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‘Hear My Story: On Laziness and Productivity’- A Creative Writing Workshop 

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This post provides a summary of the workshop. You can read a full version of the blog post in the Project Lazy website.  By Katrien Devolder and Shristi Shakya  Writer Nicola Sayers leading the workshop.  What does it mean to be ‘lazy’ or ‘productive’? Who defines these concepts? And how do expectations about productivity shape the… Read More »‘Hear My Story: On Laziness and Productivity’- A Creative Writing Workshop 

Being Judged as Lazy: What Participants Shared in Our First Community Workshop 

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Project Lazy | Community Voices By Katrien Devolder and Shristi Shakya This post provides a summary of the workshop. You can read a full version of the blog post in the Project Lazy website.  Project Lazy is an open and evolving research initiative exploring what we mean by ‘lazy’ and the social and ethical norms that shape our thinking about laziness.   We organised Project Lazy’s first community engagement… Read More »Being Judged as Lazy: What Participants Shared in Our First Community Workshop 

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Where Medicine Meets Ethics

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by Jonathan Pugh Cross-posted with the Uncomfortable Oxford blog. Medicine is often associated with questions that have scientific answers. How does the body work? How do we become unwell? Which treatments can help with the symptoms of a medical condition? What are the risks of a surgical operation? How might a new technology improve a… Read More »Where Medicine Meets Ethics

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

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By Kartik Upadhyaya (Research Fellow, the Oxford Uehiro Institute) From the 1st to 8th of this June , Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Co-Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy, joined a glittering list of moral thinkers by delivering Uehiro’s Annual Lecture Series at Keble College’s H B Allen Centre. Description… Read More »2026 Uehiro Lectures: Miranda Fricker on Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills 

When Should we Argue?

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by Professor Neil Levy; Cross-posted from Blog of the APA Don’t feed the trolls arguments. When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it often seems futile. While it can be satisfying and illuminating to argue with friends and some other people with whom… Read More »When Should we Argue?

Community Iftar

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Blog post by professor Roger Crisp On 12th March, I was delighted to be invited to attend the  4th Ramadan Community Iftar organized by the Dialogue Society in partnership with The Oxford Academy. The event involved a wonderfully diverse group of participants, including civic leaders, community and faith representatives, charity members, students, academics, parents, and… Read More »Community Iftar

Can Pornography be Feminist in a Mass Market Economy?

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Undergraduate Highly Commended paper in the 2026 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Leela Kainth. Mainstream pornography refers to conventional, mass-marketed, sexually explicit material produced at commercial scale, typically for consumers to masturbate to. This is distinct from so-called ‘feminist pornography’, which self-consciously aims to resist these norms through alternative representations and… Read More »Can Pornography be Feminist in a Mass Market Economy?

Is Prostitution Just a Job?

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Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2026 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Ethan Beri. Despite being the “oldest profession”, prostitution is still hotly debated, both in the academy and in public discourse. Prostitution is often considered worse than other jobs, in part because it wrongs the prostitute: a woman who sells sex… Read More »Is Prostitution Just a Job?

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‘It’s Physical, Not Intellectual’: The Ethics of Correcting Assumptions About Disability

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Graduate Highly Commended paper in the 2026 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By James Forsdyke. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2446-4586 In this paper, I will discuss ethical considerations when it comes to correcting assumptions about people with physical disabilities. In particular, I will discuss the assumption some individuals make that physical disabilities are necessarily accompanied… Read More »‘It’s Physical, Not Intellectual’: The Ethics of Correcting Assumptions About Disability

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Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of the Global Campaign Against Female Genital Cutting

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Reflections on a recent Antitheses Project conversation In a recent ANTITHESES Project podcast, Dominic Wilkinson (Uehiro Oxford Institute), Brian D. Earp (National University of Singapore), and Zainab Nur (Hidden Voices UK) discuss an extended essay published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (2025) examining the unintended harms of the dominant global campaign against female genital… Read More »Rethinking the Ethics and Politics of the Global Campaign Against Female Genital Cutting