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Ethics of the Minimally Conscious State: It’s Complicated
Last week I attended a conference on the science of consciousness in Helsinki. While there, I attended a very interesting session on the Minimally Conscious State (MCS). This is a state that follows severe brain damage. Those diagnosed as MCS are thought to have some kind of conscious mental life, unlike those in Vegetative State.
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Race, Gender, and Authenticity: Reflections on Rachel Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner
The concept of authenticity has been receiving a lot of attention in the past few weeks due to two high profile cases. First, Caitlyn Jenner, a former Olympic gold medallist and TV personality who was until recently known as “Bruce”, debuted her new name and identity in an interview with the magazine Vanity Fair. Second,
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Guest Post: Is it cruel to make children sit and work in silence?
Written By David Aldridge, Oxford Brookes University This is a cross post from Dave Aldridge’s blog Ahead of a talk to be given at the Institute of Education, Tom Bennett, behaviour guru and figurehead of the ResearchEd movement, invited questions via twitter that he hoped he could address in his seminar. One tweeter asked
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What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Failure Modes on the Way to Global Cooperation
By Joao Fabiano and Diego Caleiro (UC Berkeley, Biological Anthropology) From single-celled to pluricellular to multicellular organisms or from hunter-gatherers to the EU, the history of evolutionary forces that resulted in human society is a history where cooperation has emerged at increasingly large scales. The major life transitions and, once human, the major cultural transitions have
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Event: Double St Cross Special Ethics Seminar – Thursday 4 June 2015
On Thursday 4th June the Double St Cross Special Ethics Seminar took place. Presenting were Dr Joshua Shepherd and Dr Mimi Zou. Please see bellow for abstracts and links to the podcasts of the talks.
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Guest Post: Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?
Written by Dr Lynn Gillam Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society at University of Melbourne This article has been cross posted from The Conversation On Human Experiments – The Nazi and Japanese experiments during World War
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Doping in team sports: You’re doing it wrong
Written By Dr Christopher Gyngell The 7th of February 2013 was described as the “darkest day in Australian sport”[1]. On this date the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) released results from a 12 month investigation detailing the extensive use of performance enhancing and illicit drugs in professional sport.
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Dogs on drugs
That people in all cultures around the world use plant drugs to heal, intoxicate, or enhance themselves is well known. What is less well known – at least to me – is that many cultures give drugs to their dogs to improve hunting success. A new paper in Journal of Ethnopharmacology by B.D. Bennett and
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Guest Post: What’s wrong with obesity (and addiction)?
Written by Anke Snoek Macquarie University Many of us experience failure of self-control once in a while. These failures are often harmless, and may involve alcohol or food. Because we have experiences with these failures of self-control, we think that something similar is going on in cases of addiction or when people who can’t control
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Announcement: The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP) has just launched a new blog.
The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace (SCEWP) has just launched a new blog. The Ethical War Blog will publish short and timely opinion articles on war-related topics in the news, written by specialists in the field, in an accessible and digestible format. The blog launches with five articles, with new content to