unbearable asymmetry of bullshit
- Video Series: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Group Responsibility
- Guest Post: Does Humanity Want Computers Making Moral Decisions?
- 2nd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Finals Announcement
- Five ways to become a really effective altruist
- Podcast: Steve Hyman, Loebel Lecturer 2015, on categorising mental disorders
- Mindfulness and morality
- Video Series: Dr Christopher Gyngell on Genetic Modification of Embryos
- Why edited embryos won’t lead to designer babies or eugenics (unless we want it too)
- Should we prevent Zika microcephaly using birth control?
January 2016
- Video Series: Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
- Video Series: Dr Steve Clarke Discusses Conscientious Objection in Healthcare.
- Guest Post: Are dilemmas really useful for analysing moral judgment?
- Not content with temporal parochialism
- Video Series: Professor Julian Savulescu Discusses Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
- Families shouldn’t be allowed to veto organ donation
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December 2015
- Should vegans eat meat to be ethically consistent? And other moral puzzles from the latest issue of the Journal of Practical Ethics
- Are Corporations Moral Agents?
- Asbestos neglect
- Video Series: Jeff McMahan Excerpt on Conscientious Objection
- Video Interview with Alberto Giubilini on conscientious objection in healthcare
- Cross Post – Most powerful lesson from Ebola: We do not learn our lessons
- Announcement: Future of Humanity Institute advertises four research positions
- When People Work Together is Less More or Less (and is More Less or More)?
- Reporting on a Recent Event: Conscience And Conscientious Objection In Healthcare Conference
- If abolishing China’s one child policy led to more children, would it be so bad?
- Gene Editing: A CBC Interview of Margaret Somerville and Julian Savulescu
- Defaults, status quo, and disagreements about sex
- Video Interview with Professor Jeff McMahon on Increasing Airstrikes in Syria — The Ethics of War
- Engineering a Consensus: Edit Embryos for Research, Not Reproduction
- The Ethics of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes and Gene-Drive Technology
November 2015
- Podcast: Justifications for Non-Consensual Medical Intervention: From Infectious Disease Control to Criminal Rehabilitation
- How much would you pay to live an extra year?
- Loebel Lecture 3 of 3: What is the upshot?
- Lecture 2 of 3: Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry
- Loebel Lectures and Workshop, Michaelmas Term 2015, Lecture 1 of 3: Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human
- Doping: Russian Cheats or a Failed System?
- Announcement: Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Pre-marital cohabitation endangers your marriage
- Guest Post: KILLER ROBOTS AND THE ETHICS OF WAR IN THE 21th CENTURY
- Guest Post: “Gambling should be fun, not a problem”: why strategies of self-control may be paradoxical.
- Guest Post: What puts the ‘mental’ in mental illness?
October 2015
- Virtually reality? The value of virtual activities and remote interaction
- Guest Post: An Unfortunate State Of Affairs
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Journal of Medical Ethics now accepting longer papers
- The reproducibility problem and the status of bioethics
- Guest Post: Is social media bad for friendship?
- Guest Post: Vampire Judges and Blood Money: Blood Donation as Criminal Sanction?
- From Self-Interest to Morality: How Moral Progress Might Be Possible
- Treatment and Understanding in Psychiatry
- Gene-free: Can parents refuse genetic testing for their child?
- Event announcement: European Neonatal Ethics Conference
- Living With Other Hominids
- Guest Post: The moral lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Guest Post: VW cheating like Obama
- Liberalism and inequality
- Why It’s OK to Block Ads
- Guest Post: Is it Time for Ethics Experts in Lack of Consent Cases?
- If I were you then I wouldn’t say that: The perils of giving and taking advice
- Sartre vs The Selfie: An Existentialist Critique of Selfie- Taking
- What’s the moral difference between ad blocking and piracy?
- Guest Post: Should the army abandon their zero-tolerance policy on substance use?
- Why are unethical neonatal trials still taking place in developing countries?
- Gene editing and eugenics
- Don’t write evil algorithms
- Guest Post: What (if anything) makes extinction bad?
