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Political Change and the Olympic Games 20 Aug 2013 | 03:21 am
by Luke Davies The upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi has been in the news a lot recently. The controversy, as you will already know, is a result the introduction of another law discriminating against...
Is unwanted pregnancy a medical disorder? 17 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
by Rebecca Roache Follow Rebecca on Twitter Abortion is often in the news. Yesterday, The Atlantic Wire reported a poll of Americans’ moral views, which found just under half of Americans believe ab...
Let’s Talk About Death: Millennials and Advance Directives 15 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
Sarah Riad, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston Melissa Hickey, School of Nursing, Avila University Kyle Edwards, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Universi....
Safety First? How the Current Drug Approval System Lets Some Patients Down 14 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
Andrew Culliford, whose story is featured in the Daily Mail, is one of the estimated 7 in 100,000 people living with Motor Neuron disease, a progressive degenerative disease which attacks muscles, lea...
Can Facts Be Racist? 12 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm
Here is the sequence of events. 1. Richard Dawkins tweets that all the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College Cambridge. 2. Cue a twitter onslaught – accusing Professor Dawkins...
Jane Austen’s Ring: Should We Care? 12 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
Ed Vaizey, the culture minister, recently put an export ban on a ring once owned by Jane Austen, bought legitimately by the US singer Kelly Clarkson at auction last year. Why? Because, apparently, th...
Would you hand over a moral decision to a machine? Why not? Moral outsourcing and Artificial Intelligence. 9 Aug 2013 | 03:23 pm
Artificial Intelligence and Human Decision-making. Recent developments in artificial intelligence are allowing an increasing number of decisions to be passed from human to machine. Most of these to d...
Dangerous dogs and proportionate sentencing 9 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
The government is currently consulting on whether the maximum sentences for aggravated offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 should be increased. This offence category covers cases in which someo...
Not all philosophers are equal 8 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
Not all ethical issues are equally important. Many ethicists spend their professional lives performing in sideshows. However entertaining the sideshow, sideshow performers do not deserve the same rec...
I’m Too Unsexy For My Shirt 6 Aug 2013 | 02:11 pm
Follow David on Twitter @David Edmonds100 Thinking only of your career prospects now, is it better to be sexy or unsexy? This person was said to be too sexy and lost her job. But at Abercrombie & ...
