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Cross Post: Should A Health Professional Be Disciplined For Reporting An Illegal Abortion?
Written by: Prof Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. There have been several high-profile cases in the last year of women in the UK being prosecuted for allegedly obtaining abortions illegally. In 2022, there were 29 cases of suspected unlawful…
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Is There a Duty to Vote?
Written by Joseph Moore This new year is a presidential election year in my home country of the United States. And so, there is likely to be no shortage of U.S. political news and commentary surrounding candidates’ pasts, their present comments and their campaign promises. It is also likely that many U.S. citizens (and probably…
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Cross Post: Nudging for Better Beliefs
This is the third in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Written By: Oscar A. Piedrahita & Matthew Vermaire, COGITO, University of Glasgow. Don’t you find that other people’s beliefs are always getting in the way of progress? They seem…
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Medical assistance in dying: what are we talking about?
Alberto Giubilini Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Medical assistance in dying – or “MAiD”, to use the somehow infelicitous acronym – is likely to be a central topic in bioethics this year. That might not be true of bioethics as an academic field, where MAiD has been widely discussed over the past 40 years.…
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Outsourcing Without Fear?
This is the second in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. by Neil Levy As Adam Carter emphasises in the first post in this series, offloading cognitive capacities comes at a cost: the more we depend on external scaffolding and supports to perform…
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Event Summary: Morality and Personality
by Roger Crisp On 2 November 2023, at one of the most well-attended (in-person and remotely) New St Cross Ethics seminars to date, Professor Predrag Cicovacki, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA presented a fascinating lecture on ‘Morality and Personality’.
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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
Written by: Dr Amna Whiston On Thursday, 16th November 2023, Professor João Pedro de Magalhães, a prominent microbiologist specialising in ageing and longevity research, gave an engaging and personable New St Cross Ethics Seminar entitled: ‘Should people have indefinite lifespans? Ethical and social considerations in life-extension?’ Following a brief introduction to the biology of…
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On Grief and Griefbots
Written by Cristina Voinea This blogpost is a prepublication draft of an article forthcoming in THINK Large Language Models are all the hype right now. Amongst the things we can use them for, is the creation of digital personas, known as ‘griefbots’, that imitate the way people who passed away spoke and wrote. This…