- Mandatory submission of patient information about FGM: a pointless, damaging, discriminatory mess
- Some thoughts on reparations
- Rugby and the Love of the Underdog
September 2015
- In defence of drinking alone
- Guest Post: Performance enhancers and smart drugs in e-sports
- 1 in 4 women: How the latest sexual assault statistics were turned into click bait by the New York Times
- Guest Post: ENHANCING WISDOM
- “The medicalization of love” – podcast interview
- Drinking at Schiphol with the fount of bioethics
- Vagueness and Making a Difference
- Guest Post: Mental Health Disorders in Prison: Neuroethical and Societal Issues
- Guest Post: The food environment, obesity, and primary targets of intervention
- Assisted Dying and Protecting the Vulnerable
- Sex and death among the robots: when should we campaign to ban robots?
- Behavioral Science, Public Policy, Ethics
- Judging a person by their friends.
- Guest Post: Self defence and getting sacked
- The Virtuous Homophobe
- Post-Vacation Musings: How rude should I be to my mother?
- Guest Post: Bullying in Medicine
- Guest Post: Pervitin instead of coffee? Change in attitudes to cognitive enhancement in the 50’s and 60’s in Brazil
- The moral limitations of in vitro meat
- Less cooperation, please
- Guest Post: Must we throw out the brain with the bathwater? Marc Lewis on addiction
- Guest Post: Smart drugs, Smart choice
- Psychology is not in crisis? Depends on what you mean by “crisis”
August 2015
- The Ethics of Compulsory Chemical Castration: Is Non-Consensual Treatment Ever Permissible?
- Guest Post: Why Don’t We Do More to Help the Global Poor?
- Why ethicists should read Middlemarch and despise Simon Cowell
- Guest Post: JABBING, PLAYING, AND PAYING – HIGH SEASON ON ANTI-VAXXERS
- Vote Selling Versus Vote Swapping
- Clone me up, Scotty: A brief satirical history of cloning and ethical progress
- Does it benefit a person to bring them into being?
- Guest Post: No fortune of birth
- Brain in a Vat: 5 Challenges for the In Vitro Brain
- Facebook and political polarization.
- Solving the Organ Crisis Ethically
- Guest Post: ‘I don’t want to die, but I am too scared to be anything different’: The role of identity in mental illness
- Guest Post: Agree to disagree? Why not?
- Doping in Hollywood
- Pinker Bioethics: What Should We Learn?
- Left, Right, and Belief Formation.
- Guest Post: The Moral Imperative for Bioethics
July 2015
- Guest Post: Caring for Our Home
- ASMR and Absurdity
- Stripping Addicts of Benefits – Coercion, Consent, and the Right to Benefits
- A Code of Conduct for Peer Reviewers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Stop Orientalism?: On Boston MFA’s ‘Kimono Wednesdays’
- Is this really me? Parasites and other humans’ cells in our brains change our psychology
- The Tunnel Problem
- #IminworkJeremy – the ethics of 24/7 consultant cover
- Could PhD students solve the replication crisis in psychology?
- Guest Post: The Immorality of Fox Hunting
- Usable ethics: user design and ethics
- Is the NHS surcharge just?
- Guest Post: Agree to disagree? Let’s not.
- If you want to do the most good, maybe you shouldn’t work for Wall Street
- Effort, psychological continuity, human enhancement and superintelligence
- Guest Post: A feminist defence of the nanny state
- Doping: Alive and Well in the Tour But You Won’t Hear About It
- Reincarnation and discrimination
- Guest Post: Housing in Australia– Investment Vehicle or Social Institution?
- Guest Post: Genetics education, genetic determinism, and the trickle-down effect
- Guest Post: Impractical ethics
- Guest Post: Real change in food systems needs real ethics
June 2015
- There is a duty not to be boring
- Announcement: Journal of Practical Ethics Volume 3, Issue 1
- Adding Happy People
- Guest Post: CARING ROBOTS
- Guest Post : Synthetic Biology: Taking care of the public image
- The Moral Significance of Animal Suffering
- Pandas, Humans, and Evolution: What is the state of nature?
- Guest Post: Prostitution, harm, and disability: Should only people with disabilities be allowed to pay for sex?
- Ethics of the Minimally Conscious State: It’s Complicated
- Race, Gender, and Authenticity: Reflections on Rachel Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner
- Guest Post: Is it cruel to make children sit and work in silence?
- What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Failure Modes on the Way to Global Cooperation
- Event: Double St Cross Special Ethics Seminar – Thursday 4 June 2015
- Guest Post: Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?
