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Nudges and Reasoning
Back in what now seems like a previous age, when David Cameron was prime minister, there was quite a lot of attention paid to his so-called ‘nudge unit’. Nudges, named after Thaler and Sunstein’s well-known book, are ways of getting people to make better choices by making these options more salient or less effortful for
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Ethical Dilemma of Youth Politics, written by Andreas Masvie
This essay was the runner up in the undergraduate category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford Student, Andreas Masvie The West in general, and perhaps Europe in particular, tend to celebrate youth politics as a vital force of democracy. This is reflected in the current literature
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Is Sex With Robots Rape? Written by Romy Eskens
This essay was the winner in the Graduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Romy Eskens On The Permissibility of Consentless Sex With Robots Recent movies and TV-series, such as Ex Machina and Westworld, have sparked popular interest in sex robots, which are embodied AI systems
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Secondary Intentions in Euthanasia, written by Isabel Canfield
This essay received an Honourable Mention in the Undergraduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Isabel Canfield The debate about the moral permissibility of euthanasia is often presented as hinging upon the distinction between killing and letting die. This debate is often focused around a discussion
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What Makes Discrimination Wrong? Written by Paul de Font-Reaulx
This essay was the winner in the Undergraduate Category of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 Written by University of Oxford student, Paul de Font-Reaulx What makes discrimination wrong? Most of us intuitively take discrimination based on gender or ethnicity to be impermissible because we have strong rights to be treated on the
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Announcement: 3rd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
After our enforced time offline it is with great pleasure that we can now announce and publish the winners of the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2017 on the Practical Ethics in the News Blog. The winner of the Undergraduate Category is Paul de Font-Reaulx, with his essay ‘What Makes Discrimination Wrong?’ The runner
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Cross Post: Five ways the meat on your plate is killing the planet
Cross-posted from The Conversation shutterstock Francis Vergunst, Université de Montréal and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals – it is hard not to feel a twinge of guilt and conclude that we should eat
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Debate: The Fiction of an Interest in Death? Justice for Charlie Gard
Julian Savulescu Dominic Wilkinson’s Response A judge ruled last week that baby Charlie Gard will have his treatment withdrawn, against the wishes of his parents. His doctors argued that the rare mitochondrial disease (MDDS) he was born with was causing him unbearable suffering. His parents had raised funds to take him to the US for