- Doping in team sports: You’re doing it wrong
- Dogs on drugs
- Guest Post: What’s wrong with obesity (and addiction)?
- Announcement: The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP) has just launched a new blog.
- Three Ethical Ways to Increase Organ Donation in Australia
- Anorexia Nervosa and Deep Brain Stimulation: Philosophical Analysis of Potential Mechanisms
- Guest Post: Why isn’t the world going vegan?
- Catholic Identity and Strong Dissent—How Compatible?
- What to do with Google—nothing, break it up, nationalise it, turn it into a public utility, treat it as a public space, or something else?
- Guest Post: Why it might be good to pamper terrorists
May 2015
- Do I have a right to access my father’s genetic account?
- Guest Post: Volunteer Service
- Guest Post: New Tools for Bioethics Education and Public Engagement
- Guest Post: The Millennium Development Goals and Peter Singer’s new book on Effective Altruism
- Strange brew: opiates from yeast
- It’s tough to make predictions*
- RESPECTFUL CARE
- Guest Post: An Open Response to Roache’s Anti-Conservatism
- Punishment and Memory
- Moral Agreement on Saving the World
- How to Criticize on the Internet: What Shame Teaches us about Online Harassment
- What’s Wrong With Giving Treatments That Don’t Work: A Social Epistemological Argument.
- Statement from Blog Admin
- Stopping the innocent from pleading guilty
- McMahan’s Hazardous (and Irrelevant) Thought Experiment
- The Conservatives’ Legacies: What should we do with Inheritance Tax?
- If you’re a Conservative, I’m not your friend
- Should we punish crimes from the distant past?
- The Pink Princess
- Legally Competent, But Too Young To Choose To Be Sterilized?
- Speculating about technology in ethics
- Was the Draw Muhammad Competition an Incitement to Violence?
- Why do we like our artist on drugs, but not our sportspeople?
- ‘Competitive Altruism’ – Why attractive women are the most successful fundraisers
April 2015
- How can journal editors fight bias in polarized scientific communities?
- Lord Janner: Sex, dementia and the public interest
- How morality might ask less of scrooges (and more of kinder folks)
- Press Release: The moral imperative to research editing embryos: The need to modify Nature and Science
- The moral imperative to research editing embryos: The need to modify Nature and Science
- The Luck of Oskar Groening
- Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard on Animal Ethics by Emilian Mihailov
- Born this way? How high-tech conversion therapy could undermine gay rights
- THE ETHICS OF EMBRYO EDITING
- A Challenge to Gun Rights
- Treatment for Crime Workshop (13th – 14th April) – Overview
- Sport hatred redux: Hating arch-rivals
- Is Sexual Offending Genetic?
- Who Should be Allowed to Vote?
- Returning Looted Artworks
- Brain size and socioeconomic status
- Apparently most people don’t see homeless people as human beings
- What’s wrong with paid comment?
- Doing what they want: the ethics of infamy
- Turning 40: Animal Liberation in perspective
- Science and Ethics: Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of anorexia
- Is privacy to blame for the Germanwings tragedy?
March 2015
- Editing the germline – a time for reason, not emotion
- There are things that even lawyers won’t do
- The Ethics of Giving: How Demanding?
- The discussion that the scientists in Nature and Science called for should remain in realism, not go on to superhumans
- Success, Self-esteem, and Human Enhancement
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Can the Concept of Species Specific Animal Dignity Refute the Argument From Marginal Cases? by Henry Phipps
- Mind wars: do we want the enhanced military?
- Population Ethics and Indeterminacy
- Nancy Cartwright on the Limits of RCTs
- Shouldering the burden of risk
- Global surveillance is not about privacy
- Should remorseful offenders be punished less harshly?
- Announcement: Winners of the Inaugural Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics.
- Death and the Self
- Self-control and Public Policy.
- Smart pills vs. motivation pills – is one morally worse than the other?
- Should We Reward Psychopaths?
- Countering Islamic Extremism
- My Brain Made Me Do It — So What?
- Self-consciousness and moral status
- Wrongdoing and the Harm it Causes
- Smoking, Ice-Cream and Logical Progressions: Why We Shouldn’t Ban Smoking in Outdoor Public Places
- The Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Economics of Morality, By Dillon Bowen
- The Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: How Should Vegans Live, by Xavier Cohen.
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: In light of the value of personal relationships, is immortality desirable? by Fionn O’Donovan
- Neil Levy’s 2nd Leverhulme Lecture: “The Science of Self-Control”
- Should ethics be taught in schools?
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Giving Ourselves Away, by Callum Hackett
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: May the state limit the free speech of individuals who advocate against vaccines intended to combat infectious disease? by Miles Unterreiner
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: If one is genuinely concerned with the welfare of non-human animals, should one seriously consider the disenhancement of intensively-farmed livestock as a possible method of reducing animal suffering? by Catrin Gibson
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Arguing About Guns by C’zar Bernstein
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Is prohibition of breast implants a good way to undermine harmful and unequal social norms? by Jessica Laimann
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Can a Contractarian Rationally Donate to Charity? by Benedict Hardwick.
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Shortlisted Graduate and Undergraduate Essays
- Is there a middle ground in being pro-choice?
- How to Be Free: Objectification and the Noumenal World An Impression of Neil Levy’s First Leverhulme Lecture
February 2015
- On holding ethicists to higher moral standards and the value of moral inconsistency
- Does religion deserve a place in secular medicine?
- Humans are un-made by social media
- Where there’s a will there’s a way: Enhancing motivation
- On Swearing (lecture by Rebecca Roache)
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Presentation
- Trust, mistrust, and science – finding the balance between conspiracy theories and naïve trust
- The fundamental elements of rights
- How people are wrong about cognitive enhancement and how to fix it
- How polite must I be to cold callers?
- “Fifty Shades of Grey” – A Philosophical Review
- Should lawyers always keep their client’s secrets?
- Vaccination and the omissions bias.
- Is Effective Altruism Killing the Love?
- An infant-sized ethics: St Cross Ethics Seminar – Dr Richard Hain
- Consciousness and death’s badness
- Cocaine, Loss, and the Liberal View of Addiction
- On the supposed distinction between culture and religion: A brief comment on Sir James Munby’s decision in the matter of B and G (children)
- The Ethics of Checking People Out
- Should Hitler have been able to speak at the Oxford Union?
- The Welfare State: who should pay for the transportation of a rich person’s child to and from school?
- Living to 150
- If you’re an egalitarian, how come you’re a speciesist?
- Facebook’s new Terms of Service: Choosing between your privacy and your relationships
- Video: Julian Savulescu on the Ethics of Mitochondrial Transfer
- Mitochondrial disease kills 150 children a year. A micro-transplant can cure it
January 2015
- Cancer – The Best Way to Die?
- New Book: The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
- Conventional and non-conventional medicine and the Placebo Paradox
- Plausibility and Same-Sex Marriage
- Bentham and butterflies
- Review: Beyond The Abortion Wars, by Charles C. Camosy
- A Dutch university prohibits a PhD student from thanking God in his acknowledgments
- ‘He was looking at me funny’: The (limited) rationality of the hostile attribution bias
- BPS or BEPS? Yoga or the pill?
- A punch in the nose from Pope Francis (using religion to justify violence)
- The hypocritical path of human enhancement
- Risky Giving
- Gambling on Liberty
- On the nature of defiance
- Born this way? Selecting for sexual preference
- Aboriginal rights and refusal of treatment in Canada
- How Could Julian Savulescu Still Be a Utilitarian
- Moral Offsetting
- Treated like Animals, Guest Post by Christine Korsgaard
- What are the ethics of using brain stimulation technologies for ‘enhancement’ in children?
- “Ravines and Sugar Pills: Defending Deceptive Placebo Use” – New Open Access Publication
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December 2014
- Is it worth saving human lives at the cost of mistreating animals?
- Bucharest – Oxford Workshop in Applied Ethics: Workshop Summary
- Milk Round success is tragic, culpable failure
- Earth: Priceless
- Mindfulness meditation and implicit bias
- On the Appropriate Place of Self-Interest in Our Actions
- Should we intervene in nature to help animals?
- Optional whether to give, therefore optional where to give?
- Should we criminalise robotic rape and robotic child sexual abuse? Maybe
- Philosophy and animal experimentation: Animal ethics workshop with Christine Korsgaard.
- Pregnancy discrimination: Indirect discrimination against women? (JPE 2(2))
- Discriminating happiness. Journal of Practical Ethics 2(2) is out!
- Helping Friends
- Being Angry at Zoella – What Moral Outrage Tells About Us
- The Ethics of Humor
- Disability and Minimally Decent Samaritanism
- Where are you from? What is it worth?
- Christine Korsgaard on our Moral Obligations to Animals [Uehiro Lecture 2]
- Christine Korsgaard: Fellow Creatures (Lecture 1)
- Limiting the damage from cultures in collision
- Prometheus and the Drive to Mastery
- 7 reasons not to feel bad about yourself when you have acted immorally
- Foetal alcohol syndrome, compensation and harm
- St. Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights, Michael Boylan
November 2014
- C. S. Lewis as a moral philosopher
- Statistical Victims and the Value of Security
- Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
- Biomedical enhancement and the need for more precise conceptions
- Was it the State?
- Lying to children
- The Wrongness of Do Not Resuscitate Orders Being Ignored
- What Kind of Altruism is Most Effective?
- The ethics of DocAdvisor: Is accountability always a good thing?
- Cognitive enhancement, legalising opium, and cognitive biases
- Should men be allowed to discuss abortion?
- One Million Readers: Thank You
- A Methodological Worry for ‘Top Down’ Accounts of Human Rights
- Why I Am Not a Utilitarian
- Doing Good by Doing Nothing?
- Sinnott-Armstrong on Implicit Moral Attitudes
- Can Bioethics be done without Theology? Guest Post from Charles Camosy
- Abortion on the grounds of sex
- Pedophiles and homosexuals – apples and oranges?
- Is there Value in Teaching Moral Values?
- Situations and responsibility
- Twitter, Apps, and Depression
- Student Bursaries for Travel to Christine M. Korsgaard’s Uehiro Lectures on the Moral and Legal Status of Animals and attend Animal Ethics Workshop
- Why don’t we just replace professional sports with paté baking already?
- Saving administration costs or saving lives?
- One Success in Research Ethics
October 2014
- The devil is real, and we all know him
- How Important Is Population Ethics?
- Moral Enhancement Won’t Work For The Very Reason It Is Claimed To Be Desirable
- Equality and the Clinical Trial Dating Agency
- Facebook and Apple – Increasing choice and control or creating biased solutions?
- Harsher sentences for murder of a police officer: what are the arguments?
- Relaxed about dying?
- The dappled causal world for psychiatric disorders: implications for psychiatric nosology
- Paying GPs for Dementia Diagnoses
- Cooperating with the future
- The Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders: Multiple Levels, Interactions and Causal Loops
- Assisted Suicide: A Better Alternative
- The Humane and the Ethical in Animal Research
- She was one in a million, so there’s five more just in New South Wales.
- Free the trolls
- Blessed are the wastrels, for their surplus could save the Earth
- Epidemics or Extremists?
- The Isis Propaganda War and its Moral Consequences
- To veil or not to veil?
- Dehumanization and terrorism
- Supermarkets, Spending, and Influences on Choice
- How Much Freedom Should We Give Up To Avoid the Spread of Infectious Diseases?
- Iterated in vitro reproduction and genetic orphans
- People and charitable causes are importantly different things
- A German MP on meth: Enhancement or not?
September 2014
- Bad news for “intelligence-genes”
- Petrov Day
- Will Virgin staff really be allowed to take ‘as much holiday as they want’?
- Framing the Ebola epidemic
- Trust and Institutions
- Not-so-lethal – the ethics and costs of extraordinary fetal intervention
- Practical Ethics Bites
- Rationality and the Scottish referendum
- Would it be bad if humanity were to become extinct?
- A Right to Die in Prison?
- Is there anything (morally) special about dogs?
- On the Supposed Importance of Cultural Traditions for Whaling Practice
- Can it be morally wrong to make people happy?
- What kind of internet ought we to have?
- Hiring the right psychopath
- Motte and Bailey Doctrines
- Playing the game: a story for the pool-side sun-lounger
- The arrogance of warmongers: Pacifism for the 21st century
August 2014
- Getting People To Get Things Done – A New Psychological Trick
- When warning is not informing: Alcohol labels will not be as straightforward as cigarette labels
- Epigenetics and Blaming Pregnant Women: Hasty Conclusions, Control, and Simplified Burden of Responsibility
- “Please randomize me – but don’t tell my family that you did”
- Two Kinds of Compassion
- Forgotten Baby Syndrome
- Ebola, ethics and the WHO’s decision
- Should we do more to help paedophiles?
- Reducing negative emotions towards out-group members
- Freezing critique: privileged views and cryonics
- Ethics of Ebola and Potentially Life-Saving Experimental Treatment
- Lord Winston’s warning
- Welfare 2.0? Abbott, Forrest and the “Healthy Welfare Card”
- Being ethically responsible to see ethical complexities: What Israel can teach us about ethics
- Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill: Is Slow Assisted Dying Legal?
July 2014
- When Cupid fires arrows double-blind: implicit informed agreement for online research?
- Carbon caps and IVF
- Evolutionary psychology and multidisciplinary challenges
- Geoengineering: Lessons from Human Bioengineering
- The Indignity of Imprisonment
- A Wrong Turn, A Hundred Years Ago
- Principles for the Legalization of Trade in Rhino Horn
- Economic arguments and assisted dying.
- When Are Objections ‘Religious’ Objections?: Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College, and Contraceptive Coverage
- Would Legal Assisted Suicide be the Final Triumph of Market Capitalism?
- A shocking discovery about thinking?
- Thank You Luis Suarez!
- The pill to banish painful memories—forget it!
- Sex with corpses might be philosophically cool. But it’s still not a good idea.
- Tidying up psychiatry
- Historical crimes, historical sentences?
- Tony Coady – Trusting Emotion, Trusting Reason: A False Dichotomy
- Manipulations: Is it time to rethink the ethics of news?
- European Guidelines: How much cinnamon can go in our buns, and what kind of dignity do we want at the end of life?
- Quebec legalises assisted-death: should other states follow?
- What has Facebook (with some psychologists) done?
June 2014
- JPE 2(1) – The pursuit of sex equality keeps going off the rails
- Horizon 2020 and The Role of Lay People’s Perspectives in Bioethical Reasoning
- Drinking alcohol or using drugs during pregnancy could become a crime
- Taking Rape Allegations Seriously: How Should We Treat the Accused?
- Do Not Attempt Resuscitation orders: should you discuss with the patient?
- Should Vegetarians Consider Eating Insects?
- Destroying one ecosystem and constructing another: biodiversity offsetting and particular value
- The importance of “follow up” in research ethics
- Howick on What Counts as a Placebo
- Telling porkies
- Two Tales of Marshmallows and their Implications for Free Will
- Reading in a connected age
- Not cricket? Law, convention, ethics, and that run-out
- Should the NHS fund Weight Watchers schemes?
- Essendon, Doping and Bad Arguments
- Morality, science, and Belgium’s child euthanasia law
- “Puppy Farm” or “Commercial Breeder”?
- Genetically Modifying Mosquitoes to ‘Bite the Dust’? Ethical Considerations
- Girls should do competitive sports to ‘build confidence and resilience’. Really?
- If we chose it, would we need it?
- Public Sinners: Forgive or Forget?
- What if schizophrenics really are possessed by demons, after all?
- The Right to Forget the Stock Market’s blemished Past
- Historical Reconciliation in East Asia: How Optimistic Should We Be?
- In praise of organ-ised sport
May 2014
- Food packaging matters more than informed consent to treatment
- On Canada’s Proposed Bill C-24: The So-called ‘Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act’
- Expert workshop on cognitive enhancement device regulation: Are there ‘two worlds’ of devices?
- When the poison is the antidote: risky disaster research
- How Should I Vote?
- Was Marx Right?
- On the Ethics of Tipping
- “The Medicalization of Love” – call for peer commentaries – DUE SEPT 1
- Can we solve the world’s problems by offering a large enough prize?
- Does it matter that there’s cocaine in our water supply?
- Personal Genome Project UK email disaster: If you can’t guarantee privacy, at least try to ensure trust
- On the ‘right to be forgotten’
- Revenge – an unjust necessity?
- Is Home Birth Really As Safe As Hospital Birth? “Woman-centred Care” vs “Baby-centred Care”
- Do people have a right to be bigots?
- ‘Hello Kitty’, Society, Utopia
- Reporters Shouldn’t Embrace Bias
- Lethal Injection: Time for the Chop
- Cognitive science and threats to free will
- In Defence of Avril Lavigne: Racism, Cultural Appropriation and the Meaning of ‘Hello Kitty’
- Political speech crime
- Moral Enhancement and Violence
April 2014
- Complicity and Contraception: Rethinking Hobby Lobby’s Claim of ‘Substantial Burden on the Exercise of Religion’
- The advantages and disadvantages of stigmatizing smoking
- Notes from a philosophical Starbucks
- Moral Luck Revisited
- More cyborg justice: André interviews Rebecca Roache about the future of punishment
- Murder or mercy?
- “Whoa though, does it ever burn” – Why the consumer market for brain stimulation devices will be a good thing, as long as it is regulated
- Discrimination against the (historically) privileged
- Terminal Illness and The Right Not to Know
- Crowd homebuying (or: How to own a home with no savings and no mortgage)
- The No harm principle, an ethical principle for economic policy advisors?
- Being a Good Person by Deceit?
- Conference: Experiments and Ethics, Oxford
- Living near a busy road can kill you
- Academia, philosophy, and ‘race’
- Call for Registration – GOOD DONE RIGHT: a Conference on Effective Altruism
- Cricket and mental illness
- Trouble Brewing? The Ethical Significance of Synthetic Yeast
- Neil Levy on Addiction
- The automated boycott
March 2014
- Things I’ve learned (so far) about how to do practical ethics
- Giving alcohol to alcoholics: not as controversial as it seems
- Computer vision and emotional privacy
- The future of punishment: a clarification
- Can solitary confinement be justified?
- Uses and Abuses of the Holocaust
- Brain training in schools?
- How much transparency?
- Reconsidering the Ethics of Enhanced Punishment
- Is smoking morally wrong?
- For theta’s sake, smash up your TV and go for a walk
- Contemporary space exploration, spectacles, and the creation of role models
- Book review: ‘Moral Tribes’ by Joshua Greene
- Luck and Success
- The Terror of Ignorance
- Meat Free Mondays: Having the “right” versus it being “right”.
- Prisoner disenfranchisement: the supposed justifications
- Page 3 untainted?
- The cold equations of ethics
- A minimal proceduralist argument against Crimean independence
February 2014
- Woody Allen and those allegations
- Moral Dilemmas and Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing
- Another Surprising Side-Effect of Paracetamol: Causing ADHD?
- Innovation’s low-hanging fruits: on the demand or supply sides?
- The innovation tree, overshadowed in the innovation forest
- Conspiracies against the laity part 3298: the medical profession.
- How the Danziger Story Advances the Abortion Debate in America: Actual Futures, Moral Status, and Common Ground
- The death of celebrities due to addiction: on helpful and unhelpful distinctions in destigmatising addiction
- Are the reasons why people take illegal drugs relevant to sentencing decisions?
- Gay Genes II: The Spectre of Creeping Exculpation Returns
- Shopping on Drugs
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) and male circumcision: should there be a separate ethical discourse?
- Free will beliefs and motivation to punish
- Confirmation bias, embarassment and organisational ethics
- Floods, Foreign Aid and Moral Distance
- Embracing the “sadistic” conclusion
- Private Lives, Dying Wishes, and Technological Development
- Do we have a moral obligation protect the climate?
- Should we ban women from smoking while pregnant?
- Exposing criminals and punitive justice: is it time to reconsider the penal code?
- Cultural relativism and female genital mutilation
- Medical ethics are ridiculous
- Compromising with Racism
- Difficulties in assessing the risks of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction: new study shows correlation between birth defects and proximity to gas wells in Colorado.
- Assisted Suicide in Scotland
- Time to stop the abominable illegality of kidney markets
January 2014
- “One cup of joe and your brain is ready to go”? – Caffeine as memory enhancer
- Do we have a right to drink? On Australian thugs and French hedonists
- Marathon mice, enhancement and the will to work out
- The Texan flautist and the fetus
- The incoherence of Obama’s position on marijuana
- Doctors: turn off your computer and listen to your gut
- Computer consciousness and ethics
- Three Arguments Against the Belgian Child Euthanasia Bill Criticised
- Kissing Grandparents and Consent
- Can you be too ethical?
- Oppressing smokers for fun and profit